Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca / Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

ADAPTED FROM THE THIRD BOOK OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ATHENS, GREECE
Author of Literary Landmarks, Stories from Plato, Story of the German Iliad, The Child-Life Reading Study ; Editor of Little Nature Studies ; Teacher in the John A. Browning School, New York City
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Author of The Story of Chaldea, The Story of Assyria, The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia, The Story of Vedic India ; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of the American Oriental Society, of the Société Ethnologique of Paris, etc.
COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
To THE TEACHER WHOSE INTEGRITY AND PEDAGOGICAL SPIRIT HAVE CREATED A SCHOOL WHEREIN THE IDEAL MAY PROVE ITSELF THE PRACTICAL AND THOSE ENTHUSIASTIC PUPILS WHO LOVE THE LOYALTY AND BRAVERY OF ODYSSEUS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF THE HERO, ODYSSEUS
THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS TO HIS OWN COUNTRY
THE TRIUMPH OF ODYSSEUS

It has long been the opinion of many of the more progressive teachers of the United States that, next to Herakles, Odysseus is the hero closest to child-life, and that the stories from the Odyssey are the most suitable for reading-lessons. These conclusions have been reached through independent experiments not related to educational work in foreign countries.