STORIES FROM THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY
THE SIEGE OF TROY
Story I. The Apple of Discord
- 1. The Founding of Troy
- 2. Story of Paris and Œnone
- 3. Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
- 4. The Apple of Discord
- 5. The Judgment of Paris
Story II. The League Against Troy
- 1. The Athletic Games in Troy
- 2. Discovery of the Parentage of Paris
- 3. Embassy to Greece
- 4. Story of Helen and the Pledge of the Greek Princes
- 5. Abduction of Helen
- 6. League against Troy
Story III. The Beginning of the Trojan War
- 1. The Stratagem of Ulysses
- 2. The Quest for Achilles
- 3. The Assembling of the Greeks
- 4. The Omen of the Snake and the Birds
- 5. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
- 6. The Heroism of Protesilaus
- 7. Beginning of the War
Story IV. The Quarrel of the Chiefs
- 1. The Wrath of Apollo
- 2. How Agamemnon Wronged Achilles
- 3. The Revenge of Achilles
- 4. The Dream of Agamemnon
- 5. Assembly of the Greeks
- 6. The Counsel of Ulysses
- 7. Preparation for the Battle
Story V. The Duel of Paris and Menelaus
- 1. The Challenge of Paris
- 2. The Combat
- 3. The Council of the Gods
- 4. The Broken Covenant
Story VI. The Combat of Hector and Ajax
- 1. The Message of Hector
- 2. The Parting of Hector and Andromache
- 3. The Challenge
- 4. The Casting of the Lots
- 5. The Combat
- 6. The Truce
Story VII. The Battle of the Plain
- 1. The Command of Zeus to the Gods
- 2. The Battle
- 3. The Speech of Hector
- 4. The Council of the Greeks
- 5. The Embassy to Achilles
- 6. The Answer of Achilles
Story VIII. The Deeds and Death of Patroclus
- 1. The Battle at the Ships
- 2. The Request of Patroclus
- 3. The Myrmidons March forth to Battle
- 4. The Death of Patroclus
- 5. The Grief of Achilles
- 6. How Achilles ended the Battle
Story IX. The Exploits of Achilles
- 1. The Making of the Armor for Achilles
- 2. The End of the Strife with Agamemnon
- 3. The Battle at the River
- 4. The Battle of the Gods
- 5. Achilles’ Pursuit of the False Agener
Story X. The Slaying of Hector
- 1. The Pursuit of Hector by Achilles
- 2. The Combat
- 3. Death of Hector
- 4. Grief of Andromache
- 5. The Funeral of Patroclus
- 6. The Funeral Games of the Greeks
- 7. The Ransoming of Hector
Story XI. The Fall of Troy
- 1. The Fate of Achilles
- 2. The Death of Paris
- 3. Capture of the Palladium
- 4. Stratagem of Ulysses
- 5. The Fate of Laocoön
- 6. Capture of Troy
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES
Story XII. Adventures of Ulysses with the Lotus-eaters and the Cyclops
- 1. Adventure with the Ciconians
- 2. The Lotus-eaters
- 3. The Land of the Cyclops
- 4. In the Cave of the Cyclops
- 5. The Blinding of Polyphemus
- 6. Escape of Ulysses and his Companions
Story XIII. The Kingdom of the Winds and the House of Circe
- 1. The Gift of Æolus
- 2. The Loosing of the Winds
- 3. Return to the Isle of Æolus
- 4. Adventure with the Læstrygones
- 5. The Wiles of Circe
Story XIV. The Visit to the “Land of the Shades”
- 1. The Offering for the Dead
- 2. The Warning of Tiresias the Seer
- 3. How Ulysses Conversed with his Mother and with Achilles and other Heroes
- 4. The Judging of the Dead
- 5. Return to Circe’s Isle.
Story XV. The Song of the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis and the Oxen of the Sun
- 1. Song of the Sirens
- 2. Escape from Scylla and Charybdis
- 3. Arrival at the Island of the Sun
- 4. The Slaying of the Sacred Kine
- 5. The Wrath of Hyperion
- 6. The Shipwreck
Story XVI. The Island of Calypso and the Shipwreck on the Coast of Phæacia
- 1. The Years on Calypso’s Isle
- 2. Minerva seeks aid for Ulysses from Jupiter
- 3. Mercury is sent with a Message to Calypso
- 4. Making of the Raft
- 5. Departure of Ulysses
- 6. The Tempest
- 7. Ulysses Cast on the Coast of Phæacia
Story XVII. The Princess Nausicaa
- 1. The Request of Nausicaa
- 2. The Games of the Maidens
- 3. Discovery of Ulysses
- 4. How Ulysses was Received in the Palace of Alcinous
- 5. The Festival
- 6. Return to Ithaca
- 7. Ulysses left asleep in his Native Shore
- 8. The Ship of the Phæacians changed to a Rock
Story XVIII. The Adventures of Telemachus
- 1. The Suitors of Penelope
- 2. Penelope’s Web
- 3. Visit of Minerva to Telemachus
- 4. Assembly of the Men of Ithaca
- 5. Departure of Telemachus in quest of Ulysses
- 6. Journey to Pylos and Sparta
- 7. Telemachus warned by Minerva to return to Ithaca
- 8. Conspiracy of the Suitors
- 9. Escape of Telemachus
Story XIX. The Battle of the Beggars
- 1. Awaking of Ulysses
- 2. Transformation into an Old Man
- 3. Meeting with Eumæus
- 4. Arrival of Telemachus
- 5. Eumæus conducts Ulysses to his Palace
- 6. The Dog Argus
- 7. The Beggars’ Quarrel
- 8. The End of the Feast
Story XX. The Triumph of Ulysses
- 1. Removal of the Weapons from the Hall
- 2. Interview with Penelope
- 3. The Scar of the Boar’s Tooth
- 4. The Last Banquet of the Suitors
- 5. The Trial of the Bow
- 6. Death of the Suitors
- 7. Recognition of Ulysses by Penelope