The inspiring adventures and stirring deeds of three of the greatest heroes of mythology spring to vivid life in
these pages.
Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and one of the Victorian age's most brilliant storytellers,
recounts for young readers the legendary feats of Perseus, Jason, and Theseus.
Rash and angry in his vow to slay Medusa the Gorgon, Perseus is cunning and patient in his quest. With the help of
Athena's shield and Hermes' winged sandals, he faces the creature with writhing snakes for hair
and rescues a princess chained to a rock.
Fifty brave men known as the Argonauts join Jason in a treacherous journey across stormy, monster-infested seas
in the search for the golden fleece of a magical ram.
And Theseus sails off to Crete aboard a black-sailed ship with seven maidens and seven youths,
all of them intended as sacrifices to the Minotaur
—a fiend with the body of a man, the head of a bull, and the deadly teeth of a lion.
"There are no fairy tales like these old Greek ones," Kingsley notes, "for beauty, and wisdom, and truth, and for
making children love noble deeds . . . for each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere
we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours."
Aimed at a younger audience, this classic collection of tales is rich with a spirit of adventure and fantasy that
dominated early mythological tales. "Heroes of Greek Mythology" is a classic little book that will delight readers
both young and old.
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CONTENTS
Preface
Perseus
How Perseus and his mother came to Seriphos
How Perseus vowed a Rash Vow
How Perseus slew the Gorgon
How Perseus came to the AEthiops
How Perseus came home again
Jason and the Argonauts
How the Centaur trained the Heroes on Pelion
How Jason lost his sandal in Anauros
How they built the ship 'Argo' in Iolcos
How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis
How the Argonauts were driven into the Unknown Sea
What was the end of the Heroes
Theseus
How Theseus lifted the stone
How Theseus slew the devourers of men
How Theseus slew the minotaur
How Theseus fell by his pride
