Greek myths retold for children.Prometheus and the fire of the gods --Pandora's box --Hercules --Apollo and Diana --Pegasus and Bellerophon --Jason and the golden fleece --Circe and Ulysses --Daedalus and Icarus --Pomona and Vertumnus --Atalanta and Hippomenes --Cupid and Apollo --Prosperpina and Pluto --Cupid and Psyche --Orpheus and Eurydice --Phaeton and the chariot of the sun --Arcas and Callisto --The golden touch --Perseus and Andromeda --Pygmalion and Galatea --Romulus and Remus

    His mother, Rita, is a sexy, gorgeous star - but a little nuts. His house is a palace - but lonely as hell. Ben, his mother's latest lover, fulfills Josh's longing for a father, gives him a chance he desperately needs to become his own person and to escape the tawdry temptations of Tinsel Town...until suddenly Ben is dead, Rita is under suspicion of murder, and Josh, if he is to become his own man, must discover the truth.

    In words and pictures, here is an exciting panorama of man's daily life across the ages, showing the evolution of his ways and habits of living from prehistoric times to the present.

    Allegro had written to colleagues pressing for news of when Milik expected to publish his official translation. Again & again he held back his own, until publishers all but lost interest. Not only his own publication was at stake: Goodwill in Jordan & support from around the world were essential to Scrolls research & depended in part on a steady return of interesting results. The Jordanian government wanted to know what all the reticence was about & how much the Copper Scroll might be worth. Allegro felt they'd the right to know, & feared that DeVaux & his team at the Palestine Archaeological Museum would alienate the government by prevarication. The Jordanians would have liked him to issue his own version, as he mentions in the foreword to the 1st edition of his book: "I was invited in the summer of '57 to publish the text by the then Director of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Dr. Ghuraibi. This invitation has since been renewed by his successors, Mr Said Durra & Dr Awni Dajani." (Copper Scroll, p.6) In the end, Doubleday & Co arranged with Allegro & his colleague David Noel Freedman to set a publication date for autumn '60, which they assumed would be far enough in the future to allow Milik to publish the official view. Milik’s official version wasn't ready. However, he published a French translation of the text–without the Hebrew original–in Revue Biblique 66, July '59, & also an English one in the Annual of the Department of Antiquities in Jordan, Vols 4-5 ('60). Allegro’s book duly appeared in autumn '60, as a hardback companion to The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Later commentators, including some of the original editing team, have suggested that Allegro pirated the Copper Scroll translation by publishing The Treasure of the Copper Scroll before the official version came out in DJDJ. But Milik had published a preliminary translation in Revue Biblique in '59. Allegro described his own translation as “provisional” & held it back for over three years to let Milik issue his official version–hardly suggesting piratical intent. The Treasure of the Copper Scroll was published by:DoubleDay & Co, '60 1st edRoutledge & Kegan Paul/London, '60 1st UK edDoubleDay & Co, '64, completely revised 2nd edProquest, Book-on-demand reprint from microfilm of '64 2nd ed, cloth-in print