Adapted and illustrated for young readers
Titles in this set:
1. Eros and Psyche
2. Persephone
3. Bellerophon and Pegasus
4. Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
5. King Midas
6. Daedalus and Icarus
7. Athena and the Naming of Athens
8. Pandora's Box
9. Prometheus
10. Battle of the Titans
Description
Eros and Psyche
Angry that her followers have begun worshipping someone else, Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty, decides to punish the human Princess Psyche. She tells her son Eros, God of Love, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest, meanest creature on Earth.For once, Eros disobeys his mother. He and Psyche fall in love with each other. But when doubt drives them apart, Psyche must complete three impossible tasks for her happy ever after.
Persephone
Persephone, the Goddess of Spring Growth, has disappeared, and her mother, Demeter, is heartbroken. As the Goddess of the Harvest, Demeter's job is to make sure that farm crops grow healthily. While searching for her daughter, however, she ignores her work. Crops begin to die. Animals and people begin to starve.Meanwhile Persephone is in the last place anyone would think to look, with the last God anyone would think to ask.
Bellerophon and Pegasus
Bellerophon has everything he should need to be happy, but he wants even more. He wants to be the first to ride the flying horse Pegasus.With the help of the Goddess Athena, this dream comes true, and Bellerophon becomes a hero. But as his fame grows, so does his pride. Until he sets his heart on a new dream, even more impossible than the last.A dream that may lead to his downfall ...
Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
Helios, the Sun Titan, takes his job of bringing the sunrise and sunset very seriously. Every morning, he puts on his solar crown, fastens his winged horses to his chariot and flies the sun across the sky.But flying the chariot isn't as easy as it might seem. And when Helios's son Phaethon decides to take it out by himself, the Earth begins to get unbearably hot...
King Midas
King Midas loves three things: his roses, his daughter and GOLD. He wants to be the richest man in the world - and when he meets a satyr with powerful friends, he finally gets his wish.But satyrs are mischievous goat-men who cannot be trusted, and tangling with Gods rarely works out well for humans. Soon Midas's foolish wish turns into a curse, as one love costs him all his others...
Daedalus and Icarus
When King Minos needs a prison for a Minotaur - a monster that is half man, half bull - the inventor Daedalus builds an underground maze. Rather than being rewarded for his work, Daedalus and his son Icarus are locked up to keep it a secret.To escape, Daedalus builds two pairs of wings and warns Icarus that he must not fly too close to the water or too close to the sun...
Athena and the Naming of Athens
Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, War and Craft, has her mother Metis's intelligence and her father Zeus's determination. She is the last being anyone should challenge to a competition - least of all a human.In a moment of carelessness, Arachne challenges Athena to see whose ability to spin and weave fabrics is the best. Zeus will decide the winner, and the loser will never spin or weave again. Or will they?
Pandora's Box
After punishing the Titan Prometheus for stealing fire for humans, Zeus is still angry. He commands the God Hephaestus to create Pandora, the first mortal woman.Then he gives Pandora a beautiful golden box ... and tells her never to open it.Pandora's curiosity about the box grows until she cannot resist looking inside. The moment she does, Zeus's final punishment is unleashed - one that will test humanity to its limits.
Prometheus
The Gods have won the war against the Titans, but with terrible consequences for Earth. Gaia orders Zeus to create life anew, so the King of the Gods gives the task to two Titan brothers.Epimetheus quickly creates animals and gives each a gift to protect them, including fur for warmth, wings for escape and horns for defence.Prometheus slowly creates humans - and realises that he's made a terrible mistake.
Battle of the Titans
Twelve Titans plot to overthrow their father.Their father is Uranus, who rules the Heavens.Their mother is Gaia, who made the Earth.With Gaia's help, Cronus becomes King of the Titans, but an alarming prophecy leads him to imprison his own children: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon. Only Zeus escapes. Years later, he returns to free his siblings and wage a war that will decide who rules the universe.