Princes of Persia 234
Supposed Walls of Babylon 242
Site of Susa, ancient Metropolis of Persia 244
Gate of Hadrian in Athens 247
Macedonian Soldier 255
Delphi and the Castalian Fount 262
Corinth 267
View looking across Isthmus of Corinth 269
Ruins of a Temple at Corinth 271
Temple of Neptune 285
Crowning the Victor in the Isthmian Games 290
Livadia, the ancient Mideia in Argolis 292
Sappho 295
Lessina, the ancient Eleusis, on the Gulf of Corinth 297
View from Corinth 301
Parthenon and Erectheum 304
Distant View of Parnassus 307
Plains of Philippi 309
Obelisk of Theodosius, Constantinople 313
An Amphitheatre 314
Promontory of Actium 318
Mount Helicon 321
Cathedral of St. Sophia 323
Temple of Minerva, on the Promontory of Sunium 330
Ancyra, Galatia 332
The Acropolis, Restored 337
The Isles of Greece 344
Plain of Marathon 346

[Picture: Mount Olympus]

CHAP. I.--OLYMPUS.

I am going to tell you the history of the most wonderful people who ever
lived. But I have to begin with a good deal that is not true; for the
people who descended from Japhet's son Javan, and lived in the beautiful
islands and peninsulas called Greece, were not trained in the knowledge
of God like the Israelites, but had to guess for themselves. They made
strange stories, partly from the old beliefs they brought from the east,
partly from their ways of speaking of the powers of nature--sky, sun,