The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children  (Unabridged)

The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children (Unabridged)

Title: The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children (Unabridged)
Author: Charles Kingsley
Release: 2024-03-18
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Charles Kingsley
This is Kingsley's masterful retelling of the Greek stories about their Heroes and in a manner suitable for children. "why have I called this book ‘The Heroes’? Because that was the name which the Hellens gave to men who were brave and skilful, and dare do more than other men. At first, I think, that was all it meant: but after a time it came to mean something more; it came to mean men who helped their country; men in those old times, when the country was half-wild, who killed fierce beasts and evil men, and drained swamps, and founded towns, and therefore after they were dead, were honoured, because they had left their country better than they found it. And we call such a man a hero in English to this day, and call it a ‘heroic’ thing to suffer pain and grief, that we may do good to our fellow-men."

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