Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece: Mythology's Great Tales of Valor and Romance
9 best books like Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece: Mythology's Great Tales of Valor and Romance (W.H.D. Rouse): Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Folktales from India, Irish Folk Tales, Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Minna von Barnhelm, Myths of the Ancient Greeks, Hesiod / Homeric Hymns / Epic Cycle / Homerica
Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.
My favorite is one of the very shortest:
"The Missing Axe
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Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
Hero
The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
An enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts, animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues, sagacious jesters and magical storytellers,...
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0451526481 |
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 3150000106 |
Dieses Büchlein hat mich bestens unterhalten und vergnügt. Vor allem die Nebenfiguren wie Franziska, Werner, Just und sogar der Wirt amüsierten mich und sind in meinen Augen die reizvollsten Charaktere in diesem Lustspiel. Sie verfügen über eine ungeheure Portion Witz und Scharfsinn, die...
Myths of the Ancient Greeks
| Author | Richard P. Martin |
| ISBN | 0451206851 |
From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales…Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural heritage. Such age-old stories as the tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice or Demeter’s loss of her daughter, Persephone, resonate strongly with readers...
Hesiod / Homeric Hymns / Epic Cycle / Homerica
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0674990633 |
Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages.
Contains the extant works of Hesiod, along with practically all that remains of the post-Homeric & pre-academic epic poetry:
Preface
Hesiod
The Homeric Hymns
The Epigrams of Homer
The Epic Cycle
Homerica:...
