The children's Odyssey

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Prefatory Note

The changes which appear in this enlarged edition of “The Story of Ulysses” have been made with the purpose of bringing it nearer to the original. It is hoped that the added material will prove to be of value in giving the children a fuller and more vivid idea of Greek life in Homeric times.

The new title has been adopted for the convenience of the publisher. It is the modest hope of both publisher and author that “The Children’s Odyssey” may at least fall heir to all the friends won by “The Story of Ulysses.” Whether it will be fortunate enough to increase that generous number, as the years go by, will of course depend upon itself.

Grateful acknowledgment is made herewith to Mrs. Lfida B. McMurry of the Northern Illinois State Normal School for the helpful advice in the preparation of the original manuscript; to Mr. W. Scott Thurber for the loan of his fine carbon print of Turner’s “Ulysses and Polyphemus” for reproduction in this book; and to Herr Dr. W. Hermens, Director of the Grossherzogliches Muzeum at Weimar, Germany, for special permission to use as illustrations the frescoes of Preller, which are on the walls of the Muzeum, and which were photographed in Weimar by Karl Schwier ( Verlag der Deutschen Photographen-Zeitung.)

A. C. G.

Chicago, 1912.

PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES

Achilles, a-kil'lez Aegean, e-je'an Aeolus, e'-o-lus Agamemnon, ag-a-mem'non Ajax, a'jaks

Clytemnestra, clit-em-nes'tra Clytoneus, clit-o'nus Demodocus, de-mod'o-cus Diomedes, dl-o-me'dez Dionysus, dl-o-ni'sus Dolius, do'li-us Eumaeus, u-me'us Euryalus, u-rl'a-lus Eurycleia, u ri-cll'a Eurylochus, u-ril'o-cus Eurymachus, u-rim'a-cus Hades, ha'dez Hephaestus, he-fes'tus Heracles, her'a-cles Here, he'-re Hermes, her'mes Icarius, I-ca'ri-us

Index To Chapters

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I. Odysseus an 1 Penelope 21

II. Odysseus Plows the Seashore. ... 21

III. Odysseus at Troy 32

IV. The Wooden Horse 40

V. Odysseus Visits the Eotus Eaters 47

VI. The Giant Polyphemus 51

VII. Aeolus and the Bag - of Winds 61

VIII. The Man-Eaters 65

IX. Circe and the Swine 63

X. The Shadow Eand 79

XI. The Sirens 85

XII. The Dangerous Channel 88

XIII. The Sun-God’s Cattle 92

XIV. Calypso and the Raft 98

XV. The Sea-Bird’s Gift 104

XVI. Nausicaa’s Washing 109

XVII. At the Palace of the Phaeacian King 114

XVIII. Odysseus Among the Phaeacians . 122

XIX. Penelope’s Weaving 133

XX. The Young Prince and His Guest *...... 137

XXI. Telemachus at the Council 145

XXII. Telemachus Takes Eeave 151

XXIII. Telemachus Visits Nestor 156

XXIV. The Suitors’ Wicked Plan 165

XXV. Telemachus Visits Menelaus 170

XXVI. Odysseus Eeaves the Phaeacians 180

X XVII. The Disguise 18+

XXVIII. The Beggar and the Swineherd 189

XXIX. Eather and Son 197

XXX. The Beggar at the Palace . . . 202

XXXI. The Beggars’ Quarrel 213

XXXII. Penelope Among the Suitors .... 219

XXXIII. The Scar of the Boar’s Tusk 223

XXX IV. The Trial of the Bow 234

XXXV. The Queen’s Welcome 255

XXXVI. Eaertes; and Peace 260