A Book of Myths: With 16 Original Illustrations (b&w) by Helen Stratton (Timeless Classic Books)

Preface: Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshippers. The Myths Include: PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA PYGMALION PHAETON ENDYMION ORPHEUS APOLLO AND DAPHNE PSYCHE THE CALYDONIAN HUNT ATALANTA ARACHNE IDAS AND MARPESSA ARETHUSA PERSEUS THE HERO NIOBE HYACINTHUS KING MIDAS OF THE GOLDEN TOUCH CEYX AND HALCYONE ARISTÆUS THE BEE-KEEPER PROSERPINE LATONA AND THE RUSTICS ECHO AND NARCISSUS ICARUS CLYTIE THE CRANES OF IBYCUS SYRINX THE DEATH OF ADONIS PAN LORELEI FREYA, QUEEN OF THE NORTHERN GODS THE DEATH OF BALDUR BEOWULF ROLAND THE PALADIN THE CHILDREN OF LÎR DEIRDRÊ