By Cycle:

“...We must be conversant with poets, with historians, with orators, indeed with all men who may further our soul’s salvation. Just as dyers prepare the cloth before they apply the dye, be it purple or any other color, so indeed must we also, if we would preserve indelible the idea of the true virtue, become first initiated in the pagan lore, then at length give special heed to the sacred and divine teachings, even as we first accustom ourselves to the sun’s reflection in the water, and then become able to turn our eyes upon the very sun itself."

~St. Basil the Great, "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature, IV'

4-Cycle Overview:

*Select the option that best fits group or class; 

**Lower-level book selection can be swapped in, if needed; Upper option can be completed as an independent add-on if student has not yet done Option 2

   Cycle 1: Tales   

   Cycle 2: Tales   

   Cycle 3: Tales   

   Cycle 4: Tales   

“Happy children,” say I, “who could blunder into the very heart of the will of God concerning them, and do the thing at once that the Lord taught them, using the common sense which God had given and the fairy tale nourished!” The Lord of the promise is the Lord of all true parables and all good fairy tales.

~George MacDonald, from The Elect Lady