Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xv
... fire , as Héré , or Juno , is the lower atmosphere , Neptune , the liquid element , and Pluto , the earth . To the historical or Cretan Zeus , no careful student of antiquity can be at a loss in ascribing those scandalous actions which ...
... fire , as Héré , or Juno , is the lower atmosphere , Neptune , the liquid element , and Pluto , the earth . To the historical or Cretan Zeus , no careful student of antiquity can be at a loss in ascribing those scandalous actions which ...
الصفحة xvii
... fire , and the genealogies of the rivers ; but these , like certain appearances of allegory , seem to come in incidentally in Homer , and not to have been in any case actually designed . * " First of all Chaos was born ; then broad ...
... fire , and the genealogies of the rivers ; but these , like certain appearances of allegory , seem to come in incidentally in Homer , and not to have been in any case actually designed . * " First of all Chaos was born ; then broad ...
الصفحة 16
... fire to in- crease the flame , and then laid the sacrifice on the altar , which in the primitive times was burnt whole to the gods , and thence called a holocaust ; but in after times , only part of the victim was consumed in the fire ...
... fire to in- crease the flame , and then laid the sacrifice on the altar , which in the primitive times was burnt whole to the gods , and thence called a holocaust ; but in after times , only part of the victim was consumed in the fire ...
الصفحة 65
... fire- vomiting Chimæra . Echidna is also said to be the mother of the Nemean Lion and the mysterious Sphinx ... fire . To destroy the Hy . dra was one of the twelve labors of Hêracles . Chimæra was represented as a dreadful monster ...
... fire- vomiting Chimæra . Echidna is also said to be the mother of the Nemean Lion and the mysterious Sphinx ... fire . To destroy the Hy . dra was one of the twelve labors of Hêracles . Chimæra was represented as a dreadful monster ...
الصفحة 73
... fire ; and having previously been dispersed in the woods , he persuaded them to unite and build themselves contiguous dwellings . Thus , Phoro- neus causing his people to make the first step towards civilization , became one of the ...
... fire ; and having previously been dispersed in the woods , he persuaded them to unite and build themselves contiguous dwellings . Thus , Phoro- neus causing his people to make the first step towards civilization , became one of the ...
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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.