MAP--ORIGIN OF VENUS 61 ÆNEAS DEFENDING THE BODY OF PANDARUS 68 THE TORTOISE 98 HELEN 105 MAP--WANDERINGS OF ÆNEAS 119 MAP--LATIUM 134 SILVIA'S STAG 145 RHEA SILVIA 180 FAUSTULUS AND THE TWINS 184 SITUATION OF ROME 209 PROMISING THE BRACELETS 284 THE DEATH OF ROMULUS 305 ROMULUS CHAPTER I. CADMUS. B.C. 1500 Different kinds of greatness.--Founders of cities.--Rome.--Interest in respect to its origin.--The story of Æneas.--The Mediterranean sea.--Italy and Greece in ancient times, and now.--Ancient chieftains.--Their modes of life.--Religious ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans.--Ancient studies of nature.--Purpose of them.--History.--Ancient poems and tales.--How far founded in fact.--Cadmus.--Interest felt in respect to the origin of writing.--True story of Cadmus.--His father Agenor.--Europa.--Telephassa.--The pursuit of Europa.--Fruitless result.--Cadmus settles in Greece.--Thebes.--Arts introduced by him.--The ancient legend of Cadmus.--Jupiter.--Adventures of Jupiter.--His love for Europa.--His elopement.--Jupiter and Europa in Crete.--The expedition of Cadmus.--His various wanderings.--Death of Telephassa.--Visit to the oracle at Delphi.--The directions of the racle.--Cadmus finds his guide.--The place for his city determined.--The fountain of Dirce.--The dragon's teeth.--Thebes built.--Cadmia.--Ancient ideas of probability.--Belief in supernatural tales.--Final recording of the ancient tales. Some men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed. Others, without having really achieved any thing in itself very great or wonderful, have become widely known to mankind by reason of the vast consequences which, in the subsequent course of events, resulted from their doings. Men of this latter class are conspicuous rather than great. From among thousands of other men equally exalted in character with themselves, they are brought out prominently to the notice of mankind only in consequence of the strong light reflected, by great events subsequently occurring, back upon the position where they happened to stand.