The mythology of Greece and Rome, with special reference to its use in art, from the Germ., ed. by G.H. Bianchi1877 |
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According Achilles afterwards Amazons ancient Aphrodite Apollo appears Argonauts Argos arrows Artemis artists Athens Augeas beautiful became Bellerophon brother Cadmus called Capitoline celebrated Centaurs character chariot chief conception contest Cronus daughter death deities Demeter depicted Dionysus Dioscuri divine earth engraving Erinyes Eros Eurystheus existence expedition fate father favourite festival Gæa goddess gods Greece Greek art Greeks Hades hand head heaven Hephæstus Hera Heracles Hermes hero Hesiod Homer honour horse important inhabitants Iobates Iolcus Janus kindly king later legend lower world mankind marble MARCUS WARD'S marriage Meleager Minos monster mother Mycena myth nature Niobe nymphs Oceanus Odysseus Olympus oracle originally Pallas Persephone Perseus Pirithoüs poets Poseidon punishment race received regarded representation represented Romans Rome sacred serpents shrine slain slew sons spring statue story succeeded supposed symbol temple Theban Thebes Theseus Titans Trojan Troy Vatican Museum venerated Venus Villa Albani whilst wife worship youth Zeus
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Page 205 - Earth as often as he touched the ground, the hero lifted him up in the air and squeezed him to death in his arms.
Page 199 - Phoenician sun-god, Baal ; probably from the analogy afforded in the course of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. The subjection of Heracles to his unmanly cousin Eurystheus is generally represented as a consequence of the stratagem by which Hera obtained for the latter the sovereignty over all the descendants of Perseus. At a later period Heracles was said to have become insane, in consequence of the summons of Eurystheus to do his bidding. The following is an account of the labors...
Page 138 - O daughter of the skies. Hail, holy ORDER, whose employ Blends like to like in light and joy — Builder of cities, who of old Called the wild man from waste and wold, And, in his hut thy presence stealing, Roused each familiar household feeling, And, best of all, the happy ties, The centre of the social band — The Instinct of the Fatherland!
Page 91 - It was the work of Chares of Lindus, and was 105 feet in height. 2. Selene (Luna). — As Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, so is Selene the twin sister of Helios ; he representing the sun, she the moon. Selene, however, never really enjoyed divine honors in Greece.