Who doesn't know the legends about the Olympians - the formidable Zeus, the silver-armed Apollo, the cheerful and frightening Dionysus? Haven't heard of the exploits of Theseus or Hercules? Don't remember "Pandora's box" or the chained Prometheus? Can you remember where you know all this from? Most likely, from the book "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece", which has now been published by MIF - in a gift package and with stunning illustrations.
The work of the outstanding scientist Nikolai Albertovich Kun was published in 1914 and has been reprinted dozens of times since then. Kun did the seemingly impossible: he took authentic sources - the poems of Hesiod and Homer, the tragedies of Euripides - and retold them so captivatingly and easily that the book was read by more than one generation of children and adults, and the brilliantly stylized stories were remembered for a lifetime.
Now this book is back in a new guise: it is no longer the tattered brown volume we remember from childhood. It will delight adults with familiar stories and remind them of forgotten ones, and it will immerse schoolchildren in the fascinating and wonderful world of Ancient Greece, which laid the foundation for all Western culture.
Recommended reader age: 6+
Author: Nikolay Kun
Year of issue: 2025
Publisher: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber
Pages: 608
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 260x180x40 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00214-081-7