Readers and Stories

Here is an index of readers that I've blogged about, and the story (or stories) taken from those readers and annotated here:

Aesop's Fables

The Trodden Snake, from A First Easy Greek Reading Book by E. V. Fowle. Internet Archive link. Fowle has notes for each story and also a specific vocabulary for each story. In addition to fables, the book contains tales and anecdotes, mythology, Alexander the Great, and the Gospel of John: table of contents.

The Boastful Gnat, from A Greek Reader, by Charles Anthon. Internet Archive link. Anthon has notes for the stories at the bottom of the page, and a vocabulary in the back of the book. The texts here come from Jacobs as reprinted in many other books, but the notes and vocabulary make this a very useful edition: table of contents.

Mythology

Zeus and Hermes, from A Greek Reader for the Use of Schools by C. C. Felton. Internet Archive link. Felton has notes for each story and also a vocabulary in the back of the book. You will find Aesop, Lucian, and a variety of other authors in this book: table of contents.

The Theft of Fire, from A Greek Reader, by Peter Bullions. Internet Archive link. Bullions has notes for each story and also a vocabulary in the back of the book. This book contains the Jacobs readings — Aesopic Fables; Anecdotes of Philosophers, Poets and Orators, Statesmen, Spartans, Miscellaneous Anecdotes; Natural History; Mythology and Mythological Dialogues, — followed by Incredible Stories, plus long selections from Isocrates and Xenophon. There is also a poetry anthology. There is no table of contents, so I have linked to the different sections

Orpheus, from A First Greek Reader for Use at Eton, by Edmund Fowle. Internet Archive link. Fowle has notes for each story that provide some context along with detailed comments on the Greek. The reading materials come from Jacobs. There is not table of contents, but the stories start here.

Niobe, in Stories in Attic Greek by Francis David Morice. Internet Archive link. Morice has notes for the stories and a vocabulary in the back of the book. There are many short stories in this book in a variety of genres, but the stories not organized in any particular order: table of contents.

Anecdotes

Aeschylus and the Tortoise, from Stories and Legends: A First Greek Reader by F. H. Colson. Internet Archive link. Colson has brief notes for each story and also a vocabulary in the back of the book. The book contains Stories and Fables, Mythology, Athenian Anecdotes, Spartan Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Stories, Alexander Stories, Games and Oracles, and Philosophers: table of contents.

The Cup of Diogenes, from First Greek Reader, by A. H. Bryce. Internet Archive link. Bryce has brief notes for each story and also a vocabulary in the back of the book. This book contains Witticism of Hierocles, Anecdotes, Fables of Aesop, and Dialogues of Lucian: table of contents.

Jokes

The Donkey That Learned Not to Eat, from Easy Greek Reader by Evelyn Abbott. Internet Archive link. Abbott has notes for the stories and a vocabulary in the back of the book. In addition to the Wisdom of Fools, the book features Aesop's fables and stories from the Life of Aesop. There is no table of contents, so I have linked to the first story in each section.