Story of the Greeks

Before Shakespeare, before the Bible, there were the Greeks and the stories they told shaped everything that came after. This book gathers the tales that made the ancient world legendary: the thunder of Zeus on Mount Olympus, the Trojan War and the wooden horse's deadly trick, Achilles' fury and Hector's doomed courage, Odysseus's ten-year journey home through monster-infested seas. But it also traces the real history: the city-states at war and peace, the golden age of Athens, the marble halls where democracy was born. These are the myths that gave Western civilization its heroes, its monsters, and its deepest questions about fate, courage, and what it means to be mortal. Guerber tells them with the warmth of a grandmother sharing fireside stories, making the ancient world live and breathe for young readers who have just discovered that the past is stranger and more thrilling than they imagined.