Apollo was the most beautiful of all the gods. Clytie had never seen anyone so splendid or so glori...
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As she spoke the leaves spread over her face, and Dryope was completely hidden by the tree. To be s...
Near her a lovely lotus tree drooped its branches over the water, and the baby reached his hands tow...
TRANSFORMATIONS The gods were very fond of transform ing, or changing, the shape of things. They l...
Juno was angry when she saw the new constellations placed among the stars, but she could not int er...
As long as the shepherd was with Arcas, Callisto hid herself. But one day the youth came alone, hol...
When the other nymphs came to seek Callisto, they could not find her. Only a g reat hairy bear stoo...
ARCAS AND CALLISTO There was once in peaceful Arcady, in Greece a fair and gentle nymph named Call...
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...