Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 sivua |
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Sivu 115
... Trojan war , and among these , to the Idæan Heracles , to Pelops , and to Heraclês , the son of Alcmena . The Eleans further stated that after the Etolians had possessed them- selves of Elis , their whole territory was consecrated to ...
... Trojan war , and among these , to the Idæan Heracles , to Pelops , and to Heraclês , the son of Alcmena . The Eleans further stated that after the Etolians had possessed them- selves of Elis , their whole territory was consecrated to ...
Sivu 130
... Trojan war , Iris was sent to him with a message from Zeus , warning him to beware of measuring himself with him who sways the thunderbolts , and to refrain from assisting the sons of Danäus . The shaker of the earth replied with ...
... Trojan war , Iris was sent to him with a message from Zeus , warning him to beware of measuring himself with him who sways the thunderbolts , and to refrain from assisting the sons of Danäus . The shaker of the earth replied with ...
Sivu 130
... Trojan war , Iris was sent to bim with a message from Zeus , warning him to beware of measuring himself with him who sways the thunderbolts , and to refrain from assisting the sons of Danäus . The shaker of the earth replied with ...
... Trojan war , Iris was sent to bim with a message from Zeus , warning him to beware of measuring himself with him who sways the thunderbolts , and to refrain from assisting the sons of Danäus . The shaker of the earth replied with ...
Sivu 177
... Trojan war , Diana ventured to challenge the stronger Juno ; but she had reason to repent of her forward bold- ness when made to feel the powerful arm of Jupiter's spouse . " The deer of the mountain thou canst kill , but not fight ...
... Trojan war , Diana ventured to challenge the stronger Juno ; but she had reason to repent of her forward bold- ness when made to feel the powerful arm of Jupiter's spouse . " The deer of the mountain thou canst kill , but not fight ...
Sivu 185
... Trojans . Enveloped in clouds , he immediately ascended to Olympos , appearing to Diomêdês as the nightly gloom that pre- cedes a tempest . On arriving at the abode of the immortal gods , he complained to Zeus of the audacity of men ...
... Trojans . Enveloped in clouds , he immediately ascended to Olympos , appearing to Diomêdês as the nightly gloom that pre- cedes a tempest . On arriving at the abode of the immortal gods , he complained to Zeus of the audacity of men ...
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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?
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 56 - This monster had the face of a woman, the body and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.