Stories from the Iliad

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Stories from the Iliad

Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales

Author: Jean Lang

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Language: English

Published by: Jazzybee Verlag

Published on: 12th July 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783849663780


Introduction

For two Greek boys the author has made this little book, which tells them in English some of the stories that they soon will read for themselves in the tongue of their forefathers.

Universal Appeal

But the stories are not only for boys whose fatherland lies near the sunny sea through which ships, red-prowed and black, fared in the long-ago days. Of such great deeds, by such brave men, do they tell, that they must make the hearts of all American and English boys, and of boys of every nation under the sun, grow big within them.

Inspiration from Greek Tales

And when, in the gallant-sounding music of the Greek tongue in which the tales first were told, these boys read the story of the Siege of Troy, they must surely long to fight as fought the Greeks in days of old, and long to be heroes such as those who fought and who died without fear for the land that they loved.

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