书名：Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods波西·杰克逊与希腊诸神

读者对象：10-14岁

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数790L

作者：Rick Riordan

出版社名称：Puffin

出版时间：2015

语种：英文

ISBN：9780141358680

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：432

希腊神话是欧洲zui早的文学形式，经过几千年的文化传承与演变，已经渗透到欧洲文化、艺术的各个方面，是了解欧洲文化必须要掌握的基础知识。美国作家雷克·莱尔顿编著的“波西·杰克逊系列”，将希腊神话与现代冒险巧妙勾兑，带领读者与希腊英雄式主人公波西一起冒险，宛如参加情节跌宕、背景深厚的一场少年成人礼。

该系列中现实与历史遥相呼应，担当与成长如影随形，被赞誉为少年版《荷马史诗》。美国总统奥巴马向读者推荐此系列的书，亚马逊也将其列入“一生不可不读的100本书”，作者雷克·莱尔顿亦被票选为“受读者欢迎的作家”。 就算你从未读过“波西·杰克逊系列”也不要紧，作为红遍全美的历史教师，作者雷克·莱尔顿对于希腊神话的解读也有自己独到的心得，他独特的见解为评价古典神话提供了一个全新的视角，创意十足！ Who could tell the true stories of the gods and goddesses of Olympus better than modern-day demigod Percy Jackson? In this action-packed tour of Greek mythology, Percy gives his hilarious personal views on the feuds, fights and love affairs of the Olympians. Want to know how Zeus came to be top god? How many times Kronos ate one of his own kids? How Athena literally burst out of another god's head? It's all here in black and white. . . Plus, an exclusive bonus chapter from The Blood of Olympus, the fifth and final book in the Heroes of Olympus series!

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods《波西·杰克逊与希腊诸神》是波西·杰克逊第1次公开讲述关于他所知道的希腊诸神的故事，作为一个成天与希腊诸神打交道的半神英雄，波西所掌握的信息可算得上是翔实又可靠，再配合波西根据自己与诸神接触后的真实感受所做的精彩点评，风趣幽默的语言让你一下就能记住原本枯燥的神话故事哦！雷克·莱尔顿，当今世界畅销童书作家之一，也是畅销书“39条线索系列”的作者之一。他将神话角色巧妙地融入冒险故事框架中，创作出了“波西·杰克逊系列”小说，深受全球广大青少年读者喜爱，占据各大畅销书排行榜，并获得诸多重要奖项。莱尔顿也经常到各地和大小读者交流写作与生活的心得，目前和家人住在美国得克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥。

Rick Riordanis the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. Today over 35 million copies of his Percy Jackson, Kane Chronicles, and Heroes of Olympus books are in print in the United States, and rights have been sold into more than 35 countries. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller. Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.

IN THE BEGINNING, I wasn’t there. I don’t think the Ancient Greeks were, either. Nobody had a pen and paper to take notes, so I can’t vouch for what follows, but I can tell you it’s what the Greeks thought happened.

At first, there was pretty much nothing. A lot of nothing. The first god, if you can call it that, was Chaos—a gloomy, soupy mist with all the matter in the cosmos just drifting around. Here’s a fact for you: Chaos literally means the Gap, and we’re not talking about the clothing store. Eventually Chaos got less chaotic. Maybe it got bored with being all gloomy and misty. Some of its matter collected and solidified into the earth, which unfortunately developed a living personality. She called herself Gaea, the Earth Mother. Now Gaea was the actual earth—the rocks, the hills, the Valleys, the whole enchilada. But she could also take on humanlike form. She liked to walk across the earth—which was basically walking across herself—in the shape of a matronly with a flowing green dress, curly black hair, and a serene smile on her fact. The smile hid a nasty disposition. You’ll see that soon enough. After a long time alone, Gaea looked up into the misty nothing above the earth and said to herself “u know what would be good? A sky. I could really go for a sky. And it would be nice if he was also a handsome man I could fall in love with, because I’m kind of lonely down here with just these rocks.” Either Chaos heard her and cooperated, or Gaea simply willed it to happen. Above the earth, the sky formed—a protective dome that was blue in the daytime and black at night. The sky named himself Ouranos—and, yeah, that’s another spelling for Uranus. There’s pretty much no war you can pronounce that name without people snickering. It just sounds wrong. Why he didn’t choose a better name for himself—like Deathbringer or Jose—I don’t know hut it might explain why Ouranos was so cranky all thetime. Like Gaea, Ouranos could take human shape and visit the earth—which s good. because the sky is war up there and long-distance relationships never work out.