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Psichogios Publications was founded in 1979 (45 years ago) () by Mr. Thanos Psichogios who published four children's fiction titles.. In the 1980s the company was mostly known in the Greek readership for their children fiction with popular authors such as Roald Dahl, Michael Ende, Graham Greene, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and others.
The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths:
Some fairy tales of the Ancient Greeks was released as part of the children's book series Books for the Bairns and is issue number 99. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] This book series was founded to make books appealing and affordable to children, and to provide them with an opportunity to read. [ 2 ]
Sheila Murnaghan of the University of Pennsylvania wrote:. The new classic status of myth collections, and the impulse to attack them in order to be popular, is well illustrated by the "Myth-O-Mania" books, a series for young readers (the recommended age range is 9-12) by Kate McMullan, published by Hyperion in 2002 and 2003, beginning with the first title, Have a Hot Time, Hades!, going ...
Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home (1980) Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy (2004) Elizabeth Cook, Achilles (2003) Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday (2002) (aka On the Seas to Troy, UK, 2004) Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial (1965) Gordon Doherty. The Crimson Throne (2021) The Shadow of Troy (2021) The Dark ...
The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths is a children's book by Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Jan Lewis. First published in hardback by Orchard Books , [ 1 ] an imprint of Hachette Book Group in 2003, it has become a favourite with many schools and families exploring ancient Greek myths with children aged five to eight.
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Some older scholarship had speculated that Bibliotheca might have been composed in Baghdad at the time of Photius' embassy to the Abbasid court, since many of the mentioned works are rarely cited during the period before Photius, i.e. the so-called Byzantine "Dark Ages" (c. 630–800), [3] and since it was known that the Abbasids were interested in translating Greek science and philosophy. [4]