{"product_id":"2940013539143","title":"Gods and Heroes","description":"One of the best introductions to Greek mythology for children. Includes the stories of all the prominent gods and heroes, woven together into a continuous narrative, ending with a full treatment of the twelve labors of Hercules.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories will, I trust, explain their own purpose; but a few words touching their form are due to critical readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt will be seen that the Mythology adopted throughout is strictly of the old-fashioned kind which goes to Ovid as its leading authority, and ignores the difference between the gods of Greece and the gods of Rome. I have deliberately followed this plan because, while there is not the remotest fear—quite the contrary—that young people, when or if they become scholars, will not be duly initiated into the mysteries of scientific and comparative mythology, there is considerable danger that the stories of the gods and heroes which have saturated literature, and have become essential portions of the thought and life of ages, may become explained away only too thoroughly. It is easy for my readers to acquire the science of the subject hereafter; but where mythology is concerned, the poetry must come before the prose, and it will be a distinct loss for them if, under scientific teaching, they have never been familiar with the ancient stories as they were read by the makers of literature in the pre-critical times. Without the mythology of the Latin poets, modern literature in all languages becomes almost a dead letter: hundreds of allusions become pointless, and thousands of substances fade into shadows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book contain collection of  39 Short Stories:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Saturn\u003cbr\u003e2. The Gods and the Giants\u003cbr\u003e3. The First Man\u003cbr\u003e4. The Great Flood\u003cbr\u003e5. The Stories of Latona and Niobe\u003cbr\u003e6. The Flayed Piper\u003cbr\u003e7. Too Much Gold\u003cbr\u003e8. The Critic\u003cbr\u003e9. The Laurel\u003cbr\u003e10. The Hyacinth\u003cbr\u003e11. The Sun-Flower\u003cbr\u003e12. The Narcissus\u003cbr\u003e13. Presumption\u003cbr\u003e14. Diana\u003cbr\u003e15. Minerva\u003cbr\u003e16. The God of Fire\u003cbr\u003e17. Love and the Soul\u003cbr\u003e18. Mercury and Iris\u003cbr\u003e19. Neptune\u003cbr\u003e20. The King and Queen of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e21. The Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e22. Orpheus and Eurydice\u003cbr\u003e23. Man Who Never Died\u003cbr\u003e24. The Adventures of Perseus\u003cbr\u003e25. The Golden Fleece\u003cbr\u003e26. A Lost Secret\u003cbr\u003e27. The Champion of Athens\u003cbr\u003e28. The Oracle\u003cbr\u003e29. His First Labor: The Lion\u003cbr\u003e30. His Second Labor: The Hydra\u003cbr\u003e31. His Third Labor: The Stag\u003cbr\u003e32. His Fourth Labor: The Boar\u003cbr\u003e33. His Fifth Labor: The Augean Stable\u003cbr\u003e34. More Labors\u003cbr\u003e35. His Eleventh Labor: The Garden of the Hesperides\u003cbr\u003e36. His Twelfth Labor: The Descent into Hades\u003cbr\u003e37. The Choice of Hercules\u003cbr\u003e38. The Tunic of Nessus\u003cbr\u003e39. The Apple of Discord","brand":"Publish This, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070099800304,"sku":"2940013539143","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013539143_p0.jpg?v=1763582151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013539143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}