Hilary Bailey Re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this...

Anthony F Aveni An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni...

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire "I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book...

Jennifer Saint The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied...

Emily Hauser Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had...

Sofia Souli This special edition has been designed to present the main Greek myths. A work of considerable scope, written in a simple and expressive style, it is accompanied by...

Robert Graves Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how she came to write the epic poem known...

Jean RacineDepicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will. This title shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction...

Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

Robert Holdstock Wood caused a sensation when first published in the mid-eighties. Here was a mythical fantasy adored by the critics and loved by readers of all tastes from an...

Anonymous Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to...

Natalie Haynes When you open up, who will you let in?When Alex Morris loses her fiancé in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with...