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Title: Tales of Troy and Greece

Author: Andrew Lang

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Language: English

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TALES OF TROY AND GREECE

[Illustration: THE STEALING OF HELEN.]

[_See_ p. 15.]

TALES OF TROY AND GREECE

by

ANDREW LANG

Illustrated by H. J. Ford

Dover Publications, Inc.
Mineola, New York

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged
republication of the 1941 printing of the work originally published by
Longmans, Green and Co., London and New York, in 1907. We have slightly
repositioned a few of the illustrations.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

TO

H. RIDER HAGGARD

CONTENTS

_ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES_
PAGE

I. THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES 1

II. HOW PEOPLE LIVED IN THE TIME OF ULYSSES 5

III. THE WOOING OF HELEN OF THE FAIR HANDS 9

IV. THE STEALING OF HELEN 13

V. TROJAN VICTORIES 30

VI. BATTLE AT THE SHIPS 38

VII. THE SLAYING AND AVENGING OF PATROCLUS 45

VIII. THE CRUELTY OF ACHILLES, AND THE RANSOMING OF
HECTOR 53

IX.