A narrative retelling of Greek mythology as one continuous story.
From the dust jacket:
At first it was a tiny prick of light. Now the sun was gone, and the twisting, flickering, shining thing lit up a patch of the night as it rushed down to meet the sea. Then, for the briefest instant, the falling shape was seen quite clearly as it turned over and over in the air. It was a fiery, shrieking baby...
So the infant god Hephaestus, first-born son of mighty Zeus, was flung from high Olympus by his mother Hera for his ugliness. And so begins this astonishing story of the gods of Olympus–not separate tales, but one continuous narrative that sweeps from the making of the gods to the making of man, and on to the conflicts among the gods themselves as they seek to master their own fragile creations.
Zevi Blum's drawings combine the earthiness of Homer with the stark line of Classic Greece.
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