Level: Band 16/Sapphire. Heroes and monsters; gods and goddesses; adventure and excitement: all are to be found in this book, which contains four well-known myths and legends from Ancient Greece told in an accessible style. Find out how Theseus killed the minotaur, how Daedelus escaped from the maze and why Herakles longed for a rest!. Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.