Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
by Josephine Preston Peabody
Description: A child's first book of Greek tales containing many of the shorter myths retold with exceptional literary skill. Relates the stories of Prometheus, who brought to earth the bright-eyed fire treasured by the gods; of Orpheus, best of harpers; of the cunning Daedalus; the ambitious Phaethon; Apollo and Diana, and other gods and heroes of the olden time. Designed to supplement the myths retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales.
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Table of Contents
1. The Wood-Folk
2. Judgment of Midas
3. Prometheus
4. The Deluge
5. Orpheus and Eurydice
6. Icarus and Daedalus
7. Phaethon
8. Niobe
9. Admetus and the Shepherd
10. Alcestis
11. Diana and Actaeon
12. Diana and Endymion
13. The Calydonian Hunt
14. Atalanta's Race
15. Arachne
16. Pyramus and Thisbe
17. Pygmalion and Galatea
18. OEdipus
19. Cupid and Psyche
20. The Trial of Psyche
21. The Apple of Discord
22. The Rousing of the Heroes
23. The Wooden Horse
24. The House of Agamemnon
25. The Curse of Polyphemus
26. The Wandering of Odysseus
27. The Home-Coming
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