LOVE OF BEAUTY: Philokalía
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IV. Tales
Folk Stories, Myths, & Great Tales
By Cycle:
Tales I: Early Civilizations & Middle Ages
Egyptian & Mesopotamian Tales, Gilgamesh, Viking Tales, Celtic Tales, The Story of Roland, Medieval Legends & Knights of the Round Table, The Divine Comedy
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Tales II: Ancient Greece & Early English/ American
Greek Myths, Aesop's Fables; The Iliad, The Odyssey, English Fairytales, Native American Legends, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Paradise Lost
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Tales III: Ancient Rome & Late Modern North American:
Roman myths, The Aenid, Horatius at the Bridge, Just So Stories, American Tall Tales, Uncle Remus & Brer Rabbit, African American Folk Tales, Inuit Tales
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Tales IV: Late Antiquity & Worldwide
Hans Christian Andersen, Beowulf, Norse Myths, Heroes of Asgard, The Children of Odin, Prose & Poetic Edda, Russian Folk Tales, Brothers Grimm, The Story of Siegfried, The Saga of the Volsungs
“...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:
Cycle 1: Tales
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Cycle 2: Tales
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (D'Aulaire)
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Cycle 3: Tales
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Cycle 4: Tales
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*General Tales resources HERE
“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
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