Myths of ancient Greece

The civilization of ancient Greece, or Hellas, gave people not only majestic buildings, sculptures, Olympic games and heroic epics, the names of planets and constellations. Several dozen winged expressions that we still use in our daily life, also from ancient Greece.
Acquaintance with ancient mythology, this most important element of universal culture, gives the key to understanding works of art, poetry, painting.

In the book "Myths of Ancient Greece", Nikolai Albertovich Kun collected the plots of legends that have developed over the centuries. Pictures of the life of the Olympic gods and heroic epics are given according to works - poems of Ovid, Hesiod, Sophocles, Plutarch, Homer.
In the design of the book, Illustrations of Anna Vlasova are used, in which the plot lines of ancient myths are displayed. Vlasova’s paintings, like frescoes, are written in oil paints, which gives the design of the book reliability and monumentality.
magnificent design, velvet binding and embossing with the plots of ceramics of the ancient Greek black -figured style makes this large -scale book an expensive and prestigious gift