Vendor
	Iris Catherine Fragou
Original language
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Categories
Myths & fairy tales Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Stories told by …

Maria Angelidou

In this book series of knowledge and historical narrative, the author successfully combines historical fact with fiction and her readers' contemporary sensitivities with historical accuracy, thus proving that “history is more than just a class.” Based on new historical researches, without any national ideas and character, Maria Angelidou narrates history in with a very modern way that will stay in childrens’minds. The narrator is different in every book as a point of reference for the story In that way, War will tell us about battles that blossomed like flowers in the spring, warlords that wouldn’t ever stop fighting, small armies that won ever when defeated. The War tells the best stories. The Sea has a bunch of beautiful stories: the story of Herodot, who dreamed the power of Narrating History. The Coming Home Travel of a whole army, that fought in the heart of Asia and made it back. The story of Aristoteles, who was the Darwin of his epoch, and the dream of the first u-boat in history made true by Alexander the Great himself.

Then the Road will tell the story of the Right Road (and the first laws in ancient history), the story of Ktisias, who was the Jules Vernes of the Antiquity, the story of Alkibiades, who made travel upon travel and died traveling, and the story of the road to the stars and the sand, that was a story about knowing and understanding numbers. And the Agora will tell us about the first money in history, about animals talking like humans, and about humans living according to their words. And last but not least about great fathers of greater sons.

Stories told by the Stone explore the Minotaur’s Labyrinth, Cities with walls built by Giants and Cyclops, Athens glory that was made of marble white and splendid, and the stones of a doctor god, that cured people by inviting them to the theatre.

The sixth narrator is the Light itself, telling stories about gods, (about Apollo, who was the god of light) about darkness, (about a terrible battle fought during the night by the most cunning of warlords), about the wisdom won out of watching the Sun, and of course about the happiness of not just hearing but also seeing a story - in the theatre.

Based on new historical researches, without any national ideas and character, Maria Angelidou narrates history in a very modern way that will stay in childrens’minds.

Beside endless hours in school, shelves filled with books and chronology tables and names, History is hopefully many other things too. It is people who love, fight and dream, people who travel and learn and get excited, people who work, who are curious and ambitious and so much more… History is constituted by a number of little histories, which we or others live, standing there aside ready to be told. In Greece, the birthplace of stories, there are some wonderful ones. Stories told by the war, or by the sea, by the light or by the forum. Hopefully they have no end.

This is a book series related to tales about history. It aims to cover the need to explain to children in simple words the deeper meanings hidden behind historical facts by a pleasant and educative way. History is not after all just a lesson for school but a lesson for life!