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[Frontispiece: ODYSSEUS AS A YOUTH AT HOME WITH HIS MOTHER]




ODYSSEUS
THE HERO OF ITHACA

ADAPTED FROM THE THIRD BOOK OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ATHENS, GREECE


BY

MARY E. BURT

_Author of "Literary Landmarks," "Stories from Plato," "Story of the
German Iliad," "The Child-Life Reading Study"; Editor of "Little
Nature Studies"; Teacher in the John A. Browning School, New York
City_

AND

ZENAIDE A. RAGOZIN

_Author of "The Story of Chaldea," "The Story of Assyria," "The Story
of Media, Babylon, and Persia," "The Story of Vedic India"; Member
of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of the
American Oriental Society, of the Societe Ethnologique of Paris,
etc._




CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK   CHICAGO   BOSTON




COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Printed in the United States of America




                         To
                    THE TEACHER
       WHOSE INTEGRITY AND PEDAGOGICAL SPIRIT
    HAVE CREATED A SCHOOL WHEREIN THE IDEAL MAY
             PROVE ITSELF THE PRACTICAL
                         AND
             THOSE ENTHUSIASTIC PUPILS
    WHO LOVE THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF ODYSSEUS
              THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED




CONTENTS

                                                                 PAGE
INTRODUCTION.......................... xiii


PART I
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF THE HERO, ODYSSEUS

CHAPTER                                                          PAGE
      I. About Troy and the Journey of Paris to Greece.....    3

     II. The Flight of Helen..................    6

    III. The Greeks Sail for Troy ...............   10

     IV. The Fall of Troy ...................   13


PART II
THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS TO HIS OWN COUNTRY

CHAPTER                                                          PAGE
      V. Odysseus on the Island of Calypso...........   21

     VI. Odysseus Constructs a Raft and Leaves the Island ...   25

    VII. Odysseus is Saved on the Island of Scheria ......   29

   VIII. Nausicaa is Sent to the River by Athena........   31

     IX. Odysseus Arrives at the Palace of Alkinoos ......   38

      X. Odysseus in the Halls of Alkinoos...........   42

     XI. The Banquet in Honor of Odysseus ...........   47

    XII. Odysseus Relates His Adventures............   54

   XIII. The Lotus-Eaters and the Cyclops ...........   57

    XIV. The Cave of the Cyclops................   60

     XV. The Blinding of the Cyclops..............   64

    XVI. Odysseus and His Companions Leave the Land of the
           Cyclops.......................   67

   XVII. The Adventures of Odysseus on the Island of AEolus ..   72

  XVIII. Odysseus at the Home of Cir