What's the difference between these two history series?

So far I haven’t finished the Guerber book (i’m halfway through), but it is running along the same lines as The Story of Greece by Mary MacGregor which was excellent and seemed in a few instances to have more details about the people and life than Guerber’s.  I enjoyed it immensely – and the Famous Men of Greece ties in nicely.  The Story of Greece and Guerber’s The Story of the Greeks will let you fit the Famous Men in where they belong so it is a coherent story.  

I listened to On the Shores of the Great Sea by Synge this weekend from Librivox.org. My take is that Chapters 16-33 of the Synge book will make a great arching overview of the Greek period – tying in the Phoenicians and Carthage and Tyre to help make the Guerber or MacGregor book more connected with those civilizations. Their stories of the Bible times (Abraham, etc) were presented as strictly history – not spiritual – as in “it is the first written account of a wandering people” type thing.  It was interesting to hear it presented as such, but I did decide that I wasn’t letting the kiddos revisit the Bible that way yet. lol  The recorded chapters were only 2-7 minutes long total. So there is not a lot of detail so to speak.

I liked the Guerber book better as a more thorough spine.  Like I said, though, the Synge book introduces us to the Phoenicians and how the Mediterranean Sea coastal areas were settled.  If you could use the Synge book for a month or so, then switch to the Guerber book, I think that you would be pleased with what your kids learned.

I haven’t had time to research more than the Greek ones, but I assume that they will all be in a similiar style.

Here’s a link to the Librivox audio version if that will help: 

http://librivox.org/on-the-shores-of-the-great-sea-by-m-b-synge/ 

HTH

BTW, congratulations!!

Amen.  Me too!  So many books, so little time 😉