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Persephone of Eleusis

by Clare Winger Harris

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Author
Harris, Clare Winger, 1891-1968
Title
Persephone of Eleusis: A Romance of Ancient Greece
Credits
E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Greece -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 61449
Release Date
February 18, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Persephone of Eleusis A Romance of Ancient Greece
  2. 2.Preface
  3. 3.Contents
  4. 4.CHAPTER I. At the Hot Gates.
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. “Remember the Athenians.”
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. The Defense on the Acropolis.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. The Miracle of Salamis.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. The Traitor of Thermopylæ.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. Athena Speaks Through the Olive Branch.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. The Banquet of Attaginus.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. Masistius’ Message to Zopyrus.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. The Rescue of Ladice.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. A Venture At the Eve of Battle.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. A Hero of Platæa.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. The Prophet At Delphi.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. The House of Pasicles.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. Beyond the Dipylon Gate.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. What Happened at the Theatre of Dionysus.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. The Celebration of the Mysteries.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. Persephone.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. Agne’s Advice.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. Ephialtes’ Plot.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX. The Ward of Themistocles.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. In the Shadow of the Acropolis.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. A Letter From Sicily.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. The Festivities At Naxos.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. Dionysus and Ariadne.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. A Revelation.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. The Home of Aeschylus.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII. The Allied Fleet Sails.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII. The Hand of Fate.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX. After Twenty Years.
  33. 33.FOOTNOTES
  34. 34.Transcriber’s Note

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