Provides an introduction to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, covering sequences of events, major plots, and characters, and discussing the lasting influence of the stories on the Western world.
Retells the myths of Oedipus who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother and of Antigone who was condemned to death for burying her brother after he had attacked his own city.
When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
"Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination"--Cover p. [2].
Retells the myth of the Greek princess, rejected by her father, raised by bears, won in marriage in a race by Melanion, and then changed into a lioness by an angry Aphrodite.
