He did not go back to the pleasant valley in which he had grown up, but went to live on a lonely mou...
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So Orpheus started back again, playing softly on his lyre. The music was not s ad now. You would ha...
When Orpheus came back to the meadows, he could not find Eurydice. He took his lyre, and played his...
As Orpheus grew older, his music became more and more wonderful. When he went to the old place to p...
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Orpheus, the son of Apollo, was a wonderful musician. He had a lyre of his ow...
This time the king sent him to the gates of Hell to bring back Cerberus, the three-headed dog th at...
So Hercules agreed to take the weight of the heavens on his own shoulders, if Atlas would get hi m ...
Hercules was sent to the western edge of the world, to the Garden of the Hesperides, to find the go...
Next he killed a nine-headed water serpent called the Hydra, which lived in the country of Argos , ...
He learned quickly, and soon his skill was talked of up and down the land. Before Hercules's birth,...
HERCULES When Hercules was a baby he liv ed in the palace of Amphitryon, King of Thebes. Although ...
The next day, the Argo reached the Symplegades, which rose up out of the sea like two strong tow er...
Just as he had raised a morsel of food to his mouth, a Harpy would swoop down with a great rush of w...
2 When the Argo, as the new ship was called, was ready for the voyage, the heroes we nt on board, ...
Then King Pelias gave orders to the heralds to go into the market-place with their trumpets and pro...