Herakles, the Hero of Thebes, and Other Heroes of the Myth
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Ragozin Zenaïde A.. Herakles, the Hero of Thebes, and Other Heroes of the Myth
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION. THE LAND OF THE HEROES
CHAPTER I. THE BABE HERAKLES
CHAPTER II. HERAKLES IS DOOMED TO SERVE EURYSTHEUS
CHAPTER III. THE FIRST LABOR – THE NEMEAN LION
CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND LABOR – HERAKLES KILLS THE WATER-SNAKE OF LAKE LERNA
CHAPTER V. THE THIRD LABOR – THE GOLDEN-HORNED HIND
CHAPTER VI. THE FOURTH LABOR – THE ERYMANTHIAN BOAR
CHAPTER VII. THE FIFTH LABOR – HERAKLES CLEANS THE AUGEIAN STABLES
CHAPTER VIII. THE SIXTH LABOR – THE BIRDS OF STYMPHALOS
CHAPTER IX. THE SEVENTH LABOR – HERAKLES CATCHES THE MAD BULL OF CRETE
CHAPTER X. THE EIGHTH LABOR – THE HORSES OF DIOMEDES
CHAPTER XI. THE NINTH LABOR – THE GIRDLE OF HIPPOLYTE
CHAPTER XII. THE TENTH LABOR – THE CATTLE OF GERYON
CHAPTER XIII. THE ELEVENTH LABOR – THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES
CHAPTER XIV. THE TWELFTH LABOR – HERAKLES FETCHES CERBERUS OUT OF HADES
CHAPTER XV. THESEUS, THE HERO OF ATHENS
CHAPTER XVI. THE FIRST EXPLOITS OF THESEUS. HE FINDS HIS FATHER
CHAPTER XVII. THE ADVENTURES OF THESEUS
I. The Marathonian Bull
II. Theseus Sails to Crete
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF THESEUS
III. Theseus Kills the Minotaur
CHAPTER XIX. JASON, THE HERO OF THESSALY
Phrixos and Helle
CHAPTER XX. JASON CLAIMS HIS THRONE
CHAPTER XXI. THE EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XXII. JASON FINDS THE GOLDEN FLEECE
CHAPTER XXIII. ORPHEUS, THE HERO OF THE LYRE
CHAPTER XXIV. PELOPS, THE HERO OF THE PELOPONNESOS
CHAPTER XXV. PERSEUS, THE HERO OF ARGOS
CHAPTER XXVI. PERSEUS FINDS THE GORGONS
CHAPTER XXVII. PERSEUS RESCUES ANDROMEDA
CHAPTER XXVIII. PERSEUS BECOMES KING OF TIRYNS
CHAPTER XXIX. TRIPTOLEMOS, THE HERO OF ELEUSIS, AND DEMETER, THE EARTH-MOTHER
CHAPTER XXX. DEMETER’S GRIEF
CHAPTER XXXI. DEMETER’S JOY
CHAPTER XXXII. TRIPTOLEMOS BECOMES A HERO. DEMETER’S GIFT
CHAPTER XXXIII. PROMETHEUS, THE CHAMPION OF MANKIND
CHAPTER XXXIV. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
CHAPTER XXXV. DEUKALION, THE CHAMPION OF A NEW RACE
CHAPTER XXXVI. DÆDALOS, A HERO OF INVENTION
CHAPTER XXXVII. PHAETHON, A HERO OF BAD FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DEATH OF PHAETHON
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One look at the map of Greece will show us that it is the smallest of European countries. For many hundreds of years it was inhabited by the handsomest, bravest, and most intelligent people in the world. But these people, the Greeks, or Hellenes, as they called themselves, had not always lived in the country.
Thousands of years before the Hellenes came to Greece it was a perfect wilderness of mountains, narrow valleys, torrents, and tangled forests. It was a land of wild beasts, and they were so numerous and fierce that there was almost no room for men.
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It became a question which of the two, the men or the wild animals, would remain in possession. Then young and courageous men, sons of the ruling families, athletes in strength, practised in the arts of war, commanding through their greater wealth the use of better weapons, felt it their duty to their people to do for them what the poor herdsmen and laborers had neither the strength nor the skill to do for themselves.
From all the central royal cities they started singly or in small troops, a bevy of young heroes, as eager for the delights of adventure as for the public good. Year after year they wandered across country seeking the most impassable wildernesses, directed by the stories they heard on their way to the dens of the cruel monsters, which they usually overcame by force or cunning.
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