<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">51<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Helen</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US">Helen was the most beautiful woman of the world</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">She was an infamous lady</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">She lighted the flames of the Trojan war and brought extreme destruction on the city ofTroy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen was the daughter of Zeus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen's matchless beauty and charms drew towards her many heroes from all parts of Greece.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">When still small she was carried off by Theseus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">who wished to have a divine wife </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">But she was rescued later by her brother Castor</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and brought back to her native land</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Her stepfather married her to Menelaus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">king of Sparta</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Nothing of importance had happened to her married life until Paris came to visit Sparta</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen was attracted by Paris' lovelyface</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">They stole one another's love in the absence of Menelausand then eloped on board a ship to Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen left her young daughter behind</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">To get Helen back</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the Greek army sailedacross and laid a long siege to the city of Troy </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Helen was quietly weaving her story into a web of goldencarpet one day when she was called up the city walls of Troy tolook at the fighting between Menelaus and Paris</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Menelaus was determined to kill Paris in the battle</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Sitting by the side of King Priam</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">she told the chiefs of the Greek side to him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Tears of love filled up her eyes when she saw her first husband down below</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">After Paris fled the field she had the feelings of love and scorn</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">She encouraged Hector and Paris to take the field again and sincerely mourned the death of the true hero Hector. But whenOdysseus and Diomedes came in disguise to steal the Palladium</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">she helped them to do so as much as she could</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">After Paris diedin battle she became the wife of another son of Priam</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">In the meantime Menelaus was anxiously searching for Helen in the ruined palaces of Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Aphrodite had made Helenmore beautiful</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">so that</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">when he finally found her trembling in acorner</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Menelaus was most unwilling to bring his sword downon her charming face</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Menelaus felt secretly overjoyed to have his wife back again</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Following Menelaus through the ruins of the city</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen felt ashamed of her impure behaviour</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">And she was truly scared at the terrible fate she was to have in the Greek Camp</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Once more her beauty saved her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">No one could bring him self to thrust his sword into such a charming and graceful lady</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">In the tent of Menelaus she threw herself at the feet of the Spartanking</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">asking for forgiveness </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Moved by the scene</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Menelaushelped her up and let her forget the past</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He held her in his armswhile she had tears of grief and happiness</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The pair loved eachother like before and vanished in the far west</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">52<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Theseus</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US">Just as Heracles was the chief hero of Peloponnesus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">soTheseus was the most famous halfgod of Attlca</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">His father was king Aegeus of Athens and his mother a princessof Troezen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">When he was still an infant his father left him in thecare of his mother<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>and went back to his own kingdom</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Before he left</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Aegeus buried his sword and sandals under a hugestone</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and told his mother to direct him to Athens as soon as he was big enough to lift the rock and take the hidden gifts with him. At the age of sixteen he became a strong young man</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">intelligent and with lots of nerve</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Taking the sword from under the rock</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he joyfully set out to look for his father</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">It was a journey of adventures</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">But he cleared the roads of various monsters hemet and appeared harmless in his father's palace at Athens</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Little did he suspect that here would be an attempt on his life there</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">King Aegeus had recently married Medea</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">a bad woman</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">She was anxious to have the Athenian throne<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>for her own child. She had persuaded the king to poison the newcomer at a feast</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">As the feast was in progress</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">King Aegeus saw Theseus' sword and recognized his son in the young man </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Quickly pushing the poisoned cup aside</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he took his son in his arms and declared himhis successor</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Thus troubled by her own evil designs</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Mede fledin her dragondrawn carriage</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">never to return</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">for a time Theseus stayed with his father at Athens</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">When the Cretan bull escaped into the area of Marathon he set out alone to fight with thebeast and offered it up as a sacrifice to the gods</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">At this time the clty of Athens was bothered by the respectit had promised to pay to King Minos of Crete </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The Cretanshad come to attack Athens</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and the gods had ordered that the Athenians would have to meet the demand of the and Cretan king that seven boys and seven girls be sent to Crete every year to feed the half man</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">half bull Minotaur</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Determined to kill the Minotaur and save his people from further grief</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">The seus decided to go asone of the fourteen chosen victims</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Before he left he promised his father that if he succeeded in his work he would change the black sails of his ships to white ones</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He went</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and with the help of princess Ariadne of Crete</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he killed the Minotaur and carried the Princess with him on his way back</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">At Naxos he left the girl in her own care</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">For when he neared Athens he forgot to put up the promised white sails</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and his anxious father</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">standing on a hill-top</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">saw the black sails</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">threw himself down into the sea in despair</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">So stricken with grief was The seus that he never recovered from regret</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He succeeded his father as king</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and introduced many good measures to improve the life of his people</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">To rid his kingdom of the threat by the Amazons</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he led an expedition into the woman country and took its queen prisoner</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The queen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Antiope by name</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">ws in fact so passionately in love with him that she agreed to marry him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">At a later date the Amazons came to lay attack on Athens on the excuse of recovering their queen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">In the battle that followed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the queen was wounded by a chance arrow and died</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">leaving Theseus a sad widower</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Theseus' friendship with Pirithous</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">king of the Lapithae</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">grew from a dramatic beginning</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Pirithous was invading Attica and The seus was marching his men out to meet him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> In the first personal encounter between the two heroes each was so filled with admiration for the other that they both laid down their weapons and became faithful friends</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">At the wedding of Pirithous</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">to which Theseus and Heracleswere invited</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">a number of horsemen present were angry with the shining beauty of the bride</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">so that they attempted to take herby force</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Both The seus and Heracles were enraged at their wildbehaviour </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">In what was known as the coldblooded fight between the horsemen and the Lapithae they beat the horsemen and saved the bride</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">But she did not have long to live</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Both The seus and Pirithous were full of the ambition of marrying a lady of holy birth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">At one time they got Helen by force</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">she was the beautiful daughter of Zeus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but as she was not yet of marriageable age</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">The seus left her with his mother</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Later she was rescued by her brothers</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Castor and Pollux</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Soproud were the two friends that they were now planning to invade the lower world and carry Persephone up by force</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">for Pirithous was eager for her beauty</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">They went</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but they found it impossible to get out again</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> One of them</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Pirithous</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">was bound toa turning wheel while The seus himself was chained to a rock</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">If it had not been for Heracles</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">who came in for Cerberus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Theseus would never have been able to return to the upper air again</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">When he returned to Athens he was quite old and unhappy with life</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">As king he acted like a tyrant<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>and went successfully away from his people</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He was sent away to the island of Scyros</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">where he fell into sea from a cliff</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Nothing more was heard ofhim until the battle of Marathon centuries later</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">When the Athenians saw a mighty soldier leading them in their ruthless attackagainst the invading Persians</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">they recognized him as The seus and after the war they devoted a grand temple to his memory and offered sacrifice at his altar</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">53<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Hermes And Argus</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Argus was a watchman with a hundred eyes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">set in a circleall around his head</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">When he slept</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he closed only two eyes at a time</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">the other ninetyeight were always wideopen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">So it could not have been easy to steal away anything that Argus was watching</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Now it happened that Hera</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the wife of Zeus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">was very jealous of a beautiful rivernymph</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">called Io</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Zeus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">in order to saveIo from the jealous anger of Hera</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">changed her into a whiteheifer </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Hera</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">suspecting that the white heifer was really Io</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">setArgus with his hundred eyes to watch her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Poor Io was very unhappy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Her father</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> the rivergod</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">did not know her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">neither did her sisternymphs</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">but they used topat the white heifer and give it grass from their hands</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> At last Iowrote her name with her hoof in the sands of the river bank</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and then her father and sisters knew that the pretty white heifer was their own Io</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">She had no sooner revealed herself to her family in this way than Argus drove her away to a field that lay far back from theriver </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">where the rivergod and the nymphs could not come</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and then set himself down on the top of a high hill</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">meaning to watch her more closely than ever</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Zeus felt sorry for Io</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">still he did not dare to change herback into her natural form<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>while Argus was watching her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> But remembering how Hermes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">when he was less than a day old</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">had stolen away the cattle of Apollo</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he now set this prince ofthieves</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> this mischie flowing Hermes </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">to steal Io away from Argus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Hermes thought there could be no better fun</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He laid asidehis winged cap and his winged shoes </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and dressed like the shepherds in that country</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">He carried his golden stick in his hand</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and as he walked along</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">played carelessly on a shepherd's pipe</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">then</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">finding a few goats feeding at the side of the road</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">hedrove them slowly before him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Argus found his watch rather dull</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and was glad enough to talk to any one who happened to pass by</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He was very glad when he saw Hermes coming with the goats</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and he invited the pretended shepherd to come and sit by him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">under the trees in the shade</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and play on his pipe and tell stories</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></font> </p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Hermes sat down on a stone by the side of Argus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and began to play very softly</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">so softly that the music was like the sighing of the wind<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>through the branches of the trees</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The day was warm</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> and it was quiet</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Two of Argus's eyes soon closed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The others might have remained open if there had not been asleepy magic in Hermes'<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>piping</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The soft notes came gently</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">slower and slower</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> and one after another Argus'<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>other eyes began to close</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> till only two remained open</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">These two eyes werevery bright</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">they fairly twinkled</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and they kept their watch onIo through all Hermes' playing</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Then Hermes began to tell stories</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and at last the two twinkling eyes closed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">like the others</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Argus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> with all his hundred eyes closed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> was fast asleep</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">To make him sleep more heavily</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Hermes just touched him lightly with the dream-giving stick</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and then he successfully led Ioaway</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Hera was very angry when she found that her wonder ful watch man had slept at his post</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">slept with all his eyes at once</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">She said he did not deserve to have so many eyes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">if he could notkeep some of them open</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">So she took all of his hundred eyesaway from him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and set them in the tail of her pet peacock </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">who was very proud to wear them</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Ever since that day all peacocks have had eyes in their tails</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">54<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>The Trojan War</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>At a wedding party Eris</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> the goddess of discord</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> threw agolden apple bearing the words</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</font><font lang="EN-US">For the fairest</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">!”</font><font lang="EN-US"> Hera</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Athena and Aphrodite</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">each wanting to get it for herself</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">were sent to Paris for judgement</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> A shepherd on Mt Ida</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite because she had promised too btain for him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Paris was the son of Priam</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the king of Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">At his birth his mother Queen He cuba dreamed of holding a piece of burning wood</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">So he was regarded as likely to bring destruction on thecity</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and was by chance exposed to the sun</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">wind and rain on MtIda</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He was finally saved and brought up by the herdsmen there</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Now acting on the instruction of Aphrodite</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he went down them ountain to take part in the game held in Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and there so famous did he become that King Priam and Queen Hecuba receivedhim joyfully back into the royal palace</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Soon he was sent to Greece at the head of a great team of boats</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">he went to Sparta</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">where</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">as Aphrodite had told him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the most beautiful woman of the time</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">lived</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">King Menelaus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Helen's husband</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">generously received him but Parisreturned his host's kindness with no thanks</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">In the king's absence he persuaded Helen to elope with him to Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">To payback</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Greek took up arms</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The Trojan war broke out</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">As the Greek ships gathered at the port of Aulis</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">no favouring wind blew up </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> A prophet told the comander of the expedition</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Agamemnon</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">that he had to offer his daughter Iphigenia asa sacrifice to Artemis</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Iphigenia was placed before the goddess' altar but Artemis took her away at the last minute</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">putting a reddeer in her place</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Agamemnon' s wife Clytemnestra was greatlyenraged at her husband' s cruelty</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">The war lasted ten years</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">during which both sides suffered the misfortunes of war</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Agamemnon fought with Achilles over acaptive princess</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> and in anger</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Achilles refused to fight</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">His friend</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Patroclus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">borrowed his armour and went out to change the situation of war</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but was killed by Hector</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the eldest son of Priam</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Bent on revenge </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Achilles no longer fought with Agamemnon</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and putting on his new armour made by Hephaestus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">went out to avenge his friend</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He killed Hector and draggedhis dead body three times around the walls of Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> But soon after</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Achilles was wounded in the heel by Paris and died in battle</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Paris had not long to live either</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">for he was killed by afriend of Achilles' </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> As Achilles left his armour to the bravest of the Greeks</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">a bitter struggle happened between its two worthycontestants</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">and when the weapons were given to Odysseus byjudge</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Ajax took his own life for grief and shame</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
At the end of nine years a prophet predicted that Troywould not fall as long as the Palladium stayed within its walls<font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Odysseus and Diomedes went into the city in disguise and stole itout of the temple of the city</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Then the Greeks designed a great wooden horse</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">in which some Greek soldiers hid themselves</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">andmade believe to with draw</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Taken in by rumour<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>that the horsehad been sent by Athena</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> the overjoyed Trojans hauled it intotheir capital</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> At night the hidden Greeks crawled out and threwthe whole city into confusion </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Tory was robbed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> King Priamwas killed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Queen Hecuba</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">her daughter Cassandra and herdaughterinlaw Andromache were all carried into slavery</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Helenand Menelaus were on good terms again and disappeared in the west</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Agamemnon went back to Mycenae</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> only to be murdered by his own wife</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> His son Orestes killed his mother and was pursued by the Furies</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Odysseus went through untold hardships</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">struggling with wind and wave</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">before he reached his home island Ithaca to reunite with<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>his faithful wife Penelope</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Aeneas</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">one of the Trojan princes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">after narrowly escaping death at Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">wandered from land to land for a long time and became</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">inthe end</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the founder of the Roman race</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">55<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Acrisius</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Acrisius</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">king of Argos</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">was Hypermnestra' s grandson</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He had one beautiful daughter</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Danae by name</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> So much did he love her that he decided not to remarry after the death of his wife</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> But one day an oracle<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>from Delphi prophesied that he would be killed by the son of Danae</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">He felt so upset that his love suddenly changed to fear and hatred</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> To avoid the disaster he built a tall bronze tower</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">wherein he shut Danaeup with her nurse</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">he kept the key of the tower himself</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and left only the roof open for Danae to take an occasional look at the blue sky above</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> One bright sunny morning Danae felt a childish joy at the sight of the clear</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">blue sky and longed for freedom when a golden shower of sunlight shot through the open roof and spread all over her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">A wave of happiness spread all over her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and Zeus himself stood before her in his splendour<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>and won her</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Some time later</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">a guard came rushing into King Acrisius' palace and told the astonished king that Danae had given birth toa son</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The baby was called Perseus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Acrisius decided that both mother and son must die if he wanted to live himself</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Very soon he had a great chest built</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">where he put Danae and her son</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and then set it adrift on the sea </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Answering the sad prayers of the poor mother</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Zeus had the chest swept onto the land of the Seriphos</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Polydectes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">king of the country</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">treated them at first with kindness</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but afterwards with cruelty</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> When Perseus was grown up</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Polydectes sent him to kill Medusa</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Medusa had been a beautiful maiden</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but as she once violated Athena' s temple in Lybia<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>the goddess changed her beautifulhair into snakes and her body into that of a monster</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> So ugly and terrible was she that anyone looking on her face was immediatelyturned to stone</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> But Athena and other gods came to help Perseus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Athena lent him her brightly polished shield in which she warned him to look at the reflection of Medusa<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>only</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US"> Hades gave him his helmet which made its wearer invisible</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">;</font><font lang="EN-US">and Hermesoffered him his winged shoes so that he could travel fast overlong distances</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> From the gods he also took a sword and a magic wallet</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Acting on the advice of Athena</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Perseus travelled west and first sought out the three grey women</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">known as the Graeae whok new the whereabouts of Medusa</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> These women had one toothand one eye between them</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">so Perseus grabbed the tooth and theeye from them and forced them to tell him the truth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> This the grey women did</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and one night while flying across the sky theyoung man found Medusa sleeping on a rock</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Flying down</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">hestruck off the head of Medusa and turned back to the land where he had left his mother</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">56<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Oedipus</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US">A prophet warned King Laius of The bes that because he had married his cousin Jocasta</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he would be killed by hisson</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">To avoid the disaster</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he ordered his loyal she pherdto kill his newborn baby son</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The goodhearted slave</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">however</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">could not bring himself to do the evil deed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He pierced the baby' s feet<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>and tied them with ropes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Then he turned the baby over to the care of a fellow shepherd who happened to be the servant of the king of Corinth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The child was given the name of Oedipus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">He was brought up by the childless royal couple as their sonand successor</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">The prince had never doubted that the king wasnot his real father until one day he heard others talking about his parentage</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Deeply troubled</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he went to Delphi to require about his birth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">There he was warned by Apollo not to return to his native country</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">because</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">should he do so </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> he would kill his father and marry his mother</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The frightened young man turned his back on Corinth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">determined not to return while his supposed parents lived</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Oedipus had not gone far on his way to The bes when he sawa cart coming towards him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The man sitting in the cart</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">angry at the young man in the way</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">whipped him on the face with anoath </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Oedipus jumped onto the cart and killed him in his anger</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">of the five servants who followed their master on foot</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">only oneescaped narrowly</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Little did Oedipus think that the man sitting in the cart was King Laicus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">his father</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Presently the young manar rived in the kingdom of The bes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Round about this time</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the The bans were troubled by a woman headed monster</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">called Sphinx</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> who produced a riddle to them</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The crown and the hand of the widow queen were offered to anyone who could solve the riddle</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Oedipus met Sphinx on a cliff</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> To the monster' s riddle</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,“</font><font lang="EN-US">What animal walks on four legs in the morning</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">on two atnoon</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and on three at night</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">?”</font><font lang="EN-US">he offered the answer</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,“</font><font lang="EN-US">Man</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Who creeps in infancy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">walks upright in manhood</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and supportshis steps with a staff in old age</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.”</font><font lang="EN-US"> Thus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Sphinx threw herselfdown into the valley</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Oedipus became king of Thebes and husband of the queen</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">his mother</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">For a long time after this event</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Oedipus lived in honour and prosperity</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Four unnatural children<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>came out of this odd marriage</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">two sons and two daughters</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Then the sad thing came</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">Aplague raged throughout the land </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Every family was affected</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and not a day went by without new death</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> A prophet warnedthat the trouble would not be removed until the murderer of the former king Laius was driven out of the country</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> An old blindseer</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Tiresias by name</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">was brought before the king and</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">outraged by the kings impolite language</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">declared that Oedipus himself was the hunted murderer</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The king was shocked and annoyed</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He called the The ban and Corinthian shepherds to provethe truth</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> As the two old shepherds had been concerned in his adoption as an infant</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the truth finally became known</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The queen hanged herself</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Oedipus put out of his own eyes with apin</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">so that he might not look on the sun again</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">he was driven out of the kingdom and wandered from one city to another</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">untilhe found protection in King Theseus'<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Athens</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> There at the signal of Zeus' thunder</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">he mysteriously ended his poor earthlylife</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US">57<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Achilles</font></b></p><p align="center"><b><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font></font></b></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em; TEXT-ALIGN: justify;"><font lang="EN-US"><font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>Achilles felt proud of his parentage</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US">His grandfather was noted for his justice and uprightness and became a judge in Hades after death</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> His father Peleus was a brave warrior and later married the beautiful sea goddess</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Thet is</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> At the wedding of Peleus and the sea goddess</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">to which most of the gods were invited</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> the goddess of discord</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">Eris</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">feeling angry atnot being invited</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> threw among the guests a golden apple bearing the words</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</font><font lang="EN-US">For the fairest</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</font><font lang="EN-US"> and stirred up a bitter quarrel whichled in the end to the Trojan war</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">Thetis loved her son very much</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> When Achilles was still ababy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Thet is was shocked by a prophecy that her son would diein war</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> To save her son</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the sea goddess dipped her baby in the waters of Styx<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>which could protect the human body from the fire and sword</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> But as the heel by which she held him was dry it became the one mortal spot<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>in the whole body of Achilles</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Thus the expression</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</font><font lang="EN-US">the heel of Achilles</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”</font><font lang="EN-US"> has come to mean</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</font><font lang="EN-US">a weak spot</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">”.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Achilles spent a great part of his boyhood in the woods with the wise old centaur</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Chiron</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> who taught him the gentlearts as well as war affairs</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">and prepared him well for a short but brilliant career</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p><p style="TEXT-INDENT: 2em;"><font lang="EN-US">When fighters all over Greece flew to arms against Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> aprophet foretold that Achilles was sure not to return from thewar</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Determined to keep her son from the disaster</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Thet is sent young Achilles to the court of the king of Scyros</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> where he worked in disguise as one of the handmaids waiting on the princess of Scyros </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> For a time trick worked</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Messenger after messenger came</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">but all left without him</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> One day</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">a peddlar appeared in the palace</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">bringing with him a wide variety of womanish small things</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> There was</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">however</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">also a sword amongsuch goods</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Whereas most of the ladies stared at the silks and veils</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">one of them eagerly grabbed the sword and joyfully played with it</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> At this the peddlar threw off his disguise and came out with his true identity</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> The artful Odysseus had come to fetch the hero to Aulis</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">where Greek ships had been waiting for both a fair wind and Achilles</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Odysseus had not laboured in vain </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Duringan attack on the walls of Troy</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> Achilles caught the sight of the beauty of Polyxena</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">daughter of Priam</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He was so attracted bythe grace of the princess that he asked Priam to give him the hand of Polyxena in marriage </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> He worked hard for the peacebet ween the two sides</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> When his efforts proved useless</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> he obtained a promise from Priam that the marriage would be held after the war</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Just as Achilles turned to leave</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US">the faithless Paris took out a poisoned arrow and shot at his heel from behind</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> Before Achilles breathed his last</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">,</font><font lang="EN-US"> he left his armour in his will<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>to the bravest of the Greek heroes</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> This gave rise to such a fiercecon test between Ajax and Odysseus</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> As a result the armour was adjudged to Odysseus </font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font><font lang="EN-US"> So sad and desperate was Polyxena at Achilles'<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>death she committed suicide<font style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </font>in front of his magnificent tomb</font><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</font></p>