E-text prepared by Peter Vickers, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32326-h.htm or 32326-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32326/pg32326-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32326/32326-h.zip) TALES OF TROY AND GREECE [Illustration: THE STEALING OF HELEN.] [_See_ p. 15.] TALES OF TROY AND GREECE by ANDREW LANG Illustrated by H. J. Ford Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged republication of the 1941 printing of the work originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., London and New York, in 1907. We have slightly repositioned a few of the illustrations. Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 TO H. RIDER HAGGARD CONTENTS _ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES_ PAGE I. THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES 1 II. HOW PEOPLE LIVED IN THE TIME OF ULYSSES 5 III. THE WOOING OF HELEN OF THE FAIR HANDS 9 IV. THE STEALING OF HELEN 13 V. TROJAN VICTORIES 30 VI. BATTLE AT THE SHIPS 38 VII. THE SLAYING AND AVENGING OF PATROCLUS 45 VIII. THE CRUELTY OF ACHILLES, AND THE RANSOMING OF HECTOR 53 IX. HOW ULYSSES STOLE THE LUCK OF TROY 56 X. THE BATTLES WITH THE AMAZONS AND MEMNON--THE DEATH OF ACHILLES 66 XI. ULYSSES SAILS TO SEEK THE SON OF ACHILLES--THE VALOUR OF EURYPYLUS 79 XII. THE SLAYING OF PARIS 87 XIII. HOW ULYSSES INVENTED THE DEVICE OF THE HORSE OF TREE 92 XIV. THE END OF TROY AND THE SAVING OF HELEN 96 _THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES_ I. THE SLAYING OF AGAMEMNON AND THE SORROWS OF ULYSSES 101 II. THE ENCHANTRESS CIRCE, THE LAND OF THE DEAD, THE SIRENS 110 III. THE WHIRLPOOL, THE SEA MONSTER, AND THE CATTLE OF THE SUN 118 IV. HOW TELEMACHUS WENT TO SEEK HIS FATHER 122 V. HOW ULYSSES ESCAPED FROM THE ISLAND OF CALYPSO 128