STORY I.—PERSEUS PAGE PART I. HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS 1 II. HOW PERSEUS VOWED A RASH VOW 8 III. HOW PERSEUS SLEW THE GORGON 23 IV. HOW PERSEUS CAME TO THE ÆTHIOPS 36 V. HOW PERSEUS CAME HOME AGAIN 53 STORY II.—THE ARGONAUTS PART I. HOW THE CENTAUR TRAINED THE HEROES ON PELION 60 II. HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS 73 III. HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS 87 III. HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS 93 IV. HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE 127 UNKNOWN SEA V. WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES 161 STORY III.—THESEUS PART I. HOW THESEUS LIFTED THE STONE 165 II. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN 172 III. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR 206 IV. HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE 214 * * * * * [I owe an apology to the few scholars who may happen to read this hasty _jeu d’esprit_, for the inconsistent method in which I have spelt Greek names. The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as ‘Phœbus’ has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word ‘Tiphus,’ I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word. It has been a choice of difficulties, which has been forced on me by our strange habit of introducing boys to the Greek myths, not in their original shape, but in a Roman disguise.] STORY I.—PERSEUS PART I HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS