About this book -- About ancient Greece and Rome -- The stories: Persephone visits the underworld -- Pandora opens a box -- Theseus escapes from the labyrinth -- Icarus flies near the sun -- Atalanta runs a race -- Midas is unlucky -- Perseus kills a gorgon -- Arachne weaves a web -- Oedipus meets the sphinx -- Romulus builds a city -- People and place -- What do you think? - Answers.