Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca / Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

fulfilment. She inspired Queen Helen with a growing discontent and restlessness of spirit. Menelaos had not noticed any change in he

of some urgent business, he did not hesitate to set sail for that island, in the expectation of fi

hey could lay hands on, and then they sailed for Troy. Little did he heed, in his mad desire to call the most beautiful woman in the world his wife, that

ife, he hastened back to Sparta, where he found

, Agamemnon, to consult with him about what was to be done. Agamemnon was ruler o

himself personally aggrieved and bound to help in the punishment of what, in those times, was considered the most unpardonable of all crimes. Only one of the kings held back for awhile and needed much persuasion to join the league. This was Odysseus of Ithaca, who could well consider himself at the time the hap

he would be kept away from his home for the space of twenty years, and even then return to it in the

Troy. Menelaos and his brother, however, would accept no excuse from him, as he was the wisest and craftiest of all the leaders, an

tis. Notwithstanding his extreme youth, his father would not disappoint the whole country, and he let him go with those who came for him. But he sent along with him his adopted son, Patroklos, who was several years older, and to whom the boy was passionately attached, and also his oldest and mo

ED THETIS RISIN

ll as his treasure and a suitable apology for the wrong done to him and to all Hellas. He chose for his companion the cunning Odysseus

the two Greek kings bravely denounced the mean act of Paris. But the Trojans, s