How Theseus Slays the Minotaur by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the old city of Trœzene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. His grandfather, King Pittheus, was the sovereign …
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How Phidias Helped the Image Maker by Beatrice Harraden
During the time when Pericles was at the head of the state at Athens he spared no pains and no money to make the city beautiful. He himself was a lover and …
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the …
How Horatius Held the Bridge by Livy
King Tarquin and his son Lucius (for he only remained to him of the three) fled to Lars Porsenna, king of Clusium, and besought him that he would help them. “Suffer not,” …
How Fidelia Went to the Store by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
“I don’t know what we’re goin’ to do,” said Aunt Maria Crooker. She sat in a large arm-chair, and held in her lap a bowl of sugar and butter that she was …
How Cincinnatus Saved Rome by Livy
It came to pass that the Æquians brake the treaty of peace which they had made with Rome, and, taking one Gracchus Clœlius for their leader, marched into the land of Tusculum; …