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A Hand-Book of Classical Geography, Chronology, Mythology, and Antiquities; Prepared for the Use of Schools

A Hand-Book of Classical Geography, Chronology, Mythology, and Antiquities; Prepared for the Use of Schools

Allen, Thomas Prentiss

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150962097
ISBN13: 9781150962097
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...ants) in Thessaly; AJ3X trag. by Sophocles, son of Telamon, of Salamis, and Dioilll'tirs, son of Tydeus, of Argos, the two ranking next to Achilles; Ajax the.Less, son of Oileus, of Locris; Idouiciicus, K. of Crete; and I'lliluctttrs trag. by Sophocles, the best archer in the army. The soothsayer was Calchas.--The chiefs of the Trojans were Hector and Deiphobus, sons of Priam, jEueils, son of Anchlses and Aphrodite, Sarpedon. and AnteDor. Andromache trag. by Euripides was wife of Hector, and Astyanax his son. Cassandra, daughter of Priam, was a prophetess condemned by Apollo never to be believed.--Hector was killed by Achilles in revenge for his friend Patroclus. Achilles was killed with an arrow by Paris, and Ajax slew himself in a lit of madness, because the armor of Achilles was adjudged to Ulysses rather than himself. The Lesser Ajax was dashed on a rock by Athena. Homer's Iliad relates some of the events of the siege. 44. After the capture of Troy ( 43), JEne&s went to Italy, on his way visiting Queen Dido in Carthage; his adventures are narrated in Virgil's jEneid. His son AsCilllins, or lulus, was ancestor.of the kings of Alba, and, as was supposed, of the Julian gens ( 127).--Homer's Odyssey contains the wanderings of Ulysses for ten years, during which he met with the Cyclops Polyphemus ( 20), the Sirens ( 24), the sorceress Circe, and the nymph Calypso. His wife Penelope was beset with suitors in his absence, whom she put off under pretence of finishing a piece of cloth in her loom, while she unravelled every night what she had done in the day. His son Telemachus went in search of his father under guidance of Athena, in the form of Mentor. When Ulysses reached home he was recognized only by his nurse and old...

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