Bartleby.com: Bulfinch's Mythology: Apollo and Daphne

Grab a compass and road map ... it's time to explore some mythological cities! With the 35th video of 41 from the Crash Course World Mythology series, viewers meet two characters from Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus. Scholars also...

Read Thomas Bulfinch's account of the famous love affair of Venus and Adonis.

This is the story of the youth Acton who, having illicitly beheld the goddess Diana naked, was changed by her into a stag and torn to pieces by a pack of dogs.

Juno's famously jealous nature is revealed in these stories of her and her rivals for Jupiter's affection.

The history of the god Bacchus, the god of wine, includes the perilous circumstances of his birth and the foundation of his devotions, the Bacchanal.

Bulfinch's collection of Greek and Roman myths is available here in full text format. A little known feature of this work is its sections on Eastern mythology, Northern mythology and a section on Druid religion.

The text of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch, published in 1855.

Bartleby.com provides the full text to Robert's Rules of Order Revised (published 1915). The content is indexed by section.

Introduce the concept of myths to your class. Using the link to "Myths Around the World," read a story aloud and have learners list characteristics of a myth. Readers then choose their own myths from the site and work in groups to answer...

Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...