Nobody Ever Saw Zeus: Greek Gods and Goddesses for Kids, the Eighteen Real Clues They Left Behind

Nobody ever shook hands with Zeus. No ancient Greek wrote him a letter, and no camera caught him at the temple gate. So how does anyone today know what the Greeks actually believed?Not from the gods themselves. From what real people left behind: a storeroom of gold and silver, weighed and re-counted year after year. A wine cup with a god painted on the inside, where the wine once went. A festival grocery list, cut into stone so it would outlast the festival. A record of the very people who doubted the whole thing.Eighteen short chapters, each built around the things the Greeks really left behind, take readers from the god the Greeks argued about to the museum shelf where the proof still sits today.Inside this book- Eighteen chapters, and behind every one a real object rather than a story- Four kinds of evidence: stone, painted pottery, carved inscriptions, and everyday habits- A closing guide to where the objects are today, including the one nobody can locate- Eight evidence words explained, so museum labels stop reading like a foreign language- A timeline showing how old each piece of proof really is- Illustrated throughout in the flat style of Greek vase paintingWritten for readers aged 8 to 12.