Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

Classical mythology

by Stephen Harris, Gloria Platzner

Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, the people of Athens built a new marble temple to honor Athene [uh-THEE-nuh], the ...

Classical Mythology

by Helen A. Guerber

Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Classical Mythology

by Peter Meineck

Classical Mythology

Classical Mythology

Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

Dictionary of classical mythology

by John Edward Zimmerman

Classical mythology

by Harris, Stephen L.

Classical mythology in Shakespeare

by Robert Kilburn Root

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

The Odyssey

by Όμηρος