Identifier: storyofgreatestn01elli (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Greece—The Siege of Troy 163 a host of others. Helen chose Menelaus, who wedded her and became kingof Sparta. Then Venus, in fulfilment of her promise, sent Paris to Sparta.He, the handsomest man of his time, and Helen, the most beautiful woman,fell in love with each other at sight; and she fled with him to Troy. Menelaussummoned the other Greeks to his aid. All the princes who had wooed Helenhad vowed to aid her husband if any one injured him, so now all of them gatheredfor the war with Troy. Agamemnon, as king of Mycenae, was chosen as theirleader. Let us pause to re\dew the situation. Troy was not a fancy of the poets;it was a really existing city. Its remains have been discovered and explored.They lie on the coast of Asia Minor close to Europe, just across the narrowstrait which we call the Hellespont, leading from the ^Egean Sea toward theBlack Sea. Troy, then, we know to have been a rich metropolis, which wasactually plundered and destroyed about the time assigned for the Troj

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