{"id":3024,"date":"2018-08-13T23:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2018-08-13T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:40:24","slug":"myths-and-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/myths-and-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths and Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3026 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-600x307.png 600w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it&#8217;s too difficult for you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-aphrodite\/id\/21264\/\">Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-apollo-hyacinth\/id\/26282\/\">Apollo becomes a shepherd and befriends Hyacinth<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-apollo-daphne\/id\/26316\/\">Apollo loves Daphne, but she doesn&#8217;t love him back<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-apollo-python-temple\/id\/26410\/\">Apollo slays Python and builds his temple<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-cupid\/id\/22700\/\">Cupid and Psyche, love and marriage<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-echo-narcissus\/id\/22883\/\">Echo and Narcissus, tragic loves<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-hades\/id\/22489\/\">Hades, the Greek god of the underworld<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-hera\/id\/20691\/\">Hera, Greek goddess of women and marriage<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-hermes\/id\/21370\/\">Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-icarus\/id\/23281\/\">Icarus flies too close to the sun<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-jupiter-golden-age\/id\/27383\/\">Jupiter and the gods of Mount Olympus<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-midas-donkey-ears\/id\/25355\/\">King Midas and his donkey ears<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-midas-gold\/id\/25019\/\">King Midas and the Golden Touch<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-odysseus-odyssey-simple\/id\/25011\/\">Odysseus and his odyssey, the short version<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-pegasus-bellerophon\/id\/25710\/\">Pegasus helps Bellerophon slay Chimera<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-perseus\/id\/21543\/\">Perseus, a famous hero of ancient Greece<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-phaethon\/id\/26457\/\">Phaethon tries to drive the chariot of the sun god<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-poseidon\/id\/20634\/\">Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-rome-romulus-remus\/id\/21312\/\">Romulus and Remus, and the founding of Rome<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-stars-constellations\/id\/25728\/\">The Greek gods in the stars and constellations<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-halcyon-birds\/id\/25009\/\">The Halcyon Birds of Ancient Greece<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-prometheus-pandora\/id\/23052\/\">The story of Prometheus and Pandora&#8217;s box<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-orpheus-eurydice\/id\/23629\/\">The tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-hercules\/id\/22845\/\">The trials of Hercules<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/myths-zeus\/id\/20680\/\">Zeus, supreme god of the ancient Greeks<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-samurai-bushido\/id\/25195\/\">The Samurai and Bushido<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-ushistory-greek-mythology\/id\/27473\/\">A Short History of Greek and Roman Myth: Gods, Goddesses and Heroes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/essay-ancient-greek-roman-worship\/id\/21742\/\">Public worship of the Greeks and Romans<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; 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&#8217;s too difficult for you. Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty Apollo becomes a shepherd and befriends Hyacinth Apollo loves &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/myths-and-legends\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Myths and Legends<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}