Year: | Our Mythical Childhood Survey

Frank Albert Farrar

This is a collection of Greek myths that relate to nature. Often, this ends up being myths about characters who are turned into nature, meaning Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a major source. The chapters are divided thematically, and within these each myth encompasses a few paragraphs. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a title page with a series of subheadings, which I have copied over onto the bullet points below. However, these subheadings do not appear in the main body of th(...)

literary

YEAR: 1910

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aeolus Apollo Arachne Asclepius Athena Boreas Demeter Dionysus / Dionysos Echo Eos Hades Heracles Medusa Odysseus / Ulysses Oedipus Pan Persephone Perseus Syrinx

Aniela Orzechowska

The Adventures of Odysseus During his Return from the Siege of Troy [Przygody Odysseusza w powrocie do domu z pod Troi]

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp.The author presents the epic as an excellent introduction to the culture of Ancient Greece (customs, such as hospitality, beliefs, vision of the Underworld). The text provides a precise summary of Homer’s Odyssey, intersper(...)

literary

YEAR: 1910

COUNTRY: Austro-Hungarian Empire Congress Poland Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

TAGS: Homer Odysseus / Ulysses Odyssey Trojan War