art.
As to the names, the ordinary reading of them has been most frequently
adopted, and the common Latin titles of the gods and goddesses have been
used, because these, by long use, have really come to be their English
names, and English literature at least will be better understood by
calling the king of Olympus Jupiter, than by becoming familiar with him
first as Zeus.

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.

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CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
I. Olympus 11
II. Light and Dark 18
III. The Peopling of Greece 26
IV. The Hero Perseus 35
V. The Labours of Hercules 42
VI. The Argonauts 51
VII. The Success of the Argonauts 59
VIII. The Choice of Paris 68
IX. The Siege of Troy 76
X. The Wanderings of Ulysses 84
XI. The Doom of the Atrides 94
XII. After the Heroic Age 102
XIII. Lycurgus and the Laws of Sparta. B.C. 110
884-668
XIV. Solon and the Laws of Athens. B.C. 594-546 118
XV. Pisistratus and his Sons. B.C. 558-499 126
XVI. The Battle of Marathon. B.C. 490 134
XVII. The Expedition of Xerxes. B.C. 480 142
XVIII. The Battle of Plataea. B.C. 479-460 151
XIX. The Age of Pericles. B.C. 464-429 159
XX. The Expedition to Sicily. B.C. 415-413 167
XXI. The Shore of the Goat's River. B.C. 406-402 174
XXII. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand. B.C. 181
402-399
XXIII. The Death of Socrates. B.C. 399 189
XXIV. The Supremacy of Sparta. B.C. 396 196
XXV. The Two