JOHN C. KIRTLAND, Jr.
EXETER, N.H., 7 March, 1903.
CONTENTS
THE MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE MYTHS IN ART. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. PERSEUS. HERCULES. THE ARGONAUTS. ULYSSES. NOTES. VOCABULARY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CARPENTER SHUTTING UP DANAE AND PERSEUS IN THE ARK AT THE COMMAND
OF ACRISIUS (Vase-painting)
HERCULES, NESSUS, AND DEJANIRA (Pompeian Wall-painting)
MEDEA MEDITATING THE MURDER OF HER SONS (Pompeian Wall-painting)
ULYSSES AND CIRCE (Roman Relief)
THE MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
PERSEUS
Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book: The Gorgon's Head.
Kingsley, The Heroes: Perseus.
Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: Medusa, Danae, Perseus, Andromeda,
Akrisios.
Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Adventures of Perseus.
Kingsley, Andromeda.
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise: The Doom of King Acrisius.
Lewis Morris, The Epic of Hades: Andromeda.
Dowden, Andromeda.
Shelley, On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci.
D. G. Rossetti, Aspecta Medusa.