Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew, by Josephine Preston Peabody, is designed to complement Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales, with brief and allusive references to the stories in those collections. Clytie, once a maiden who thought nothing more beautiful than Phoebus Apollo, becomes a rooted plant that turns its head to watch the sun.
The Oracles are immortal voices in certain caves and trees, where gods answer the prayers of people in sorrow or bewilderment and kings would journey far to hear them. Syrinx, increasingly frightened as Pan follows, reaches a river and prays to her friends, the water-nymphs, for a way to escape. Odysseus weeps as a minstrel sings of the Trojan War and the Wooden Horse, a story written deep in his own heart.
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- 72
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