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Greek and Roman Mythology & Heroic Legend Hermann Steuding,Lionel D 1871-1960 Barnett No preview available - 2015 |
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according Achilleus Agamemnon Aigeus ancient Aphrodite Apollon appears Argive Argolis Argos Arkadia Artemis ascribed Athens bestower Boiotia by-name celebrated Centaurs century B.C. characterised chief conceived conception connected Corinth cult daughter dead death deity Delphoi Demeter Dionysos divine dwelling earliest earth embodies Erinyes especially Eteokles Eurystheus father fertility festival figured fruit giver goddess gods grave Greece Greek guardian hand heaven Helios hence Hephaistos Hera Herakles herds Hermes hero Homer honour horse human Iason Iliad Iolkos Ionian Ionic island Iuno Iuppiter Kadmos King Kore Kyklopes Lakonia later legend Medeia mighty Moirai mother Mount Muses Mykenai nether world nymph Odyssey Oidipus oldest Olympos oracle originally Peloponnesos perhaps Phokis Phrixos Poseidon Praxiteles probably race represented river-gods Roman Rome ruler sacred sacrifice sanctuary seat slain slays slew snake souls Sparta spirits spring story temple Thebes Theseus Thessaly thunderbolt torch Trozen wedded wife worship youth Zeus
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Page 52 - the lord of the sea," known to the Eomans as Neptune. "His home Is a cavern in the depths of the sea, and not only does he know all the secrets of his element, but, like the sea-gods of the Babylonians and Germans, he possesses In general Immeasurable wisdom. But he who would question him must first overpower him In a wrestle, and force him, despite his power of assuming like water Itself a variety of shapes, to communicate to him his knowledge
Page 96 - Wonderfully, then, must the Greek legend surprise us, which relates that the Sphinx — the great Egyptian symbol — appeared in Thebes, uttering the words: "What is that which in the morning goes on four legs, at midday on two, and in the evening on three ? " CEdipus, giving the solution Man, precipitated the Sphinx from the rock.
Page 93 - He hung up its golden fleece in the grove of Ares, where it was guarded by a dragon.
Page 75 - When in the cunninglywrought chest the raging blast and the stirred billow and terror fell upon her, with tearful cheeks she cast her arm around Perseus and spake ' Alas, my child, what sorrow is mine...
Page iv - While the plastic fancy of the Greek was actively remodelling the uncouth and formless conceptions of barbarous faith into moral and human personalities, the Roman went on a different course. The sternly legal mind of Rome, which looked upon the person merely as a unit in corporations ruled by definite law, was little likely to lend human personality to its conceptions of divine forces, its numlna. Instead of gods it worshipped deified functions...
Page 4 - In the later representations of art, which are certainly based upon ancient conceptions, they usually appear as warriors, because...
Page 3 - The tohungas have elaborate ceremonies by means of which they restore the soul to a person just dead, but the feat is rarely performed, because the necessary astrological juxtapositions are rare favourable. The ancient Greeks offered the ghost fresh blood, that it might for a time be called back into life and answer questions — a conception which gave birth to the practice of raising the dead and asking oracles of them. By performing the hirihiri divination rite over a corpse the Maoris were enabled...
Page iii - Coarse fantasies of brutish forefathers in their Northern homes softened beneath the southern sun into a pure and godly beauty, and thus gave birth to the divine forms of Hellenic religion. Comparative Mythology can teach us much. It can shew how gods are born in the mind of the savage and moulded into his image.
Page iii - Greek as his devout thoughts turned towards his gods. Greece sees God with her own eyes ; and if we would share the loveliness of her vision we must put away from our thoughts the uncouth forms which had been worn by her northern forefathers' deities, the slough cast off by her gods as they grew into shapes of godliness and beauty.