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

. He told a skilful carpenter to build a wooden horse of gigantic size, and in it he hid the bravest Greek warriors. When he had done this he advised

t joy, thinking themselves well rid of an enemy. When the last ship had gone, the Trojans threw open the gates

eft there as a punishment, and that the wooden horse was an offering to the gods. The Trojans m

sses you? Do ye think the enemy gone? Do ye know Odysseus so little? There are Greek warriors hidden i

y Athena, rose from the sea, and sprang upon Laoco?n and his two sons, and, coiling around them, bit them to death. The Trojans, in great fear at the sight, took this as

a deep sleep, the ships of the Greeks, which had been hiding all the while behind a neighboring island, came back. The warriors who were concealed in the wooden horse sprang out

d Paris and many other heroes. The victory was to the Greeks. Troy fell never to ris

ous city of Troy, all on account of the crime which

es. But Zeus prepared a sad fate for them, because Ajax had violently dragged Cassandra, the beautiful daughter of Priam, from the altar of

us, noted for its mines; and he roved through other lands until he came to Egypt, where he wandered about for eight years, when he returned to Spa

memnon, who met his death in his own hou

ve land. Full of gratitude, he kissed the earth and wept

him, and there he met his death, entangled in a net which she threw over him, for she had not forgotten the loss of

who became ruler over the land, holding sway eight years, when

who wandered to the remotest part of the earth and learned the cust

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