Author: TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON
Title: The Story of Damon and Pythias. With Illustrations
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; 5 1/4 x 7 3/4; 307 pages; This may be a first edition of the book, as the movie it is based on was released in 1914, with William Worthington, Herbert Rawlinson and Cleo Madison. Hard cover is blue cloth with dark blue lettering on spine. Boards have shelf wear, sunning, rubbing, scuffing, bumping. Some sunning to pages, which are generally clean and tight. Illustrated with 14 b/w photographs from the silent movie of the same name. Adapted and illustrated from the photo-play conceived and produced by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company [1914]. 'After a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because the general Dionysius is infatuated with Calanthe, Pythias' sweetheart, he sends the soldier to fight the Carthaginians at the Battle of Agrigentum. Pythias returns in triumph, and then angers Dionysius even further when he defeats Aristle, the general's favorite, in a chariot race. During the wedding ceremony for Pythias and Calanthe, Dionysius has himself proclaimed sovereign while Damon is absent from the Senate. Shocked, Damon attempts to assassinate Dionysius, but he fails and is sentenced to death. In order for Damon to say goodbye to his wife and son, Pythias leaves Calanthe and takes his friend's place in prison, offering to die in Damon's place if he does not return. Despite several tests of the strength of their friendship, they remain loyal to each other and so impress Dionysius that he allows them both Free '. [IMDB]. Extra advertising pages at rear of book.. Very Good- .

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