This beautiful limited edition boxed set contains the stunningly designed new Penguin Epics series: twenty short tales of human adventure, legend and myth. Penguin Epics depict the most extreme acts of heroism, ambition, bravery and violence, and in doing so they reveal mankind's most profound aspirations and darkest fears. From the rip-roaring exploits of Alexander the Great, through Dante’s terrifying description of the Descent into Hell, to the swashbuckling adventures of Sindbad, these works will take the reader on a journey through the most astonishing and heroic legends of the past four-and-a-half thousand years of literature.

The boxed set includes:

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Exodus

Odysseus Returns Home
Homer

Xerxes Invades Greece
Herodotus

The Sea, The Sea
Xenophon

The Abduction of Sita

Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius

The Destruction of Troy
Virgil

The Serpent's Teeth
Ovid

The Fall of Jerusalem
Josephus

The Madness of Nero
Tacitus

Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius

The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great

Beowulf

Siegfried's Murder

Sagas and Myths of the Northmen

The Sunjata Story

The Descent into Hell
Dante

King Arthur's Last Battle
Malory

The Voyages of Sindbad

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I just can’t win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me?

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