Discovering the Ancient World
Literature SelectionsThe Story of Creation -- Norse Myth |
The Story of Creation -- Greek Myth |
Hurakan and Gucumatz -- The Story of Creation from Central America |
Ra and Sekhmet -- The Story of Creation from Egypt |
The Flood by Ovid -- Roman |
The Yellow Emperor and the Great Flood -- China |
Manu and the Fish -- India |
The Story of the Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh |
Deucalion’s Flood -- Greek Flood Myth |
The Coming of Evil |
Summary of Part 1 from the Epic of Gilgamesh |
Part 2 -- The Forest Journey from the Epic of Gilgamesh |
Part 3 -- Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu |
Part 4 -- The Search for Everlasting Life |
Hieroglyphic alphabet chart |
Egyptian poetry |
The Story of Sinuhe -- Egyptian short story |
The Tale of the Doomed Prince |
Theseus and the Minotaur -- Greek Myth |
Daedalus and Icarus -- Greek Myth |
The Golden Reed Pipe -- Yao Folktale |
The Vulnerable Spot -- Yi Folktale |
The Legend of Silk |
Aryan Hymns from the Rig Veda |
A Prayer to the Gods of Night -- Old Babylonian poem |
Selections from the Code of Hammurabi |
List of Characters for the Iliad |
Book 1 -- Quarrel, Oath, and Promise of the Iliad by Homer |
Book 2 -- Assembly and Muster of Armies |
Book 16 -- A Ship Fired, A Tide Turned |
Book 24 -- A Grace Given in Sorrow |
Book 9 of the Odyssey by Homer |
Writing with Pictures |
Scythian Origin Myth & Account of the Scyths by Herodotus |