For hundreds of years people have told and re-told the stories of the gods and goddesses and heroes of long-ago Greece and Rome. To this day—in books, in pictures, in music, and even in motion pictures and television—these miraculous beings go on performing their mighty deeds.

Kathleen Elgin offers an exciting introduction to these stories of heroism and adventure, tricks and magic, of gods who act like human beings and human beings who act like gods.

Miss Elgin has long wanted to write and illustrate this book. Both the text and the beautiful, full page illustrations are works of love and inspiration.

From the dust jacket