The Adventures of Ulysses

Produced by Anne Soulard, Juliet Sutherland, Charles
Bidwell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
This work is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus. It treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The picture which it exhibits is that of a brave man struggling with adversity; by a wise use of events, and with an inimitable presence of mind under difficulties, forcing out a way for himself through the severest trials to which human life can be exposed; with enemies natural and preternatural surrounding him on all sides. The agents in this tale, besides men and women, are giants, enchanters, sirens: things which denote external force or internal temptations, the twofold danger which a wise fortitude must expect to encounter in its course through this world. The fictions contained in it will be found to comprehend some of the most admired inventions of Grecian mythology.
The Cicons.—The Fruit of the Lotus-tree.—Polyphemus and the Cyclops.— The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus's Fatal Present.—The Laestrygonian Man-eaters.
The House of Circe.—Men changed into Beasts.—The Voyage to Hell.—The Banquet of the Dead.
The Song of the Sirens.—Scylla and Charybdis.—The Oxen of the Sun.—The Judgment.—The Crew Killed by Lightning.
The Island of Calypso.—Immortality Refused.
The Tempest.—The Sea-bird's Gift.—The Escape by Swimming.—The Sleep in the Woods.
The Princess Nausicaa.—The Washing.—The Game with the Ball.—The Court of Phaeacia and King Alcinous.
The Songs of Demodocus—The Convoy Home.—The Manners—Transformed to Stone—The Young Shepherd.
The Change from a King to a Beggar.—Eumaeus and the Herdsmen—Telemachus.
The Queen's Suitors—The Battle of the Beggars.—The Armour Taken Down.— The Meeting with Penelope.