THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS AND THE TALE OF TROY

BY PADRAIC COLUM

PRESENTED BY WILLY POGANY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED. PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1918.

REPRINTED JUNE, OCTOBER, 1919; OCTOBER, 1920; AUGUST, 1922; MARCH, 1923; MAY, 1924; JUNE, 1925; MARCH, 1926; DECEMBER, 1926; AUGUST, 1927.

Norwood Press: J.S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

FOR HUGHIE AND PETER THIS TELLING OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORY BECAUSE THEIR IMAGINATIONS RISE TO DEEDS AND WONDERS

CONTENTS

PART I

HOW TELEMACHUS THE SON OF ODYSSEUS WAS MOVED TO GO ON A VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER AND HOW HE HEARD FROM MENELAUS AND HELEN THE TALE OF TROY 1

PART II

HOW ODYSSEUS LEFT CALYPSO'S ISLAND AND CAME TO THE LAND OF THE PHAEACIANS; HOW HE TOLD HE FARED WITH THE CYCLÔPES AND WENT PAST THE TERRIBLE SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AND CAME TO THE ISLAND OF THRINACIA WHERE HIS MEN SLAUGHTERED THE CATTLE OF THE SUN; HOW HE WAS GIVEN A SHIP BY THE PHAEACIANS AND CAME TO HIS OWN LAND; HOW HE OVERTHREW THE WOOERS WHO WASTED HIS SUBSTANCE AND CAME TO REIGN AGAIN AS KING OF ITHAKA. 125

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COLOUR PLATES

The Judgement of ParisFrontispiece

FACING PAGE

The Fair Helen30

Achilles Victorious106

The Princess Threw the Ball138

The Sorrowing Odysseus148

Circe170

The Sirens176

Penelope Unravelling the Web221