
Tanglewood Tales
'Tanglewood Tales' Summary
Tanglewood Tales contains six famous stories. The first one is Theseus and the Minotaur, in which the Greek hero Theseus slays the terrible monster who lives in a Labyrinth below the palace of King Minos. He is helped by Princess Ariadne, who falls in love with the young stranger who comes to slay the fabled creature and deliver the citizens of the land from the evil beast.
The second story describes one of the incidents from the Odyssey. The Palace of Circe recounts the legend of the loathsome monster, Circe, who turns all people into beasts. How the brave Ulysses saves his men and other unfortunate people whom Circe has enslaved is told in an entertaining and exciting manner.
The legend of Prosperina, her mother Ceres the Earth Goddess and the dark ruler of the Underworld, Vulcan is told in the third story, The Pomegranate Seeds. The story of Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia is retold in The Pygmies. This is a little known story, set in Africa and is based on both Greek and Berber legends.
The Dragon's Teeth is a delightful retelling of the myth of Europa and her brothers. One of the brothers, Cadmus, who is the only one of the family left behind after Zeus abducts Europa, slays a monstrous dragon who preys upon the surrounding villages. The goddess Athena advises Cadmus to sow the dragon's teeth in the ground and a race of fine warriors springs up, and thus is built the city of Cadmeia the capital of Thebes.
The last story is one of the most famous in Greek mythology: Jason and The Golden Fleece.
Tanglewood Tales is indeed a charming volume to be read in tandem with the Wonder-book and it will perhaps spur young readers to delve more into the immortal Greek myths and legends of yore.
Book Details
Language
EnglishOriginal Language
GreekPublished In
1853Genre/Category
Tags/Keywords
Authors

Nathaniel Hawthorne
United States
Hawthorne's works belong to romanticism or, more specifically, dark romanticism, cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity.Many of his...
Books by Nathaniel HawthorneDownload eBooks
Listen/Download Audiobook
- Select Speed
Related books

The Islands of Magic by Elsie Spicer Eells
Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. T...

The House of the Wolfings by William Morris
The House of the Wolfings is a romantically reconstructed portrait of the lives of the Germanic Gothic tribes, written in an archaic style and incorpo...

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
This is a timeless classic expressing the universal message that every aspect of life should be looked at in a positive way. It follows the actions of...

Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany
A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of sixteen fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The stories vary in tone from the wistful to the horrific, and exp...

Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naug...

The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not col...

Four and Twenty Fairy Tales by Various
This volume gathers a collection of classic French fairy tales, each presented with a distinctive style by various renowned authors. The collection in...

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri by W.M. Flinders Petrie
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt.

Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Mandy, a young girl with seven hands, is whisked away to the magical land of Oz. Mandy is a young girl who loves to build things. She has seven hands...

French History for English Children by Caroline Stephen
A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children.
Reviews for Tanglewood Tales
No reviews posted or approved, yet...