247

_PERSEUS_

I. THE PRISON OF DANAE 254

II. THE VOW OF PERSEUS 261

III. PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 279

IV. HOW PERSEUS AVENGED DANAE 284

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE STEALING OF HELEN _Frontispiece_

MAP OF GREECE _facing p. 1_

ULYSSES, WHEN A YOUTH, FIGHTS THE WILD BOAR
AND GETS HIS WOUND IN HIS THIGH " 4

HELEN POINTS OUT THE CHIEF HEROES IN THE
GREEK HOST TO PRIAM " 28

ACHILLES PITIES PENTHESILEA AFTER SLAYING HER " 70

PARIS COMES BACK TO OENONE " 90

MENELAUS REFRAINS FROM KILLING HELEN AT THE
INTERCESSION OF ULYSSES " 100

CIRCE SENDS THE SWINE (THE COMPANIONS OF
ULYSSES) TO THE STYES " 112

THE ADVENTURE WITH SCYLLA " 120

CALYPSO TAKES PITY ON ULYSSES " 130

HOW ULYSSES MET NAUSICAA " 136

ULYSSES SHOOTS THE FIRST ARROW AT THE WOOERS " 164

KING ATHAMAS STEALS NEPHELE'S CLOTHES SO THAT
SHE CANNOT FLOAT AWAY WITH HER SISTERS " 174

HOW THE SERPENT THAT GUARDED THE GOLDEN
FLEECE WAS SLAIN " 198

THESEUS TRIES TO LIFT THE STONE " 208

HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR " 248

PERSEUS IN THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES " 272

THE RESCUE OF ANDROMEDA " 282

TALES OF TROY AND GREECE

[Illustration: GREECE]

TALES OF TROY

ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES

I

THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES

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