The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

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Publisher's Synopsis

Once upon a time there were two princes who were twins. Their names were Acrisius and Pr tus, and they lived in the pleasant vale of Argos, far away in Hellas. They had fruitful meadows and vineyards, sheep and oxen, great herds of horses feeding down in Lerna Fen, and all that men could need to make them blest: and yet they were wretched, because they were jealous of each other. From the moment they were born they began to quarrel; and when they grew up each tried to take away the other's share of the kingdom, and keep all for himself. So first Acrisius drove out Pr tus; and he went across the seas, and brought home a foreign princess for his wife, and foreign warriors to help him, who were called Cyclopes; and drove out Acrisius in his turn; and then they fought a long while up and down the land, till the quarrel was settled, and Acrisius took Argos and one half the land, and Pr tus took Tiryns and the other half. And Pr tus and his Cyclopes built around Tiryns great walls of unhewn stone, which are standing to this day."

Book information

ISBN: 9781490972978
Publisher: On Demand Publishing, LLC-Create Space
Imprint: Createspace
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Language: English
Number of pages: 86
Weight: 127g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 5mm