The Story of Greece, Told to Boys and Girls
By Mary Macgregor
Length10h 58m
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Excerpt: "The story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and onward into the beautiful land. Sometimes indeed no path was needed, for the rivers, woods, and lone hill-sides were themselves the wonderland of which I am going to tell. In the woods and winds, in the trees and rivers, dwelt the gods and goddesses whom the people of long ago worshipped. It was their presence in the world that made it so great, so wide, so wonderful. To the Hellenes, for that is the name by which the Greeks called themselves, there were eyes, living eyes in flowers, trees, and water. 'So crowded full is the air with them,' wrote one poet who lived in the far-off days, 'that there is no room to put in the spike of an ear of corn without touching one.' When the wind blew soft, the Hellenes listened to the whispering of a voice. When it blew rough, and snatched one of the children from their midst, they did not greatly grieve. The child had but gone to be the playmate of the gods. The springs sparkled clear, for in them dwelt the Naiads or freshwater nymphs, with gifts as great as the river gods, who were ofttimes seen and heard amid the churning, tossing waters. In the trees dwelt the Dryads, nymphs these of the forest,2 whom the Hellenes saw but seldom. Shy nymphs were the Dryads, born each one at the birth of a tree, in which she dwelt, fading away when the tree was felled, or when it withered and died. Their revels were held in some wooded mountain, far from the haunts of men. Were a human footfall heard, the frolics ceased on the instant, while each Dryad sped swift for shelter to the tree of her birth. So the gods wandered through the land, filling the earth with their presence. Yet there was one lofty mountain in central Greece, named Mount Olympus, which the Hellenes believed was the peculiar home of the gods. It was to this great mount that the actual roads on which the Hellenes walked each day seemed ever to lead."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length10 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I WONDERLAND
2CHAPTER II THE GREAT GOD PAN
3CHAPTER III THE SIX POMEGRANATE SEEDS
4CHAPTER IV THE BIRTH OF ATHENE
5CHAPTER V THE TWO WEAVERS
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6CHAPTER VI THE PURPLE FLOWERS
7CHAPTER VII DANAE AND HER LITTLE SON
8CHAPTER VIII THE QUEST OF PERSEUS
9CHAPTER IX ANDROMEDA AND THE SEA-MONSTER
10CHAPTER X ACRISIUS IS KILLED BY PERSEUS
11CHAPTER XI ACHILLES AND BRISEIS THE FAIRCHEEKED
12CHAPTER XII MENELAUS AND PARIS DO BATTLE
13CHAPTER XIII HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE
14CHAPTER XIV THE HORSES OF ACHILLES
15CHAPTER XV THE DEATH OF HECTOR
16CHAPTER XVI POLYPHEMUS THE GIANT
17CHAPTER XVII ODYSSEUS ESCAPES FROM THE CAVE
18CHAPTER XVIII ODYSSEUS RETURNS TO ITHACA
19CHAPTER XIX ARGUS THE HOUND DIES
20CHAPTER XX THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS
21CHAPTER XXI THE LAND OF HELLAS
22CHAPTER XXII LYCURGUS AND HIS LITTLE NEPHEW
23CHAPTER XXIII LYCURGUS RETURNS TO SPARTA
24CHAPTER XXIV THE TRAINING OF THE SPARTANS
25CHAPTER XXV THE HELOTS
26CHAPTER XXVI ARISTOMENES AND THE FOX
27CHAPTER XXVII THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
28CHAPTER XXVIII THE LAST KING OF ATHENS
29CHAPTER XXIX CYLON FAILS TO MAKE HIMSELF TYRANT
30CHAPTER XXX SOLON FREES THE SLAVES
31CHAPTER XXXI THE ATHENIANS TAKE SALAMIS
32CHAPTER XXXII PISISTRATUS BECOMES TYRANT
33CHAPTER XXXIII HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON
34CHAPTER XXXIV THE LAW OF OSTRACISM
35CHAPTER XXXV THE BRIDGE OF BOATS
36CHAPTER XXXVI DARIUS REWARDS HISTIAEUS
37CHAPTER XXXVII HISTIAEUS SHAVES THE HEAD OF HIS SLAVE
38CHAPTER XXXVIII SARDIS IS DESTROYED
39CHAPTER XXXIX THE SANDAL SEWN BY HISTIAEUS
40CHAPTER XL DARIUS DEMANDS EARTH AND WATER
41CHAPTER XLI THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
42CHAPTER XLII MILTIADES SAILS TO THE ISLAND OF PAROS
43CHAPTER XLIII ARISTIDES IS OSTRACISED
44CHAPTER XLIV THE DREAM OF XERXES
45CHAPTER XLV XERXES ORDERS THE HELLESPONT TO BE SCOURGED
46CHAPTER XLVI ‘THE BRAVEST MEN OF ALL HELLAS’
47CHAPTER XLVII THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE
48CHAPTER XLVIII THE BATTLE OF ARTEMISIUM
49CHAPTER XLIX THEMISTOCLES URGES EURYBIADES TO STAY AT SALAMIS
50CHAPTER L THEMISTOCLES TRICKS THE ADMIRALS
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