Gods and Heroes; or, The Kingdom of Jupiter. R. E. Francillon

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       R. E. Francillon

      Gods and Heroes; or, The Kingdom of Jupiter

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       SATURN.

       JUPITER AND JUNO.

       PART I.—THE GODS AND THE GIANTS.

       PART II.—THE FIRST MAN; OR, THE STORY OF PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA.

       PART III.—THE GREAT FLOOD; OR, THE STORY OF DEUCALION.

       APOLLO.

       PART I.—THE STORIES OF LATONA AND NIOBE.

       PART II.—THE FLAYED PIPER; OR, THE STORY OF MARSYAS.

       PART III.—TOO MUCH GOLD; OR, THE FIRST STORY OF MIDAS.

       PART IV.—THE CRITIC; OR, THE SECOND STORY OF MIDAS.

       PART V.—SOME FLOWER STORIES.

       PART VI.—PRESUMPTION; OR, THE STORY OF PHAËTHON.

       DIANA; AND THE STORY OF ORION.

       MINERVA; OR, WISDOM.

       VENUS.

       PART I.—THE GOD OF FIRE.

       PART II.—LOVE AND THE SOUL; OR, THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE.

       MERCURY AND IRIS.

       NEPTUNE.

       HADES.

       PART I.—THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE DEAD.

       PART II.—THE KINGDOM.

       PART III.—ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.

       PART IV.—THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED.

       THE ADVENTURES OF PERSEUS.

       THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

       A LOST SECRET.

       THE CHAMPION OF ATHENS.

       THE HERO OF HEROES.

       PART I.—THE ORACLE.

       PART II.—HIS FIRST LABOR: THE LION.

       PART III.—HIS SECOND LABOR: THE HYDRA.

       PART IV.—HIS THIRD LABOR: THE STAG.

       PART V.—HIS FOURTH LABOR: THE BOAR.

       PART VI.—HIS FIFTH LABOR: THE AUGEAN STABLE.

       PART VII.—MORE LABORS: AND THE CATTLE OF GERYON.

       PART VIII.—HIS ELEVENTH LABOR: THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES.

       PART IX.—HIS TWELFTH LABOR: THE DESCENT INTO HADES.

       PART X.—THE CHOICE OF HERCULES.

       PART XI.—THE TUNIC OF NESSUS.

       THE APPLE OF DISCORD.

       PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES.

PREFACE.

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      THESE stories will, I trust, explain their own purpose; but a few words touching their form are due to critical readers.

      It will be seen that the Mythology adopted throughout is strictly of the old-fashioned kind which goes to Ovid as its leading authority, and ignores the difference between the gods of Greece and the gods of Rome. I have deliberately followed this plan because, while there is not the remotest fear—quite the contrary—that young people, when or if they become scholars, will not be duly initiated into the mysteries of scientific and comparative mythology, there is considerable danger that the stories of the gods and heroes which have saturated literature, and have become essential portions of the thought and life of ages, may become explained away only too thoroughly. It is easy for my readers to acquire the science of the subject hereafter; but where mythology is concerned, the poetry must come before the prose, and