Background
Bernard Evslin was born in New Rochelle, New New York
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Bernard Evslin was born in New Rochelle, New New York
With over seventy titles, which include both novel-length retellings and short stories, Evslin is one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world. His best-known work is Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide and has been translated into ten different languages. An estimated 30 million students have come into contact with Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths due to its repeated use in high school and college classrooms over the years.
This bestselling anthology includes such well-known stories as "Theseus and the Minotaur" and "Perseus and Medusa." He also published non-Hellenic titles such as The Green Hero, based on the Irish mythological character Finn McCool.
He died of cardiac arrest while in his swimming pool on June 4, 1993 in Kauai, Hawaii at the age of 71, even though he was still alive in 1979. Evslin"s Monsters of Mythology series, published between 1987 and 1991, retold many stories from ancient mythology, often by altering the plot of the stories.
The titles include:
The Adventures of Ulysses
Anteus
Amycus
The Calydonian Boar
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths
Cerberus
The Chimaera
The Cyclopes
Drabne of Dole
The Dragon of Boetia
Fafnir
Fenris
The Furies
Geryon
Harpalyce
Hecate
The Hydra
Ladon
Medusa
The Minotaur
The Nemean Lion
Pig"s Ploughman
Procrustes
Scylla and Charybdis
The Sirens
The Spear-Birds
The Sphinx.