Myth-Folklore Book: Poetry in Translation by Tony Kline

Tony Kline's Poetry in Translation website provides a wonderful selection of poetry in translation, including the Greek and Latin classics, along with many great works of European poetry. Some highlights:

• Homer's Iliad
• Homer's Odyssey
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Ovid's Heroides
• Ovid's Fasti
• Statius's Thebaid
• Apuleius's Golden Ass
• Beowulf
• Dante's Divine Comedy

In addition, Tony Kline's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses is also online at the University of Virginia Library website.

Myth-Folklore Book: Fables of Aesop (Jacobs)

This book is part of the Aesop's Fables (Jacobs) unit.

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by Richard Heighway (1894).

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Myth-Folklore Book: The Iliad (retold by Church)

This book is part of the Homer's Iliad unit.

The Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church (1907).

There are illustrations, but I have not been able to find the name of the illustrator.

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Kindle eBook: 99 cents

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Myth-Folklore Book: Aesop for Children

This book is part of the Aesop for Children (Winter) unit.

The Aesop for Children, with illustrations by Milo Winter (1919).

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I have been unable to learn who wrote the text for this edition of Aesop's fables; the book gives the name of the illustration (Milo Winter), but not of the writer!

Myth-Folklore Book: Baby's Own Aesop

This book is part of the Aesop's Fables (Jacobs) unit.

The Baby's Own Aesop, versified by W. J. Linton and illustrated by Walter Crane (1887).

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