Yannis Stephanides Livres

A special pocket-book version of the Greek mythology which has achieved worldwide recognition. Designed exclusively for adults and young readers. The reader will re-live all the magic of Greek mythology on a journey of the imagination which will take him deep into an era separated from our own by more than three millenia. This series of books received the 1989 Pier Paolo Vergerio prizes of the University of Padua for its outstanding text and illustrations.

The whole fabulous story of this great hero who was sent to earth by Zeus to unite the warring Greeks. A life filled with superhuman feats and harsh blows foreseen and bravely faced. A life which won him love and admiration surpassing even the gods and earned him immortality. The Heracles of this book is not simply the hero whose twelve labours gained him an undying place in western consciousness, but a defender of the poor and oppressed, an overthrower of tyrants who won the love and respect of his own and succeeding generations.

The whole tragic story of Oedipus, seen through the prism of the four great classical tragedies (chiefly by Sophocles), each taking up where the previous one leaves King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, The Seven Against Thebes and Antigone. These are followed by the war of the Epigoni. This last volume in the series closes with one final myth, that of the Heraclids, after which the curtain falls suddenly and unexpectedly on Greek mythology.

An extensive summary of the Homeric poem which focuses on its poetic highlights, the most gripping episodes in Odysseus' ten-year voyage home, and the age-old wisdom of this ancient masterpiece which has enthralled readers young and old for the past three thousand years with its message that "there is nothing sweeter in the world than one's homeland and one's loved ones".

“The crags of Olympus stand silent and bare, scoured by the icy winds. The halls of the gods are as if they had never been.” This sequel to 'The Gods of Olympus' takes the reader from the birth of mankind to the passing of the ancient religion of the Greeks. Names and events which have become a part of the western world’s identity are brought to vivid life in these how Prometheus brought the gift of fire to men; the tale of Pandora’s box; the story behind 'the Midas touch'; the boy on the dolphin; the origin of 'tantalize'; the sad end of Icarus, who literally burnt his wings; how the Peloponnese came by its name and Europa gave hers to a continent. Here are love’s labours lost in the tragic myth of Orpheus and his Eurydice, and love lent wings in the story which has given us our 'halcyon days'. The gods of the Greeks may have vanished in the mists of time, yet their legacy lives on undimmed.

A special pocket-book version of the Greek mythology which has achieved worldwide recognition. Designed exclusively for adults and young readers. The reader will re-live all the magic of Greek mythology on a journey of the imagination which will take him deep into an era separated from our own by more than three millenia. This series of books received the 1989 Pier Paolo Vergerio prizes of the University of Padua for its outstanding text and illustrations.