Chapter I: Front Matter

STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND ROME

STORIES OF
OLD GREECE AND ROME

BY
EMILIE KIP BAKER

AUTHOR OF
"OUT OF THE NORTHLAND"

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1913,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO
FRANCES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN THE BEGINNING 1

II. THE STORY OF PANDORA 7

III. THE DELUGE 16

IV. MINERVA 22

V. APOLLO AND KING ADMETUS 30

VI. APOLLO THE MUSICIAN 36

VII. THE LOVE OF APOLLO 44

VIII. DIANA 53

IX. THE STORY OF ENDYMION 60

X. MERCURY 64

XI. VENUS 73

XII. THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE 81

XIII. FAMOUS LOVERS
1. Echo and Narcissus 93
2. Pyramus and Thisbe 97
3. Hero and Leander 100
4. Pygmalion and Galatea 104

XIV. THE STORY OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 107

XV. MARS AND VULCAN 115

XVI. THE STORY OF PROSERPINA 127

XVII. PLUTO AND THE UNDERWORLD 137

XVIII. NEPTUNE AND THE SEA-GODS 152

XIX. BACCHUS 167

XX. PAN AND THE NYMPHS 183

XXI. THE VESTALS 193

XXII. MINOR DEITIES
1. Æolus 200
2. Janus 204
3. Iris and Aurora 206
4. Vertumnus and Pomona 209

XXIII. HERCULES. Part I 212

XXIV. HERCULES. Part II 223

XXV. PERSEUS 235

XXVI. BELLEROPHON 251

XXVII. THE STORY OF JASON. Part I 262

XXVIII. THE STORY OF JASON. Part II 270

XXIX. THE CALYDONIAN HUNT 278

XXX. THESEUS. Part I 287

XXXI. THESEUS. Part II 295

XXXII. ŒDIPUS 306

XXXIII. THE APPLE OF DISCORD 317

ILLUSTRATIONS

Reading from Homer _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
Jupiter 6
Apollo Belvedere 30
Apollo and Daphne 46
Niobe 53
Diana of Versailles 56
Flying Mercury 64
Juno 73
Venus de Milo 78
Psyche 85
Charon and Psyche 91
Cupid and Psyche 92
Hero and Leander 104
Orpheus and Eurydice 112
The Abduction of Proserpina 127
The Three Fates 142
Fountain of Neptune 152
Faun 172
Vestals 193
Tuccia 196
Aurora 206
The Infant Hercules 212
Hercules and the Centaur 223
Hercules serving Omphale 230
Fortuna 232
Perseus 242
Medea 276
Cybele 286
Theseus 302
Œdipus and Antigone 312
Antigone and Ismene 315
Paris 320

GREEK AND ROMAN NAMES OF DEITIES

SATURN (CRONOS).
RHEA (CYBELE, OPS).
JUPITER (JOVE, ZEUS).
JUNO (HERA, HERE).
MINERVA (PALLAS, ATHENE).
APOLLO (PHŒBUS, SOL, HELIOS, PYTHEUS, CYNTHIUS).
DIANA (SELENE, ARTEMIS, PHŒBE, CYNTHIA).
VENUS (APHRODITE, DIONE, CYTHEREA).
MERCURY (HERMES, PSYCHOPOMPUS, ONEICOPOMPUS).
CUPID (EROS).
HEBE (JUVENTAS).
MARS (ARES).
VULCAN (HEPHÆSTUS).
NEPTUNE (POSEIDON).
PLUTO (HADES, DIS, ORCUS, AIDONEUS).
BACCHUS (DIONYSUS, LIBER).
CERES (DEMETER).
PROSERPINA (PERSEPHONE, CORA, PHEREPHATTA).
VESTA (HESTIA).
SOMNUS (HUPNOS).
MORS (THANATOS).
AURORA (EOS).
PAN (CONSENTES).
HERCULES (ALCIDES, HERACLES).

STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND ROME