Summary
Stories about gods and heroes
The book Stories about gods and heroes is a richly illustrated handbook for young people about myths and legends, gods and heroes of ancient peoples and civilizations. This is a guide to Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indian mythology. And it also introduces us to the mythical heroes of the Far Eastern peoples with the stories of the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and North American Indians.
Of course, King Arthur and other Celtic, Germanic and Finnish heroes of stories and songs are not forgotten either. In the foreground are Zeus and his struggle for supremacy on Olympus, Heracles and his undertakings, Theseus, Perseus, the Argonauts, the Trojan War and its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Paris, Odysseus and Aeneas... All born in the cradle of European civilization, in ancient Greece.
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