Who can guess that behind the antlers of a deer the shadow of Actaeon is outlined, or that the spider owes its birth to the conflict between Athena and Arachne? The legends collected in this volume, freely adapted from works by the Latin Ovid and the Greek poets Aeschylus and Hesiod, teach us that every flower, every tree, every animal, contains a mortal who was the object of revenge or the desire to kill. some god The text is completed with blocks of games, which facilitate a better understanding of what is read, and with complementary information on various aspects of the Greek world.