Transcriber’s Note
The first instance of some proper nouns includes one or more accentedcharacters to indicate pronunciation, although subsequent occurrencesof the same proper noun have no accents. These are all preserved asprinted.
The original book included some instances of characters with an up tackabove. As the up tack above character is not available, this e-bookinstead uses a grave above, e.g. à, è, ì, ò, ù, etc., as no grave accentswere used in the original.
The "Pronouncing Vocabulary of Proper Names" at the end of the bookcontains an extensive range of accented characters. These include:
characters with macron above, Ā, ā, Ē, ē, Ī, ī, ō, ū, ȳ, Ǣ, ǣ, œ̄, Œ̅
characters with breve above, Ă, ă, Ĕ, ĕ, Ĭ, ĭ, Ŏ, ŏ, ŭ, y̆, Œ̆, Æ̆, æ̆
characters with inverted breve below, a̯, e̯, o̯
characters with dot above, Ȧ, ȧ, ġ
characters with tilde above, Ẽ, ẽ, ĩ, ỹ
upper and lower case a with diaresis below, A̤, a̤
upper and lower case æ with grave above, Æ̀ and æ̀
upper and lower case c with midline, Ꞓ and ꞓ
lower case n with line below, ṉ
upper and lower case œ with grave above, Œ̀ and œ̀
s with up tack below, s̝
lower case u with dot below, ụ
y with grave above, ỳ
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BY
R. E. FRANCILLON
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AUTHORIZED AMERICAN EDITION
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GINN & COMPANY
BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON
Copyright, 1894
By R. E. FRANCILLON
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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The Athenæum Press
GINN & COMPANY · PROPRIETORS
BOSTON · U.S.A.
TO
Francis Felix
FOR WHOM
THIS BOOK WAS BEGUN
THESE stories will, I trust, explain their own purpose;but a few words touching their form aredue to critical readers.
It will be seen that the Mythology adopted throughoutis strictly of the old-fashioned kind which goes toOvid as its leading authority, and ignores the differencebetween the gods of Greece and the gods of Rome. Ihave deliberately followed this plan because, while thereis not the remotest fear—quite the contrary—thatyoung people, when or if they become scholars, willnot be duly initiated into the mysteries of scientific andcomparative mythology, there is considerable dangerthat the stories of the gods and heroes which havesaturated literature, and have become essential portionsof the thought and life of ages, may become explainedaway only too thoroughly. It is easy for my readersto acquire the science of the subject hereafter; butwhere mythology is concerned, the poetry must comebefore the prose, and it will be a distinct loss for themif, under scientific teaching, they have never beenfamiliar with the ancient stories as they were read bythe makers of literature in the præ-critical times.Without the mythology of the Latin poets, modernliterature in all languages becomes almost a dea