Show T IS the tenth year since troy wo v has IT fallen though tile the niad iliad did no not t po go beyond the death of hector at achilles hands other stories carried on tile the tale through the death of achilles the capture of troy by the greeks by means of the strate gela of the wooden horse the sacking and burning of the city the death of priam and his queen the slavery of Andro macle which alch hector had forer in the slaughter of tile the little son I 1 ILI 0 loved so dearly the escape of aneas with his aged father after the booty had been divided 1 e greek chiefs took leisurely courses to their homes the great king aga demnon sent seat his dramatic night tvr announcing to his queen at home I 1 iv y the light of flames leaping from 1111 li altop top to hilltop across the sea that troy kad had fallen for his pains he met me lie dramatic death tit at the hand of aln queen which aescht jus us has made mace forever famous in ills his great reat play agamemnon the latter akas has la in it the beginning of the story of orestes the close greek counterpart of 11 hamlet amlet the kings brother brothe r menelaus Me nelam laus had better fortune lie ho had journeyed bom homeward award with his erstwhile queen helen its 09 if the great t trojan episode lidid never been nd and wat ana reigning again in pence peace and ana quiet with the ithe worlds desire by his side at sparta with no dread of a maraud ing paris sent on the quest of beauty aby aphrodite and so too the other princes had returned with varying for fortunes funes lint but not so the great adventurer troy bad taken ten years to capture ten tea years more still found the wily odysseas Odys sens detained in the isle of by the fair calypso meanwhile the patient penelope bides at home beset by alie riotous suitors who intake liberty hall of the tha absent kings kinds palace and would force the queen to wed ono one of thera them she ever as alert end resourceful ns as her wandering wande lord puts off her promise till she ahe hits has vyven a web of which she each night tiar unravels avels what she has done dome during the day this ahl 9 first great story of wandering vid adventure venture hits has it much more perfect unity than the iliad it centers closely about the person of Odys odysseus sms and divides itself into three parta part q the adventures of echus in quest of odysseus dys seus the wan wanderings derins of the hero and tits his return home where with the few still faithful to him he makes his own detective detect ive lays lay a the scene for the destruction of the villains and finally brings brines about the emppy ending which b has so constantly as distressed critics of the novel end and the theater sinco man began to write and ordinary folk to listen or to rend read in the first chapter which comprises th the first four books of 0 the young oung amidst amid st the mockery of tile the suitors starts in quest of tits father aind makes the rounda of the courts court s of our old friend nestor king biting of aylos aud and of menelous Men Alene elnus laus and helen at sparta where lie he learns the whereabouts of his father and then starts homeward at this moment it la 19 at last made possible odysseus to start on his bis way var home hut but the sm sea ever his enemy again plays him false he more though he be I 1 la te a wrecked once cast ashore on the land of tho clans s there begins la in the land 0 this fabulous folk one of the moat anost mar belons adventures of the tria man of marvela a probably the scene ahn that t remains 1 l in the mands of the grent great majority of renders readers of greek literature as the tn fairest rest bit of idealized beauty in it nit nil Is the picture of the young princess S io lind had goner gone down to the river mouth month with will her handmaidens hand maidens to wash linen their work done they fell to playing bull ball upon the shore where odysseus beneath the shade of the bu hushes was sleeping off oe the weary travail of his long swim then the n having bathed and anointed themselves sleekly with olive oil they took their anent by the banks of the river ond and waited for the clethra clo thes to dry in the bright rays of the sun and w alien 0 n they and cheered themselves I 1 th food maids and mistress alike they began to play ball casting aside their veils and for thorn them fair armed nau lena began the song As artemis the archer goddess goeth down from a mountain either lofty Tay getus or Ery manthus taking her sport with boars baars and swift leer deer and with her tilt the wood nymphs sport daughters of begir bearing zeus zen nad and leto rejoiced in heart and over all she goldeth head and brows brow s rind easy to mark la is slie she though all be fair so was the unwed mald maid conspicuous among her attendants the days work and the sport were over they were about to depart and leave the weary sleeper under the I 1 bublies 10 ashes when one last throw sent the ball spinning into the witter water instant annl unanimous scream from princess and from malast so so odysseus was introduced to Phae rhae acla acin and the introduction action proved well that the hero knew not only the ways of men but of maids as well of the many pleasing things lie said eald to the princess to win her favor one stands out conspicuous his comparison on 0 of f her perfect youth to the young shoot of a palm tree he had seen in delos whoever hits bus a gardeners eye ee knows instantly the perfect tribute then followed the presentation of the royal roval wanderer st at the court of king hing alcinous and queen arete ana ani the tale of his adventures since leaving calypsos isle the king Is moved rind and promises to help the stranger on tits his way A feast Is held the couie cour bard sings of troy the st stran rangel gei weeps the king hing presses him to tell his story it was a wondrous tale ho hn lind had to tell the like of which was never heard before or since begin ning with the fall of troy lie had mado made his course to thrace to the lie lotus eaters to the land of the cyclops when befell tile the adventure with whose one eye lie he put out nex next t the trying experience with the perverse winds of aeolus with the and with the enchantress circe who turned her vis igors into swine then cuine came the descent to hades which set the fashion for virgil and for dante and all the others who have essayed that great nd adventure venture the sirens scylla and and other adventures brought the tale tip to calypso once onca more alcinous and the Phaen clans sent odysseus on his way to tits home nt at ithaca but his old enemy Po poseidon eldon turned the ship chip to stone and the wanderer reached home alone in the tha guise of an old be gearman where ha be arrived as his son was returning from his travels then began the thrilling tale of the tha wiles and guiles to win hla his own from the suitors who had taken his place the harbor of refuge with faithful old 1 Eu macus the swineherd swine herd the recognition by the death il if tho the true old dog argos on sight ochla long absent roaster master the interview int with penelope the recognition by his old nurse who knows him by a sear scar upon n ills lit leg the lenal great trial of strength streng th betic cn the old and tin the sul suitors they cannot even bend the famous bow of Eury tua he be however po wever i r strings it with ease and sends an i arrow singing through the holes oi of twelve battle axes set up one behind another at that instant the begg armav throws oft off his disguise and with telmachus machus and only two faithful follow I 1 ers era slays the evil suitors wins wing back bach his true wife who has waited patient ly all these long years and hastens hastena to t greet his old father laertes impossible romance I 1 dare my any yet one of the most human ever told Cipy copyright right IRS by the post poat co tho the boston post copyright in n thu the united kang dom the dominions Domini 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