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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

a peaceful night's sleep.

CHAPTER 1

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,

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