The book of Jan Parandovsky is one of the best about ancient mythology. The author did not set himself the task of exhausting the topic, he does not retell all the myths and does not burden his story with unnecessary details. But he does something immeasurably more useful and important. As far as possible for a person of the 20th century, he recreates the spiritual world of the people, creating mythology, traces the development of his religious beliefs, the dying of some and the emergence of new ones, with fluent but accurate strokes paints a general picture of the life, life of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as if transfers the reader to the atmosphere of that time, to the circle of his interests, conflicts and thereby helps to understand the origin and development of such a volatile and so invariably beautiful world of ancient myths.