Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book: The Three Golden Apples.
Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: The Toils of Herakles.
Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Hero of Heroes.
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise: The Golden Apples.
Lewis Morris, The Epic of Hades: Deianeira.
Lang's translation of Theocritus, Idyls xxiv, xxv.
THE ARGONAUTS
Apollonius of Rhodes, The Tale of the Argonauts, translated by Way.
D.O.S. Lowell, Jason's Quest.
Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales: The Golden Fleece.
Kingsley, The Heroes: The Argonauts.
Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: Phrixos and Helle, Medeia.
Church, Heroes and Kings: The Story of the Ship Argo.
Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Golden Fleece.
William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason.
Bayard Taylor, Hylas.
John Dyer, The Fleece.
Lang's translation of Theocritus, several of the Idyls.
ULYSSES
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Bryant (verse), William Morris
(verse), Palmer (prose), Butcher and Lang (prose).
Lamb, The Adventures of Ulysses.
Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales: Circe's Palace.
Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: The Lotos-Eaters, Odysseus and Polyphemos,
Odysseus and Kirké.
Church, Stories from Homer: The Cyclops, The Island of Aeolus, Circé.
Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters.
Matthew Arnold, The Strayed Reveler.
Dobson, The Prayer of the Swine to Circe.
THE MYTHS IN ART
Burne-Jones, Perseus and the Graeae.
Caravaggio, Head of Medusa.
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Medusa.
Canova, Perseus.
Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus, and Perseus saving Andromeda.
Piero di Cosimo, Perseus and Andromeda.
Charles Antoine Coypel, Perseus and Andromeda.
Domenichino, Perseus and Andromeda.
Rubens, Perseus and Andromeda.
Giovanni da Bologna, Hercules and the Centaur.
Bandinelli, Hercules and Cacus.
Guido Reni, Dejanira and the Centaur Nessus.
Canova, Hercules and Lichas.
Sichel, Medea.
Genelli, Jason and Medea capturing the Golden Fleece.
Burne-Jones, Circe.
L. Chalon, Circe and the Companions of Ulysses.
Rivière, Circe and the Companions of Ulysses.
Photographs and lantern-slides of all the works mentioned above may be obtained of the Soule Art Company, Boston. The list might have been made much longer, but it seemed likely to prove most helpful if limited to works of which reproductions are so easily obtainable. For the treatment of the myths in ancient art, the teacher is referred to the numerous pertinent illustrations in Baumeister's Denkmäler des klassischen Altertums, or the same editor's Bilder aus dem griechischen und römischen Altertum für Schüler, the latter of which contains the cuts of the larger work, and is so cheap and so useful that it ought to lie on the desk of every teacher of Greek or Latin.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Fabulae Faciles, or 'Easy Stories.' are four Greek myths retold in Latin, not by a Roman writer, however, but by an Englishman, who believed that they would afford interesting and pleasant reading for young folks who were just beginning the study of the Latin language. By myth is meant an imaginative tale that has been handed down by tradition from remote antiquity concerning supernatural beings and events. Such tales are common among all primitive peoples, and are by them accepted as true. They owe their origin to no single author, but grow up as the untutored imagination strives to explain to itself the operations of nature and the mysteries of life, or amuses itself with stories of the brave exploits of heroic ancestors.