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    Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome
    Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome
    Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome
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    Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome

    By Joyce Tyldesley and Julian Heath

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    In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome minotaur, and how Romulus founded the mighty city of Rome. The “this book belongs to” introductions teaches the reader how to write their name using ancient Greek letters, and their age using Roman numerals. Each of the stories includes a question and answer section for enthusiastic young archaeologists.

    The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by acclaimed artist and archaeologist Julian Heath.

    Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome is primarily aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but it offers an entertaining and informative introduction to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome to readers of all ages.

    In a companion book to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley retells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome minotaur, and how Romulus founded the mighty city of Rome. The “this book belongs to” introductions teaches the reader how to write their name using ancient Greek letters, and their age using Roman numerals. Each of the stories includes a question and answer section for enthusiastic young archaeologists.

    The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by acclaimed artist and archaeologist Julian Heath.

    Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome is primarily aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but it offers an entertaining and informative introduction to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome to readers of all ages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxbow Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781785707667
    Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome
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    Joyce Tyldesley

    Joyce Tyldesley's books include acclaimed biographies of Rameses the Great, and the queens Hatchepsut and Nefertiti. She is the author of Egypt: How a Lost Civilization Was Rediscovered, which accompanied a major BBC television series. Her books have been published all over the world. She lives in Bolton, Lancashire.

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      Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome - Joyce Tyldesley

      STORIES FROM ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

      by

      Joyce Tyldesley

      Illustrated by

      Julian Heath

      Published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by

      OXBOW BOOKS

      The Old Music Hall, 106–108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE

      and in the United States by

      OXBOW BOOKS

      1950 Lawrence Road, Havertown, PA 19083

      © Oxbow Books, Joyce Tyldesley (text), and Julian Heath (illustrations) 2017

      Paperback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-765-0

      Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-766-7 (epub)

      Mobi Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-767-4 (mobi)

      The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher in writing.

      For a complete list of Oxbow titles, please contact:

      Oxbow Books is part of the Casemate Group

      CONTENTS

      About this Book

      About Ancient Greece and Rome

      The Stories:

      1. Persephone Visits the Underworld

      2. Pandora Opens a Box

      3. Theseus Escapes from the Labyrinth

      4. Icarus Flies near the Sun

      5. Atalanta Runs a Race

      6. Midas is Unlucky

      7. Perseus Kills a Gorgon

      8. Arachne Weaves a Web

      9. Oedipus Meets the Sphinx

      10. Romulus Builds a City

      People and Places

      What do You Think? – Answers

      The people of ancient Greece spoke the Greek language, but their version of the Greek language was not the same as the Greek language that is spoken in Greece today. If a modern Greek person travelled back in time to meet met an ancient Greek person, they would not be able to understand each other.

      The ancient Greeks wrote their language using the ancient Greek alphabet. Can you write your own name in ancient Greek, in the scroll above? Not all of our letters occur in the Greek alphabet: they did not have the sounds J, Q, V and Y, so I have suggested some alternative letters for you. Remember to use the capital letter at the start of your name.

      THE GREEK ALPHABET

      The people of ancient Rome did not write their numbers in the same way that we do. They used letters to represent the numbers. We call these letter-numbers Roman numerals. We sometimes use Roman numerals today; you may have seen them on a clock or watch face. Can you write your own age in the scroll, using Roman numerals?

      ROMAN NUMERALS

      ABOUT THIS BOOK

      When I was a schoolgirl (a very long time ago; I am LVII years old!), I loved to read the stories told in ancient Greece and Rome. I think that you will love reading these stories too. So in this book I have collected together ten of the most exciting tales, and I have asked my friend Julian to draw pictures of the stories for you. You might want to colour these pictures in.

      One of the stories, Romulus Builds a City, comes from ancient Rome. The other nine stories are slightly older; they are stories that were told in ancient Greece. All the stories are fiction – this means that they have been made up. Some are stories that the people told to explain the things that puzzled them. Why are there different seasons every year? Why do bad things happen to good people? And why do all spiders create a web? But most are stories that were told simply for fun.

      Happy reading!

      Iοιξε

      This is a map of ancient Greece and Rome.

      ABOUT ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

      Greece is a southern European country with a long coastline and thousands of islands scattered around the mainland in the Mediterranean Sea. Many hundreds of years ago, this land and its islands were divided into many small kingdoms or city-states. The people who lived in these city-states all spoke the ancient Greek language and all worshipped the same gods and goddesses, but each city-state had its own king and its own laws. Sometimes the city-states were friendly towards each other, and sometimes they fought fiercely against each other. The largest city-states were called Athens, Sparta, Thebes and Corinth.

      The ancient Romans lived slightly later than the ancient Greeks, in the European country that we now call Italy. They worshipped the same gods and goddesses as the Greeks and told many of the same stories about them. However, they gave the gods and goddesses different names. So, Zeus the king of the gods in ancient Greece, was known as

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