A Book of Myths'A Book of Myths' is a collection of myths from European countries, predominantly that which hailed from Ancient Greece. Featured titles include 'Pygmalion', 'Perseus the Hero', 'King Midas of the Golden Touch', 'Icarus', 'Beowulf', 'Lorelei', and 'The Death of Baldur'. |
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... gifts of faculties and of instincts to all the living creatures in the world, and the task of making a creature lower ... gift remained for him. He was naked, unprotected, more helpless than any of the beasts of the field, more to be ...
... gifts of faculties and of instincts to all the living creatures in the world, and the task of making a creature lower ... gift remained for him. He was naked, unprotected, more helpless than any of the beasts of the field, more to be ...
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... gift to Man . Assuredly no other gift could have brought him more completely the empire that has since been his . No longer did he tremble and cower in the darkness of caves when Zeus hurled his lightnings across the sky . No more did ...
... gift to Man . Assuredly no other gift could have brought him more completely the empire that has since been his . No longer did he tremble and cower in the darkness of caves when Zeus hurled his lightnings across the sky . No more did ...
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... gift . From Aphrodite she got beauty , from Apollo music , from Hermes the gift of a winning tongue . And when all that great company in Olympus had bestowed their gifts , they named the woman Pandora- " Gifted by all the Gods . " Thus ...
... gift . From Aphrodite she got beauty , from Apollo music , from Hermes the gift of a winning tongue . And when all that great company in Olympus had bestowed their gifts , they named the woman Pandora- " Gifted by all the Gods . " Thus ...
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... gifts more precious still. What if the Olympians had destined her to be the one to open the casket, and had sent her ... gift only in this Inferno of horrors and of ugliness. In the world there had never been any need of Hope. What work ...
... gifts more precious still. What if the Olympians had destined her to be the one to open the casket, and had sent her ... gift only in this Inferno of horrors and of ugliness. In the world there had never been any need of Hope. What work ...
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... gifts that made him nobler than the beasts and raised him almost to the heights of the Olympians. Thus for him the weary ... gift to the men that he had made, and imperially he paid the penalty. “Three thousand years of sleep-unsheltered ...
... gifts that made him nobler than the beasts and raised him almost to the heights of the Olympians. Thus for him the weary ... gift to the men that he had made, and imperially he paid the penalty. “Three thousand years of sleep-unsheltered ...
Contents
ENDYMION | |
APOLLO AND DAPHNE | |
THE CALYDONIAN HUNT | |
ARACHNE | |
ARETHUSA | |
NIOBE | |
KING MIDAS OF THE GOLDEN TOUCH | |
CEYX AND HALCYONE | |
ARISTÆUS THE BEEKEEPER | |
LATONA AND THE RUSTICS | |
ICARUS | |
CLYTIE | |
THE DEATH OF ADONIS | |
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Acrisius Aphrodite Apollo Arachne Aristæus arms Atalanta Baldur beautiful Beowulf birds Cathbad chariot Charlemagne child children of Lîr Conor creature cried cruel Dædalus dark daughter dead dear death Deirdrê Diana dreams earth Echo Emain Macha Erin Eros Eurydice evil eyes face fair father fear fierce FIONA MACLEOD flowers Freya Ganelon gazed goddess gods gold golden Grendel grew grey Halcyone hand happiness heard heart hero honour Hrothgar Hyacinthus king knew land Lavarcam listened live looked Marpessa Meleager Midas mighty mother mountain Naoise never night nymphs Odin Olympus Orpheus passed Perseus Phaeton Polydectes Proserpine Psyche queen river Roland rushed Sea of Moyle silver slay sleep smiled song Sons of Usna sorrow soul spoke stood story sweet sword Table of Contents thee thine thing thou told trees voice warriors wind wings woman words Zeus