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Myth-o-mania volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades explains how a jealous Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon and what really happened when Perseus went hunting for Medusa's head.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy and enhanced with vibrant artwork by Caldecott honoree John Rocco. Covers larger-than-life personalities from the classic Greek stories...
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Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
"...combat sequences that feel like the real thing."--Boston Globe.
"...impressive visual effects..."--Leonard Maltin.
"...imaginative leaps..."--Hollywood Reporter.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The classical Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every aspect of our modern Western civilization. Our logic and science, our philosophy, politics, literature, architecture, and art are all indebted to the ancient inhabitants of the small mountainous Mediterranean country. And the powerful myths of the Greeks, refined by Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and the great Greek dramatists, still resonate at the core of our culture. Taking as his starting...
8) Medusa
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, distrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Evelyn heads to Mt. Olympus Theme Park to celebrate her winning a hair design content, where she travels through a mirror in Athena's Hall of Mirrors to a myth; but when she meets Perseus on a mission to behead Medusa, Evelyn wants to try a more creative approach.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A collection of Greek myths, featuring the Greek heroes and monsters, with six stories starring Perseus and Medusa, Pegasus, Heracles, Odysseus, the Wooden Horse and the Minotaur. It includes a section after the stories that gives more details on the various gods and other Greek myths.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Perseus and the Olympians face off against the snake-haired Medusa.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A collection of Greek myths, featuring the Greek heroes and monsters, with six stories starring Perseus and Medusa, Pegasus, Heracles, Odysseus, the Wooden Horse and the Minotaur. It includes a section after the stories that gives more details on the various gods and other Greek myths.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version - his mother Danae, his trophy Medusa, and his wife Andromeda - but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed.