HERAKLES THE HERO OF THEBES AND OTHER HEROES OF THE MYTH

Adapted from the Second Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

BY MARY E. BURT Author of “Literary Landmarks,” “Stories from Plato,” “Story of the German Iliad,” “The Child-Life Reading Study”; Editor of “The Cable Story Book,” “The Eugene Field Book”; Teacher in the John A. Browning School, New York City AND ZENAÏDE A. RAGOZIN Author of “The Story of Chaldea,” “The Story of Assyria,” Etc.; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of the American Oriental Society, of the Société Ethnologique of Paris, etc.

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1900

Copyright, 1900, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

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HERAKLES SLAYING A CENTAUR. (Giovanni Bologna.)

To SEVEN LITTLE GENTLEMEN WILLIE MACY REGGIE CHARLES LOUIS OLIVER GRISWOLD