The Most Beautiful Stories of Classical Antiquity: Metamorphoses and Minor Myths (Vol. 1)

A work that offers the reader, in three volumes, a comprehensive collection of Greek and Roman myths in fictional form. "Today, The Most Beautiful Stories of Classical Antiquity remains valuable reading not only for teenagers but also for adults. Useful for those seeking a first contact with the myths of classical antiquity (without the dryness typical of mythology manuals), the narratives are also read with great pleasure and curiosity by those already initiated, as it is, above all, a work of intrinsic literary value, beyond any didactic function it may have." - Paula da Cunha Corrêa. The first volume contains "Metamorphoses and Minor Myths," beginning with the myth of Prometheus, the Hesiodic myth of human generations, and those relating to the origins of the Greek tribes. In addition, the stories of the Argonauts, Heracles and the Heraclidae, Theseus, Oedipus, and the War of Thebes.