The Story of the Greeks

Here is where Western civilization begins: in a land of mountains plunging into wine-dark seas, where shepherds first looked up at Olympus and imagined gods walking among them. H.A. Guerber understood that children don't just learn history, they live it and so she crafted these pages as a gateway into the ancient world, beginning with the Pelasgians and the Egyptian settlers who taught them to plow and build. But this is no dry textbook. The heroes emerge slowly: Cecrops half-serpent, dragging civilization up from the earth; Inachus watching his daughter transform into a cow for love's sake; the slow gathering of strength until Achilles and Odysseus and the kings who fought at Troy become household names. Guerber writes for the young mind that has not yet learned to find mythology embarrassing, and she treats these stories with the reverent seriousness they deserve. The result is a book that has been introducing children to the wonder of Greece for over a century, one tale at a time.