. A history of Greece for junior classes . CHAPTER I. THE MYTHICAL OR LEGENDARY PERIOD. This period, during which the gods were supposed tohave descended among men, and personally to have takenan active part in theii- affairs, extends from the remotesttimes to about 1100. All that the Greeks them-selves knew about that period, had been handed down byoral tradition, and had been so much altered and embel-lished by the poetical genius of the nation and by thepoets of later times, that in most cases it is impossible tosay what may have been the real groundwork of thoseancient stories. But as
. A history of Greece for junior classes . CHAPTER I. THE MYTHICAL OR LEGENDARY PERIOD. This period, during which the gods were supposed tohave descended among men, and personally to have takenan active part in theii- affairs, extends from the remotesttimes to about 1100. All that the Greeks them-selves knew about that period, had been handed down byoral tradition, and had been so much altered and embel-lished by the poetical genius of the nation and by thepoets of later times, that in most cases it is impossible tosay what may have been the real groundwork of thoseancient stories. But as they are not only constantlyalluded to by the Greek and Latin \vTiters, and, in fact,form the foundations of most of their poetical produc-tions, but are also much interwoven with the poetry ofmodern nations, it will be necessary to give at least briefoutlines of the most important of the early legends. First in importance are the legends of Herakles (Hercules).Danaos, the sup])osed immigrant from Egypt, had a grand-daughter Danae, who b
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