The sagas of Zeus, Isis, Thor and Beowulf are some of the best-known adventure stories ever told. This collection of over 30 myths and legends, retold by Anthony Horowitz, includes: Isis and Osiris; Pyramus and Thisbe; Orpheus in the Underworld; and The Dragon and St George

 

This book is part of a book series called Legends .

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pan Macmillan .

Anthony Horowitz is the award-winning creator of the phenomenal Alex Rider books and the bestselling Power of Five series as well as a prolitic writer for TV. He lives in Clerkenwell, London. Aidan Chambers is an award-winning children's author and an experienced compiler. He worked for some years as a teacher before deciding to write full time. In 1969 he and his wife Nancy founded The Thimble Press, which publishes Signal, a critical journal devoted to children's literature. His book Postcard from No Man's Land won the Carnegie Medal in 1999. He lives in Gloucestershire. Tim Stevens studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art. He illustrated The Girls in the Velvet Frame (Adele Geras) and Down with the Dirty Danes (Gillian Cross) for HarperCollins. He lives in Suffolk.

This book has the following chapters: "Isis and Osiris" (Egyptian); "Pyramus and Thisbe" (Babylonian); "The Judgement of Paris" (Greek); "The Seven Pomegranite Seeds"(Greek - "Demeter and Persephone"); "The Spinning Contest (Greek - "Arachne and Athena"); "The Story of the Pan Pipes" (Greek); "Glaucus and Scylla" (Greek - Circe); "The Achilles Heel - (Greek); "The Mares of Diomedes" (Greek - Hercules); "Pandora's Box" (Greek); "The Gorgon's Head" (Greek - Perseus); "Orpheus in the Underworld" (Greek); "The Riddle ofthe Sphinx" (Greek - Oedipus); "Procrustes and his Magic Bed (Greek); "The Eye of the Cyclops" (Greek - Odysseus); Narcissus (Greek); "The Minotaur" (Greek - "Theseus"); "The Hounds of Actaeon (Greek); Romulus and remus" (Roman); "The Dragon and Saint George" (English); "The Grendel" (Anglo-Saxon - "Beowulf"); "The Ugly Wife" (Celtic - King Arthur); "Nidud the Cruel (Norse - "Volund the Blacksmith"); "The Death of Nornagest (Norse); "The Stolen Hammer of Thor" Norse); "The Wishes of Savitri (Indian); "The Great Bell of Peking" (Chinese); "The Monkey who would be King" (Chinese); "The First eclipse" (Japanese); "The Fabulous Spotted Egge" (Cheyenne Indian); "Gerguiaguiatugo" (Bororo Indian); "The Ten Fingers of Sedna" (Eskimo); "Given to the Sun" (Inca); "Catching the Sun" (Inca; "Catching the Sun" (Polynesian); "Death and the Boy" (West African).