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Odysseus leaves Troy and begins his adventurous journey back to his homeland. Easy to understand and with humorous illustrations, these classic Greek stories will engage kids in an enjoyable reading activity and help them develop a lifelong love of reading.

Heracles travelled all over Greece and still further, to complete Τwelve Labors. Easy to understand and with humorous illustrations, these classic Greek stories will engage kids in an enjoyable reading activity and help them develop a lifelong love of reading.

Ένας απ' τους λόγους που η γλώσσα είναι ένα τόσο γοητευτικό θέμα είναι ακριβώς αυτές οι τροχιές που οι λέξεις χαράσσουν στον χρόνο. Περίπου μία στις είκοσι λέξεις στην αγγλική γλώσσα είναι ελληνικής προέλευσης. Από αυτές, ένα αξιοσημείωτο, αν και πολύ μικρό, υποσύνολο αποτελείται από λέξεις και φράσεις που έχουν τις ρίζες τους στην ελληνική μυθολογία. Αυτή η έκδοση στοχεύει να τις συγκεντρώσει και να αφηγηθεί τους μύθους πίσω από αυτές, φέρνοντας στη ζωή τους ήρωες, τα τέρατα και τους θεούς των οποίων οι πράξεις κι οι μάχες έχουν αφήσει ένα κρυφό σημάδι στη γλώσσα μας.Έτσι,...

The Olympian gods, hailing from a divine ancestry that included the ever-scheming Gaea, the malevolent Uranus, the voracious Cronus, the mighty Titans and the ruthless one-hundred-armed Giants, dominated the Ancient Greeks' fantasies and actions. Read about the love affairs of all-powerful Zeus, Hera's fits of jealousy and anger, Hermes's cunning tricks, the majestic craft of toiling Hephaestus, Athena's wisdom, the mishaps of Ares and Aphrodite, the adventures of wine-maker Dionysus, and many more, in this captivating adaptation of Greek mythology by Sirmo Kapoutsi, vividl...

Cosmogony, Gods - Heroes and their Worship, the Trojan War, the Odyssey

The world of Greek mythology is a vast and mysterious universe, in which countless gods and heroes, monsters, spirits and demigods rule over the natural laws and lives of the mortals: wars and intrigues, favourites, enmities and alliances compose a background upon which the wondrous activities of ancient Greek history evolves. Greek mythology was formed and spread through oral tradition, the wild imagination of the ancient Greeks transcribing into myths all that the human mind could not conceive. Divine will, sometimes positive and other times vengeful, was responsible for...

Greek gods were humans with miraculous powers - and they used them to the full to seek love and escape its consequences. Among the characters in this first volume are a shepherd granted immortality to make love to the moon, a princess ravished by a clinging vine, a queen made pregnant by a bull, a dying lover turned into a flower and a nymph transformed into a constellation. Sometimes love goes unrequited: a young man dies because he cannot kiss his own reflection and a reluctant nymph becomes a tree. The ancient gods are gone, their temples long in ruins - yet their miracl...

Love takes more strange forms in these further tales from Greek mythology: a god becomes a swan to win a queen, a sculptor sees the statue of his ideal woman come to life, a princess is made pregnant by a shower of golden rain and a couple turned to stone as they consummate their marriage. There is snow in summer Athens as the North Wind claims his bride, a failed attempt to rescue a dead lover from the underworld, the lures of naked Sirens and day turned into night as a god impersonates a bridegroom. Everything is possible when the gods of ancient Greece make love.

"About Greece" will help you discover, get acquainted with and live all the aspects of Greece.

Greek mythology holds a distinguished position amongst the masterpieces of world literature. Each chapter captivates the reader, who wanders mentally through the elegant and bright world of our mythology and sometimes plunges -together with the mythological heroes- into the bowels of the Earth or the depths of the seas. At each step of this exciting journey, the reader is stimulated to further thoughts, reflections and pursuits of the hidden symbolism and the true core of the Greek myths.

The myths of the twelve gods, the lesser gods, the heroes -both panhellenic and local- and the mythical campaigns, as they were recorded by the ancient Greeks and described by their poets, are brought alive in this book and transport the reader into an enchanted fantasy world. Gods "in the image and likeness" of man, with weaknesses and passions but at the same time all-powerful, radiant, immortal and ageless. Heroes who are human but have invincible physical strength and are fearless and self-sacrificing. Zoomorphic lesser divinities, one-eyed Cyclops, Centaurs with horses...

Jason and the Argonauts' legendary exploits are one of the best-loved Greek myths. In this historical novella, Niki Drossou-Panayiotou draws on ancient texts and archaeological research to bring to life the tale of the young prince who reclaims the throne of lolcus by sailing across the world on a dangerous quest for the Golden Fleece. Argonauts, Centaurs, and Lapiths spring from the pages, painting a historically accurate picture of daily life in Mycenaean palaces and cities. Through lively, literary description, the author provides a factual context for mythology's ficti...

The gods, the heroes, the Trojan war, the Argonauts are just some of the fascinating subjects that the reader will find in Greek Mythology. The vivid imagination of the ancient Greeks has left us a legacy that entertains and unstructs the reader of our time in the captivating world of antiquity.