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Tales for children
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The series "Tales for children", which is gradually being enriched with new publications, functions as additional material that supports the "Educational packs" and is addressed essentially at young children. The "Tales for chlidren", now also available to the general public as independent volumes, are based on folk tales and stories, as well as on traditional society's economic aspects and processes that relate directly to the PIOP Museums' themes. In other words, it concerns products such as olives and olive oil, materials such as marble and leather, their uses and their elaboration with respect to social needs. Consequently, the retelling of folk tales and their adaptation to contemporary situations is aimed at offering an insight into the pre-industrial production methods and traditional technology, such as waterpower, marble carving, etc.
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A girl hovers in Kerameikos. An anti-war story in the Athens of Classical times
(available in Greek only)
Christos Boulotis
Drawings: Vassilis Papatsarouchas
Athens 2011, 56 p.
ISBN 978-960-244-153-4
€ 20.66
Inspired by the excavation of a mass grave in the vicinity of the ancient Kerameikos cemetery and the reconstruction of the features of a young girl, presented in the exhibition «Myrtis: face to face with the past», author Christos Boulotis imagined the story of a girl who died during the plague in the times of Classical Athens. The scientific venture of reconstructing the girl’s features was undertaken by the team of professor M. Papagrigorakis. The girl’s soul still hovers over Kerameikos carrying messages of peace to children the world over. The author’s tender and optimistic approach of the brief childhood, which began with games, joy and carelessness, but ended violently in the climate of war of the times, is illustrated in a luminous manner by painter Vassilis Papatsarouchas.
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The stone ship
Aliki Balaska – Dimitris Foussekis
Athens 2009, 36 p.
ISBN 978-960-244-137-4
€ 12.00
The story of young Petros unfolds in a village on the island of Tinos, where daily life is dominated by the processing and uses of marble. Through the eyes and the experiences of a small boy, Dimitris Foussekis illustrates the everyday objects and the constructions made of marble presented in the story, as well as the tools used to shape it, the quarrying and carving methods and other aspects of the presence of marble in the local society.
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The Olive's Tears. A folktale from Samos
Illustration: Diatsenta Parissi Athens 2006, 29 p. ISBN 960-244-092-9 € 12.00 The story of the young boy with the peculiar name of Olive’s Tears is based on a popular folktale from the island of Samos, which is vividly brought to life by Diatsenta Parissi’s imaginative illustrations. The story concerns the adventuresome quests of a boy with wondrous strength, who charmed both elements of nature and mythical beings, such as the dragons that accompanied him wherever he went. The popular identification of a person with an olive tree obviously functions as a symbol representing the omnipotence and propagation of olive oil and olives in the traditional societies of the Mediterranean.
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The diary of a tanner
Psarraki-Belesioti Niki
Athens 2003,
48 p., 25 illus.
ISBN 960-244-079-1
€ 6.00
The story recounts the daily life and difficult working conditions of tanners in the form of a diary, which gives an account of how the animal hides are collected and the various phases of their processing with the aid of waterpower. The narrative records all the stages leading to the final pieces of leather, ready to be marketed. The detailed text and parallel photographic documentation offer a clear picture of a profession that no longer exists, mainly due to the industrialization of leather processing.
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