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By Anita Yasuda,Mike Crosier

ISBN-10: 1619304465

ISBN-13: 9781619304468

ISBN-10: 1619304503

ISBN-13: 9781619304505

Architecture, democracy, the Olympics—the sleek international owes much to the traditional Greeks! In Explore Greek Myths! With 25 nice Projects, readers embark on a desirable trip to discover the myths that infused old Greek tradition, civilization, and innovation. Readers will learn the way those myths, renowned greater than 3,000 years in the past, have supplied basic aid to present day paintings, structure, arithmetic, technological know-how, philosophy, literature, and government.

Readers will examine the adventures of many Greek gods, corresponding to Zeus, who may perhaps throw lightning bolts and Athena, who for my part secure town of Athens. Readers also will meet nice heroes, together with the powerful Heracles, Perseus, who freed a princess chained to a rock, and Odysseus, who battled with a one-eyed substantial referred to as a Cyclopes. those characters and creatures serve to either entertain and supply classes in morality, whereas additionally explaining the typical phenomenon that the traditional Greeks had no clinical rationalization for.

The vigorous textual content, spectacular enjoyable evidence, jokes, and colourful illustrations inspire teenagers to discover Greek mythology and make connections to our sleek tradition and language. Hands-on actions comprise creating a topographical map of old Greece and designing Greek columns, whereas hyperlinks to on-line basic resources inspire readers to discover the subject independently.

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