The Mythology of Ancient Greece and ItalyG. Bell and Sons, 1877 - 508 pages |
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... called Bulver- hithe ; that is , plainly , Bulver - landing - place , such being the meaning of the old word hithe . But as this term has gone out of use , the honest fishermen thereabouts will gravely tell you , that when William the ...
... called Bulver- hithe ; that is , plainly , Bulver - landing - place , such being the meaning of the old word hithe . But as this term has gone out of use , the honest fishermen thereabouts will gravely tell you , that when William the ...
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... called its son ; 1 one coming by sea have been styled a son of the sea ; and when the metaphor came to be understood literally , persons thus spoken of may have been looked upon as children of the river- or sea - god , and legends have ...
... called its son ; 1 one coming by sea have been styled a son of the sea ; and when the metaphor came to be understood literally , persons thus spoken of may have been looked upon as children of the river- or sea - god , and legends have ...
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... called profundity , is the lavish use of metaphor and ellipsis . 2 It is remarkable enough that the German mystic mythologists have either embraced Popery or shown a strong tendency toward it . 3 We would advise those who have studied ...
... called profundity , is the lavish use of metaphor and ellipsis . 2 It is remarkable enough that the German mystic mythologists have either embraced Popery or shown a strong tendency toward it . 3 We would advise those who have studied ...
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... called the Great Mother . She succeeded her father in his dominion ; and after some time she married Hyperíón , one of her brothers , to whom she bore two children , endowed with marvellous sense and beauty , named Hélios and Seléné ...
... called the Great Mother . She succeeded her father in his dominion ; and after some time she married Hyperíón , one of her brothers , to whom she bore two children , endowed with marvellous sense and beauty , named Hélios and Seléné ...
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... called by the poets brazen and iron , probably only to express its solidity . The superior hemisphere was named Heaven , the inferior one Tartaros . The length of the diameter of the hollow sphere is given thus by Hésiod . It would take ...
... called by the poets brazen and iron , probably only to express its solidity . The superior hemisphere was named Heaven , the inferior one Tartaros . The length of the diameter of the hollow sphere is given thus by Hésiod . It would take ...
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abode according ancient Aphrodité Apoll Apolló Apollod appear Arés Argos Aristoph Artemis Athéna Athens beauty Buttmann called chariot Comp daughter deities Démétér derived Diodór Dionýsos earth Egypt Eileithyia epithet Erebos Erinnyes Eschylos Eudocia Euripidés fable father gave goddess gods golden Grecian Greece Greeks Hadés heaven Hélios Héphæstos Héra Héraklés Hermés hero Hérod Hés Homer Homer and Hésiod honour Hygin Hymn Iapetos Iasón Ilias island isle Kadmos king Kirké Kréte Kronos Kyklópes legend Létó Minós moon mother Müller mythe mythic mythology Night nymphs O'keanos Odysseus offspring Olympos origin Ortygia Ovid Pallas-Athéné Paus Pelasgian Persephoné Phorkys Pind Pindar Plut poem poets Poseidón probably Proleg Prométheus race regarded religion Rhea sacred says Seléné signify sire Strab Tartaros temple Thébes Theocr Theog Theogony Théseus Thessaly Titans Tril Tzetz viii Völcker Welcker worship Zeus καὶ
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Page 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.