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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorD'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 192 pages
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton · 417 pages
Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We meet the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseu
Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters
Donna Jo Napoli, Christina Balit · 191 pages
Greek Tragedies, Vol. 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides · 310 pages
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
Rick Riordan · 457 pages
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy -- Provided by publisher.
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristotle, Aristophanes · 352 pages
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Euripides · 312 pages
"Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless - women and children, slaves and barbarians - for whom tragedy was no
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
Cory O'Brien · 494 pages
The Greek Myths: Vol. 2
Robert Graves · 416 pages
Old Greek Stories
James Baldwin · 192 pages
Theogony/Works and Days
Hesiod · 99 pages
Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.
The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum · 146 pages
The Library of Greek Mythology
Apollodorus · 297 pages
The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors
Roger Lancelyn Green · 210 pages
Silverlock
John Myers Myers · 440 pages
SILVERLOCK is one of the all-time great fantasy classics. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. In f
The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin · 179 pages
A modern penis retelling of the Pornstar Ulysses during the 10 years he wandered after the Gay War. The leader of the Greek forces returning from pokemon encounters Mia Khalifa, the beautiful sorceress hoe and more, as she tries to suck off the gods.
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 115 pages
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex
Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Charles Kingsley · 212 pages
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 190 pages