The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)
by Eva March Tappan
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930
- Title
- The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Stories from the Classics
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Classical literature -- Adaptations
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14752
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14752
- Release Date
- January 21, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.VOLUME III
- 3.Eva March Tappan — 1907 — NOTE
- 4.CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.TO THE CHILDREN
- 6.STORIES FROM HERODOTUS — Ladronius, The Prince of Thieves — Arion and the Dolphin
- 7.STORIES FROM LIVY — Romulus, Founder of Rome — How Horatius Held the Bridge — How Cincinnatus Saved Rome — The Story of Virginia — The Sacrifice of Marcus Curtius
- 8.STORIES FROM OVID — The Miraculous Pitcher — The Golden Touch — The Pomegranate Seeds
- 9.OLD GREEK FOLK-STORIES — Orpheus and Eurydice — Icarus and Dædalus — Phaethon — Niobe — Pyramus and Thisbe
- 10.STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR — The Apple of Discord — The Quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles — The Fight between Paris and Menelaus — The Duel between Hector and Ajax — The Death of Patroclus and the Battle of the River — Vulcan Makes Armor for Achilles — The Slaying of Hector — The Funeral Games in Honor of Patroclus — The Wooden Horse and the Fall of Troy
- 11.THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES — An Adventure with the Cyclops — Circe’s Palace — The Sirens—Scylla and Charybdis
- 12.ULYSSES IN ITHACA — Ulysses Lands on the Shore of Ithaca — Ulysses at the House of the Swineherd — The Vengeance of Ulysses — A. His Reception at the Palace — B. The Trial of the Bow — C. The Slaying of the Suitors — D. Penelope Recognizes Ulysses
- 13.THE WANDERINGS OF THE TROJAN ÆNEAS — The Flight of Æneas from the Ruins of Troy — Æneas’s Adventure with the Harpies — Æneas in the Land of the Cyclops — Æneas and Queen Dido — The Funeral Games of Anchises — Æneas’s Visit to the Lower World — Æneas’s First Great Battle with the Latins — Æneas Finally Conquers the Latins
- 14.End of Volume III
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