Legends and fairy tales of ancient Greece

Here is a book about gods and heroes, about the legendary and fabulous world of ancient Greece. Almost a hundred years ago, it was written for readers of secondary school age by a famous philologist and translator F.F. Zelinsky and published under the name "Fabulous antiquity".
In this book, myths about gods are not separated from stories about heroes, like other authors. Zelinsky paints us with a holistic ancient world, where the gods live and act next to the heroes, interfering in their lives and often in need of their help, where the fabulous becomes commonplace, and the ordinary becomes fateful. Possessing an amazing gift to express complex things in a simple and fascinating language, Zelinsky does not just tell his readers entertaining stories, he helps them understand the complex system of values ​​of the ancient world, distinguish good from evil, an insidious plan from a tragic mistake, true nobility from vague.
Let’s transfer to this fairy -tale country to find out about Hercules, about the insidious copper and beautiful Iphigenia, about the centaurs and the Amazons, about the golden rune and the underground kingdom of Aida, about the fall of the mighty Troy and the wanderings of the cunning Odyssey ...
The book is illustrated by the best works of world painting