PROMETHEUS.

  

REECE is far away to the east over a great

, ocean. It is a very small country with
NGS high mountains in every part of it.

_ The people who lived there long ago could not
easily go from one place to another.

Some of the mountains reached above the clouds
and made great walls around their homes. Men
sometimes lived all their lives near the sea and
never saw it.

These people who were shut up in the little
valley of Greece did many wonderful things.

As they could not go far from their homes they
had time to see how beautiful the things around
them were.

Perhaps they looked at the sky so much that
they wished to have everything on earth just as
beautiful. ;

They gave their children work to do which made
them strong and graceful.

Some of the Greeks carved statues from the
marble inthe mountains. Some built great temples
of it.

Some painted pictures, while others made gardens
more beautiful than pictures. .