STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND ROME [Illustration: Reading from Homer] STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND ROME BY EMILIE KIP BAKER AUTHOR OF "OUT OF THE NORTHLAND" New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1913 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TO FRANCES CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. IN THE BEGINNING 1 II. THE STORY OF PANDORA 7 III. THE DELUGE 16 IV. MINERVA 22 V. APOLLO AND KING ADMETUS 30 VI. APOLLO THE MUSICIAN 36 VII. THE LOVE OF APOLLO 44 VIII. DIANA 53 IX. THE STORY OF ENDYMION 60 X. MERCURY 64 XI. VENUS 73 XII. THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE 81 XIII. FAMOUS LOVERS 1. Echo and Narcissus 93 2. Pyramus and Thisbe 97 3. Hero and Leander 100 4. Pygmalion and Galatea 104 XIV. THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 107 XV. MARS AND VULCAN 115 XVI. THE STORY OF PROSERPINA 127 XVII. PLUTO AND THE UNDERWORLD 137 XVIII. NEPTUNE AND THE SEA-GODS 152 XIX. BACCHUS 167 XX. PAN AND THE NYMPHS 183 XXI. THE VESTALS 193 XXII. MINOR DEITIES 1. Æolus 200 2. Janus 204 3. Iris and Aurora 206 4. Vertumnus and Pomona 209 XXIII. HERCULES. Part I 212 XXIV. HERCULES. Part II 223 XXV. PERSEUS 235 XXVI. BELLEROPHON 251 XXVII. THE STORY OF JASON. Part I 262 XXVIII. THE STORY OF JASON. Part II 270 XXIX. THE CALYDONIAN HUNT 278 XXX. THESEUS. Part I 287 XXXI. THESEUS. Part II 295 XXXII. ŒDIPUS 306