http://storynory.com Free audio books, including classic fairy tales, and original stories for children. Download mp3. Subscribe to kids podcast. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:53:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download the audio (click to play, right click to save) [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/blogrelations/storynory_orpheus.mp3] We bring you this sad, but we hope beautiful, story in verse. Orpheus the musician married Eurydice the shepherdess. When she was killed by a snake, he traveled down to the underworld and was granted one chance to ... http://storynory.com/2010/02/22/orpheus/ Download the audio to your computer (Right Click, Save As) [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/storynory_the_midas_touch.mp3] Not all stories have a moral, but this one from ancient Greece certainly does. Midas has a gift - everything he touches turns to gold. But he soon learns that an excessive love of riches squeezes the truly ... http://storynory.com/2009/08/03/the-midas-touch/ Download the audio [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/boyflewtoohigh.mp3] The story from ancient Greece of the boy who flew too close to the sun. It continues the story of Daedalus, whom we first met in the story of the Minotaur. We hear how he and his son Icarus tried to escape from ... http://storynory.com/2008/08/24/the-boy-who-flew-too-high/ Download the audio of the Minotaur [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/minotaur.mp3] This is an exciting story of a duel between a monster and a man which took place in a dark underground labyrinth. It also has touch of a romance and the bitter after-taste of a betrayal. A little history about about ... http://storynory.com/2008/06/09/the-minotaur/ Download the audio [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/homecoming.mp3] The final part in our series about the Trojan War brings our ship-wrecked hero, Odysseus back home after 20 long years away. He arrives on his rocky island kingdom of Ithaca disguised as a beggar and finds that his palace is full of suitors wooing his ... http://storynory.com/2008/04/07/the-homecoming-of-odysseus/ Download the audio story mp3 of Circe (right click, save as) [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/Circe_the_Beautiful_Witch.mp3] Circe ranks as one of the greatest witches from all story-telling. A beautiful enchantress, she likes nothing better than to turn men into pigs. (Some have seen her as a bit of a feminist). It is ... http://storynory.com/2007/07/22/circe-the-beautiful-witch/ Download In the Cyclops Cave [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/cyclops.mp3] We bring you one of the most exciting stories from Homer's Odyssey with our version of In the Cyclops Cave. Warning: It's a rather scary story - as it is all about a giant who likes nothing better than to eat people. Odysseus, the craftiest ... http://storynory.com/2007/01/15/in-the-cyclops-cave/ Download The Wooden Horse [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/woodenhorse.mp3] One of the most famous tricks in all literature is the subject of this, the third story in our Troy series (filed under Greek Myths) The war between the Greeks and the Trojans is in its tenth year. The Trojans rejoice when they wake up one ... http://storynory.com/2006/10/28/the-wooden-horse/ alt="Achilles" />Download Troy [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/troy.mp3] http://storynory.com/2006/09/17/troy/ Download Helen of Troy [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/blogrelations/01_Paris_and_Helen.mp3] We dip into mythology, with Bertie's telling of the tale of Troy. Paris, the handsome and fashionably dressed Prince of Troy, was asked to judge a divine beauty contest, and chose Aphrodite the Goddess of Love as the winner. As a reward, Aphrodite ... http://storynory.com/2006/08/20/helen-of-troy/