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Title: Myths That Every Child Should Know
A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People

Author: Various

Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie

Illustrator: Blanche Ostertag

Release Date: August 17, 2005 [EBook #16537]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MEDEIA AND JASON WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE]

MYTHS THAT EVERY
CHILD SHOULD KNOW

A SELECTION OF THE CLASSIC MYTHS
OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

EDITED BY
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED
BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG

NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Company
1906

NOTE

The editor and publishers wish to express their appreciation of the
courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and the
Macmillan Company, by means of which they have been enabled to reprint
stories from Hawthorne's "Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales," from "In
the Days of Giants," from "Norse Stories," from Church's "Stories from
Homer," and from Kingsley's "Greek Heroes."

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ix

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES 3
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

II. THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS 27
(Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales")

III. THE CHIMAERA 65
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

IV. THE GOLDEN TOUCH 92
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

V. THE GORGON'S HEAD 112
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

VI. THE DRAGON'S TEETH 140
(Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales")

VII. THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER 174
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

VIII. THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN 107
(Hawthorne's "Wonder Book")

IX. THE CYCLOPS 216
(Church's "Stories from Homer")

X. THE ARGONAUTS 227