Year: | Our Mythical Childhood Survey

Jeanne Bloch

Stories from Ancient Rome [Récits de la Rome Antique]

The booklet is divided in 8 chapters, each contains a mythical story or a legend of ancient Rome known from Livy’s Ab Urbe condita or it introduces a historical character.At the beginning, the child is told the story of Aeneas, the father of kings, which here begins with the long siege of Troy ending with the fall and burning of the city as a result of the wooden horse trick. Having avoided death in flames, Aeneas flees from Troy with his father, Anchises and son, Ascanius. He is safe from(...)

literary

YEAR: 1912

COUNTRY: France

TAGS: Aeneas Amulius Anchises Ascanius / Iulus Caesar Cleopatra VII Coriolanus Mark Antony Mercury Numitor (King) Remus Romulus Trojan Horse Troy Venus

Justyna Jastrzębska

The Graeco-Persian Wars [Wojny Greków z Persami]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue (accessed: June 11, 2021), Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp.The text describes the history of armed conflicts that took place in 499–449 BC. between the Persian Empire and Greece, a country, metaphorically, tiny as the surface of a shield, but capable of ac(...)

literary

YEAR: 1912

COUNTRY: Austro-Hungarian Empire Congress Poland Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Russian Empire

TAGS: Athens Graeco-Persian Wars Greek History