Once more the college student Eustace Bright brings his stories to the narrator, and this time the subjects are Theseus and the Minotaur, Hercules among the Pygmies, Cadmus and the dragon’s teeth, Ulysses at Circe’s palace, Proserpina’s pomegranate seeds and Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece. Hawthorne softens the darker parts of the myths and fills them with New England warmth.
The 1853 companion to A Wonder-Book, still one of the most graceful ways to meet Greek myth. Download the free EPUB.