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Gods and Heroes - Greek Genre
Books in the Gods and Heroes - Greek genre:
Echoes of Hellas (1887)
Author(s):
George C. W. Warr
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1892)
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1894)
Mock heroics from the ancient Greek. The attribution to Homer is doubted by some. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896)
A retelling of four famous hero tales, from The Argonauts to the Norsemen. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
None
The Greek Heroes (1903)
Author(s):
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Myths from Many Lands (1906)
A large selection of myths. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Howard Pyle
T. H. Robinson
E. Boyd Smith
Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
A retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Homer
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Undine (1909)
Author(s):
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1910)
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Junior Classics Volume 3 (1912)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
T. H. Robinson
Et al
Junior Classics Volume 4 (1912)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Hugh Thomson
Junior Classics Volume 5 (1912)
Author(s):
John Bunyan
Daniel Defoe
Sir Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Jonathan Swift
Various
Illustrator(s):
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
Junior Classics Volume 6 (1912)
A Wonder Book (1922)
A collection of stories based on the Greek myths. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (1923)
Retellings of the classic Greek myths by the American master of the short story. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Stephen Reid
Gustaf Tenggren
The Golden Porch (1925)
Roman fairy tales adapted from the Odes of Pindar. Dugald Stewart Walker’s pen and ink drawings must be seen.
Author(s):
W. M. L. Hutchinson
no first name Pindar
Illustrator(s):
Dugald Stewart Walker
Orpheus with His Lute: Stories of theWorld’s Springtime (1926)
A retelling of the myths surrounding Orpheus.
Author(s):
W. M. L. Hutchinson
Illustrator(s):
Dugald Stewart Walker
Small Fry and the Winged Horse (1927)
Small Fry tells wonder stories to the children of his village.
Author(s):
Ruth Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Odyssey of Homer (1929)
This prose translation of the Odyssey aims to convey the full force of the Greek original.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Odysseus: Sage of Greece (1931)
A retelling of the Odyssey.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski