Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER V.--The Early Maritime History of the Greeks--The Expedition

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of the Argonauts--The Vessels used in the Trojan War--Ship-Building in the Time of Homer--The Poetic Geography of the Greeks--The Palace of the Sun--The Marvels of a Voyage out of Sight of Land--The Geography of Hesiod--Of Anaximander--Of Thales, Herodotus, Socrates, and Eratosthenes--The Great Ocean is named the Atlantic 54