"Welcome, my lad," says Uranus to Cronus, who was sitting at the edge of the beach holding something strange in his hand, hidden from the sun.

"Hello, father," he replies. "I came to play rackets."

"I don't see any balls."

"And you won't see them again."

How many lovers did Zeus have in the end? What did Pythia drink to give such bizarre prophecies? Were there really twelve labors of Hercules, or did Eurystheus play a trick on him? And was the girl Eileithyia really as stubborn as her name suggests, or is it just a misunderstanding and people badmouth her for no reason? These and other burning questions are answered by the "Neo-Hellenic Mythology".

Parodying Hesiod's myths in a whimsical way and in a continuous dialogue with the incomparable Greek Mythology by Tsiforos, the book recreates all our favorite stories from our childhood, shedding light on the humorous side of the exciting adventure that the ancient Greeks devised to interpret the world. Because without the gods, the demigods, and their endless antics, the truth that philosophers have been seeking and still seek might be a little boring.