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One morning Jupiter boasted among the gods in Olympus that a son would that day be born, in the line of Perseus, who would rule over all the Argives. Juno was angry and jealous at this, and, as she was the goddess who presided over the births of children, she contrived to hinder the birth of the child he intended till that day was over, and to hasten that of another grandson of the great Perseus. This child was named Eurystheus, and, as he had been born on the right day, Jupiter was forced to let him be King of Argos, Sparta, and Mycenæ,. | Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 by Various 1 Eto-yODIF SEUMR rtE55-PUBUSflEI ĩ4 a MIKX-Bf OHPlWrlXiIffi AND FAMOUS WOMEN TttC LivtJrOf1 rtdHK Tnflin zoo -1 CP-me .DỹT rPDmnrn r PdPT KfflAGtfS- IH tttsrory s X r - Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 by Various Project Gutenberg s Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Author Various Editor Charles F. Horne Release Date March 30 2009 EBook 28455 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. Produced by Sigal Alon Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries Transcriber s note A is used to mark superscript. Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 by Various Illustration Columbus before Isabella. 2 GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY VOL. V. Copyright 1894 BY SELMAR HESS edited by Charles F. Horne Illustration Publisher s arm. New-York Selmar Hess Publisher Copyright 1894 by SELMAR HESS. CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE ENEAS Charlotte M. Yonge 12 ETHAN ALLEN Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham 200 KING ARTHUR Rev. S. Baring-Gould 36 THE CHEVALIER BAYARD Herbert Greenhough Smith 145 ST. BERNARD Henry G. Hewlett 60 ROBERT BRUCE Sir J. Bernard Burke . 105 WILLIAM CAXTON 129 THE CID Henry G. Hewlett 56 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS A. R. Spofford . 131 CAPTAIN JAMES COOK Oliver Optic 188 ST. FRANCIS OF .