Tales of Troy and Greece

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Lang Andrew. Tales of Troy and Greece

ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES

I. THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES

II. HOW PEOPLE LIVED IN THE TIME OF ULYSSES

III. THE WOOING OF HELEN OF THE FAIR HANDS

IV. THE STEALING OF HELEN

V. TROJAN VICTORIES

VI. BATTLE AT THE SHIPS

VII. THE SLAYING AND AVENGING OF PATROCLUS

VIII. THE CRUELTY OF ACHILLES, AND THE RANSOMING OF HECTOR

IX. HOW ULYSSES STOLE THE LUCK OF TROY

X. THE BATTLES WITH THE AMAZONS AND MEMNON – THE DEATH OF ACHILLES

XI. ULYSSES SAILS TO SEEK THE SON OF ACHILLES. – THE VALOUR OF EURYPYLUS

XII. THE SLAYING OF PARIS

XIII. HOW ULYSSES INVENTED THE DEVICE OF THE HORSE OF TREE

XIV. THE END OF TROY AND THE SAVING OF HELEN

THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES

I. THE SLAYING OF AGAMEMNON AND THE SORROWS OF ULYSSES

II. THE ENCHANTRESS CIRCE, THE LAND OF THE DEAD, THE SIRENS

III. THE WHIRLPOOL, THE SEA MONSTER, AND THE CATTLE OF THE SUN

IV. HOW TELEMACHUS WENT TO SEEK HIS FATHER

V. HOW ULYSSES ESCAPED FROM THE ISLAND OF CALYPSO

VI. HOW ULYSSES WAS WRECKED, YET REACHED PHAEACIA

VII. HOW ULYSSES CAME TO HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND FOR SAFETY DISGUISED HIMSELF AS AN OLD BEGGAR MAN

VIII. ULYSSES COMES DISGUISED AS A BEGGAR TO HIS OWN PALACE

IX. THE SLAYING OF THE WOOERS

X. THE END

THE FLEECE OF GOLD

I. THE CHILDREN OF THE CLOUD

II. THE SEARCH FOR THE FLEECE

III. THE WINNING OF THE FLEECE

THESEUS

I. THE WEDDING OF ÆTHRA

II. THE BOYHOOD OF THESEUS

III. ADVENTURES OF THESEUS

IV. THESEUS FINDS HIS FATHER

V. HERALDS COME FOR TRIBUTE

VI. THESEUS IN CRETE

VII. THE SLAYING OF THE MINOTAUR

PERSEUS

I. THE PRISON OF DANAE

II. THE VOW OF PERSEUS

III. PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA

IV. HOW PERSEUS AVENGED DANAE

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Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece, there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous. People used to say that Ithaca 'lay like a shield upon the sea,' which sounds as if it were a flat country. But in those times shields were very large, and rose at the middle into two peaks with a hollow between them, so that Ithaca, seen far off in the sea, with her two chief mountain peaks, and a cloven valley between them, looked exactly like a shield. The country was so rough that men kept no horses, for, at that time, people drove, standing up in little light chariots with two horses; they never rode, and there was no cavalry in battle: men fought from chariots. When Ulysses, the son of Laertes, King of Ithaca grew up, he never fought from a chariot, for he had none, but always on foot.

If there were no horses in Ithaca, there was plenty of cattle. The father of Ulysses had flocks of sheep, and herds of swine, and wild goats, deer, and hares lived in the hills and in the plains. The sea was full of fish of many sorts, which men caught with nets, and with rod and line and hook.

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'You are Achilles, Peleus' son!' said Ulysses; 'and you are to be the chief warrior of the Achaeans,' for the Greeks then called themselves Achaeans. Achilles was only too glad to hear these words, for he was quite tired of living among maidens. Ulysses led him into the hall where the chiefs were sitting at their wine, and Achilles was blushing like any girl.

'Here is the Queen of the Amazons,' said Ulysses – for the Amazons were a race of warlike maidens – 'or rather here is Achilles, Peleus' son, with sword in hand.' Then they all took his hand, and welcomed him, and he was clothed in man's dress, with the sword by his side, and presently they sent him back with ten ships to his home. There his mother, Thetis, of the silver feet, the goddess of the sea, wept over him, saying, 'My child, thou hast the choice of a long and happy and peaceful life here with me, or of a brief time of war and undying renown. Never shall I see thee again in Argos if thy choice is for war.' But Achilles chose to die young, and to be famous as long as the world stands. So his father gave him fifty ships, with Patroclus, who was older than he, to be his friend, and with an old man, Phoenix, to advise him; and his mother gave him the glorious armour that the God had made for his father, and the heavy ashen spear that none but he could wield, and he sailed to join the host of the Achaeans, who all praised and thanked Ulysses that had found for them such a prince. For Achilles was the fiercest fighter of them all, and the swiftest-footed man, and the most courteous prince, and the gentlest with women and children, but he was proud and high of heart, and when he was angered his anger was terrible.

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