Myths, legends and traditions are fantastic ideas of our ancestors about the world around us, this is a kind of history of the past. The illustrated book "One Hundred Great Legends and Myths of the World" contains the most famous of them. The reader learns about the riddle of the Egyptian Sphinx, about the moral searches of people in the plots of the Old Testament, about the struggle of the gods for the control of the world and man according to the myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, about the famous British king Arthur and the wizard Merlin, the German sorcerer Dr. Faust, about the exploits of Russian heroes and the adventures of Guslyar Sadko. The book is designed for the general reader.