On the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar Chinese celebrate a festival called the Double Seventh Festival, the Qixi Day or nowadays mostly refered to as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. In order to celebrate Chinese Valentine’s Day and furthermore to console lovers from all around the world that are separated…
Category: Greece
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW By Josephine Preston Peabody 1897)
When gods and shepherds piped and the stars sang, that was the day of musicians! But the triumph of Phoebus Apollo himself was not so wonderful as the triumph of a mortal man who lived on earth, though some say that he came of divine lineage. This was Orpheus, that best of harpers, who went…
PYGMALION AND GALATEA (OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW, 1897) By Josephine Preston Peabody
The island of Cyprus was dear to the heart of Venus. There her temples were kept with honor, and there, some say, she watched with the Loves and Graces over the long enchanted sleep of Adonis. This youth, a hunter whom she had dearly loved, had died of a wound from the tusk of a…
THESEUS GOES TO SLAY THE MINOTAUR (HALF A HUNDRED HERO TALES OF ULYSSES AND THE MEN OF OLDBY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ) BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
And now Prince Theseus was taken into great favor by his royal father. The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his throne (which was quite wide enough for two), and of hearing him tell about his dear mother, and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts to lift the…
The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop
TWO GAME COCKS were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through…
The Old Woman and the Physician (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop
AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing. This…