Myths and Legends of All Nations. Anonymous

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      Myths and Legends of All Nations

      Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, / Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian / and other sources

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664186959

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR

       PROMETHEUS, THE FRIEND OF MAN

       THE LABORS OF HERCULES

       The First Labor

       The Second Labor

       The Third Labor

       The Fourth Labor

       The Fifth Labor

       The Sixth Labor

       The Seventh Labor

       The Eighth Labor

       The Ninth Labor

       The Tenth Labor

       The Eleventh Labor

       The Twelfth Labor

       DEUCALION AND PYRRHA

       THESEUS AND THE CENTAUR

       NIOBE

       THE GORGON'S HEAD

       THE GOLDEN FLEECE

       THE CYCLOPS

       ŒDIPUS AND THE SPHINX

       ANTIGONE, A FAITHFUL DAUGHTER AND SISTER

       THE STORY OF IPHIGENIA

       THE SACK OF TROY

       BEOWULF AND GRENDEL

       Beowulf and the Fire-Dragon

       THE GOOD KING ARTHUR

       The Coming of Arthur

       The Passing of Arthur

       THE GREAT KNIGHT SIEGFRIED

       LOHENGRIN AND ELSA THE BEAUTIFUL

       FRITHIOF THE BOLD

       WAYLAND THE SMITH

       TWARDOWSKI, THE POLISH FAUST

       ILIA MUROMEC OF RUSSIA

       KRALEWITZ MARKO OF SERVIA

       THE DECISION OF LIBUSCHA

       COUNT ROLAND OF FRANCE

       THE CID

PREFACE

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      The myths and legends here gathered together have appealed and will continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when the race was in its childhood—stories so intimately connected with the life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity that they have become an integral part of our own civilization, a heritage of wealth to every child that is born into the world.

      The historic basis of the tales is slight; yet who can think of the Greeks without remembering the story of Troy, or of Rome without a backward glance at Æneas, fabled founder of the race and hero of Virgil's world-famous Latin epic? Any understanding of German civilization would be incomplete without knowledge of the mythical prince Siegfried, hero of the earliest literature of the Teutonic people, finally immortalized in the nineteenth century through the musical dramas of Wagner. Any understanding of English civilization would be similarly incomplete without the semi-historic figure of King Arthur, glorified through the accumulated legends of the Middle Ages and made to live again in the melodic idylls of the great Victorian laureate. And so one might go on. In many ways the mythology and folklore of a country are a truer index to the life of its people than any of the pages of actual history; for through these channels the imagination and the heart speak. All the chronicles of rulers and governing bodies are as dust in comparison.

      The imagination of the ancients had few if any bounds, and even Athens in the height of her intellectual glory accepted the fabulous