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Myths and Legends
Stories of wisdom, wonder and imagination from the Fables of Aesop and the epics of Homer to the folklore of India, Japan, Russia and Britain.
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Lover’s Leap
By Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison tells the legend of the great Greek poetess Sappho and the Lover’s Leap.
Posted June 15 2022
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The Goat and the Lion
By P. V. Ramaswami Raju
A herd of goats is threatened by a pride of lions, and it falls to one brave billy to face the danger alone.
Posted May 14 2022
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The Glow Worm and the Jackdaw
In this fable from India, a sly little insect teaches a jackdaw that all that glisters is not necessarily edible.
Posted May 13 2022
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Brutus of Britain
Based on a legend by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Back in the days of the prophet Samuel, so the story goes, a grandson of Trojan hero Aeneas brought civilisation to the British Isles.
Posted February 17 2022
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The Last Voyage of Scyld of the Sheaf
From Beowulf
The Old English epic ‘Beowulf’ tells how Scyld, beloved King of the Danes, was committed to the ocean at his death — just as he had been at his birth.
Posted December 6 2021
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The Shipwreck of Simonides
Based on a fable by Phaedrus
Simonides always believed that a man with a trade was wealthier than a man with a full purse.
Posted November 21 2021
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