Project Gutenberg 2006-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 234 Perkins, Lucy Fitch 1865 1937 Fitch, Lucy The Spartan Twins Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Spartan Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins is a children's historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers on the lives of twin siblings, Dion and Daphne, who are children of a Spartan farmer living on the island of Salamis, just off the coast of Greece in the 5th century B.C. The narrative captures their adventures and experiences as they navigate their family life, interactions with a visiting philosopher, and ultimately their journey to Athens. The opening of the book introduces the twins and their family, focusing on a typical spring day at their farm where Lydia, the mother, is busy preparing for an unexpected guest. The children, looking remarkably alike, are depicted as playful and lively, engaging in banter about their differing abilities and aspirations. As their father, Melas, brings home a traveling philosopher, Lydia scrambles to prepare a meal for her husband and their honored guest. The chapter sets a lively scene filled with familial warmth and hints at the twins' adventurous spirits as they engage with new people and ideas, establishing a rich context for their impending journey into the heart of Athens and its accompanying challenges. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 89.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Twins -- Juvenile fiction Greece -- History -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Book Series Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: History - General Browsing: Fiction 156801 2025-06-04T11:31:07.634783 text/html 156622 2025-01-12T18:47:30.701395 text/html 127299 2025-06-04T11:31:14.105763 application/epub+zip 127792 2025-06-04T11:31:10.728762 application/epub+zip 114903 2025-06-04T11:31:09.483778 application/epub+zip 256462 2025-06-04T11:31:16.511752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 241828 2025-06-04T11:31:13.325758 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 217706 2022-09-05T06:18:45.901715 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 136974 2025-06-04T11:31:07.311783 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 136855 2020-12-27T06:42:35 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 51035 2020-12-27T06:42:35 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 136848 2020-12-27T06:42:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 51011 2020-12-27T06:42:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19812 2025-06-04T11:31:16.671730 application/rdf+xml 14230 2025-06-04T11:31:10.067748 image/jpeg 3631 2025-06-04T11:31:09.784795 image/jpeg 127274 2025-06-04T11:31:07.649772 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia