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Good evening. In this episode, I'll be reading chapters 1 to 6 of The Story of Greece

by Mary McGregor. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for

peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 1 Wonderland The story of Greece began long, long ago

in a strange, wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway

which leads upward and onward into a beautiful land. Sometimes, indeed, no path was needed

for the rivers, woods and lone hill sites were themselves the wonderland of which I am going

to tell. In the woods and winds, in the trees and rivers, dwelt the gods and goddesses

whom the people of long ago worshipped. It was their presence in the world that made

it so great, so wide, so wonderful. To the Helleners, for that is the name by which

the Greeks called themselves, there were eyes, living eyes in flowers, trees and water.

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