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    The Wrath of the Gods
    The Wrath of the Gods
    The Wrath of the Gods
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    The Wrath of the Gods

    By Anthony Horowitz

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    A collection of five bite-size myths from across the globe, The Wrath of the Gods by Anthony Horowitz includes exciting tales from Greek, Norse and Inuit mythology.

    Part of the Legends series of six books, The Wrath of the Gods tells the dramatic stories of those who dared to disobey the heavens - and it does not pay to anger the gods . . . If you’re lucky, you might just end up being transformed into a spider, falling hopelessly in love with your reflection or being hunted by your own hounds.

    And if you’re unlucky? Well . . . read on . . .

    Featuring black and white illustrations, the Legends series by Anthony Horowitz, the author of the phenomenally successful Alex Rider series, brings classic stories to life with thrilling imagination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateJun 7, 2012
    ISBN9781447213185
    The Wrath of the Gods
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    Anthony Horowitz

    ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestselling Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language; he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novel Trigger Mortis features original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel, Moriarty, is a reader favorite; and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War on PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE.

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      The Wrath of the Gods - Anthony Horowitz

      Introduction

      Pandora’s Box

      Greek

      The Judgement of Paris

      Greek

      The Stolen Hammer of Thor

      Norse

      The Ten Fingers of Sedna

      Inuit

      Narcissus

      Greek

      How to Survive the Greek Gods

      Imagine you were born ten thousand years ago. You’re sitting in your cave at night watching the sun set and you feel a sense of dread as the darkness, black and impenetrable, stretches out across the land. There are no electric lights, no TV, no books, nothing except a fire which you can light to keep yourself warm and which provides you with a sense of safety.

      Where has the sun gone? You have absolutely no idea how the universe works, that the world is spinning and in orbit. You examine the bright lights in the sky and the fact that you are looking at a thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen – in other words, a star – escapes you. There’s a storm, and a bolt of lightning suddenly comes crashing down. What has happened? Is there somebody ‘up there’ who has become angry? And as you settle down to sleep, an awful thought crosses your mind. How can you be sure that the sun will rise again in the morning and what on earth will you do if it doesn’t?

      I can’t pretend I’m any great expert on this subject, and everything I’m writing in this introduction may be quite wrong, but I’ve always thought that this is how myths must have begun. People needed explanations for the world that was around them, and the most imaginative of them – the shamans or the storytellers – began to weave together stories that did just that.

      The ancient Greeks were the most imaginative of all and, perhaps helped by the fact that their country was so beautiful and generally lacking in the extremes that inflicted other parts of the world – drought and famine, for example – they created some of the most poetical and enduring myths of all.

      Take the sunrise. They looked at the mountains that soared above them and imagined a place called Olympus, where a family of gods lived. The father of the gods they called Zeus (the name may come from the Sanskrit word, dyaus, meaning day) and he had a son called Apollo who had a golden chariot that was pulled by fiery horses across the world. Apollo was, of course, the sun-god, and by praying to him and making sacrifices the Greeks ensured that he would continue to do his work and bring light to them every day.

      And as the story was told and retold it became more elaborate – as all stories do. The storytellers saw the sunbeams slanting down, so they gave Apollo a bow and golden arrows. He became a shepherd god, a god of music and, perhaps because the truth will always come to light, a god of prophecy with a famous oracle on the island of Delphi.

      Perhaps to make him more real they began to tell stories about his exploits. In one, for example, he was challenged to a musical contest by a satyr (a woodland spirit) called Marsyas, who was a great flute player. Apollo played a stringed instrument – a lyre – and won the contest when he challenged Marsyas both to sing and to play his flute at the same time which was, of course, impossible. Apollo won and, as a punishment, he tore the skin of Marsyas and nailed it to a tree . . . and the moral of this is that you should never challenge a god (see the ten rules at the back of this book).

      There was another reason for the creation of myths, and that was to explain the way human beings behaved. If the gods did it, then it was OK for people to do it too. Look at the way Zeus went around chasing women . . . and

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