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.
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.
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.
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.
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