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King Midas Judges a Music Contest
When wandering the hillside in search of peace, one day King Midas changed upon a music contest between Pan and Apollo.
King Midas and the Golden Touch
When the god Bacchus grants King Midas a wish, he asks for the ability to turn anything he touches into gold.
Orpheus and his Lute
When Orpheus loses his wife Eurydice to a snakebite, he ventures into Hades to try to win her back.
Pygmalion and the Statue
Master sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with the statue of a woman he is carving.
William Tell and the Apple
Legendary Swiss hero William Tell is forced by a tyrant to shoot an apple off the top of his son's head.
Androclus and the Lion
Androclus, a runaway slave, befriends a lion with a thorn in its paw.
Who is Aesop?
Aesop, according to the best accounts, was a native of Phrygia, a province of the Lesser Asia, and born in the city Cotiæum. He was a person of a remarkable genius, and extraordinary character; for though he was born a slave, by the assistance of his genius and virtue, he procured his own emancipation.
Hansel and Gretel
Once upon a time there dwelt near a large wood a poor woodcutter, with his wife and two children by his former marriage, a little boy called Hansel, and a girl named Grethel. He had little enough to break or bite; and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he could not procure even his daily bread
