Illustrations : p. x p. xi ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE NIOBE, from the pediment in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence "To face title. NIOBE vainly attempting to shield from the shafts of Apollo the youngest of her sons. "Demidoff Collection" 13 ALCESTIS. The celebrated Strozzi Herakles. "Blacas Collection" 31 ATALANTA stopping...
Kassandra : p. 152 KASSANDRA. "LEAVE the children here with me, if indeed thou and the queen must return to the city. The sky is over-cast, and the god himself; Apollo the Far-darter, whom thou honourest, will care for them." It was the priest of Apollo in the ancient city of Thymbra who spoke, and he to whom...
Klytaemnestra : p. 69 KLYTAEMNESTRA. IN ancient days there dwelt in the fair valley of the Eurotas a noble king named Tyndareus. In his youth he had known sorrow and hardship, for he had been driven from lovely Lacedaemon, where he was born, and had wandered an exile as far as Aetolia, where Tydeus received him...
Laodameia : p. 162 LAODAMEIA. "O MY lord, the time is all too short! Consider how many need thy presence here; what plans for the happiness of the people and the improvement of the city must come to naught if thou goest. The people and the land are given into thy care by Zeus himself; thou canst not give them...
Iphigeneia : p. 135 IPHIGENEIA. AGAMEMNON, son of Atreus, king of men, raised above his brother kings to the proud supremacy of the host assembled at Aulis to chastise the traitor Paris and recover the lost wife of Menelaus, thought little of his own sins; least of all of that day when in his impetuous haste...
Notes : p. 169 NOTES. NOTE 1. Delos received Latona when she was persecuted by Hera, and no other land would give her shelter. Phoebus Apollo and Artemis, the twin deities, were born in the hospitable little island which was henceforth one of the principal seats of the worship of Phoebus, who is...
Penelope : p. 106 PENELOPE. PENELOPE, daughter of Ikarius, abode with her father at Lacedaemon, and was well content to know that, while her cousin Helen was wooed by kings and chiefs from Arcadia to remote Phthia, she was sought as wife by one man, Odysseus, son of Laertes, who, although Ithake, which w...
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Atalanta : p. 32 ATALANTA. "BEAR away the infant from my sight! I want no weeping girls. When thou bringest me a sturdy boy I will give thee thy freedom and much treasure beside, so that thou shalt be an object of envy to all thy gossips." It was Iasius of Arcadia who spake to Eriphyle, the prudent nurse...
Alcestis : p. 14 ALCESTIS. IN ancient days, when the life of men upon earth was simple, and when war and the chase were the occupation of the young, and the words of the aged were hearkened to like the oracles of the gods, there reigned in Iolchos a haughty king--Pelias, the son of Kretheus and Tyro--whose...
Niobe : p. 1 LIVES OF THE GREEK HEROINES. NIOBE. TO the boy Amphion, dwelling among the shepherds with his brother Zethus, through the crafty cruelty of their stepmother Dirc, came the gracious Hermes with a lyre like that which he gave to Phbus, his brother, to console him when banished from Olympus;...
Antigone : p. 48 ANTIGONE. THE honoured king, the darling of his people, the saviour of the city is fallen, worse than dead, lower than slavery! The woes he called down on the man whose crimes had brought the wrath of the gods on Thebes have lighted on his own head, for he, alas! he, the princely Oedipus, is...
Helene : p. 93 HELENE. HELENE of the flowing robe, the loveliest woman of her time, and the cause of bitterest woe to many gallant men and true-hearted women. Who can picture the sweetness and beauty of form and face which gathered the Achaean princes from Messene to remote Phthia to the court of Tyndareus...
Preface : p. vi p. vii PREFACE. A LITTLE book bearing as its title "Lives of the Greek Heroines" seems scarcely to require a word of introduction. The women who have been made famous by the genius of Homer, of Aeschylus, and of Sophocles, have so stamped their noble and vigorous nature into the literature...
Title Page : p. iii LIVES OF THE GREEK HEROINES. BY LOUISA MENZIES, AUTHOR OF "LEGENDARY TALES OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS." LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. [1880] "The right of translation is reserved". NIOBE Title Page NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , June 2005. Proofed and Formatted by...
