Tanglewood Tales

In Tanglewood Tales (written as a follow-up to A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys), Nathaniel Hawthorne presents six more stories adapted from Greek mythology: The Minotaur (Theseus and the Minotaur), The Pygmies (Hercules and Antaeus the giant), The Dragons Teeth (Cadmus and the founding of Thebes), Circes Palace (Odysseus and Circe), The Pomegranate Seeds (Plutos abduction of Proserpina) and The Golden Fleece (Jason and the Argonauts).