THE
ADVENTURES OF
ODYSSEUS AND
THE TALE
OF TROY
BY
PADRAIC COLUM
PRESENTED
BY
WILLY
POGANY
THE
MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT,
1915
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED. PUBLISHED
DECEMBER, 1915
Norwood
Press: J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood,
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
FOR
HUGHIE AND PETER THIS TELLING OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORY
BECAUSE
THEIR IMAGINATIONS RISE TO DEEDS AND WONDERS
HOW
TELEMACHUS THE SON OF ODYSSEUS WAS MOVED TO GO ON A VOYAGE IN SEARCH
OF HIS FATHER AND HOW HE HEARD FROM MENELAUS AND HELEN THE TALE OF
TROY
HOW
ODYSSEUS LEFT CALYPSO'S ISLAND AND CAME TO THE LAND OF THE
PHAEACIANS; HOW HE TOLD HE FARED WITH THE CYCLÔPES AND WENT
PAST THE TERRIBLE SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AND CAME TO THE ISLAND OF
THRINACIA WHERE HIS MEN SLAUGHTERED THE CATTLE OF THE SUN; HOW HE WAS
GIVEN A SHIP BY THE PHAEACIANS AND CAME TO HIS OWN LAND; HOW HE
OVERTHREW THE WOOERS WHO WASTED HIS SUBSTANCE AND CAME TO REIGN AGAIN
AS KING OF ITHAKA
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