item: #1 of 15
          id: 10717
      author: Pindar
       title: The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers
        date: None
       words: 52591
      flesch: 75
     summary: And Pisa bids me speak aloud, for from her come to men songs of divine assignment, when the just judge of games the Aitolian[2] man, fulfilling Herakles' behests of old, hath laid upon one's hair above his brows pale-gleaming glory of olive. For in the hands of good men lieth the good piloting of the cities wherein their fathers ruled.
    keywords: aigina; apollo; chariot; city; death; deeds; earth; fair; father; footnote; forth; games; glory; god; gods; golden; good; great; greek; hand; hath; heart; herakles; home; honour; house; king; land; life; light; man; men; mother; ode; pindar; place; praise; race; sea; son; song; sons; soul; sung; thebes; thee; things; thou; thy; time; victory; war; winner; won; words; zeus
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        item: #2 of 15
          id: 11582
      author: Baldwin, James
       title: Old Greek Stories
        date: None
       words: 43783
      flesch: 89
     summary: But other young men kept coming and coming, and no sooner had one been put out of the way than another took his place. And who are you, young man? said the king.
    keywords: air; apollo; athens; city; day; home; jupiter; king; land; like; man; men; mountain; people; perseus; place; queen; saw; sea; theseus; thought; time; way; world; young
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        item: #3 of 15
          id: 12641
      author: Ruskin, John
       title: The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
        date: None
       words: 49616
      flesch: 61
     summary: Therefore, in brief, this is the only object of all true policy and true economy: utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground-- imperatively always good, sound, honest men,--not a mob of white-faced thieves. Great art is the expression of the mind of a great man, and mean art, that of the want of mind of a weak man.
    keywords: air; art; athena; blue; character; cloud; color; conception; day; earth; english; evil; fire; force; form; good; greek; group; hand; heaven; human; life; light; like; man; meaning; means; men; mind; money; myth; nation; people; plants; power; present; round; sea; sense; serpent; spirit; story; strength; things; thought; time; use; way; words; work
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        item: #4 of 15
          id: 14484
      author: Sophocles
       title: The Seven Plays in English Verse
        date: None
       words: 94033
      flesch: 94
     summary: OLD M. Alone of dead men thou art here above. Let us be gone, my son,-- First having said farewell to this poor cave, My homeless dwelling-place, that thou may'st know, How barely I have lived, how firm my heart!
    keywords: aias; ant; art; brother; cause; child; chorus; come; day; dead; dear; death; evil; eye; father; fear; friend; god; gods; good; great; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; high; home; king; know; land; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; mother; ne'er; neo; o'er; oed; oedipus; pain; phi; power; sire; son; speak; tell; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; tis; voice; way; wilt; woe; word; zeus
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        item: #5 of 15
          id: 1973
      author: Lang, Andrew
       title: Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
        date: None
       words: 32301
      flesch: 78
     summary: I am very angry with many men and women in the world, said Autolycus, so let the child's name be _A Man of Wrath_, which, in Greek, was Odysseus. The horses of Achilles cleared the ditch, and Patroclus drove them between the Trojans and the wall of their own town, slaying many men, and, chief of all, Sarpedon, king of the Lycians; and round the body of Sarpedon the Trojans rallied under Hector, and the fight swayed this way and that, and there was such a noise of spears and swords smiting shields and helmets as when many woodcutters fell trees in a glen of the hills.
    keywords: achilles; agamemnon; aias; armour; battle; dead; diomede; fight; great; greeks; hector; helen; king; man; men; menelaus; paris; patroclus; ships; spear; trojans; troy; ulysses
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        item: #6 of 15
          id: 2395
      author: Colum, Padraic
       title: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
        date: None
       words: 76137
      flesch: 90
     summary: Said Jason, the chieftain of the host: The dangers of the passage, Tiphys, we have spoken of, and it may be that we shall have to carry Argo overland to the Sea of Pontus. Heracles saw Iole, the blue-eyed and childlike maiden, and he longed to take her with him to some place near the Garden of the Hesperides.
    keywords: admetus; argonauts; city; day; earth; eyes; face; father; fleece; gods; golden; hands; head; heracles; heroes; jason; king; land; maidens; man; medea; men; palace; pelias; people; race; sea; ship; theseus; thought; water; way; youth; zeus
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        item: #7 of 15
          id: 32242
      author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
       title: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
        date: None
       words: 53397
      flesch: 80
     summary: It is a remarkable peculiarity of these October days, that each of them seems to occupy a great deal of space, although the sun rises rather tardily at that season of the year, and goes to bed, as little children ought, at sober six o'clock, or even earlier. This circumstance surprised him, because Marygold was one of the cheerfullest little people whom you would see in a summer's day, and hardly shed a thimbleful of tears in a twelvemonth.
    keywords: bellerophon; box; bright; children; day; epimetheus; eustace; eyes; giant; golden; good; half; head; hercules; horse; illustration; king; man; midas; pandora; pegasus; people; perseus; philemon; quicksilver; story; stranger; thought; time; way; world
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        item: #8 of 15
          id: 32326
      author: Lang, Andrew
       title: Tales of Troy and Greece
        date: None
       words: 94131
      flesch: 82
     summary: To other men, no doubt, they would have offered other pleasures. 'I am very angry with many men and women in the world,' said Autolycus, 'so let the child's name be _A Man of Wrath_,' which, in Greek, was Odysseus.
    keywords: achilles; agamemnon; beautiful; day; dead; father; gods; gold; great; greeks; hand; head; heart; hector; helen; home; house; king; left; man; men; menelaus; mother; night; paris; people; perseus; round; saw; sea; set; ship; son; spear; sword; telemachus; theseus; thought; trojans; troy; ulysses; water; way
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        item: #9 of 15
          id: 35377
      author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
       title: A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys
        date: None
       words: 119202
      flesch: 79
     summary: But, at any rate, it was higher than a thousand ant-hillocks, or a million of mole-hills; and, when measured by the short strides of little children, might be reckoned a very respectable mountain. Little children, not quite understanding what is said to them, often get such absurd notions into their heads, you know.
    keywords: air; away; bellerophon; box; bright; cadmus; ceres; child; children; day; dear; dragon; earth; eustace; eyes; face; father; giant; golden; good; half; hand; head; heart; hercules; jason; kind; king; left; look; man; midas; mother; palace; pandora; pegasus; people; perseus; poor; proserpina; quicksilver; saw; sea; set; story; stranger; theseus; thing; thought; time; voice; way; world
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        item: #10 of 15
          id: 38011
      author: Morris, Lewis
       title: The Epic of Hades, in Three Books
        date: None
       words: 37554
      flesch: 80
     summary: For as the flower Of the tiger-lily bright with varied hues Is for a day, then fades and leaves behind Fairness nor fruit, while the green tiny tuft Swells to the purple of the clustering grape Or golden waves of wheat; so lives of men Which show most splendid; fade and are deceased And leave no trace; while those, unmarked, unseen, Which no man recks of, rear the stately tree Of Knowledge, not for itself sought out, but found In the dusty ways of life--a fairer growth Than springs in cloistered shades; and from the sum Of Duty, blooms sweeter and more divine The fair ideal of the Race, than comes From glittering gains of Learning. Life, full life, Full-flowered, full-fruited, reared from homely earth, Rooted in duty, and thro' long calm years Bearing its load of healthful energies; Stretching its arms on all sides; fed with dews Of cheerful sacrifice, and clouds of care, And rain of useful tears; warmed by the sun Of calm affection, till it breathes itself In perfume to the heavens--this is the prize I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit Of Knowledge or of Love. But even thus, Tho' powerless to enjoy, the insatiate greed And thirst of power sustained me, and supplied Life's spark with some scant fuel, till it seemed, Year after year, as if I could not die, Holding so fast to life.
    keywords: blood; cold; day; days; death; deep; earth; eyes; face; fair; gods; heart; heaven; life; like; lives; love; man; men; pain; sea; soul; sweet; thee; thou; thought; time; voice; white; world; youth
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        item: #11 of 15
          id: 400
      author: Teasdale, Sara
       title: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems
        date: None
       words: 12437
      flesch: 91
     summary: Then little hiding Love, come forth, Come forth before the autumn goes, And let us seek thro' ruined paths The garden's last red rose. And many skies have covered me, And many winds have blown me forth,
    keywords: day; dreams; eyes; heart; kiss; love; night; sea; song; soul; sun; tower; wind; words; world
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        item: #12 of 15
          id: 40476
      author: Buckley, E. F. (Elsie Finnimore)
       title: Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece
        date: None
       words: 94551
      flesch: 88
     summary: On earth men know not what to call it, and they name it with many names--inspiration, genius, and the spirit of prophecy, or, when it works too far beyond their understanding, they call it madness. In his hand there seemed a magic it had never had before, so that his chisel never failed nor slipped, till the marble stood transformed before him, shaped into the image of a perfect woman, the vision of his dream; and he loved her as other men love a woman in the flesh, with his whole heart and soul.
    keywords: admetus; arms; atalanta; away; beauty; child; dark; day; dead; death; die; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; feet; gods; hand; head; heart; home; king; land; lay; left; life; like; look; love; man; men; night; oedipus; palace; paris; people; psyche; round; sea; son; soul; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; white; words
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        item: #13 of 15
          id: 41935
      author: Thorne, Guy
       title: The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer
        date: None
       words: 23746
      flesch: 89
     summary: Alecto and Tisiphone, the Furies, circled round Ulysses, and Megeara flew through the dark to her sisters. AT MANCHESTER CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 9 Brief Account of Principal Characters in the Odyssey 13 The First Episode--How They blinded the Son of Poseidon 21 The Second Episode--The Adventure of the Palace in the Wood 39 The Third Episode--How Ulysses walked in Hell, and of the Adventure of the Sirens and Scylla 48 The Fourth Episode--How Ulysses lost his Merry Men and came a Waif to Calypso with the Shining Hair 63 The Last Episode--How the King came Home again after the Long Years 80
    keywords: cave; day; eyes; face; god; goddess; gods; hand; heart; home; island; ithaca; king; like; man; men; night; palace; penelope; sea; ship; son; time; ulysses; wind; years; zeus
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        item: #14 of 15
          id: 8418
      author: Euripides
       title: Hippolytus; The Bacchae
        date: None
       words: 28197
      flesch: 94
     summary: [_The door in the centre bursts open, and_ HIPPOLYTUS _comes forth, closely followed by the_ NURSE. [_He sees from the demeanor of_ THESEUS _and of the crowd that his words are not winning them, but rather making them bitterer than before.
    keywords: agave; cadmus; child; dionysus; eyes; father; god; hand; hath; heart; hippolytus; leader; life; love; man; men; nay; nurse; pentheus; phaedra; shall; son; thee; theseus; thine; thou; thy; tis; wild; yea
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        item: #15 of 15
          id: 9313
      author: Peabody, Josephine Preston
       title: Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
        date: None
       words: 29356
      flesch: 86
     summary: But if they be harmed in any wise_, ruin shall come upon thy men; and even if thou escape, thou shalt come home to find strange men devouring thy substance and wooing thy wife. Once upon a time, men made friends with the Earth.
    keywords: day; earth; fair; gods; heart; home; king; life; man; men; odysseus; people; place; psyche; queen; sea; set; son; sun; time; troy; venus; way; years; zeus
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