Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 من الصفحات |
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... descended , whether they have always existed , " says the father of history , " and what were their shapes , all this the Greeks have but recently known . Hesiod and Homer , whom I do not esteem more than four hundred years older than ...
... descended , whether they have always existed , " says the father of history , " and what were their shapes , all this the Greeks have but recently known . Hesiod and Homer , whom I do not esteem more than four hundred years older than ...
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... descend a few steps hewn in the rock , and enter the cave which is lighted from the narrow adit : it is hung with stalactites , and bends itself so as to form two apart- ments , the one nearly parallel to the other . In ancient days the ...
... descend a few steps hewn in the rock , and enter the cave which is lighted from the narrow adit : it is hung with stalactites , and bends itself so as to form two apart- ments , the one nearly parallel to the other . In ancient days the ...
الصفحة 55
... descend into the gardens beneath , without calling to mind the description given by Syclax , of the far famed gardens of the Hesperides . " It has been supposed by many , and among the rest by Gosselin and Pacho , that the Hesperian ...
... descend into the gardens beneath , without calling to mind the description given by Syclax , of the far famed gardens of the Hesperides . " It has been supposed by many , and among the rest by Gosselin and Pacho , that the Hesperian ...
الصفحة 70
... descend into it at their setting , and emerge from it at their rising . On the shield of Achilles the poet represents Oceanos as en- circling the rim or extreme border of the shield , in full accord- ance with the popular belief of the ...
... descend into it at their setting , and emerge from it at their rising . On the shield of Achilles the poet represents Oceanos as en- circling the rim or extreme border of the shield , in full accord- ance with the popular belief of the ...
الصفحة 73
... descended , the father of Danäe , and the grandfather of the heroic Perseus . Alcæus was a son of Perseus ; and a grand - daughter of Alcæus , Alcmena , was the mother of Heraclês . These are the principal personages descended from the ...
... descended , the father of Danäe , and the grandfather of the heroic Perseus . Alcæus was a son of Perseus ; and a grand - daughter of Alcæus , Alcmena , was the mother of Heraclês . These are the principal personages descended from the ...
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abode according Achilles ægis afterwards altar ancient antiquity Aphrodite Apollo appears Arês Argos arms Athenian Athens Attica Bacchos beautiful became brother Cadmos called celebrated celestial Ceres character chariot Chimæra Colchis consecrated daughter death deities Delphi descended Deucalion Diana Dionysos divine earth Egyptians Eleusis emblem erected Eurystheus fable fate father feet festival fiction gave goddess gods golden Grecian Greece Greeks groves hand head Heaven Hêra Heracles Hercules Hermês heroes Hesiod Homer honor horses human immortal Inachos island Jove Juno Jupiter killed king legend married Mêdeia Minerva Minôs monster mortal mother mountain Muses Mycena mysteries mythology nature Neptune night nymphs Odysseus offered Olympos oracle Pausanias Perseus Phorcys Pluto poets Poseidon priests Prometheus received reigned represented rites river Romans Rome sacred sacrifices sister solemn sometimes sons statue temple Thebes Theseus thou tion Trojans Troy Venus victory wings worship youth Zeus
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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.