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TALES OF TROY
AND GREECE
[See p. 15.]
TALES OF TROY
AND GREECE
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 republicationof the 1941 printing of the work originally published by Longmans, Greenand Co., London and New York, in 1907. We have slightly repositioned a fewof 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. | ||
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| 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. | HOW ULYSSES STOLE THE LUCK OF TROY | 56 |
| X. | THE BATTLES WITH THE AMAZONS AND MEMNON—THE DEATH OF ACHILLES | 66 |
| XI. | ULYSSES SAILS TO SEEK THE SON OF ACHILLES—THE VALOUR OF EURYPYLUS | 79 |
| XII. | THE SLAYING OF PARIS | 87 |
| XIII. | HOW ULYSSES INVENTED THE DEVICE OF THE HORSE OF TREE | 92 |
| XIV. | THE END OF TROY AND THE SAVING OF HELEN | 96 |