Grasshopper. Fairy tales of the peoples of the North Caucasus Contents: The Orphan (Kabardian fairy tale) 3 The Grasshopper (Kabardian fairy tale) 8 Musil-Mu...

In this publication, the reader will find “myths” about the immortal gods - Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, the goddesses Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, about the courageou...

The collection presents the best examples of oral poetic creativity of the peoples of Dagestan - historical, heroic songs, tales created by the people's geni...

The book of fairy tales and stories of 1001 Nights once amazed Europeans no less than the colorful colors of oriental fabrics, the shimmer of steel of mercil...

Kazakh folk lyric-epic poem, named after the heroine. Translated, it means Silk Girl, Silk Girl. This work is a pearl of Kazakh folklore. The Kazakh “Romeo a...

“Perseus rushes further and further from the island of the Gorgons. Like a cloud driven by a stormy wind, it rushes across the sky. Finally, Perseus reached ...

“Polydectes planned to forcibly take the beautiful Danae as his wife, but Danae hated the stern king Polydectes. Perseus stood up for his mother. Polydectes ...

“Perseus transferred power over Serif to Polydectes’ brother Dictys, who once saved him with his mother, and he himself went to Argos with Danaë and Andromed...

“The king of Argos Acrisius, the grandson of Lynceus, had a daughter, Danae, famous for her unearthly beauty. Acrisius was predicted by the oracle that he wo...

“Perseus made rich sacrifices to Zeus, Pallas Athena and Hermes. The merry wedding feast began in Kefei's palace. Hymen and Eros lit their fragrant torches. ...

The book includes works of the mythological and historical (or royal) cycles, as well as the Finn cycle, which is later in origin, translated into Russian fo...