The Heroes
by Charles Kingsley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
- Title
- The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 677
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/677
- Release Date
- October 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE HEROES, or GREEK FAIRY TALES
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.STORY I.—PERSEUS — PART I HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS — PART II HOW PERSEUS VOWED A RASH VOW — PART III HOW PERSEUS SLEW THE GORGON — PART IV HOW PERSEUS CAME TO THE ÆTHIOPS — PART V HOW PERSEUS CAME HOME AGAIN
- 5.STORY II.—THE ARGONAUTS — PART I HOW THE CENTAUR TRAINED THE HEROES ON PELION — PART II HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS — PART III HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS — PART IV HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS — PART V HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE UNKNOWN SEA — PART VI WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES
- 6.STORY III.—THESEUS — PART I HOW THESEUS LIFTED THE STONE — PART II HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN — PART III HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR — PART IV HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE
- 7.Footnotes
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