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The Wooing of Helen of the Fair Hands
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The Stealing of Helen
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Trojan Victories
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Battle at the Ships
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The Slaying and Avenging of Patroclus
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The Cruelty of Achilles and Ransoming of Hector
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How Ulysses Stole the Luck of Troy
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The Battle with the Amazons and Memnon
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Ulysses Sails To Seek the Son of Achilles
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The Slaying of Paris
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How Ulysses Invented the Horse of Tree
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The End of Troy and the Saving of Helen
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The Slaying of Agamemnon and Sorrows of Ulysses
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The Enchantress Circe, Land of the Dead, Sirens
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The Whirlpool, Sea Monster, and Cattle of the Sun
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How Telemachus Went To Seek His Father
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How Ulysses Escaped from the Island of Calypso
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How Ulysses Was Wrecked, Yet Reached Phaeacia
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How Ulysses Came to His Own Country
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Ulysses Comes Disguised to His Own Palace
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The Slaying of the Wooers
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The End
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The Children of the Cloud
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The Search for the Fleece
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The Winning of the Fleece
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The Wedding of Æthra
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The Boyhood of Theseus
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Adventures of Theseus
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Theseus Finds His Father
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Heralds Come for Tribute
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Theseus in Crete
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The Slaying of the Minotaur
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The Prison of Danae
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The Vow of Perseus
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Perseus and Andromeda
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How Perseus Avenged Danae
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Back Matter
Notes
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I>THE
story of Ulysses is taken mainly from the
Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Post Homerica of
Quintus Smyrnæus. As we have no detailed account
of the stealing of the Palladium by Ulysses, use
has been made of Helen's tale about his entry
into Troy in the disguise of a beaten beggar.
The chief source of "The Fleece of Gold" is
tradition, with the Argonautica of Apollonius
Rhodius; the fight between Polydeuces and the
Giant is best reported by Theocritus.
No epic or tragedy concerning the early fortunes
of Theseus and the history of Perseus has reached
us: summaries in Plutarch and Apollodorus provide
the outlines of the legends.
The descriptions of costume, arms, and mode of
life are derived from Homer and from the
"Mycenæan" relics discovered in the last thirty
years by Dr. Schliemann, Mr. A. J. Evans, and
many other explorers.
"The Fleece of Gold," first published in an
American magazine, has also appeared in America
in a little volume (Henry Altemus & Co.). It is
here reprinted by permission of Messrs. Altemus,
with some changes and corrections.
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