The Heroes: Greek Fairy Tales
- ISBN-10
- 0359919715
- ISBN-13
- 9780359919710
- Series
- The Heroes
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-09-15
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
Description
Some of you have heard already of the old Greeks; and all of you, as you grow up, will hear more and more of them. Those of you who are boys will, perhaps, spend a great deal of time in reading Greek books; and the girls, though they may not learn Greek, will be sure to come across a great many stories taken from Greek history, and to see, I may say every day, things which we should not have had if it had not been for these old Greeks. You can hardly find a well-written book which has not in it Greek names, and words, and proverbs; you cannot walk through a great town without passing Greek buildings; you cannot go into a well-furnished room without seeing Greek statues and ornaments, even Greek patterns of furniture and paper; so strangely have these old Greeks left their mark behind them upon this modern world in which we now live.
