Phrixus The Little Mouse

Lydia Galanou offers the world of children's literature, an amazing little story which talks about relationships and love and how one can impart to them important advice about their future in a beautiful and vivid way!

Lydia Galanou offers the world of children's literature, an amazing little story which talks about relationships and love and how one can impart to them important advice about their future in a beautiful and vivid way!

A Newbery Honor-winning collection of epic myths that “is unequaled as an introduction to the classic myths for young readers” (Publishers Weekly). Enter a world where harpies torment mortals, the Argonaut Orpheus sings, the mighty god Zeus wages war on the Titans, and Prometheus steals fire. Author Padraic Colum weaves the tales of Jason and his Argonauts with classic Greek mythology to create this captivating epic about life, war, and astounding beings who lived in a time long past. Poetically written and wonderful for reading aloud, this collection of ancient stories will captivate modern readers.

Herein are 25 famous stories from Greek, German, English, Spanish Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources. These stories are further brought to life by 24 full colour plates The myths and legends gathered here have appealed and will continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when the human race was in its childhood—stories so intimately connected with the life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity that they have become an integral part of our own civilization. These are a heritage of wealth to every child that is born into the world. Myths and legends like: Prometheus The Friend Of Man, The Labors Of Hercules, The Gorgon's Head, The Golden Fleece, The Cyclops, The Sack Of Troy, Beowulf and Grendel, The Good King Arthur - and many, many more. This volume is sure to keep you and your young ones enchanted for hours, if not because of the content, then because of their quality. ============ TAGS: folklore, fairy tales, myths, legend, land, , children’s stories, bedtime, fables, wonder tales, All, nations, Achilles, Aetes, Æetes, Aeneas, Æneas, Agamemnon, animals, Antigone, Apollo, Argonaut, Argos, Artemis, Arthur, Atreus, Augeas, Badhild, battle, battle-axe, Bedivere, Beowulf, bones, bride, Brunhild, Cadmus, Calchas, Centaur, chariot, Charles, Chiron, Cid, Colchis, comrades, Count, creatures, Creon, Cyclops, Danaë, daughter, death, Deucalion, devil, Diana, dragon, Durendal, earth, Eigil, Elsa, Eteocles, Eurystheus, Eurytion, evil, Excalibur, Famulus, father, Ferdinand, fisherman, France, Frithiof, Ganelon, Gawain, Geats, gods, Golden Fleece, Gorgon, Gorloïs, great, Greece, Grendel, good, groom, Guinevere, Gunther, Hades, Hagen, heathen, Helgé, helmet, Heorot, Hercules, hero, Hesperides, Higelac, Hippodamia, honor, honour, horse, Hrothgar, hydra, Ilia, Ingeborg, invisible, Iolchos, Iphigenia, island, Ismené, Jason, Juno, Jupiter, King, kingdom, knights, Kriemhild, Lapithæ, Latona, Leodogran, Lohengrin, love, Lynceus, maiden, man, Marko, Mars, Marsilas, Medea, Medusa, Menelaüs, Merlin, mighty, Milos, Minerva, Modred, monster, moon, Moors, mountain, Neptune, Nidung, Niobe, noble, Nymphs, Oak, Œdipus, Oedipus, Oliver, Olympus, Orestes, Orpheus, palace, Pelias, Perseus, Pholus, Pirithous, Polydectes, Polynices, Poseidon, Priam, Prince, Princess, Prometheus, Pylades, Pyrrha, Pyrrhus, Queen, Quicksilver, return, Rodrigo, Roland, Rome, sacred, sacrifice, Saracen, Saria, Scarecrow, Seriphus, serpent, Shakejoint, shield, Siegfried, Sigurd, sword, Taurian, Telramund, terrible, Thebes, Theseus, Thoas, Three, treasure, Troy, Turpin, Twardowski, Ulysses, Uther, valiant, Wayland, wicked, Wiglaf, world, wounded, Zeus, Zidovin

Concerns with matriarchal deities and the creative reinterpretation of mythology infuse these works from a celebrated British author. In The Golden Fleece, Graves liberates the tale of Jason and the Argonauts from its status as a children's story and reconstitutes it as a fully fledged epic. Seven Days in New Crete is set in a future in which the New Cretans have abandoned 20th-century technology in favor of a magical, matriarchal society where wars are conveniently fought between breakfast and tea and casualties can be swiftly reborn.

An inventive reimagining of the story of Jason and the Argonauts, this novel by renowned poet and classicist Robert Graves brings heroic figures of Hellenistic myth to life. Against this primitive, religious backdrop, the charismatic Jason assembles a crew and sets out to retrieve the sacred gold-trimmed fleece that is sacred to Zeus, and that has been stolen by worshippers of the Triple Goddess. Accompanying him is Hercules, a brave warrior known more for his brawn, and his astonishingly good luck, than his brains.

 When Proteus crawls from the sea, brain damaged from a fight with a terrible giant, all he can put together from his shattered memory is that he was sent to aid Jason and the Argonauts on their incredible mission. As he joins them on their quest, Proteus soon discovers that he is not like other members of the crew. Proteus is capable of inhuman strength; he seems never to grow tired; he has unexplainable control of the sea that surrounds him, and he is able to see things that no one else can. But, there seems to be a dark side to his past he still can’t remember, for a number of enemies sent by Jason’s arch nemesis, King Pelias, seems to recognize Proteus . . . as being one of them. With the style and skill that distinguishes him as a master of the genre, Fred Saberhagen translated a classic myth for the new millennium.

This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' "curious and demanding poem" to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.