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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...So the matter which had bade fair to be so disastrous for a good many people turned out very well after all. Apollo returned to Mount Olympus when the period of his exile on the earth was up and he delighted the Muses much with the sweet tones of his lyre. He even pleaded with his father, Jupiter, to take pity on Aesculapius and the god at last made a place for the physician on the road of stars that leads across the sky. HOW JUPITER GRANTED A WISH. Each of the villagers in a town of Phrygia heard a knock at the door of his cottage one summer day in the long-ago time of the myths. Each, on opening it, saw two strangers, weary travellers, who sought food and a shelter for the night. It was a part of the temple teachings that a man should succor a stranger, no matter how humble, but these Phrygians were a pleasureloving, careless people, neglectful of hospitality and of their temple, even, which had fallen into decay. So it happened that the same retort met the strangers at whatever door they stopped. "Be off I We have only sufficient food for ourselves and no room for any but members of our own family." There was not a single door but was shut in the faces of these travellers. The afternoon was passing and it would soon be dusk. The strangers, tired and half famished, climbed a hill on the edge of the village and came at last upon a little cottage set there among the trees. It was a very poor and humble cottage, thatched with straw, and barely large enough for the two old peasants, Philemon and his wife, Baucis, who lived there. But it opened at once when the strangers knocked to let in the two strangers. "We have come to-day from a far country," the one who seemed to be the older of the two explained. "And we have not touched food s...Hide synopsis
Wonder Stories the Best Myths for Boys and Girls (Kessinger Publishing) – Hardcover (2010)
by
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hardcover, Kessinger Publishing 2010
English
346 pages
ISBN: 1163340367 ISBN-13: 9781163340363
1920. Illustrated. Some of the stories included in this volume are: How the Myths Began; What Became of the Giants; How Orion Found His Sight; The Wonders Venus Wrought; How Mars Lost a Battle; Cadmus, the Alphabet King; The Horn of Plenty; When Apollo was Herdsman; How Hyacinthus Became a Flower; A Little Errand Girl's New Dress; When Proserpine was Lost; How a Huntress Became a Bear; Medea's Cauldron; How a Wooden Horse Won a War; and others. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.1920. Illustrated. Some of the stories included in this volume are: How the Myths Began; What Became of the Giants; How Orion Found His Sight; The Wonders Venus Wrought; How Mars Lost a Battle; Cadmus, the Alphabet King; The Horn of Plenty; When Apollo was Herdsman; How Hyacinthus Became a Flower; A Little Errand Girl's New Dress; When Proserpine was Lost; How a Huntress Became a Bear; Medea's Cauldron; How a Wooden Horse Won a War; and others. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Hide
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