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CLASSIC MYTHS
Retold By
MARY CATHERINE JUDD
Principal of the Lincoln School
Minneapolis Minn.
ILLUSTRATED BY
ANGUS MAC DONALL
with drawings entirely from classic sources
PREFACE
The very cordial reception given this little book by teachers and
children, both in school and out of school, has tempted me carefully to
revise the stories, omitting some and adding others, in the hope of
making the book still more welcome and more helpful. The illustrations
in the present edition are all from classic sources, and reproduce for
the reader something of the classic idea and the classic art.
The book was originally prepared as an aid in Nature Study, and this
thought has been retained in the present edition. By reading these myths
the child will gain in interest and sympathy for the life of beast,
bird, and tree; he will learn to recognize those constellations which
have been as friends to the wise men of many ages. Such an acquaintance
will broaden the child's life and make him see more quickly the true,
the good, and the beautiful in the world about him.
MARY CATHERINE JUDD.
_Minneapolis, October, 1901_.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
How the Horses of the Sun Ran Away _Greek_
Woden, God of the Northern Sky _Norse_
Jupiter, God of the Southern Sky _Roman_
Diana, Queen of the Moon _Greek_
Jack and Jill on the Moon Mountains _Norse_
The Man in the Moon _German_
A Story of an Evening Star _Greek_
The Giant with a Belt of Stars _Greek_
The Great Bear in the Sky _Greek_
Castor and Pollux, the Starry Twins _Greek_
The Milky Way _Russian_
How Fire Came to Earth _Greek_
Beyond the Fire Island _Russian_
A Legend of the North Wind _Norse_
Orpheus, the South Wind _Greek_
The Little Wind-god _Greek_
The Voices of Nature _Finnish_
A Bag of Winds _Greek_
Echo, the Air Maiden _Greek_
Iris, the Rainbow Princess _Greek_
The Thunder-god and His Brother _Norse_
Neptune, King of the Seas _Greek_
Why Rivers Have Golden Sands _Greek_
Old Grasshopper Gray _Greek_
Where the Frogs Came from _Roman_
The Birds with Arrow Feathers _Greek_
Why the Partridge Stays Near the Ground _Greek_
Juno's Bird, the Peacock, _Roman_
The Gift of the Olive Tree, _Greek_
The Linden and the Oak, _Greek_
The Little Maiden Who Became a Laurel Tree _Greek_
The Lesson of the Leaves _Roman_
The Legend of the Seed _Greek_
The Girl Who Was Changed into a Sunflower _Greek_
Why the Narcissus Grows by the Water _Greek_
The Legend of the Anemone _Greek_
The Mistletoe _Norse_
The Forget-me-not _German_
Pegasus, The Horse With Wings _Greek_
Suggestions to Teachers
A Bibliography
A Pronouncing Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
Thor, with His Red-hot Hammer, frontispiece
Phaeton Falling from the Chariot
Woden
Frigga, the Mother of the Gods
Jupiter and His Eagle
The Head of Jupiter
Diana
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon
Venus
Orion with His Club
The Great Bear in the Sky
The Great Bear and the Little Bear
Castor and Pollux
Minerva
Boreas, the God of the North Wind
Tower of the Winds at Athens
Orpheus
Mercury
Ulysses
Cover of a Drinking Cup
Iris
The Head of Iris
Neptune
A Greek Coin
Silenus Holding Bacchus
Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn
Latona
Jason
Castor, the Horse-Tamer
Pollux, the Master of the Art of Boxing
Daedalus and Icarus Making Their Wings
Juno and Her Peacock
Athena
Minerva
Daphne
A Sibyl
Ceres
Apollo
Narcissus
Adonis and Aphrodite
Woden on the Throne
Bellerophon and Pegasus
[Illustration: THOR, WITH HIS RED-HOT HAMMER]
HOW THE HORSES OF THE SUN RAN AWAY
_Greek_
Phaeton was the child of the Sun-god, Apollo.
"Mother Clymene," said the boy one day, "I am going to visit my
father's palace."
"It is well," she answered. "The land where the Sun rises is not far
from this. Go and ask a gift from him."
That night Phaeton bound his sandals more tightly, and, wrapping a
thicker silken robe about him, started for the land of Sunrise,
sometimes called India by mankind.
Many nights and many days he traveled, but his sandals never wore out
nor did his robe make him too hot or too cold.
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