The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
By Charles Kingsley
Length4h 55m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "My dear children, Some of you have heard already of the old Greeks; and all of you, as you grow up, will hear more and more of them. Those of you who are boys will, perhaps, spend a great deal of time in reading Greek books; and the girls, though they may not learn Greek, will be sure to come across a great many stories taken from Greek history, and to see, I may say every day, things which we should not have had if it had not been for these old Greeks. You can hardly find a well-written book which has not in it Greek names, and words, and proverbs; you cannot walk through a great town without passing Greek buildings; you cannot go into a well-furnished room without seeing Greek statues and ornaments, even Greek patterns of furniture and paper; so strangely have these old Greeks left their mark behind them upon this modern world in which we now live. And as you grow up, and read more and more, you will find that we owe to these old Greeks the beginners of all our mathematics and geometry—that is, the science and knowledge of numbers, and of the shapes of things, and of the forces which make things move and stand at rest; and the beginnings of our geography and astronomy; and of our laws, and freedom, and politics—that is, the science of how to rule a country, and make it peaceful and strong. And we owe to them, too, the beginning of our logic—that is, the study of words and of reasoning; and of our metaphysics—that is, the study of our own thoughts and souls. And last of all, they made their language so beautiful that foreigners used to take to it instead of their own; and at last Greek became the common language of educated people all over the old world, from Persia and Egypt even to Spain and Britain. And therefore it was that the New Testament was written in Greek, that it might be read and understood by all the nations of the Roman empire; so that, next to the Jews, and the Bible which the Jews handed down to us, we owe more to these old Greeks than to any people upon earth."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length4 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
11PART III HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP ‘ARGO’ IN IOLCOS
2STORY I.—PERSEUS
12PART IV HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS
3PART I HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS
13PART V HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE UNKNOWN SEA
4PART II HOW PERSEUS VOWED A RASH VOW
14PART VI WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES
5PART III HOW PERSEUS SLEW THE GORGON
15STORY III.—THESEUS
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6PART IV HOW PERSEUS CAME TO THE ÆTHIOPS
16PART I HOW THESEUS LIFTED THE STONE
7PART V HOW PERSEUS CAME HOME AGAIN
17PART II HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN
8STORY II.—THE ARGONAUTS
18PART III HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR
9PART I HOW THE CENTAUR TRAINED THE HEROES ON PELION
19PART IV HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE
10PART II HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS
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