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Wiktor Gomulicki , Konstanty Gorski (Górski)

Memories of the Blue School Uniform [Wspomnienia niebieskiego mundurka]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp.Pułtusk, a small Polish town, not far from Warsaw (part of the Polish territory under Russian rule), 1859–1864. The plot is based on autobiographical facts from the author’s school years. The main character – Wi(...)

literary

YEAR: 1905

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Architecture Caryatids Cato the Elder Colossus of Rhodes Cornelius Nepos Elegy Eutropius Fable Hephaestus Heracles Hercules Jupiter Latin (Language) Nero Orestes Ovid Phaedrus Philosophy Poetry Political Thought Pylades Saturn Stoicism Triton

Kalliope Kyrdi, Evi Pini

Young Visitors to the Acropolis Museum [Μικροί επισκέπτες στο Μουσείο της Ακρόπολης (Mikroí Episképtes sto Mouseío tīs Akrópolīs)]

Both authors show that a museum guide should be informative, interactive, fun, and far from a long catalogue of exhibits. In addition to children of pre-school and early school age, the target audience is parents and teachers. The latter will find “ideas” for organising the museum visit on the opening page and additional information about the Museum, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon at the end of the book. Indeed, the book’s content is exceptionally rich. There is inform(...)

literary

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: Greece

TAGS: Acropolis Caryatids Erechtheus Giants Hekatompedon Hephaestus Metis Olympus Ouranos / Uranus Pandrosos Poseidon Zeus