For two Greek boys have I made this little book, which tells them in English some of the stories that they soon will read for themselves in the tongue of their forefathers.

But the stories are not only for boys whose fatherland lies near the sunny sea through which ships, red-prowed and black, fared in the long-ago days.

Of such great deeds, by such brave men, do they tell, that they must make the hearts of all English boys, and of boys of every nation under the sun, grow big within them.

And when, in the gallant-sounding music of the Greek tongue in which the tales first were told, these boys read the story of the Siege of Troy, they must surely long to fight as fought the Greeks in days of old, and long to be heroes such as those who fought and who died without fear for the land that they loved.

JEANIE LANG.

CONTENTS

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The Story of what led to the Siege of Troy,[1]
Chap.
I.How Achilles and Agamemnon fell out,[6]
II.The Council,[17]
III.The Fight between Paris and Menelaus,[28]
IV.How Menelaus was wounded; and the Brave
Deeds of Diomedes,		[39]
V.Hector and Andromache,[53]
VI.The Fight between Hector and Ajax,[61]
VII.The Burning of the Dead; and the Battle of
the Plain,		[67]
VIII.The Message to Achilles,[79]
IX.The White Horses of Rhesus,[86]
X.The Fighting on the Plain,[97]
XI.How Patroclus Fought and Died,[103]
XII.The Rousing of Achilles,[111]

LIST OF PICTURES

Into the sleeping heart of Helen there came remembrance, [Frontispiece]
At page
Many were the heroes who sailed away from Greece, [4]
Achilles, fleetest of foot and bravest of all Greek
heroes,		 [8]
Mars, like a thunder-cloud, swept upwards through the
sky to Olympus,		 [52]
Agamemnon heard the sound of pipe and flute and
laughter of men, as the Trojans feasted and made
merry,		 [86]
The point of the spear flew over the left shoulder of
Patroclus,		 [108]
The making of the arms of Achilles, [112]
The shadow of Death came down upon Hector, [116]

THE STORY OF WHAT LED TO
THE SIEGE OF TROY