The Mythology of Ancient Greece and ItalyWhittaker and Company, 1838 - 564 Seiten |
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... gods were not , strictly speaking , eternal : they were born , ac- cording to most systems of mythology ; and some , at least , assigned a period to their duration . In the eyes of their worshipers these gods had each his distinct ...
... gods were not , strictly speaking , eternal : they were born , ac- cording to most systems of mythology ; and some , at least , assigned a period to their duration . In the eyes of their worshipers these gods had each his distinct ...
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... gods together , began to be employed . It was thus that the wine - god Dionysos was made one with the sun - god Helios , and this last again , as some think , with the archer - god Phobos Apollo . As we proceed we shall have frequent ...
... gods together , began to be employed . It was thus that the wine - god Dionysos was made one with the sun - god Helios , and this last again , as some think , with the archer - god Phobos Apollo . As we proceed we shall have frequent ...
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... gods in the light of personifications of the powers of nature . When the Romans became acquainted with Grecian litera- ture , they identified the gods of Greece with such of their own deities as had a resemblance to them . Thus Hermes ...
... gods in the light of personifications of the powers of nature . When the Romans became acquainted with Grecian litera- ture , they identified the gods of Greece with such of their own deities as had a resemblance to them . Thus Hermes ...
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... gods favoured them so highly that they were wont to leave at times their Olympian abodes and go to share their ... gods were transported without tasting of death , to enjoy an immortality of bliss . Thus Pro- teus says to Menelaos , But ...
... gods favoured them so highly that they were wont to leave at times their Olympian abodes and go to share their ... gods were transported without tasting of death , to enjoy an immortality of bliss . Thus Pro- teus says to Menelaos , But ...
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... gods ; but there is great difficulty in ascertaining its exact nature and situation . As it is always represented as a mountain , it must have rested on the earth , and yet one passage of the Iliasd would seem plainly to speak of it as ...
... gods ; but there is great difficulty in ascertaining its exact nature and situation . As it is always represented as a mountain , it must have rested on the earth , and yet one passage of the Iliasd would seem plainly to speak of it as ...
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abode according ancient Aphrodite Apoll Apollo appear Arcadia Argos Artemis ascribed Athens Attica beauty became Bellerophontes Boeotia bore Buttmann Cadmos called Cecrops Centaurs chariot Cyclopes daughter deities Demeter Diodor Dionysos dwelt earth Egypt epithet Erebos Eudocia Eurystheus fable father gave give goddess gods golden Grecian Greece Greeks Hades heaven Helios Hephæstos Hera Heracles Hermes hero Herod Hesiod Homer and Hesiod honour Hygin Hymn Iasôn Ilias island isle killed king Kronos legend Leto married Medeia Minôs moon mortal mother Müller mythe mythic mythology named night Nonnus nymph Ocean Odysseus Olympos oracle origin Ovid Paus Pelasgian Peloponnese Persephone Perseus Pherecydes Pind Pindar Plut poems poet Poseidon probably Proleg Prometheus Pyth race regarded sacred says serpent sire sons temple Thebes Theocr Theog Theogony Theseus Titans took Tril Tzetz viii Virg Völcker Welcker worship Zeus καὶ
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Seite 173 - That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Seite 144 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 53 - And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
Seite 154 - Assyrian queen ; But far above in spangled sheen Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced, Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced. After her wandering labours long, Till free consent the Gods among Make her his eternal bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn.
Seite 301 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite 64 - The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, His glowing Axle doth allay In the steep Atlantick stream.
Seite 217 - Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive ; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus...
Seite 282 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks, Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance: Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have.
Seite 40 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Seite 307 - More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endow'd with all their gifts ; and, O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.