Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew

By Peabody, Josephine Preston

Book Id: WPLBN0000631000
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
Author:	Peabody, Josephine Preston
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: PUBLISHERS? NOTE. Hawthorne, in his Wonder?Book and Tanglewood Tales, has told, in a manner familiar to multitudes of American children and to many more who once were children, a dozen of the old Greek folk stories. They have served to render the persons and scenes known as no classical dictionary would make them known. But Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Hawthorne chose a few out of the many myths which are constantly appealing to the reader not only of ancient but of modern literature. The group contained in the collection which follows will help to fill out the list; it is designed to serve as a complement to the Wonder?Book and Tanglewood Tales, so that the references to the stories in those collections are brief and allusive only. In order to make the entire series more useful, the index added to this number of the Riverside Literature Series is made to include also the stories contained in the other numbers of the series which contain Hawthorne?s two books. Thus the index serves as a tolerably full clue to the best?known characters in Greek mythology.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew, 1 -- Josephine Preston Peabody, 1 -- PUBLISHERS' NOTE, 1 -- THE WOOD?FOLK, 2 -- THE JUDGMENT OF MIDAS, 3 -- PROMETHEUS, 4 -- THE DELUGE, 6 -- ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, 8 -- ICARUS AND DAEDALUS, 9 -- PHAETHON, 10 -- NIOBE, 12 -- ADMETUS AND THE SHEPHERD, 13 -- ALCESTIS, 14 -- APOLLO'S SISTER, 15 -- THE CALYDONIAN HUNT, 16 -- ATALANTA'S RACE, 18 -- ARACHNE, 19 -- PYRAMUS AND THISBE, 20 -- PYGMALION AND GALATEA, 21 -- OEDIPUS, 22 -- CUPID AND PSYCHE, 24 -- THE TRIAL OF PSYCHE, 26 -- STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR, 28 -- THE HOUSE OF AGAMEMNON, 34 -- THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS, 36 -- Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew -- i