Gods and Heroes

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Francillon Robert Edward. Gods and Heroes

SATURN

JUPITER AND JUNO

PART I. – THE GODS AND THE GIANTS

PART II. – THE FIRST MAN; OR, THE STORY OF PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA

PART III. – THE GREAT FLOOD; OR, THE STORY OF DEUCALION

APOLLO

PART I. – THE STORIES OF LATONA AND NIOBE

PART II. – THE FLAYED PIPER; OR, THE STORY OF MARSYAS

PART III. – TOO MUCH GOLD; OR, THE FIRST STORY OF MIDAS

PART IV. – THE CRITIC; OR, THE SECOND STORY OF MIDAS

PART V. – SOME FLOWER STORIES

PART VI. – PRESUMPTION; OR, THE STORY OF PHAËTHON

DIANA; AND THE STORY OF ORION

MINERVA; OR, WISDOM

VENUS

PART I. – THE GOD OF FIRE

PART II. – LOVE AND THE SOUL; OR, THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE

MERCURY AND IRIS

NEPTUNE

HADES

PART I. – THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE DEAD

PART II. – THE KINGDOM

PART III. – ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

PART IV. – THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED

THE ADVENTURES OF PERSEUS

THE GOLDEN FLEECE

A LOST SECRET

THE CHAMPION OF ATHENS

THE HERO OF HEROES

PART I. – THE ORACLE

PART II. – HIS FIRST LABOR: THE LION

PART III. – HIS SECOND LABOR: THE HYDRA

PART IV. – HIS THIRD LABOR: THE STAG

PART V. – HIS FOURTH LABOR: THE BOAR

PART VI. – HIS FIFTH LABOR: THE AUGEAN STABLE

PART VII. – MORE LABORS: AND THE CATTLE OF GERYON

PART VIII. – HIS ELEVENTH LABOR: THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES

PART IX. – HIS TWELFTH LABOR: THE DESCENT INTO HADES

PART X. – THE CHOICE OF HERCULES

PART XI. – THE TUNIC OF NESSUS

THE APPLE OF DISCORD

PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES

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ONCE upon a time, the Sky married the Earth. The Sky’s name was Cœlus, and the Earth’s was Terra. They had a great many children: one of these, the eldest, was called Titan, and another was called Saturn.

Terra, their mother Earth, was very good and kind; but their father, Cœlus, was very unkind and cruel. He hated his own children, and shut them all up under ground, so that he might get rid of them – all of them, that is to say, except Saturn, whom he allowed to have his freedom. Saturn grew up; and he thought of nothing but how to set his brothers free. At last one day he went to his mother, and asked her what he could do. Terra had come to hate her husband for his cruelty: so she gave Saturn all the iron she had in her veins – (you know that iron comes from what are called the Veins of the Earth) – and he made a great scythe with it. With this scythe he wounded and punished his father so terribly that old Cœlus was never good for anything again – in fact, we never hear of him any more, except when we turn his name into Cœlum, which is the Latin for “the sky,” as you know.

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“That isn’t much of a bow you’ve got there,” said Apollo.

“Isn’t it?” said the boy. “Perhaps not; but all the same, I don’t believe you’ve got a better, though you’re so big and I’m so small.”

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