Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 sivua |
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Sivu 9
... consecrate particular spots to the worship of their deities . In the earliest instances , they were contented with erecting altars in the open air , either of earth or ashes , and sometimes resorted for purposes of worship , to the ...
... consecrate particular spots to the worship of their deities . In the earliest instances , they were contented with erecting altars in the open air , either of earth or ashes , and sometimes resorted for purposes of worship , to the ...
Sivu 10
... consecrated to Apollo , wherein was to be seen a very ancient statue of that god . The first statues erected for the ancient gods hardly deserve the name , being only great stones set on end ; generally square , sometimes conical ...
... consecrated to Apollo , wherein was to be seen a very ancient statue of that god . The first statues erected for the ancient gods hardly deserve the name , being only great stones set on end ; generally square , sometimes conical ...
Sivu 12
... consecrated ( especially where the divinities of health and prophecy were adored ) by the hopes or the gratitude of the suppliants for advice or counsel . We know from several examples , especially from that of the temple of Delphi ...
... consecrated ( especially where the divinities of health and prophecy were adored ) by the hopes or the gratitude of the suppliants for advice or counsel . We know from several examples , especially from that of the temple of Delphi ...
Sivu 13
... consecration , the names of those who erected them , the motive of their erection , and the name of the deity to whose honor they were dedicated . Altars as well as temples were considered so sacred by the ancient Greeks , that most of ...
... consecration , the names of those who erected them , the motive of their erection , and the name of the deity to whose honor they were dedicated . Altars as well as temples were considered so sacred by the ancient Greeks , that most of ...
Sivu 14
... consecration . The first asylum is generally supposed to have been founded at Athens by the Heraclidæ , but some writers assert that there was one previously erected at Thebes , by Cadmus . Independent of the public altars , the Greeks ...
... consecration . The first asylum is generally supposed to have been founded at Athens by the Heraclidæ , but some writers assert that there was one previously erected at Thebes , by Cadmus . Independent of the public altars , the Greeks ...
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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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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.