a, where the men
destroyed his ships and his mailed comrades, all of them; Ulysses fled in
his black ship alone. He told of Circe, too, and all her crafty guile; and
how on a ship of many oars he came to the mouldering house of Hades, there
to consult the spirit of Teiresias of Thebes, and looked on all his
comrades, and on the mother who had borne him and cared for him when
little; how he had heard the full-voiced Sirens' song; how he came to the
Wandering Rocks, to dire Charybdis and to Scylla, past whom none goes
unharmed; how then his crew slew the Sun's kine; how Zeus with a blazing
bolt smote his swift ship,--Zeus, thundering from on high,--and his good
comrades perished, utterly, all, while he escaped their evil doom; how he
came to the island of Ogygia and to the nymph Calypso, who held him in her
hollow grotto, wishing him to be her husband, cherishing him, and saying
she would make him an immortal, young forever, but she never beguiled the
heart within his breast; then how he came through many toils to the
Phaeacians, who honored him exceedingly, as if he were a god, and brought
him on his way to his native land, giving him stores of bronze and gold
and clothing. This was the latest tale he told, when pleasant sleep fell
on him, easing his limbs and from his heart removing care.

THE WANDERINGS OF THE TROJAN AENEAS

THE FLIGHT OF AENEAS FROM THE RUINS OF TROY

By Alfred J. Church

AEneas, a famous Trojan warrior, fought bravely as long as the city stood;
but when it had fallen, he bethought himself of his father Anchises, and
his wife Creusa, and of his little son Ascanius, and how he had left them
without defense at home. But as he turned to seek them, the night being
now, by reason of many fires, as clear as the day, he espied Helen sitting
in the temple of Vesta, where she had sought sanctuary; for she feared the
men of Troy, to whom she had brought ruin and destruction, and not less
her own husband, whom she had deceived. Then was his wrath kindled, and he
spake to himself, "Shall this evil woman return safe to Sparta? Shall she
see again her home and her children, with Trojan women forsooth to be her
handmaidens? Shall Troy be burnt and King Priam be slain, and she take no
harm? Not so; for though there be no glory to be won from such a deed, yet
shall I satisfy myself, taking vengeance upon her for my kinsmen and my
countrymen." But while he thought these things in his heart, lo! there
appea