The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . o^ buR iohi-i; i i-ii / intsh*! .vJij jdi to ahi. a -jiU bnuu-i f>(jfl)cf .?.\\i-n fYij ydJ no b^Tjdifi^ -^tj// A»i9d loido lioxiJ lo ad
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . o^ buR iohi-i; i i-ii / intsh*! .vJij jdi to ahi. a -jiU bnuu-i f>(jfl)cf .?.\\i-n fYij ydJ no b^Tjdifi^ -^tj// A»i9d loido lioxiJ lo ad J iixjqfi> i» rwjj-jfIT .Tttlx5 noo?. b-)/7of- --????^./ Vmoil xxxixl Joil?. ,bIsS 9xfJ ni riyllid >..mid heWrA faxiB laoxl ^xd booTj; THE VENGEANCE OF ACHILLES (He Drags the Body of Hector at His Chariot Wheels) From the painting by the recent German artist, R. von Deutsck DURING the period while Achilles mourned in his tentfor Briseis and took no part in the war, Hector defeatedthe Greeks repeatedly. At length Achilles, thoughstill refusing to fight, loaned his armor to his friend mere sight of that dreaded armor put the mass of theTrojans to flight; but Hector, fresh from the encouragement ofAndromache, met the supposed Achilles valiantly, and slew him. The real Achilles, roused by the death of his friend, thencame forward and met Hector in the chief combat of the was slain. The story as Homer told it was that divinefear overcame him at thought of the supernatural nature of hisfoe, and that he fled, pursued by Achilles, thrice round the wallsof Troy. But Virgil says that it was after Hectors fall thatAchilles, still furious for his friends death, lashed the feetof the fallen Hector to the
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