E-text prepared for EMMY by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (https://books.google.com) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 56887-h.htm or 56887-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56887/56887-h/56887-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56887/56887-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Google Books Library Project. See https://books.google.com/books?id=FyA3AQAAMAAJ&hl=en THE JUNIOR CLASSICS, VOLUME 3: TALES FROM GREECE AND ROME [Illustration: _Junior Classics_ THE·YOUNG·FOLKS’ SHELF·OF·BOOKS _P·F·Collier·&·Son Corporation_ _New York_] [Illustration: THE WINE WAS MINGLED WITH THE MOST POTENT ENCHANTMENTS—page 347 _From the painting by Maxfield Parrish_] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS Selected and Arranged by WILLIAM PATTEN Managing Editor of the Harvard Classics Introduction by CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL. D. President Emeritus of Harvard University With a Reading Guide by WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph. D. Professor of English, Harvard University President Smith College, Northampton, Mass., Since 1917 VOLUME THREE Tales from Greece and Rome [Illustration] P. F. Collier & Son Corporation New York Copyright, 1912 By P. F. Collier & Son Copyright, 1918 By P. F. Collier & Son Acknowledgments of permission given by authors and publishers for the use of copyright material appear in Volume 10 Manufactured in U. S. A. TC CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 9 TABLE OF LATIN AND GREEK GODS 12 OLD GREEK TALES How Theseus Slays the Minotaur _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 15 Pegasus, the Winged Horse _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 51 The Heroes Sail Away in Search of the Golden Fleece _Charles Kingsley_ 80 How Jason Lost His Sandal _Charles Kingsley_ 88 How They Built the Ship _Argo_ _Charles Kingsley_ 98 How the Argonauts Sailed to Colchis _Charles Kingsley_ 102 Hunting the Calydonian Boar _Elsie F. Buckley_ 128 The Winning of Atalanta _Elsie F. Buckley_ 148 Turning Everything into Gold _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 172 The Pomegranate Seeds _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 193 TALES OF THE TROJAN WAR—From Homer