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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Charles Kingsley
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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity.
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity.
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Then Perseus promised; and the giant said, ‘When you come back with the head of Medusa, you shall show me the beautiful horror, that I may lose my feeling and my breathing, and become a stone for ever; for it is weary labour for me to hold the heavens and the earth apart.’
Then Perseus promised, and the eldest of the Nymphs went down, and into a dark cavern among the cliffs, out of which came smoke and thunder, for it was one of the mouths of Hell.
And Perseus and the Nymphs sat down seven days, and waited trembling, till the Nymph came up again; and her face was pale, and her eyes dazzled with the light, for she had been long in the dreary darkness; but in her hand was the magic hat.
Then all the Nymphs kissed Perseus, and wept over him a long while; but he was only impatient to be gone. And at last the. . . Read More
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Books like this are the main reason I love Ambleside Online. It's so good, so beautiful, a perfect gem of an introduction to mythology—and yet a title I would never have known about had it not been for the curriculum.
I don't know his other work, but I know that Kingsley has a reputation as master of
I have never worked harder to read and finish a book in my life.
Read aloud for Y3 & Y1 students. We listened to the audiobook narrated by Robin Field and it was excellent! And it saved me from tripping over a hundred difficult greek names. We enjoyed making connections to other fairytales and stories.
AO read with my Form 1 kids, spread over three years. I remember getting lost in the Argonauts but overall such enjoyable stories and writing! (We used D’Aulaire’s Greek mythology book for the pictures along with this!) I also like to sneak peeks at Calvin when they describe Heroes, and that part of
AO year 3 read. I know a lot of people struggle with this one and some are even subbing in a different book but I just love it. I feel it needs to be read aloud and it reads almost like poetry sometimes. The words, the flow, the cadence... it’s lovely.
Update 2024 - I read probably over half of this