“The great singer Orpheus, the son of the river god Eager and the muse Calliope, lived in distant Thrace. Orpheus’ wife was the beautiful nymph Eurydice...”<...

“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. ...

“Perseus did not remain long in the kingdom of Kepheus. Taking with him the beautiful Andromeda, he returned to Serif to King Polydectes..."

This collection combines folklore prose works of several genres: tales, legends, everyday tales, adventurous tales and anecdotes. All material is associated ...

The proposed book contains monuments of apocryphal literature, united by the genre of revelation, or apocalypse. “The Revelation of St. John the Theologian,”...

Russian folk tale

“The fox was walking along the path and found a rolling pin. She picked it up and moved on. She came to the village and knocked on the hut: - Knock-knock-kno...

For the first time, the fundamental texts of the Nyaya - the classical philosophical school of Ancient India - "Nyaya-sutra" (III-IV centuries) and the norma...