Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 من الصفحات |
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... Diana in Delos , or the Ortygian isle . The Ro- man poets carried their mythology still a step further from the original , and made it , for the most part , merely legendary ; com- piling it from the traditionary tales of the Greeks ...
... Diana in Delos , or the Ortygian isle . The Ro- man poets carried their mythology still a step further from the original , and made it , for the most part , merely legendary ; com- piling it from the traditionary tales of the Greeks ...
الصفحة 8
... Diana , Venus , Mars , Mercurius , Iovi , Neptunus , Vulcanus , Apollo . Their rites and mysteries were particularly famous in the island of Samothrace , Lemnos , and at Eleusis in the neighborhood of Athens . Originally , they were but ...
... Diana , Venus , Mars , Mercurius , Iovi , Neptunus , Vulcanus , Apollo . Their rites and mysteries were particularly famous in the island of Samothrace , Lemnos , and at Eleusis in the neighborhood of Athens . Originally , they were but ...
الصفحة 11
... Diana at Ephe- sus , of Apollo at Delphi , of Jupiter at Olympia , of Venus at Paphos and Cytherea ; and of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome . At Panionium , was a temple of Jupiter Heliconius erected by the Ionian colonies , and imported ...
... Diana at Ephe- sus , of Apollo at Delphi , of Jupiter at Olympia , of Venus at Paphos and Cytherea ; and of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome . At Panionium , was a temple of Jupiter Heliconius erected by the Ionian colonies , and imported ...
الصفحة 14
... Diana for protection , was the cause of his death , and of the public calamities of Æolia . In the comedy of Mostellaria , by Plautus , the inviolability of altars and temples appears to have existed among the Romans . Every temple ...
... Diana for protection , was the cause of his death , and of the public calamities of Æolia . In the comedy of Mostellaria , by Plautus , the inviolability of altars and temples appears to have existed among the Romans . Every temple ...
الصفحة 17
... Diana , every stranger whom chance threw upon their coast . Hence arose that just ex- postulation in Euripides upon the inconsistency of the proceeding ; wherein much good reasoning is implied . Iphigenia wonders , as the goddess ...
... Diana , every stranger whom chance threw upon their coast . Hence arose that just ex- postulation in Euripides upon the inconsistency of the proceeding ; wherein much good reasoning is implied . Iphigenia wonders , as the goddess ...
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الصفحة 198 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
الصفحة 170 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
الصفحة 208 - 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...
الصفحة 166 - Aricia, &c. She was supposed to be the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, whose worship was introduced into Greece with that of Osiris under the name of Apollo.
الصفحة 141 - Eleusis by a place called the mystical entrance. On the seventh day were sports, in which the victors were rewarded with a measure of barley, as that grain had been first sown in Eleusis. The eighth day...
الصفحة 93 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
الصفحة 56 - This monster had the face of a woman, the body and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird...
الصفحة 87 - JEther or pure invisible Fire ', the most subtle and elastic of all bodies, seems to pervade and expand itself throughout the whole universe. If air be the immediate agent or instrument in natural things, it is the pure invisible fire that is the first natural mover or spring from whence the air derives its power (sect.
الصفحة 202 - Some represent him lame and deformed, holding a hammer, raised in the air, ready to strike; while, with the other hand, he turns with pincers a thunderbolt on his anvil. He appears, on some monuments, with a long beard, dishevelled hair, half naked, and a small round cap on his head, while he holds a hammer and pincers in his hand.
الصفحة 293 - Hercules so frequently represented as the sungod, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been honored in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations.