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" That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible." Nor will he hear of Narcissus's love for his own reflexion in the glassy pool and his wondrous change into the flower that bore his name.  "
Greek and Roman [mythology] - Page 70
by William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 354 pages
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Pausanias - Greece - 1898 - 732 pages
...the love of Hera,7 and as to the story of the transformation of Cycnus into a swan, he says roundly : "That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible."6 Nor will he hear of Narcissus's love for his own reflexion in the glassy pool and his...
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Pausanias, and Other Greek Sketches

James George Frazer - Greece - 1900 - 442 pages
...love of Hera, and as to the story of the transformation of Cycnus into a swan, he says roundly : " That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible." Nor will he hear of Narcissus's love for his own reflexion in the glassy pool and his wondrous change...
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Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches

James George Frazer - Greece - 1900 - 442 pages
...love of Hera, and as to the story of the transformation of Cycnus into a swan, he says roundly : " That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible." Nor will he hear of Narcissus's love for his own reflexion in the glassy pool and his wondrous change...
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The Mythology of All Races ..., Volume 1

Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch - Mythology - 1916 - 698 pages
...of the Boiotian Aedon and Itylos needs no pointing out. In reference to a similar story Pausanias5 remarks, with the naivete of a child: "That a man...Xouthos, an Athenian soldier of fortune. As it happened, lon was found and was placed in the temple of Apollo at Delphoi as an attendant. Together Kreousa and...
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Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History: Selected from His Commentary ...

James George Frazer - Greece - 1917 - 440 pages
...love of Hera, and as to the story of the transformation of Cycnus into a swan, he says roundly : " That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible." Nor will he hear of Narcissus's love for his own reflexion in the glassy pool and his wondrous change...
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Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece

Christian Habicht - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 236 pages
...of Apollo into a swan (cycnus): "That a votary of the Muses was king of the Ligurians I believe, but that a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible" (I.30.3). Nor is he prepared to believe the story, sworn to by the most respectable men in Elis, that...
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The Challenge of the Greek and Other Essays

Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1972 - 262 pages
...meet, were strange enough — transforming other people and themselves into all kinds of queer things. "That a man should be turned into a bird is to me incredible", says Pausanias,2 but he inclines to believe, in lycanthropy — the man turned into a wolf. "For my...
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