Persephone of Eleusis: A Romance of Ancient Greece

by Clare Winger Harris

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Persephone of Eleusis
A Romance of Ancient Greece

by
CLARE WINGER HARRIS

1923
THE STRATFORD COMPANY, Publishers
Boston, Massachusetts

Copyright, 1923
The STRATFORD CO., Publishers
Boston, Mass.
The Alpine Press, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

Preface

In this tale of Greece in the fifth century B. C., fact and fiction are so closely intervolved that a detailed explanation of their respective boundaries would be both tedious and superfluous. Suffice it to say that I have with reluctance departed from history only when the narration of the personal affairs of the characters made it necessary to do so. The difficulty of accurate adherence to historical facts seems insuperable. C. W. H.