Greek Myths

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We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. I will say there are a lot of graphic deaths (it was written by a British author, after all, and you know how the Brits love black humor), but if your kid is in first grade and up, I think they can handle it. The myths accurately portray the adventures of Pandora, Arion, Orpheus, Heracles, Daedalus, Perseus, Theseus and Arachne. It was this book that planted the seed that would eventually sprout and blossom into my ongoing love for Ancient Grecian mythology—additionally probably my earliest memory of being made aware in print that sometimes really shit things happen to unassuming people for almost no reason whatsoever, and that there's almost nothing you can do to fight it, à la Olympus style.

The tale begins on page 24 with King Acrisius packing his wife and child in a chest and setting them adrift on the sea. This would also benefit the children as they could also spend a lesson in making their own storyboard/comic strip of retelling a Greek Myth. Discover the magical myths and legendary heroes of Ancient Greece with award-winning author-illustrator Marcia Williams. Wonderful art and a great way to introduce children to the myths, exciting reading for older reluctant readers and a fun way for adult classicists to see the tales told in a new light. Marcia Williams retells the stories of Pandora and her little box of horrors, and Perseus the Gorgon slayer in her distinctive, witty and accessible style.

The pithy comments made by the characters take away focus from the accuracy and visual appeal of these myths.

There is more room for details in the background and the emphasis is placed on characters, feelings and events because of this. Every year King Minos would tell King Agues to send 7 boys and 7 girls to Crete to be killed by the Minotaur. I should know; it’s the book that I plucked from my shelf when I was barely a toddler, and there began my love of all things ancient. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This dramatic, lovingly-illustrated comic-strip version of the Greek myths fuses incredible tales of heroism and tragedy with humorous, detailed artwork that will always stick in your mind.As this is a comic style book, the pictures vary in sizes and it does appear to seem quite busy that there is a lot going on within the pictures yet I find that this would attract the children because they can look deeper into the pictures and see what is happening. Each page flows in lines of the comic strip with a written narrative underneath each strip and within the frames bubbles are used to emphasize the story and generally add silly humour to the character's reactions to what is going on around them. This book would be good to read to a class and also use children to act the story out as a role play and also to read along acting as the characters so they could read the speech bubbles.

There is a scene where Perseus meets the nymphs and they give him a helmet to make him invisible, but Perseus doesn't put in on right and they can see his foot. Has the same healthy attitude of seriousness mixed with irreverence as the Greeks themselves; every page crammed with hilarious, minutely detailed strip drawings. In this book you'll find the stories of Perseus, slayer of Medusa the gorgon; tragic lovers Orpheus and Eurydice; daring Heracles who fearlessly completed twelve Labours, and many more. Marcia Williams traveled extensively as a child and was educated in Sussex, England, and Switzerland. The Greek myths are among the greatest, most exciting stories ever told and feature some of the best loved heroes and heroines.This makes it hard to go off of the reviews since the other review gushed about the comic-book style of these myths. In addition to reading other versions of these stories, it would also be possible to use this book as a starting point for exploring other graphic books. The comic strip style appeals to us because it has lots of detailed pictures as well as short pieces of writing to tell the story. I had heard some of the myths before but it was enjoyable to read about new characters and creatures.

Written in horizontal comic strip fashion, this book retells eight Greek Myths in a humorous and fun way. In this book, you’ll find the stories of Theseus, conqueror of the dreaded Minotaur; the mighty Heracles and his twelve tasks; the tragic lovers Orpheus and Eurydice; Perseus, the Gorgon-slayer; the musician Arion and his rescue by the dolphins; Pandora and her little box of horrors; the feather-clad fliers Daedalus and Icarus; and the weaving contest between Arachne and the goddess Athene. I suppose it is a case-by-case scenario, but I know I have a little cousin who would have nightmares if she read about a giant bird eating somebody's liver everyday.

From Shakespeare and Dickens to the Canterbury Tales and Greek Myths, her humorous comic-strip illustration is hugely popular all over the globe. This would also be a good to introduce the topic of The Greeks so that the children would become a little more aware and interested. There were some new myths like "Arion and the Dolphins" and "Orpheus and Eurydice" that I never heard of before reading this book. Watch in awe as the classic characters leap to life: Perseus the Gorgon-slayer, the dreaded Minotaur, ill-fated Icarus, terrible Medusa and the awe-inspiring goddess Athene! It is good that Theseus killed the minotaur so that the people of Athens could stop being given to him for food.