ARCAS AND CALLISTO There was once in peaceful Arcady, in Greece a fair and gentle nymph named Call...
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Pygmalion watched in amazement. When he saw that his statue lived and moved, h e threw himself on t...
Just at this time there was in Pygmalion's city a festival in honor of Venus, the Goddess of Bea ut...
PYGMALION AND GALATEA Pygmalion was a sculptor who could think of nothing but his chisels and the ...
Mercury flew back to Mount Olympus, but Spring began her journey over the earth to star the fiel ds...
"But if she has eaten in Erebus even I cannot take her from Pluto," said Jupiter. When Mercury went...
The leaves of the trees lost their green and began to fall in clouds of yellow. The blue sky grew an...
She climbed mountains and crossed rivers, asking everyone she met for tidings of Proserpine, but nei...
Proserpine and the nymphs saw him and drew back in alarm. Pluto strode toward them and seized Prose...
He found temples overturned, trees uprooted, and rocks thrown about as though some great earthqu ak...
To drive away the dampness in the caves, Pluto, lit many fires. Their flickeri ng flames made the l...
PROSERPINE AND PLUTO Pluto was God of Erebus, the world that lies beneath the ground. In his realm...
A vulture, cruel as the king of the gods, came daily and tore him with its claws and beak. But this...
Man dug iron out of the earth, and by the help of his new fire made weapons that were sharper than t...
When their king said this, none of the gods dared to say a word in defence of mankind. But Prometheu...