Orpheus: myths of the world vs Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic: Which Should You Read?

Orpheus: myths of the world Padraic Colum · 1930 327 pages · ≈ 6 h 03 m · Challenging

It is natural to begin with things Egyptian. But the stories that we have from the mythology of that great civilization are all fragmentary; for the most famous of them we have to go to a Greek work--to Plutarch's…

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1898 ★★★★☆ 3.7 140 pages · ≈ 2 h 36 m · Challenging

“The Greek sage Socrates, when he was but a boy minding his father's goats, used to lie on the grass under the myrtle trees; and, while the goats grazed around him, he loved to read over and over the story which Solon, the law-giver and poet, wrote down for the great-grandfather of Socrates, and which Solon had always meant to make into a poem, though he died without doing it.”

A collection of twenty myths and legends that revolve around vanishing or mysterious islands.