Ajax(The Great) ajax was a man of giant stature，daring but slow．when the trojan war was about to break out he led his forces from salamis to join the greek army at aulis．as one of the trustiest champions of the greek cause，he was given thejob of guarding one end of the greek camp near troy．he was noted in the battlefield fo

Jason among the pupils of the wise and just centaur，there wasa boy named jason．he was by birth a prince．his father aeson was once king of iolcus，but was overthrown by his own half brother pelias．so he sent his baby son jason to the centaur for safekeeping．as a boy jason took part in the boarhunt．when he grew up into a stron

Io io was the daughter of a rivergod．she was loved，run after and won by zeus．hera became so greeneyed that she flew down from olympus one day to pay her rival back ．zeus，however，had foreseen her arrival and changed io into abeautiful white little cow．seeing through the trick，hera asked for the cow as a present and zeus had

Hecuba he cuba''s life was one of grief and sorrow．she saw withher own eyes her eldest born hector killed and insulted by achilles．she saw her son polites slain in front of her by pyrrhus．and she saw her husband，the aged priam，dragged towards the household altar and ruthlessly butchered there．after the fall of troy she was

The Four Ages there had been four ages since the human world first cameinto being ．they are the golden age，the silver age，the age of bronze and the age of iron．the golden agewas the best of all．it was an age when kronus sat on thethrone．generous nature met all the needs of men ．there wereno extremes of cold and heat．and the

Pygmalion pygmalion，king of cyprus，was a famous sculptor．he made an ivory image of a woman so lovely that he fell in love with it．every day he tried to make galatea up in gold and purple，for that was the name he had given to this mistress of his heart．he embraced and kissed it，but it remaineda statue．in despair he went to a

Endymion endymion was a handsome young shepherd who kept his flocks of sheep on mt latmos，asia minor ．living in aquiet，lovely valley，he lived a perfectly peaceful life．sometimes when his sheep grazed happily on some rich grass around，he would lie down on the meadow and sleep soundly，completely free from worldly griefs and c

Lotus Eaters on the tenth day after leaving troy，odysseus and his men came to an island，where the people only took lotus fruit and flowers as their food．this plant had such a magic effect on its eaters that it could make them forget their past and produce a dreamy laziness over them．when odysseus'' men arrived，they were kin

Daphne daphne was a lovely blooming fairy maiden．as she was playing merrily in the woods one day she saw apollo the sun-god staring at her with more than amazement and ad miration in his eyes．the beaming face of the sun put her to flight．the eager apollo followed her closely behind，calling out to her to stop．his passion had

Narcissus narcissus had a twin sister whom he loved better than anyone else in the world．this sister died when she was young and very beautiful．narcissus missed her so very much that he wished he might die too． one day，as he sat on the ground by a spring，looking absently into the water and thinking of his lost si

Ixion in thessaly there once lived a king by the name of ixion．he was both handsome and mighty．he went to woo the beautiful maiden dia and won her love，but her old father was most reluctant to part with his child．only when ixionswore to let him have his royal treasure house did the father agree to give the king the hand of

Orion orion was a giant hunter．he was the beautiful son of poseidon．one day，when hunting in the forest，he caughtsight of artemis'' fair maidens，the seven pleiades ．hewas so attracted by their beauty that he started chasing them．indespair the charming maidens prayed to artemis for help and were sent up by the goddess to the

Tantalus tantalus was the rich and mighty king of lydia．son ofzeus by a fairy maiden，he was greatly favored by the gods．he was invited to share wine and food with them at their banquets，and he was let into their secrets ．but ever the latter end of joy is woe ．either because he had stolen wine orgave away the secrets of zeus

Actaeon when she was tired with hunting artemis used to take abath in a little mountain spring．one hot summer afternoon she was playing in the cool，quiet water with hermaidens when she heard a rustle behind the bushes ．she feltquite angry to find that a young hunter was peeping admiringlyat her naked body ．her maidens gave

Atlas And Perseus after the killing of medusa，perseus，carrying her head with him，flew far and wide，over land and sea．as night came on，he reached the western limit of the earth ，where the sun goes down．here he would gladly have rested till morning．it was the kingdom of king atlas，who was bigger than all other men．he was rich