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Excerpt from Classic Tales by Famous Authors: Containing Complete Selections From the World's Best Authors With Prefatory Biographical and Synoptical Notes
From the vague Greek mythology the Rev. G. W. Cox has drawn the diverse materials from which he has woven this story of the parentage, birth and doings of the god Apollo; how he left Delos, his early home, and made his shrine in Parnassus; how he and his sister, Artemis, smote the fourteen beautiful sons and daughters of Niobe, who had boasted that her children were fairer than Apollo and Artemis, the children of Leto; how Apollo loved and pursued the nymph Daphne, who escaped his grasp by becoming a beautiful bush; how he loved and wedded Kyrene; and how Hermes, the thief - god, stole Apollo's cattle and thereafter became his friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
