Book 1 — THE MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Reading edition
PERSEUS
Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book: The Gorgon's Head. Kingsley, The Heroes: Perseus. Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: Medusa, Danae, Perseus, Andromeda, Akrisios. Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Adventures of Perseus. Kingsley, Andromeda. William Morris, The Earthly Paradise: The Doom of King Acrisius. Lewis Morris, The Epic of Hades: Andromeda. Dowden, Andromeda. Shelley, On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci. D. G. Rossetti, Aspecta Medusa.
HERCULES
Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book: The Three Golden Apples. Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: The Toils of Herakles. Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Hero of Heroes. William Morris, The Earthly Paradise: The Golden Apples. Lewis Morris, The Epic of Hades: Deianeira. Lang's translation of Theocritus, Idyls xxiv, xxv.
THE ARGONAUTS
Apollonius of Rhodes, The Tale of the Argonauts, translated by Way. D.O.S. Lowell, Jason's Quest. Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales: The Golden Fleece. Kingsley, The Heroes: The Argonauts. Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: Phrixos and Helle, Medeia. Church, Heroes and Kings: The Story of the Ship Argo. Francillon, Gods and Heroes: The Golden Fleece. William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason. Bayard Taylor, Hylas. John Dyer, The Fleece. Lang's translation of Theocritus, several of the Idyls.
ULYSSES
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Bryant (verse), William Morris (verse), Palmer (prose), Butcher and Lang (prose). Lamb, The Adventures of Ulysses. Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales: Circe's Palace. Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece: The Lotos-Eaters, Odysseus and Polyphemos, Odysseus and Kirké. Church, Stories from Homer: The Cyclops, The Island of Aeolus, Circé. Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters. Matthew Arnold, The Strayed Reveler. Dobson, The Prayer of the Swine to Circe.