Odysseus is in a panic: he has a serious rival in the race to be considered the greatest traveler of the ancient world — the Trojan Aeneas! After all, he too faces an incredible sea voyage, encounters with a Cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis, and all that. However, that’s a long way off; for now, both Odysseus and Aeneas are just little Mythies...
Meanwhile, the infant Achilles, whom we remember from the first volumes of the series, has grown up and started preparing with all his might for a career as the greatest warrior in history. And everything would be fine, if not for his mother, the sea nymph Thetis, who envisions her son's future quite differently! Understandably, she knows full well the oracle's prophecy, which foretold that Achilles has two paths: to live a long but inglorious life, or a short but heroic one. And so, to keep her son from being tempted by the choice, she decides to hide him on a distant island, going so far as to dress him as a girl for good measure... Will her ruse work? You will find out about this, and much more, in the new volume of the popular "Mythies" series!
At the end of the book, as always, the authors have prepared detailed (but not without their trademark humor!) historical material for readers, from which you will learn who founded Troy and Rome and when, why Homer's poem about the Trojan War is called the "Iliad," what holidays the ancient Romans celebrated, who the Penates, Lares, and Manes were, why Madagascar primates are called lemurs, how Athena became Pallas, and much, much more!
Author: Christophe Cazenove
Illustrations: Larbier
Translation: Mikhail Khachaturov
Pages: 56 (coated paper). Hardcover
Dimensions: 295x220x10 mm
Series: Mythies
Collection: Comics by Peshkom v Istoriyu publishing house
