LOVE OF BEAUTY: Philokalía
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IV. Tales
Folk Stories, Myths, & Great Tales
By Cycle:
(See in-progress booklists on this page below, until individual pages are complete)
Tales I: Early Civilizations & Middle Ages
Egyptian & Mesopotamian Tales, Gilgamesh, Viking Tales, Celtic Tales, Tales of the Rus, The Story of Roland, Medieval Legends & Knights of the Round Table, The Divine Comedy
Coming Soon
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
Coming Soon
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
Coming Soon
Tales IV: Late Antiquity & Worldwide
Hans Christian Andersen, Beowulf, Norse Myths, Heroes of Asgard, The Children of Odin, Prose & Poetic Edda, Russian Fairy 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:
*Select the option that best fits group or class;
**Lower or upper-level book selections can be swapped in, where desired; Upper Option 3 can be completed as an independent add-on if student has not yet done Option 2
Cycle 1: Tales
Lower Group (~1-4th):
Tales of the Ancient Near East
Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War: An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq (Henderson) *PDF [Wks 1-2]
Gilgamesh the King (Zeman) *PDF [Wk 2]
The Revenge of Ishtar (Zeman) *PDF [Wk 3]
Peeps at Ancient Egypt (Baikie) *PDF [Wk 4] (also used in History)
The Egyptian Cinderella (Climo) *PDF [Wks 5]
The Wisest Man in the World: A Legend of Ancient Israel (Elkin) *PDF [Wks 5]
Tales of the Middle Ages
Page, Esqire, and Knight (Lansing) (selections) *PDF [Arthurian Tales: Wks 6-8; Sir Gawain: Wks 12-14; Roland: Wks 18-20]
Beowulf: A Hero's Tale (Rumford) [Wk 9]
D'Aulaire's Book of Norwegian Folktales [Wks 10-11, 29-30, Optional 31-36]
Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights (Tenggren) (selections) *PDF [Wks 15-17]
Vassilisa the Wise: A Tale of Medieval Russia (Sherman) *PDF [Wks 21]
Alyosha's Apple: A Tale of Old Russia (Currier) *Audio {Wk 21]
Selections of Russian, Romanian, & Eastern European Tales from: [Wks 22-26]
How the Monastery Came to Be on the Top of the Mountain (Currier) *Audio [Wk 27]
Brigid's Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story (Milligan) [Wk 27]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Browning) [Wk 28] *From Hearn's book used in Literature, OR picture book
Chanticleer and the Fox (Cooney) [Wk 28]
Middle Group (~4-12th):
Tales of the Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh: The Hero (McCaughrean) [Wks 1-5]
Tales of the Middle Ages
The Voyage of St. Brendan the Navigator (McNamara) [Wk 6-8] *PDF
Beowulf (Morpurgo) *PDF OR Beowulf the Warrior (Serraillier) *PDF [Wk 9-11]
OR Stories of Roland (Marshall) (if already read Beowulf) *PDF
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (Flynn audio tr. or other) [Wk 12-14]
The Arabian Nights (Lang) (selections) [Wk 15-17]
Tales of Ancient Egypt (Green) (selections) *PDF [Wks 18-20]
In a Certain Kingdom: Epic Heroes of the Rus (Kotar) [Wk 21-24]
Stories from Dante Told to the Children (The Inferno selections) (MacGregor) *PDF [Wks 25-27] OR Dante's Divine Comedy as Told for Young People (Tusiani) (“The Inferno") *PDF
Canturbury Tales (Cohen) [Wks 28-30] *PDF OR The Chaucer Storybook (Tappan) (selections) *PDF [Wks 28-30]
Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):
Tales of the Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh, & other Babylonian tales (Westwood) *PDF
The Kebra Nagast (Ethiopian Tradition of Solomon) *PDF
Tales of the Middle Ages
The Song of Roland *PDF OR Legends of Charlemagne (Bulfinch) (Ch. 2, 20-21) *PDF *Audio
Heroes for All Time: Stories of Inspiring Heroism from Russian History (Kotar)
The Divine Comedy (Dante) (at least “The Inferno")
A Taste of Chaucer (Malcolm) OR The Canterbury Tales (McCaughrean) *PDF
Cycle 2: Tales
Middle Group (~4-12th):
x
Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):
x
Cycle 3: Tales
Lower Group (~1-4th):
x
Middle Group (~4-12th):
x
Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):
x
Cycle 4: Tales
Lower Group (~1-4th):
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths (D'Aulaire)
Russian Fairy Tales: Palekh Painting (Orleansky)
AND/OR optional picture books:
Papa Panov's Special Day: A Classic Folk Tale for Christmas (Holder) *Rd. wk. 14 before Nativity break
The Miracle of Saint Nicholas (Whelan) *Rd. wk. 14
Luba and the Wren (Polacco)
The Littlest Matryoshka (Bliss)
The Frog Princess (Lewis)
The Gigantic Turnip (Tolstoy)
The Tale of the Firebird (Spirin)
The Fool and the Fish (Afanasyev)
The Three Questions (Muth/ Tolstoy)
A Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen (Haugaard tr.) *Read online/ Listen
Middle Group (~4-12th):
The Children of Odin (Colum) OR The Heroes of Asgard (Keary)
The Story of Siegfried (Baldwin)
Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):
Prose Edda (Faulkes tr.) *Read online/ Listen (Anderson tr.)
Poetic Edda (Crawford tr.) [Listen]
In a Certain Land: Wise Fools, Cunning Dragons, and Baba Yaga (Kotar)
The Saga of the Volsungs (Crawford tr.) *Read online/ Listen
“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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