All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember – you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level.
It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it’s too difficult for you.
- Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty
- Apollo becomes a shepherd and befriends Hyacinth
- Apollo loves Daphne, but she doesn’t love him back
- Apollo slays Python and builds his temple
- Cupid and Psyche, love and marriage
- Echo and Narcissus, tragic loves
- Hades, the Greek god of the underworld
- Hera, Greek goddess of women and marriage
- Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods
- Icarus flies too close to the sun
- Jupiter and the gods of Mount Olympus
- King Midas and his donkey ears
- King Midas and the Golden Touch
- Odysseus and his odyssey, the short version
- Pegasus helps Bellerophon slay Chimera
- Perseus, a famous hero of ancient Greece
- Phaethon tries to drive the chariot of the sun god
- Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea
- Romulus and Remus, and the founding of Rome
- The Greek gods in the stars and constellations
- The Halcyon Birds of Ancient Greece
- The story of Prometheus and Pandora’s box
- The tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice
- The trials of Hercules
- Zeus, supreme god of the ancient Greeks
- The Samurai and Bushido
- A Short History of Greek and Roman Myth: Gods, Goddesses and Heroes
- Public worship of the Greeks and Romans