The Mythology of Ancient Greece and ItalyG. Bell, 1877 - 508 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... Greeks that the Greek religion and civilisation were derived from the land of the Nile ; it is founded upon the solid foundation of philological and historical investigation . However , Mr. Keightley's main object in writing his work iv ...
... Greeks that the Greek religion and civilisation were derived from the land of the Nile ; it is founded upon the solid foundation of philological and historical investigation . However , Mr. Keightley's main object in writing his work iv ...
Pagina v
... Greeks themselves viewed their religion and its traditions , so as to enable him to understand and appreciate the numerous allusions to mythical subjects occurring in the poets and other writers ; and that object the author has attained ...
... Greeks themselves viewed their religion and its traditions , so as to enable him to understand and appreciate the numerous allusions to mythical subjects occurring in the poets and other writers ; and that object the author has attained ...
Pagina 2
... Greeks , for example , with whom it is rich and complicated . We regard the following as the most probable mode of accounting for their existence . Polytheism , or the belief in a number of beings of a nature superior to man , and who ...
... Greeks , for example , with whom it is rich and complicated . We regard the following as the most probable mode of accounting for their existence . Polytheism , or the belief in a number of beings of a nature superior to man , and who ...
Pagina 7
... Greeks to assign the origin of animals and plants to transformations effected by the power of the gods , a practice of which we shall have to record numerous instances.2 Even in the Mohammedan East examples of this procedure ( which was ...
... Greeks to assign the origin of animals and plants to transformations effected by the power of the gods , a practice of which we shall have to record numerous instances.2 Even in the Mohammedan East examples of this procedure ( which was ...
Pagina 9
... Greeks . Pindar calls the showers of rain children of the cloud ; Eschylos terms smoke the brother of fire , and dust the brother of mud ; and Hippónax ' said that the fig - tree was 1 Varro , De L. L. v . 157. ed . Müll .: see my ...
... Greeks . Pindar calls the showers of rain children of the cloud ; Eschylos terms smoke the brother of fire , and dust the brother of mud ; and Hippónax ' said that the fig - tree was 1 Varro , De L. L. v . 157. ed . Müll .: see my ...
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Pagina 128 - 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...
Pagina 256 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Pagina 48 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Pagina 391 - I sit by and sing, Or gather rushes, to make many a ring For thy long fingers; tell thee tales of love; How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she...