Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 sivua |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 77
Sivu 29
... married , and the priests seem by no means to have been ex- cluded by their station from participating in the offices and occu- pations of the citizens . There were some sacerdotal offices , which were hereditary in certain families ...
... married , and the priests seem by no means to have been ex- cluded by their station from participating in the offices and occu- pations of the citizens . There were some sacerdotal offices , which were hereditary in certain families ...
Sivu 61
... married Doris , the daughter of Oceanos , and their children were the Nêreïdes , or the nymphs of the sea . They are said to be fifty in number , and their names are all mentioned ; yet but few of them are introduced into the history of ...
... married Doris , the daughter of Oceanos , and their children were the Nêreïdes , or the nymphs of the sea . They are said to be fifty in number , and their names are all mentioned ; yet but few of them are introduced into the history of ...
Sivu 64
... married Callirrhöe , a daughter of Oceanus ; and they became the parents of the triple - bodied Geryon , and Echidna , who was upwards a beautiful nymph , but terminated below in a hideous coiling dragon . With Echidna , the giant ...
... married Callirrhöe , a daughter of Oceanus ; and they became the parents of the triple - bodied Geryon , and Echidna , who was upwards a beautiful nymph , but terminated below in a hideous coiling dragon . With Echidna , the giant ...
Sivu 70
... married Tethys , in connexion with whom he pro- duced the Rivers and Fountains , and the Oceanides . The name of Oceanos is made to signify an immense stream , which according to the rude ideas of the ancients circulated round the ...
... married Tethys , in connexion with whom he pro- duced the Rivers and Fountains , and the Oceanides . The name of Oceanos is made to signify an immense stream , which according to the rude ideas of the ancients circulated round the ...
Sivu 77
... married Astræas , the son of the Titan Crios , and became the mother of the strong winds , and Eosphoros , or the morning star . Appearing in the grey twilight of morning , Aurora lifts with rosy fingers the veil of Night , sheds a ...
... married Astræas , the son of the Titan Crios , and became the mother of the strong winds , and Eosphoros , or the morning star . Appearing in the grey twilight of morning , Aurora lifts with rosy fingers the veil of Night , sheds a ...
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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.