[Frontispiece: ODYSSEUS AS A YOUTH AT HOME WITH HIS MOTHER] ODYSSEUS THE HERO OF ITHACA ADAPTED FROM THE THIRD BOOK OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ATHENS, GREECE BY MARY E. BURT _Author of "Literary Landmarks," "Stories from Plato," "Story of the German Iliad," "The Child-Life Reading Study"; Editor of "Little Nature Studies"; Teacher in the John A. Browning School, New York City_ AND ZENAÏDE A. RAGOZIN _Author of "The Story of Chaldea," "The Story of Assyria," "The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia," "The Story of Vedic India"; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of the American Oriental Society, of the Société Ethnologique of Paris, etc._ CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in the United States of America To THE TEACHER WHOSE INTEGRITY AND PEDAGOGICAL SPIRIT HAVE CREATED A SCHOOL WHEREIN THE IDEAL MAY PROVE ITSELF THE PRACTICAL AND THOSE ENTHUSIASTIC PUPILS WHO LOVE THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF ODYSSEUS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF THE HERO, ODYSSEUS CHAPTER PAGE I. About Troy and the Journey of Paris to Greece . . . . . 3 II. The Flight of Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III. The Greeks Sail for Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. The Fall of Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 PART II THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS TO HIS OWN COUNTRY CHAPTER PAGE V. Odysseus on the Island of Calypso . . . . . . . . . . . 21 VI. Odysseus Constructs a Raft and Leaves the Island . . . 25 VII. Odysseus is Saved on the Island of Scheria . . . . . . 29 VIII. Nausicaä is Sent to the River by Athena . . . . . . . . 31 IX. Odysseus Arrives at the Palace of Alkinoös . . . . . . 38 X. Odysseus in the Halls of Alkinoös . . . . . . . . . . . 42 XI. The Banquet in Honor of Odysseus . . . . . . . . . . . 47 XII. Odysseus Relates His Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 XIII. The Lotus-Eaters and the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . . 57 XIV. The Cave of the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 XV. The Blinding of the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 XVI. Odysseus and His Companions Leave the Land of the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 XVII. The Adventures of Odysseus on the Island of Æolus . . . 72 XVIII. Odysseus at the Home of Circè . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75