fresh water gurgled because it was happy; and each river had in it a great , quiet water-god. When the farmer sowed the seeds

aters laugh with joy. It was a god of the sky who brought the rain in great bags, called clouds, to pour it upon the thirsty

nodded his head, all creation shook with a muttering of thunder; yet, great as he was, he would sometimes come down from the

ned that upon a certain day there was strife between Jupiter and some great earth creatures called Titans. The noise of fight

e him until he was near. Then one of the nymphs glanced up and gave a great shriek. All turned and saw the four great black h

ymphs glanced up and gave a great shriek. All turned and saw the four great black horses and the black chariot, and the dark

ar the fountain of Arethusa, Pluto struck the earth with his spear. A great hole gaped before them, and, with a cry, Proserpi

d there are no stars there. Far away, across the plain, she could see great masses of towers and palaces; but there was not a

e that it was very bad, indeed, for the eyes. Just then they passed a great river, and Proserpina listened to hear the music

im ferryman, with his long, white beard and hair, and in his hand the great oar with which he was rowing the boat across. It

e barking at once. Proserpina shuddered, but Pluto stopped to pat the great beast on its three heads. “Do not be afraid of hi

er lost playmate. She was terrified as she heard the footsteps of the great goddess. Yet she was able to tell the news. Prose

ded. The world soon grew dark, but Ceres would not rest. She took two great pine trees, bound them together, and lit them at

iver she would stop and call. Very soon the river-god would raise his great , dripping head above the water and look at her wi

ounding over the rocks and the streams of water. But though Pan was a great god, he could not tell what had become of Proserp

. Sometimes, in the nights, they could see in the sky the glow of her great torch, where the mighty goddess wandered alone, s

And to-day, in the underworld, I saw her again. She was seated upon a great black throne, beside the dark-faced god. Upon her

other Jupiter, alone, can help me now.” When she came to Olympus, the great gates opened to her of themselves; and when she e

he gods ceased their smiling and became earnest, for they saw how the great earth-goddess was grieving. But Ceres spoke aloud

r which was to come. In those days there lived in the world a race of great creatures called Titans. They were children of ol

heus was wiser than they. He had seen the eternal fire burning in the great hall of Olympus, where the gods of heaven dwell,

s servants of his, who took Prometheus and bound him to the side of a great cliff. There the great Titan hung, with the storm

took Prometheus and bound him to the side of a great cliff. There the great Titan hung, with the storm and the sunshine beati

and fed upon him, and every night his body was healed again, but with great pain, and his suffering was always terrible. He s

to the cliff where Prometheus hung. “Listen, brother,” he said to the great suffering Titan. “For all your pains and mine, me

mind was not changed. Next day he went up the star-road and into the great hall of Olympus, where the gods of heaven were fe

se the lid just a little — just enough to look in — there could be no great harm done. She wanted only a glimpse. She would c

uickly that nothing could escape. At last, one day, the charm was too great to resist, and she found herself grasping the lid

ht and song, came by. He was just from the earth, where he had done a great service to mankind. For the swamps of Greece had

can you do with yours?” The little god did not like the words of the great archer. “I can shoot you, Apollo,” said he, “and

ted out with shining leaves, and instead of her fair face there was a great cluster of beautiful pink and white flowers. Daph

re two of the sunny gods of Olympus. At the end of a Grecian wedding, great marriage-torches were lit; the smoke of the burni

Orpheus and Eurydice alone were unchanged. It seemed to them no very great matter whether the torches burned or not. Yet an

was straight. The spirits of men who were dead came about Orpheus in great crowds, but no one did him harm, and he passed th

out stopping, his thoughts being all of Eurydice. Thus he reached the great palace of Pluto, passed through the iron gates, a

reater, for Eurydice is lost to me all the year. Think, O Proserpina, great queen, what woe you suffered when you thought nev

William Shakespeare. Hercules. Some men are born to a great deal of trouble, yet bear it with so light a hear

and strong. When he was a mere babe of a few months, he met his first great danger. His mother, Alcmena, had put him to bed o

to rest, for he tightened his grip, and laughing as if it were all a great joke, he held up the snakes and dropped them dead

d the seer, “your son has power that is more than human. He will be a great sufferer and a great hero, for he will pass his w

has power that is more than human. He will be a great sufferer and a great hero, for he will pass his whole life ridding the

and brave. Now when Hercules came to be a young man, he had to meet a great temptation and make a very serious choice. One da

Virtue.” Then the goddesses went away, and left him debating, in his great heart. He remembered what Tiresias had said, for

d to conquer some fierce beast. He had even to bring up for a day the great three-headed dog, Cerberus, from the underworld,

ad to be rid of his burden, even for a little while. He stretched his great , cramped limbs to their full length, then setting

hought. Indeed he was half inclined to let the sky fall, but before a great while he saw Atlas trudging toward him, and as he

ver after this, but Hercules continued to be patient and brave, doing great deeds for others to the very end of his life. The

receive their master’s guests with beaming, cheerful faces. Why this great ado about the death of a stranger? All men must d

ered Death. “Let me go; you cannot kill me!” Then Hercules loosed his great arms and stood panting, but with the joy of victo

the earth. Every morning he had to drive the sun-chariot out from the great palace in the east, and all day he had to control

in the sky itself to turn the car from its course, and there are the great creatures which men see marked by the stars — the

had made the dizzy ride. At last Helios led him to the hall where the great chariot stood. Vulcan, the workman of the gods, h

g opened. Phaëton sprang to the chariot seat. The steeds started. The great car began to move. The day had begun. In a few mo

aëton looked down. Far beneath him he saw the earth spread out like a great map. The height made him dizzy. He dropped the re

ere became black from the glare. The earth grew hot and split open in great chasms so that the underworld saw the light of da

said King Polydectes. “You shall live here as befits your rank.” So a great house was prepared for Danaë and she lived for se

the king made a plan to be rid of him. On a certain feast-day all the great and the noble men of the island were invited to t

king. “Bring me, then, the head of the Gorgon Medusa. That would be a great gift, for whoever looks on the Gorgon is changed

ometimes he sped along just above the hilltops. Cities and rivers and great forests passed under him all the day, but in the

the Grææ, and Perseus soon found the three old crones sitting upon a great floe of ice. They had only one eye and one tooth

covered with scales, like the heads of snakes. Their teeth were like great tusks. Their hands were of brass, and each had on

to the hilt. Then the fight began. The beast snapped at him with its great jaws and struck at him with its tail and limbs. T

alight on a rock. The monster, however, was now almost exhausted. Its great hulk drifted to the hero and with one blow he put

s were offered to the gods of Ocean, and preparations were made for a great feast of thanksgiving. But Perseus sacrificed to

e.” Next day the wedding of Perseus and Andromeda was celebrated with great pomp, and before nightfall the young couple had s

The king, for all his anger, dared do her no harm, for he feared the great goddess of wisdom; but he left soldiers at the do

carry her forth from the temple, and when they hesitated, fearing the great ; goddess Minerva, he stepped forward himself to d

length had to return to Athens, he led Æthra out into the forest to a great stone which lay there. “Under this stone,” said h

to me.” “But, Ægeus,” said Æthra, “can any one but a god lift such a great stone?” “He must,” answered the king, “else he wi

dfather’s splendid horses; and often, in the evenings, sitting in the great hall, he listened while strangers told of the dee

dered here and there, but at last they turned in the direction of the great stone. “Mother,” said Theseus, “how long must I s

with the strain. I hen, slowly, the mighty mass rose, and with a last great effort Theseus turned it over. There lay the sand

into the road and blocked the way. He was a famous robber and bore a great club of iron. It was here that Theseus had his fi

is fame had gone before him. The people of the city welcomed him with great rejoicing, and he was taken at once to the court

s beautiful and terrible woman was living at the royal palace and had great power over King Ægeus, and when by her magic arts

id: — “It was my father’s sword, O Ægeus, and I got it by raising the great stone.” The old king wept for joy. But he would h

nos, the king of Crete, sent his son to take part in the games at our great yearly festival. The young man won many prizes an

u do not know all the danger,” said Ariadne. “The Minotaur lives in a great and mysterious building called the Labyrinth. It

path again and again, and to be arriving nowhere. Suddenly he heard a great bellow. It sounded like the voice of a bull, yet

t of a man, but its skin looked thick and hard like leather. Upon its great neck it had the head of a bull, but with teeth lo

ach time tore himself loose in a flash. It tried to bite him with its great teeth and to gore him with its horns, and Theseus

t it and plunged the good sword into it, dealing a fatal blow. With a great cry of pain, the monster fell to the earth and di

sails all outspread, Across the southern wave we fled,    Down in the great sea’s twilight deep, Some silent grot had been ou

s, for the goddesses had come in all their splendor straight from the great hall of Olympus. Juno, the wife of Jupiter and qu

f Paris, and set good cheer before him. While they were feasting, the great doors opened and Queen Helen came into the banque

but took him to live in his own royal household. Meanwhile there was great rage among the Greeks. All their chieftains had o

comes the chief in triumph    Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren    In harness on his right. Safe co

s the ship to haven,    Through billows and through gales If once the great Twin Brethren    Sit shining on the sails. Thom

wns were captured one by one, and at last only Troy remained. In this great city, protected by its walls, there was a strong

es, went up to Olympus and prayed Jupiter for aid, and Jupiter took a great oath that she and her son should be avenged; and

the mighty, did wonders and slew many of the Trojans; but Hector, the great Trojan warrior, with brave. Æneas at his side, di

the victory was with the Trojans. By the end of the first day all the great warriors of the Greeks, except Ajax, were wounded

of Achilles he fell headlong from the splendid chariot. Then began a great battle over the body of Patroclus. Many a Greek a

upon his head and tore his hair. And all his friends, as they saw the great hero lying there, burst out into cries of lamenta

turned and looked, and there was fear in their hearts as they saw the great form and the shining head of Achilles. And the he

ing of Vulcan, the lame workman of heaven. Thetis had once done him a great kindness, and now he received her gladly and aske

for Hector said, “Who knows but that I may slay him, though he is so great ? And for me, it were better to die than to live i

hilles the mighty spear he had thrown at Hector. Then Hector drew his great sword and rushed with desperate courage upon the

. The Greek warriors came near and gazed upon him and wondered at his great body, but the heart of Achilles was still sore wi

rlike sorrows of immortal eyes,    Spoke slowly in her place. “I had great beauty: ask thou not my name:    No one can be mo

ame upon the whole city. Not many days afterwards there was noticed a great stir among the Greeks. The ships were drawn down

he Greeks at work. Then all was still. With the first light of day, a great shout arose from the walls of Troy. There was not

e they have gone to Greece, but they will return in a few weeks. This great wooden horse is an offering which they made to Mi

was too narrow to let in the monster, so the wall was torn down and a great breach made to admit it. Three times the shaking

e Grecian fleet was there, coming quietly back. Sinon hastened to the great wooden horse and called. In a moment the horse op

e had left his young wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus, and the great warrior was eager to see them again, and to be at

and where have you come from?” Their hearts sank at the sound of that great voice, but Ulysses answered’: “We are Greeks. For

ve, drove out his sheep and goats, and again closed the door with the great rock. At this, the men were in despair, but the w

h in a deep sleep. Then Ulysses brought forth from its hiding place a great beam of olive wood. Polyphemus had cut it to use

er they poised it and thrust the burning stake deep into the Cyclops’ great eye. The monster awoke roaring with pain, and cal

d he cast another rock, larger even than the first, but this time the great mass fell behind the ship and only helped it on.

beside him and opened it, letting loose all the winds of heaven in a great tempest. Ulysses awoke and knew what had happened

us. Circe, for that was the name of the goddess, led the men into the great hall, and with a show of gracious hospitality, pr

gh it were their own. Every day there could be heard from her halls a great tumult of revelry and feasting and drunkenness. P

ich she had formed. She went up into her husband’s armory and got his great bow and carried it down among the suitors. Then t

an arrow at Antinoüs, killing him instantly. In a moment there was a great uproar. The suitors set upon Ulysses with their s

ut, and Minerva took off the disguise that was upon Ulysses, and shed great beauty on him, making him tall and strong like th

. At΄tic. Pertaining to Attica, the province of which Athens was the great city, 150, 157,167. Brise΄is. Slave about whom A

the oceans and the rivers and the woods and everything else. They are great and happy and good, and they live forever; they c

the clouds and the stars. They pictured the marble halls, with their great , shining pillars and their thrones of gold and si

their homes and came down to visit the people on the earth. Once in a great , great while they came in their own true forms; b

omes and came down to visit the people on the earth. Once in a great, great while they came in their own true forms; but far

and would love them and send them wealth and happiness. So they built great temples of marble, and in them they set up gold a

such people, often made herself and others very unhappy. She had one great favorite, a peacock, which was always with her. B

nd isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles? Ah! you are so great , and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, wo

words. In an instant Callisto’s slender, white hands had changed into great , hairy paws; and where but a moment before a fair

a little cleared space, and saw, standing within a few feet of him, a great , shaggy bear. Callisto, for it was she, did not h

r depended the food, and therefore the life, of all the people on the great , wide earth. Ceres had one fair young daughter, w

t dare to drive through its waters. To go back another way would mean great loss of time; so with his scepter he struck the g

hed for her in all the rooms, but they were empty. Then she lighted a great torch from the fires of a volcano, and went wande

ce of wealth and plenty throughout the world. It seemed as though the great earth grieved with the mother for the loss of bea

r to resume her duties and to be their friend again, Ceres lifted her great eyes, wearied with endless seeking, and answered

d bring Proserpine back to her mother, for they were sadly in need of great Ceres’ help. At last, after wandering over all th

the fountain, and I come from the inmost parts of the earth, O Ceres, great mother! There I saw your daughter seated on a thr

his own godlike nature; and when next we hear of them, Apollo is the great god of the sun and of music, and Diana, his beaut

danced and sang in the green woods with the other nymphs. She had one great fault, however, — she was too talkative; and the

er, brought wealth and comfort into their little cottage, through her great skill in spinning and embroidering. Such beautifu

ol, and so graceful did she look as she worked with her spindle, that great lords and ladies came from every part of the land

name was famous throughout Greece, and princes and merchants paid her great prices for her wonderful embroidery. 7. “So gra

Scott . The Story of the Laurel Once upon a time there was a great , great flood over all the earth. Some wicked peop

. The Story of the Laurel Once upon a time there was a great, great flood over all the earth. Some wicked people had

The people were then very happy; and you may be sure that they made a great ado over Apollo, so that he left the country feel

not try to run from me. I love you, and will do you no harm. I am the great sun god Apollo.” 8. “I am the great sun god Apo

d will do you no harm. I am the great sun god Apollo.” 8. “I am the great sun god Apollo.” Apollo Belvedere (Vatican, Rome

her. But only the fairest and best maidens were thought worthy of the great honor of hunting with Diana. 9. “Clad in her hu

le put Perseus and his mother into a boat, and set them adrift on the great , wide sea. They floated about for many days, and

y close, and sang him sweet lullabies, to keep him from crying at the great waves that every now and then swept over the litt

ngdom.” “And do you think me worthy of this honor?” cried Perseus, in great delight. “You may try it, if you like,” answered

me back without doing what you promised to do. Your courage is not so great as you would have us believe.” “Nay, your majesty

l his royal state. When the people heard what had happened, there was great rejoicing, for they had all feared and hated the

e as much. The wedding day dawned at last, bright and sunny, and with great pomp and rejoicing Perseus and Andromeda were mar

vanished nymph.” When Mercury finished his tale, which he had told at great length and in a sleepy tone, he saw, to his delig

for many years, until she grew old and died. Then the people carved a great statue of the queen, and placed it in their templ

ith his honor and his name That defends our flocks from blame. He is great and he is just, He is ever good and must Thus be

     Ever holy,             Ever holy, Ever honored, ever young, Thus great Pan is ever sung. Beaumont and Fletcher .

Fletcher . How a Mother’s Pride Was Humbled There was once a great city called Thebes, and the king and queen who ru

the many things that kept her busy. Thebes, you must know, was a very great city indeed, and there were many troublesome ques

roud, and she always wanted every one to bow down to her and say “How great is Niobe!” Now every spring there was a festival

city hastened to the temple, with garlands of flowers to offer to the great mother, Niobe came last of all, dressed in a beau

d it was always joy to her to hear the hymns sung in honor of the two great twins and their mother. She heard the queen’s boa

ow the hero came to perform those wonderful deeds known as the twelve great labors of Hercules. It would take too long to tel

, but she knew that her father had half promised her in marriage to a great river god. The king was undecided as to what he s

the river god was like a child. But just as the hero was clasping his great arms about his rival to throw him down, the river

entures, until at last the longing to see other lands and to do other great deeds became too strong for him. So one day he st

ce he seemed to be happier in his wanderings. Hercules had traveled a great distance, when at last he came to a city by the s

to tear off the fatal shirt, but it stuck fast to his skin. Then the great hero began to stride up and down the seashore, cr

, he died as he had lived, like a hero. With his own hands he tore up great trees and bushes, and built of them his own funer

ared and mounted ever higher and higher, as though eager to devour so great a hero; they had almost reached his head, when su

t noticing his uncle’s gloomy face, was talking happily about all the great things he meant to do by and by, when suddenly Da

sail boats, when suddenly he said, “Oh, father, the vessels look like great , white-winged birds skimming lightly over the wav

ccident should befall him, gave the signal to start. Slowly, like two great birds, father and son rose into the air. The fish

e flew, the more fiercely the sun beat down upon him. Before long the great heat melted the wax by which the wings were faste

a baby boy. Minos loved his child very much and watched over him with great fatherly care, and the boy was taught all the art

ant it may!), But your arm will never be stronger,     Or the need so great as to-day. Rise! for the day is passing;     The

d with angry, bitter feelings, started to march against Athens with a great army. On his way he had to pass through a large c

enger returned and told what terms King Minos had proposed, there was great sorrow in Athens. At first the people felt that i

or little grapes from the stunted vine in the garden had changed into great , luscious clusters of purple black. Although husb

gh, and would now like a place in which to sleep; for they had come a great distance that day, and were very weary. Baucis ha

the sky and a heavy gale arose. Soon the quiet waves had changed into great , white-capped mountains of water, that dashed and

r herbs that send mortals to sleep. In the center of the cavern, on a great couch of black ebony, lay Somnus wrapped in slumb

who bringest rest and peace to the weary heart and mind, I come from great Juno, who begs thee to send to Halcyone a vision

s shoulders and entered the stream. The water dashed against him with great force; he had to struggle with all his might, and

cried Jason, “there are many heroes waiting only for the chance to do great deeds.” At this the king laughed aloud. “Is it po

it could speak. Many a time during the long voyage, when Jason was in great danger and did not know what to do, he consulted

row would bring. The next morning all the people of Colchis went in a great crowd to the field where Jason was to meet his de

ed, as all the people did, that Jason’s last hour had come. They were great , ugly creatures, with hoofs of brass, and horns p

in the grove where he hunted. The stag was a beautiful creature, with great , soft eyes and branching antlers. He belonged to

felt very heavy, and when he drew it in, he saw that he had caught a great number of fine fish. He emptied them out upon the

es and beams my love. Thou little, youthful maiden,     Come unto my great heart; My heart, and the sea, and the heaven     

ever thought of the wide difference between a little hunter boy and a great god of heaven. One day, while they were resting i

mes with the first breath of spring, to remind us of the story of the great god of the sun and the little lad whom he loved s

re is a green island called Cyprus. Once there lived on this island a great sculptor, named Pygmalion, who spent his days in

e beauty he had wrought. So the days passed on, until the time of the great festival of Venus was at hand. Venus, you know, w

dess of love, and once a year, the youths and maidens of Cyprus had a great celebration in her honor. 18. “The great goddes

nd maidens of Cyprus had a great celebration in her honor. 18. “The great goddess of love.” Venus de Milo (Louvre, Paris).

Venus. As he stood there, he began to pray. He prayed that Venus, the great goddess of love, would take pity on him; and sinc

d the marble to life, she had also made Galatea return the sculptor’s great love. Pygmalion was very happy, and when he had g

gmalion was very happy, and when he had given thanks to Venus for her great kindness to him, he and Galatea were married in t

flute from the reeds that grew by the river. Now this same Pan was a great favorite with King Midas, and the king thought hi

atest musician in the world; and one day he went so far as to ask the great god Apollo to enter with him into a contest of mu

id not seem to fit the place or the occasion. Midas, alone, expressed great delight at his favorite’s playing, and called him

use of his ears, Apollo changed them to long, furry asses’- ears. In great excitement the king locked himself in his royal c

utting his mouth close to the ground, he whispered, “King Midas wears great asses ears.” The barber felt very much better aft

d through them they gave forth these strange words, “King Midas wears great asses ears.” Soon all the king’s subjects came to

then they looked exactly like volcanoes sending forth flames from the great holes in their summits. You would think that thes

ry day he sat upon the rocks, watching his flocks graze, and making a great deal of noise on his hundred-reeded pipe. And as

I bring you chestnuts and the fruit of all the other trees. “See how great is my wealth, — all these cows belong to me, and

o a Cyclops. I have but one eye in the middle of my forehead, yet the great sun in heaven, which sees all things, likewise ha

or you.” Thus sang Polyphemus. But Galatea was only frightened at the great , shaggy monster, for such he seemed to her, and a

ssary to the comprehension of much that we read and hear, they have a great æsthetic value, presenting, as they do, a mine of

nevertheless, capable of imparting something of the atmosphere of the great originals, and, in whatever tongue they may be to

of Greece and Rome are as a sealed book. The writings of many of the great English classical translators, it may be added, a

” have been culled, and they will enable the reader to appreciate the great : influence of the myths upon our literature. The

ration. The myths are told as graphically and accurately as possible, great care being taken, however, to avoid the more repu

own from generation to generation. At first, when all things lay in a great confused mass, — “Ere earth and sea, and coverin

nt to our Mediterranean and Black Seas); and all around it flowed the great river Oceanus in a “steady, equable current,” und

   We give him back in song.” Moore. South of Greece, also near the great river Oceanus, dwelt another nation, just as happ

yed the company of the gods, who shared their innocent pleasures with great delight. And far away, on the shore of this same

nd security now reigned on and around Mount Olympus; and Cronus, with great satisfaction, congratulated himself on the result

ather’s curse then suddenly returned to his mind. Anxious to avert so great a calamity as the loss of his power, he hastened

, —-weapons which only they knew how to forge. This new engine caused great terror and dismay in the ranks of the enemy, who,

s hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus’ height, And the vast world hangs trembli

to have been in Thessaly, where the country bears the imprint of some great natural convulsion; for the ancients imagined tha

handiwork, Prometheus observed man and longed to bestow upon him some great power, unshared by any other creature of earth, w

rasp, bear him off to the Caucasian Mountains, and bind him fast to a great rock, was but a moment’s work. There a voracious

e and more inquisitive. Stealthily she drew near and examined it with great interest, for it was curiously wrought of dark wo

s for the welfare of mankind, Jupiter often visited the earth, taking great care to assume some disguise which would enable h

for their intended sacrifice bade them ask any boon, promising by the great river Styx — the most binding and solemn oath a g

ealous disposition, Jupiter was forced to conduct his courtships with great secrecy and circumspection, and therefore general

spoke in gentle accents, bidding her dismiss all fear, for he was the great Jupiter in disguise. “Take courage, gentle maid!

on till he came to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle; but, to his great dismay, the only reply he received was, “Follow t

eece were wont to assemble to celebrate games, in honour of Jupiter’s great victory over the Titans. These festivals were kno

ook about him for a suitable helpmate. Juno won his affections by her great beauty; and he immediately began his courtship, w

e his throne; for shortly afterward their wedding was celebrated with great pomp on Mount Olympus. It was on this solemn occa

into a rough, ungainly bear, and driven out into the solitudes of the great forests, which were from that time forth to be he

uno’s festivals, the Matronalia, in Rome, were always celebrated with great pomp. Less important feasts were held in each cit

time a mighty commotion over land and sea proclaimed the advent of a great divinity. The goddess, who had thus joined the in

ovince since called Attica. All the gods watched his undertaking with great interest; and finally, seeing the town promised t

ed them into huge green frogs, which creatures have since then showed great preference for muddy pools. Driven on once more b

instructed by Apollo in the healing art. The disciple’s talent was so great , that he soon rivalled his master, and even, it i

y-married pair were perfectly happy but their content was viewed with great displeasure by Eos (Aurora), goddess of dawn, who

ly implored Jupiter to restore his wife to his longing arms, that the great god’s heart was moved to compassion. He gave him

ational Museum, Naples. Brogi, Photo. Amphion’s musical talent was of great use to him when he subsequently became King of Th

he golden-wheeled sun-car. Patiently he then explained to Phaeton the great danger of such an undertaking, earnestly begging

eparate duties assigned them. Clio, the Muse of history, recorded all great deeds and heroic actions, with the names of their

flock, in a fit of passion he took the goatherd and fastened him in a great chest, intending that he should die of starvation

, celebrated at Delphi every three years. A manly, beardless youth of great beauty, Apollo is generally crowned with laurels,

arble cheeks, for, though changed, Niobe still felt, and wept for her great loss. This story is an allegory, in which Niobe,

he beautiful vision. That one glance, although it drove Diana away in great haste, kindled in his heart an inextinguishable p

tastes, soon learned to love him; but this affection was viewed with great displeasure by Apollo, from whose piercing glance

elley. The ocean nymphs were the first to discover her, cradled on a great blue wave; and they carried her down into their c

deep, as a tribute to her charms. Then they pillowed her softly on a great wave, and entrusted her to the care of Zephyrus,

ully toiled up a rugged mountain, and, creeping to the very edge of a great precipice, cast herself down, expecting to be das

lighted her lamp, seized her dagger, and, approaching the couch with great caution, bent over her sleeping lover. The lamp,

explanation. Apollo (the Sun) was supposed by the ancients to possess great herds of cattle and sheep, — the clouds; and Merc

they came to a beautiful hilly country, where they decided to found a great city, the capital of their future realm. Accordin

out of heaven. The intervening space between heaven and earth was so great , that Vulcan’s fall lasted during one whole day a

and withdrew to the solitudes of Mount /Etna, where he established a great forge in the heart of the mountain, in partnershi

manufacture many cunning and useful objects from the metals found in great profusion in the bosom of the earth. Among these

itants, devastated everything within his reach, and inspired all with great terror. To save themselves from the awful death w

rt he sent heralds to publish far and wide that the king would give a great reward to any man who would dare attack and succe

of the sea. Her name was Amphitrite, or Salacia. At first she was in great awe of her distinguished suitor, and in her fear

he deep, and he always attended Neptune when it was safe to leave his great herds of sea calves to bask on the sunny shores.

ried deep in the bosom of the earth. This god inspired all men with a great fear. They never spoke of him without trembling,

ear witness of the foul deed. When his body was discovered, there was great grief throughout Greece, and all men demanded ven

nce upon the murderer. Shortly after, a play was being enacted in the great amphitheatre, in which the Furies were very graph

wned and changed into dolphins. On another occasion, Silenus, after a great carousal, lost his way in the forest, and helples

gold: A clod he touches and the crumbling mould Acknowledged soon the great transforming power, In weight and substance like

the water and rushed to clasp her in his arms, she turned and fled in great terror. She fled, but he pursued. Over hill and d

ly festivals, the Thesmophoria and the Cerealia, were celebrated with great pomp. “To Ceres chief her annual rites be paid,

considered the extinction of this sacred flame the precursor of some great public calamity. The Vestals were, however, so pu

ls, and extinguished the sacred fire. Vesta’s services were held with great pomp; and her festivals, the Vestalia, were among

d, chanting the praises of the good goddess Vesta. On these occasions great banquets were prepared before each house, all dai

trance of the cave, shadowy forms kept constant watch, gently shaking great bunches of poppies, and, with finger to lips, enj

r husband’s corpse to her feet. To endure life without him seemed too great a task for poor Halcyone, who immediately cast he

his good offices. He is generally represented as a sleeping child of great corpulence, and with wings. Morpheus held a vase

e ruled them with a very strict hand, kept them closely confined in a great cave, and let them loose only one at a time, to s

us, the east wind, was generally depicted “as a young man flying with great impetuosity, and often appearing in a playful and

rvices to Eurystheus, who informed him that he must accomplish twelve great labours ere he could again be free. The Nemean

areer of rapacity, for this snake devoured man and beast Armed with a great sword, Hercules succeeded in cutting off one of t

e maddened the bull, which rushed wildly all over the island, causing great damage. This animal Hercules, with his usual stre

nger than they, and of the cranes, which passed over their country in great flocks, and sometimes alighted to devour their ha

trength, the victory seemed very uncertain. At last Hercules felt his great strength begin to fail, and noticed that every ti

ompassionate hero should come and set him free. “There Atlas, son of great Iapetus, With head inclined and ever-during arms,

ds to serve Omphale, Queen of Lydia, for a certain period of time. No great deeds were now required of Hercules, whose streng

he hero, skilfully avoiding his first onset, seized him by one of his great thick-set horns, and held it so firmly that all t

deliver the oppressed and relieve the suffering, for people came from great distances to ask for his aid; and although his ab

mean Games, celebrated in the forest of Nemea, the scene of his first great labour, were the principal games held in Greece i

The king no sooner learned this astonishing news, than he flew into a great rage, vowed that mother and child should perish,

s heart sank with terror when she felt the cask buffeted about by the great waves far out of sight of land, and out of all re

d to lend him their aid, so that he might successfully accomplish the great task of slaying Medusa. Pluto lent him a magic he

tached his own winged sandals to the youth’s heels, to endow him with great rapidity of flight; while Minerva armed him with

one hand, and, holding it persistently behind his back, flew away in great haste, lest the two remaining Gorgons should fall

ent on the changeless countenance, as though beneath the blackness of great horror he yet saw the wreck of her ancient beauty

om the giant’s head were like the snow which rests upon the peak of a great mountain, and that in place of the trembling limb

ediately obeyed. With a mighty effort he raised the rock, and, to his great satisfaction, found the sword and sandals in a pe

ime after his arrival at Athens, Theseus heard a sound of weeping and great lamentation throughout all the city, and in reply

Theseus’ breast; Instant his gen’rous soul resolv’d to save Cecrops’ great offspring from a timeless grave.” Catullus.

riding in his chariot close by the shore. In answer to this prayer, a great wave suddenly arose, dashed over the chariot, and

discharged his duties most faithfully, trained the young prince with great care, and soon made him the wisest and most skilf

the festive meal, bards sang of all the heroic deeds accomplished by great men; and Pelias, by judicious flattery, stimulate

gathered together all the brave men of the country, and instituted a great hunt, whose main object was the capture or death

r. Jason, Nestor, Peleus, Admetus, Theseus, Pirithous, and many other great heroes, came at his call; but the attention of al

e in Hades. Later on, satisfied that even this sacrifice was none too great for their fraternal love, he translated then both

he child was destined to kill his father, marry his mother, and bring great misfortunes upon his native city.               

te had decreed he should kill his father, marry his mother, and cause great woes to his native city.                        

ncklin’s tr.) Of course, Œdipus did not connect the murder of such a great personage as the King of Thebes by an unknown ban

death of many faithful subjects, and’ filling the hearts of all with great terror. The people now turned to him, beseeching

rave young prince, the grandson of Sisyphus, King of Corinth, had the great misfortune to kill his own brother while hunting

ry courageous, Bellerophon’s heart beat fast with fear when told what great deed he must accomplish; and he left Iobates’ pal

and unexpectedly down upon the winged monster, whose fiery breath and great strength were of no avail; for after a protracted

rried, and daily rejoiced in their happiness, which seemed almost too great for earth when they became the parents of a charm

but sang his praises, and celebrated festivals in his honour. “He is great and he is just, He is ever good, and must Thus be

        Ever holy,         Ever holy, Ever honoured! ever young, The great Pan is ever sung!” Beaumont and Fletcher. Th

d a pine garland around his misshapen head. “He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,         From the deep cool bed of the ri

    Ere he brought it out of the river. This is the way, laughed the great god Pan          (Laughed while he sate by the ri

sweet, O Pan,         Piercing sweet by the river! Blinding sweet, O great god Pan! The sun on the hill forgot to die, And t

fly         Came back to dream on the river. Yet half a beast is the great god Pan         To laugh, as he sits by the river

peared in royal robes and insignia, and whispered that he should have great wealth and unlimited power were he to award the p

he parts they touched invulnerable. Premising that her son would be a great warrior, and thus exposed to great danger, she pl

Premising that her son would be a great warrior, and thus exposed to great danger, she plunged him wholly into the tide with

is promise, laid aside his armour, determined to fight no more. “The great Achilles, swift of foot, remained Within his ship

thy child an orphan nor thy wife A widow.’      Then answered Hector, great in war: ‘All this I bear in mind, dear wife; but

e hero who had caused so many brave warriors to bite the dust. “Thus great Achilles, who had shown his zeal In healing wound

ised. Philoctetes, whole once more, joined the Greek host, and caused great dismay in the enemy’s ranks with his poisoned arr

ty to view the wooden horse and question Sinon, who pretended to have great cause of complaint against the Greeks, and strong

his inseparable friend. In fact, their devotion to each other was so great that it has become proverbial in every tongue. El

of food. The prospect was promising, for on the plains and hillsides great flocks of sheep cropped the tender grass; and Uly

ropped the tender grass; and Ulysses and his followers soon came to a great cave filled with rich stores of milk and cheese.

peal, joyfully joined him, and sat beside him under the shade of some great rock, listening to his tender wooing. The Tri

ghtful asleep, his loud snores reverberating like thunder through the great cave. Ulysses silently crept to his side, sword i

ut.                             “‘I bring to you The mighty bow that great Ulysses bore. Whoe’er among you he may be whose h

l wash us down! It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much

eceive them now, to share your fate: Provide them mansions strong and great , The city’s walls, which Heaven has willed Beyond

ttended by many of his fellow citizens, to ascertain the cause of the great uproar. A few minutes later he discovered that th

these monsters — half woman and half bird — made them embark again in great haste, and row on until they came to Epirus, wher

llies of Latinus, who had specially distinguished themselves by their great valour. The dead and dying covered the field, whe

alive in our minds the old animative theory of nature, that it is no great effort in us to fancy the waterspout a huge giant

field of ocean.” As the names of the Greek gods and heroes have in a great measure been found to correspond with the Sanskri

of forgetfulness,” derived from the same root as “Leto”). Müller, the great authority on philology, tells us that, in the anc

to see it go rolling down and plunge into a dark abyss enveloped in a great cloud of dust, has been interpreted to represent

ough life, never resting, and always on his journey performing twelve great tasks, interpreted to represent either the twelve

is soon forced to leave Iole, the violet-coloured clouds. He performs great deeds, slays innumerable demons of drought and da

, then journeys onward’ in search of his father, performing countless great deeds for the benefit of mankind. He slays the Mi

a creature who had imprisoned the rain in the clouds, and thus caused great distress. Urged on by unrelenting fate, he marrie

nature, which, hidden deep underground, occasionally emerge, heave up great masses of rock, and hurl them about with an accom

ion of fire; and, her name having retained its primitive meaning to a great extent, “she continued to the end, as she had bee

tole away the cattle of the sun (the clouds), and, after fanning up a great fire in which he consumed some of the herd, glide

and capriciousness; and whenever he is overcome, he is noted for his great roar. His name comes from the same root as Maruts

legislators, the fictions of poets, and the extreme ignorance of the great mass of mankind in the primitive times of society

ved among these gods. The fourth order contained the virtues by which great men had been distinguished, as fidelity, concord,

y prayers and sacrifices, the crime was expiated. The vestals enjoyed great privileges. When they met a criminal, they had po

he last and the most celebrated of his wives. By these wives he had a great number of children, and he was often connected wi

spake th’ almighty father as he sat Enthron’d in gold; and clos’d the great debate, Th’ attentive winds a solemn silence keep

ly represented? Who was the usual attendant of Juno? Was Juno held in great veneration? What sacrifices were offered to her?

mples grow In fields, in forests, all their powers I know, And am the great physician call’d below.” Hyacinthus. “Behold th

she is represented in a chariot drawn by hinds. At Ephesus she had a great number of breasts. — See Fig. 21. Fig. 21. Dian

ine. In conclusion, therefore, it may be remarked, that, although the great Hebrew lawgiver Moses, who was very celebrated in

piter. The honour of giving a name to the city of Cecrops, produced a great dispute between Neptune and Minerva. The twelve g

ops, produced a great dispute between Neptune and Minerva. The twelve great gods were chosen as arbiters of this difference.

p’d forth.” Lucian. “Arachne thrice upon the forehead smote, Whose great heart brooks it not; about her throat A rope she

ying, that Neptune had been surpassed by Minerva, and that the twelve great gods had decided it. Obs. 4. — The fable of Arac

of poetry. They gave out, that Mars had been acquitted by the twelve great gods, because the judges, twelve in number, were

s as their guide. They consulted their passions or those of kings and great personages whom they wished to flatter. Hence, th

honey were made to him, and the tongues were burnt on his altar with great solemnity, because he was the god of eloquence. T

ith most materials for fable, is Mercury Trismegistus, or three times great , king of Egypt, who lived a little after Moses. H

Persians having pretended to sustain the pre-eminence of fire, their great divinity, the Egyptian priests accepted the chall

the sea, was undoubtedly a prince, hero, or captain who, commanding a great naval army, had signalized himself by his talents

ey requested the gods to grant them wings to look after her about the great sea, and obtained them. The jealous Juno inspired

Narcissus in the woods; but he shunned her. The grief of Echo was so great as to consume away her flesh, and dissolve her in

woods did Echo see, love, follow, and embrace? Was the grief of Echo great ? Into what flower was Narcissus at length turned?

that the bag was full of money, untied it. The winds rushed out with great violence, and blew him back many a weary league,

orce allay.” Obs. — The deification of the wind, proceeded from the great veneration with which the ancients, during the Tr

f nothing but gratifying his wants and passions. Though his pride was great , he acknowledged that he could not command the el

st order, which were called Consentes. These differed from the twelve great gods, of whom we have previously spoken. Jupiter

lly, Demogorgon represents the genius of the earth. No person, having great fear and veneration for his name, durst pronounce

rcumspection. The house where the feast was celebrated was adorned at great expense, and as it always took place at night, a

fumes of olive, box, fir, rosemary, laurel, and sulphur. They kindled great fires of straw, around and over which they danced

ade by Praxiteles, was set up in the capitol. He was marked among the great terrestrial and rural gods. Populonia was worshi

 The idea of Midas’ changing every thing into gold, is taken from his great riches gained by commerce, or by oppression. Obs

only, they were called Dii Patrii, or the “gods of the country,” or “ great gods;” and when they preside over particular hous

oice of pain, The crashing fetter, and the rattling chain, Strike the great hero with the frightful sound, The hoarse, rough,

acquisition; and winged, because riches are sometimes dissipated with great rapidity. “————— In Sicilia’s ever blooming shad

was the daughter of Nox. She was worshipped by the Lacedæmonians with great solemnity. No temples were erected to her, becaus

piter threw him down, and put him under Mount Ætna, which sends forth great flames of fire every time he moves his sides. An

nsidered as a god, he built a brazen bridge over the city, and made a great noise as he drove his chariot, to imitate thunder

ld destroy them all. Some represent the Gorgons as female warriors of great beauty. The admiration which their appearance pro

tiffs, who declared, that one temple could not contain two deities so great . He therefore constructed two, contiguous to each

a is the most celebrated. Hygeia, the goddess of health, was held in great veneration, and was represented in the most engag

als, and all persons of consequence. They preserved the memory of the great and good, and respected it; but the Greeks were t

men. The ancient philosophers taught, that, after death, the souls of great men inhabited the abodes of the gods. This opinio

of the existence of such obscure deities. But such was not the lot of great men whom cities, kingdoms, and populous nations,

names of all to whom Greece and Italy granted a religious worship, or great honors; but we shall notice the most celebrated,

w. When dragged into the presence of Eurystheus, it excited in him so great terror, that he nearly fainted at the sight; or,

lakes. Hail, Jove’s undoubted son! an added grace To heav’n, and the great author of thy race. Receive the grateful off’ring

ubdues and conquers our irregular passions; and his marriage, for his great and noble actions, ever freshly blooming in the m

re born in Laconia, near Sparta, on the banks of the river Eurotas. A great number of swans were always to be met with on tha

“giving some of the apples of the Hesperides.” Obs. 1. — Atlas was a great observer of the stars, and the first who represen

ligence superior to the body, and which was called the soul. But this great and sublime idea was admitted and preserved by th

history makes mention of their principal deities. They adopted eight great gods: the Sun, Saturn, Rhea, Jupiter, Vulcan, Ves

time allowed, they drowned him, embalmed his body, and buried it with great pomp in the city of Memphis. His death, which was

priests and their god to appear before him. When he saw an ox held in great veneration by them, he wounded it in the thigh, c

hey abstain from fermented liquors and animal food, because they have great faith in metempsychosis. The Sanscrit language in

to man. Their children, called Genae and Genus, dwelt in Phœnicia. A great drought prevailing, they stretched their hands to

e so populous and rich as to rebuild this sanctuary, it was done with great labour and cost. It filled a space sufficient for

sided over fertile fields and harvests. Her worship was celebrated by great numbers of priests. Hares and doves were offered

hom was Mex-it-li, the most highly honoured among their divinities. A great mulitude of human victims was sacrificed to him.

de of human victims was sacrificed to him. He was honoured with three great sacrifices a year. The Mexicans also celebrated t

. The images of the Penates were placed in every house. The kings and great lords kept six of those images, the nobles four,

f some other valuable material. There were also placed the statues of great men, gildings, and paintings, especially votive p

ere were in the temple of Belus. several idols of massive gold, and a great number of sacred vessels of the same metal, the w

ere immolated animals which had just been born. Near that place was a great altar, on which perfumes were burnt every year, a

he endeavours to pry into the secrets of his future destiny. All was great in the motives and conceptions which led to the c

equisition to adorn it with his master pieces. Thus, the labours of a great man are often sufficient to give light to the age

t. Peter’s at Rome. It is asserted that this extraordinary man — this great painter, architect, and sculptor, made a will, in

It is to this rash attempt that the large chinks which are now in the great vault, are to be attributed. It has been found ne

kings; and was so magnificent and extensive that it was considered a great glory, when, in a long reign, a prince had constr

elivered oracles; but, in process of time, almost all the gods, and a great number of heroes, obtained this privilege. All da

a, a province of Epirus; where she informed the inhabitants, that the great Jupiter wished to establish an oracle in their co

heir country. This prodigy at first astonished the people; but soon a great number of credulous consulters appeared. These tw

her. Soon her answers passed for oracles, and her celebrity became so great , that people came from every quarter to consult h

journey. The burning sands of Libya were not an obstacle sufficiently great to lessen the inquietude and active curiosity of

hem, and sung hymns in honour of Jupiter. The ship was adorned with a great number of ancient cups of silver, which hung on b

me at which it was established, is not known, which goes to prove its great antiquity. Apollo was not at first consulted ther

ted the oracle, they made numerous sacrifices, always with the air of great mystery, and with infinite precautions in choosin

n passes his feet into the cave, and is immediately carried away with great force and swiftness. It was there that futurity w

oracle of Trophonias was established. Pausanias merely relates that a great drought having laid waste Bœotia, the people sent

were instituted in honour of the Gods, or to celebrate the memory of great events, and to form youth to the various exercise

ary personage, named Odin, anciently reigned there; that he performed great changes in government, in manners, customs, and r

s in government, in manners, customs, and religion; that he exercised great authority; and that he received even divine honou

such brilliant conquests, as an extraordinary being, loaded him with great honours, and adored him even as a divinity. This

y, made him undertake the subjugation of Norway. His good fortune and great abilities attended him thither. This kingdom soon

th the other gods at an eternal banquet, where he would receive, with great honours, those who, after having exposed themselv

y to the usage which he had brought into the North, it was burnt with great pomp and magnificence. Such was the end of this m

ult affairs, the head of a certain Mimer, who, during his life, had a great reputation for wisdom. This man having had his he

ed his harangues with the verses which he composed. Not only was he a great poet, but he was the first who inspired the Scand

ble in battle. The terror, with which he inspired his enemies, was so great , that, in order to depict it, he was said to stri

Europe, and, no doubt, by several Asiatic nations. It still preserved great purity towards the end of the Roman republic. The

uperior to all created intelligences. So reasonable a doctrine had so great influence over their minds, that they often displ

a , sees and governs for centuries, directs all that is high and low, great and small. He made heaven, air, and man, who is t

d the whitest flower was hence called Baldrian. He was endued with so great majesty, that his looks were resplendent. He was

Bor killed the giant Ymer, and the blood flowed from his wound in so great abundance, that it caused a general inundation, i

of chaos given in the Edda; that quickening breath which produced the great giant Ymer; that sleep, during which a man and a

tonishing prodigies; monsters will break their chains and escape; the great dragon will roll in the ocean, and by his motions

ill issue from his nostrils and eyes; he will devour the sun, and the great dragon who follows him, will vomit upon the water

and blow his roaring trumpet; the gods will awake and meet again; the great oak will shake its branches; and heaven and earth

t of Odin. Valva. “Hard by the eastern gate of hell In ancient time great Valva fell; And there she lies in massive tomb, S

e isle of Selande; for which reason they must have been transported a great distance — monuments more lasting than any of mod

ge temple at Upsal seemed to be particularly consecrated to the three great divinities. They were there represented by their

rtility; Frigga, as the goddess of love and marriage. They held three great festivals in the year. The first was celebrated a

of the year. The third feast, in honor of Odin, was celebrated with a great deal of elact at the commencement of spring; at w

ee was cherished by the gods. Every ninth month or three times three, great sacrifices were renewed. They lasted nine days; a

e, where he was either choked or crushed. When the blood spouted with great impetuosity, it was considered one of the most fa

y valour with the finest virtues of civilized nations. The glory of a great nation awakens the genius of the man whom nature

of the praises of which it inwardly acknowledges itself unworthy. The great soon learned to despise the mean flatteries of th

pirit of chivalry to spring up. It produced prodigies of heroism, and great actions revived the genius of some. These came to

ch was heard, was gentle and soothing. At the moment of executing any great undertaking, the souls of fathers were thought to

ion where he was to die, and uttered plaintive cries. At the death of great personages, it was believed that the souls of dep

it was the shades, who, by that light touch, predicted the death of a great personage. A chief or a king never lost his life,

ed in their respective countries, were always consulted on matters of great importance. They were equally the sole ministers

erse the actions of heroes, and sung them accompanied by the harp. So great value was attached to their verses, that they wer

of that country that the greatest sacrifices were offered up, and the great men and generals of the country assembled. Both y

ich women could never be admitted. The authority of the Druids was so great , that none undertook any important affair without

l classes and professions were admitted; but they were checked by the great length of probation demanded, and by the indispen

death as a sure means of attaining to a more happy life. They made a great difference between those who died peaceably amids

number of their superstitions, their persuasion that, at the death of great personages, their souls excited storms and tempes

of nature, all meteors, announced, according to them, the death of a great personage. The Druids delighted in making it beli

nded for the ceremony of collecting the misletoe, they assembled with great rejoicing, and went in procession towards the pla

misletoe with a golden sickle, and the other Druids received it with great respect into the sagum, a kind of white coat of m

groves by sacred priests. 2. The misletoe ought to be collected with great ceremony, and always, if possible, on the sixth d

e. Those pontiffs were jealous of their authority, although it was so great and so well established, that, to maintain it, th

s of Gaul, often caused them to be consulted. History has preserved a great number of their replies; but it makes no particul

e. These mighty powers, from their surpassing similitude to the first great God, were very properly called by the ancients, G

To trace these analogies, and the developments which gave rise to so great a diversity, is the province of comparative mytho

Were the Greek and Roman mythologies the same? Ans. They were, to a great extent. The ancient Latins had, undoubtedly, thei

impossible to conceal it from his barber, he bound him to silence by great promises. This man, however, found it so painful

changed into stone by the sight of the monster, he was obliged to use great precaution to avoid the same misfortune. He looke

and cared for by some shepherds. After he had grown up, he acquired a great reputation for the prudence with which he settled

re him, they began to court his favor with promises. Juno offered him great power; Minerva, wisdom; but Venus promised to giv

ns. It is one of two colossal figures which are directly opposite the great temple of Luxor. They are called by the Arabs, Sh

going to execution, he was immediately pardoned. Public documents of great importance were generally entrusted to their care

ity, and was regarded by the people as the heaven-sent image of their great goddess. At the close of the second Punic war, th

ance from the plain of Marathon. The Persians had brought with them a great block of Parian marble for the trophy which they

lding have been since used in the construction of other edifices. The great dome of Santa Sophia, in Constantinople, rests up

ed from the temple of Diana by order of Justinian. Two pillars of the great church of Pisa were also taken from this temple,

in the waters. Ques. Were there many rural divinities? Ans. Yes, a great number; but only a few were well known. Among tho

d Scylla and Charybdis in the straits of Messina. It was considered a great feat to steer successfully between them. Ques. W

ome slowly, and timorous, because the rich watch their treasures with great fear and anxiety. Ques. To whom was Pluto marrie

king of Mycenæ, who imposed upon the hero twelve Labors, or tasks, of great danger and difficulty. Hercules was in doubt as t

the three-headed dog, Cerberus. Ques. Did Hercules perform any other great actions? Ans. A vast number of exploits are attr

xhausted, he prayed to Jupiter for aid. The god sent down a shower of great stones, with which Hercules put the giants to fli

Thessaly, and son of Prometheus. During his reign, there occurred so great a flood that the whole earth was covered with the

tones which they cast behind them, as they had been commanded, when a great prodigy ensued. The stones thrown by Deucalion as

h he lived. Seven cities contended for the honor of having given this great poet to the world; these were Smyrna, Chios, Colo

yclades, where he was buried. The fame of Homer is founded on his two great poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first of th

te of his birth is rendered memorable in history by the murder of the great Cicero. Ovid belonged to an equestrian family; he

to land upon the shores of Ithaca. The Odyssey, the second of the two great poems attributed to Homer, is a history of the wa

ielded to Orestes, and consented to take the letter. His surprise was great on perceiving that it was addressed to Orestes hi

ad married Andromache, and the meeting of Æneas with the widow of the great Hector is the subject of a very beautiful passage

ed in the erection of her new city of Carthage. The queen admired the great qualities of the Trojan chief, and felt her heart

sage, Virgil takes occasion to gratify the vanity of Augustus and the great families of Rome, by introducing their names and

disappeared and was never seen after. These books were preserved with great care, and were called the Sibylline Verses. A col

hat the terrible defeat the Romans suffered on that day was owing, in great part, to the discouragement of the sailors, who s

The Pythia told him that by crossing the river Halys he would ruin a great empire, but as she did not say what empire, wheth

hat god; but others declare that the invaders possessed themselves of great booty. Sylla also plundered Delphi, and Nero took

a certain composition of honey. They were then carried downwards with great force, as by the current of a rapid river. In the

takes place in the fountain, which is well shaded and very deep. The great change which really takes place in the atmosphere

heir characters had never been stained by any base or immoral act. So great was the importance attached to race, that even th

of joyful tidings. The first announced that his general had gained a great victory; the second, that his horse had won the p

importance with the success of an army, and the birth of an heir to a great kingdom. Alcibiades on one occasion entered seven

ieved, no woman ever attempted. The portrait of Cynisca, drawn by the great Apelles, was afterwards placed in the same temple

illustrious an assembly was the most certain means of establishing a great reputation in a little time. It was thus that Her

nious voices pleased the ear, and they were listened to at first with great attention, which gradually decreased as they went

would have appeared to the ancients in the highest degree absurd. The great theatre of Bacchus, at Athens, is the only struct

rer class of citizens. The theatres themselves were erected, and in a great measure maintained at the expense of the state. T

estal of twelve feet. It was considered the finest work of art of the great Athenian sculptor, Phidias, and there are still i

e offered to this strange divinity; his birth-day was celebrated with great magnificence, and it was believed that during thi

hina it spread to Corea, Japan and Java. In Japan, Buddhism has, to a great extent, supplanted the Sinto religion, the ancien

d Tao-sse, or Doctors of Reason, from the principal doctrine of their great teacher, Lao-tze, who considered primordial reaso

the present day, if their conduct corresponded to the maxims of their great teacher, whose morality, though often defective,

the emperors should imagine them to be working in the interest of the great western nations whose power they so much fear. Th

from their source, froze into ice, which, gradually accumulating, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of m

rost Giants. Thor consented, and Thrym welcomed his veiled bride with great joy, attributing her silence to a modest reserve.

e signifies “Choosers of the slain.” Odin is desirous of collecting a great many heroes in Valhalla, that he may be able to m

s? Ans. One may occasionally meet in Norway, Denmark, or Sweden with great stones of different forms, engraven with characte

During this convulsion of nature, armies will meet in combat, and so great shall be the slaughter, that wolves and eagles wi

he enemies of the gods. The Eddas give a wild description of the last great battlefield on which the powers of good and evil

ates which cost forty million sestertia. He spent six years upon this great work. Camul, the Celtic Mars, Tarann, the god of

mystic learning of the priests, the traditions of their race, and the great actions of their heroes. No sacrifice was duly of

Victims offered to Baal were always burned. On important occasions, a great number were enclosed in a huge frame of wicker wo

course. Wherever Druidism prevailed, there was in the centre of each great district or canton, a perpetual fire in honor of

of Mona or Anglesea, whence they were driven by the Roman troops with great slaughter. They found a last asylum in the island

, and feasted on the flesh of their slaughtered enemies. The Sun, the great parent of mankind, took compassion on their degra

et-scented gums. Human sacrifices were rare, and were only offered on great occasions, such as a coronation, a victory, etc.

of the Sun? Ans. The solstices and equinoxes were celebrated by four great festivals; but the most solemn was the feast of R

on the art of public speaking, on philosophy and jurisprudence. This great man, who had saved Rome from the plots of Catilin

ttered fragments of the others. Diodorus devoted thirty years to this great work. Euripides, a Greek tragedian, was bo

e manners and customs of the people, and collecting materials for his great work. His account of the Persian war is full of i

. His account of the Persian war is full of interest, and won for him great popularity among his countrymen. Herodotus relat

eakened by excess. He was tormented by constant wakefulness, and this great man, with the resources of the world at his comma

st, it might be restored from this work alone. Pliny perished in the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius which destroyed the to

although Æschylus was one of the competitors. The compositions of the great tragedian were deficient in the tenderness and pa

his verse. Sophocles . Was the second in order of time of the great tragic poets of Greece. In true dramatic excellen

o be accounted happy before he dies, was verified in the case of this great poet. If the morning of his life was bright in th

der of Augustus. He was already advanced in life when he compiled his great work on geography. It is divided into seventeen b

surrounding it, seems to have been formerly an island in the lake. So great a change has taken place, that the level of the l

f Moses, the illustrious Hebrew lawgiver, Idolatry had attained to so great a height that, through him, the only true God gav

fourth order? The fourth order contained the virtues which had formed great men; Fidelity, Concord, Courage, Prudence, and ot

ians received it originally from the East. The Chaldeans held fire in great veneration, and worshiped it as an emblem of the

three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Ham went into Africa: and there is great probability that he was the person afterwards kno

is, young, from being the youngest of Saturn’s sons, and from gaining great reputation in his youth. Afterwards Pater, or fat

pake th’ almighty Father as he sate Enthron’d in gold; and closed the great debate: Th’ attentive winds a solemn silence keep

omius, or law-giver; and Paean, from his mitigating pain, or from his great skill in hunting. What were the attributes of Apo

of his son Esculapius, who was killed by thunder, for having, by his great skill in physic, prevented men from dying, and th

t, was bribed by him not to publish it; but being unable to retain so great a prodigy, he digged a hole in the earth, and whi

Apollo represented as uttering the oracles of the god? She was, with great apparent reluctance, placed by the priests upon t

, by selling silver models of which, the silversmiths of Ephesus made great profit; which, being in danger of losing by the i

was supposed to have fallen from the skies. This was preserved, with great vigilance, in the citadel of Troy, because an Ora

tratagem, and Troy was taken. Eneas the valiant son of Venus, and the great ancestor of the Romans, is said, by some of their

with scarcely any personage in the ancient world more celebrated for great knowledge and admirable talents. To him the Egypt

ddess in the cultivation of fruit-trees and gardens, procured for her great reputation among the Romans, who placed her in th

ive a different account of him. They say that he was a philosopher of great wisdom and learning, who accompanied Bacchus in h

punishment of guilt. She is represented as traversing the earth, with great diligence, in search of the wicked; furnished wit

s heaven. Being regarded as implacable, these Deities were objects of great terror. No hymns were composed to their honour; n

d oxen were constantly lodged in it. He tamed a furious bull, who did great mischief in Crete. He vanquished Diomede, tyrant

o him. Hercules. The choirs of old and young, in lofty lays, Resound great Hercules’ immortal praise, How, first, his infant

mer, for skill in horsemanship, the latter, in pugilism; Orpheus, the great poet and musician; Calais and Zethes, the winged

iramis, whose circumference was sixty miles, and whose breadth was so great , that six chariots could drive upon them abreast.

rms and symbols. The moon and stars, objects next in splendour to the great luminary of day, attracted also a proportionate d

heroes, sages, and legislators, who, during their lives, had obtained great fame and extensive respect, by brilliant or benef

As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great , no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equ

III. Paganism. — Buddhism. May not Paganism be classed under two great primeval sects? Though all the various systems of

us light of the Gospel of Christ. To many of them, Noah seems to be a great object of worship, and even the ark itself, in wh

rs, and planets, became objects of worship, because parts of him, the great whole. But though the oldest Hindû scriptures see

dly named Adam’s bridge. A large breed of Apes is, certainly, held in great veneration by the Hindûs, and fed by the Brahmins

s, or Venus, Urania, and Buto, or Latona. Who was Osīris? Osīris, the great object of the adoration of the Egyptians, was som

, of the fertilising effects of the Nile. She was esteemed to possess great knowledge of the secrets of nature, and uncommon

ens. Who was Horus? Horus was the son of Osīris and Isis, and held in great veneration by the Egyptians. He was regarded as b

e allegory of Horus has been thus explained: — The Khamsin wind makes great ravages in Egypt, during the spring of the year,

, when alive, the Egyptians venerated as the personification of their great god Osīris, but who, when dead, was named Sorāpis

cense. By the example of Ptolemy, and his court, this deity became so great a favourite with the Egyptians, as to make them a

on, every year, or to his temple at Meroë. There he was received with great pomp, and reconducted to Egypt, after he had been

f inanimate nature, which actuates and directs the movements of those great masses which raise the idea of prodigious strengt

the Egyptian deities. He was worshiped under the form of a goat; and great abominations degraded his rites. Who was Papremis

ct to some of their sacred animals? The people of Ombos dug tanks, or great cisterns of water, for the crocodiles; fed them c

rs rejoiced when their children were devoured by them, believing that great honour was conferred upon them by those consecrat

erfection. The sacred fire, which was reverenced as the emblem of the great . First Cause, the All-vivifying Principle, kindle

of evil demons or spirits, whom he had seduced from obedience to the great Deity. By his venom, the Man-Bull was poisoned, a

the Mythology of the Scythians became very debased. They worshiped a great number of Gods and Goddesses, but their chief dei

of Paganism, in its primitive simplicity, taught the existence of one great Supreme Being, the universal Creator and Ruler. T

and by poems, which the Druids learnt and recited, at the expense of great labour. Amongst their leading doctrines, were tho

teemed substitutes for warriors, or princes about to die, In times of great danger, or public calamity, even their kings were

a, the prophetess. Hard by the eastern gate of Hell In ancient time, great Vala fell; And there she lies in massive tomb, Sh

ountains will crumble to pieces; the sea will rush upon the land; the great serpent, advancing to the shore, will inundate th

tely Heimdal sounds his trumpet; Odin consults the head of Mimer; the great ash tree Idrasil, which overshadowed the gates of

is agitated. The combat begins between Odin and Fenris; Thor and the great serpent; Frey, the son of Niorder, and Surtur. Ty

dants of Ishmael, and intended for religious purposes. It was held in great veneration long before the birth of Mahomet. The

as heightened into religious reverence. The Arabians had, likewise, a great number of other idols; each tribe and family main

gold, and a throne of the same metal. This image, supposed to be the great Pul, or Belus, who was deified by his son Tiglath

Egyptian Mythology and that of the Brahmins and Druids? What was the great object of Egyptian worship? Who was Nepthys? Unde

oice of pain, The crashing fetter, and the rattling chain, Strike the great hero with the frightful sound, The hoarse, rough,

ks of various authors as well as paintings, coins, statues, etc. “The great mass of the Grecian people appear to have believe

racters: — “I. It has a physical character. It represents some of the great powers, or objects of Nature, — the sun, the moon

garded them as being of much larger size than men, for in those times great size was esteemed a perfection both in man and wo

ode was the earth, the waters, or the under-world. It was also in the great hall of the palace of the Olympian king that the

ern of Crete. Under their watchful care he throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with extraordinary wisd

refuge with Janus, king of Italy, who received the exiled deity with great kindness, and even shared his throne with him. Th

, Cybele*. Rhea, the wife of Chronos and mother of Zeus and the other great gods of Olympus, like Gæa, personified the earth,

ng dragons’ heads, whom she sent to overthrow the dominion of Zeus. A great battle took place, which shook heaven and earth.

her predictions. But all the earlier shrines were overshadowed by the great national seat of the worship of Hellenic* Zeus at

named one Zethus*, the other Amphion*. Antiope, who was treated with great cruelty by Dirce*, the wife of Lycus, fled for pr

ompanions in a meadow near the sea-shore, when Zeus, charmed with her great beauty, and wishing to win her love, transformed

Io*, daughter of the river-god Inachus, was a priestess of Hera. Her great beauty attracted the notice of Zeus. On remarking

he mother of Ares, Hephæstus, Hebe, and Ilithyia*. Hera resented with great severity any infringement on her rights as queen

atea, his future wife. Hera, incensed at the idea of a rival, flew in great anger to meet the procession, and seizing the sup

f her nuptial attire. Her delight on discovering the deception was so great that a reconciliation took place, and committing

the deity having special control over commerce, Poseidon was held in great reverence by the Phœnicians. He was the presiding

lty souls, after leaving the presence of Minos, were conducted to the great judgment-hall of Hades, whose massive walls of so

es, who scourged them with their whips, and dragged them along to the great gate which closed the opening to Tartarus, into w

l, cold. [Sisyphus*. Ixion*. Tantalus*.] The punishments of great criminals in the infernal regions were a fruitful

to keep clearly in view the distinctive difference between the three great earth-goddesses Gæa, Rhea, and Demeter. Gæa repre

over the terrible desolation.” Berens . With strength he combined great agility, and was said to be the fleetest of the g

cleave open. The goddess of war, in full armor, sprung forth, while a great commotion both on sea and land announced the even

iven to Hermione, and the sceptre of Agamemnon. Hephæstus was held in great esteem at Athens, also by the Greeks in Campania

sic, poetry, and of the arts and sciences. He represented, first, the great orb of day which illumines the world, and, second

muse Calliope*. He was a poet, a teacher of the Orphic mysteries, and great musician. The trees and rocks moved to the tones

ia, Egypt, Arabia, and India. On his return to Thebes, he encountered great opposition from Pentheus*, who then governed the

and at the state festival of the Dionysia*, which was celebrated with great pomp in the city of Athens, dramatic entertainmen

ing between gods and men. “Iris is represented as a slender maiden of great beauty, robed in an airy fabric of variegated hue

ion and decoration. So massive were some of them that they have, to a great extent, withstood the ravages of time. The city o

e received was, that if he crossed a certain river he would destroy a great empire. Interpreting the response as being favora

ed them. The next was the Brazen race. They were of giant stature and great strength, and took pleasure in nothing but battle

l your heads, and loose your girded clothes, And cast behind you your great parent’s bones!” They heard the words with aston

at it must be stones, which may be called the bones of the earth, the great parent of all, that were meant by the oracle. The

pents and sent by Zeus to the Elysian Plain. Œdipus*. Laius*, a great grandson of Cadmus, married Jocasta. He was told

shed. Œdipus received the promised reward, and for many years enjoyed great happiness and tranquillity. The children of Œdipu

Seriphos, where he found that Polydectes had been treating Danae with great cruelty. He proceeded to the palace where the kin

me was on the shore of Lake Stymphalis, in Arcadia, where they caused great destruction among men and cattle. While the hero

arts of the people. The Marathonian* bull was at this time committing great ravages. Theseus went to Marathon, caught the bul

ally, to overcome the armed crop which should spring up. Jason was in great perplexity when he heard these conditions. He wen

mighty goddess, and was met there by Medea*, daughter of Æetes, and a great enchantress, who had fallen in love with him the

d, from which few names of note were missing. Only in the case of two great heroes did Menelaus experience any difficulty. Ul

leet, the Trojans appeared on the coast to prevent their landing. But great hesitation prevailed among the troops as to who s

ors to assist the kindred of his father. King Priam received him with great honors. The day after his arrival, Memnon led his

part and the Greek camp in flames, they believed themselves safe, and great numbers went out of the town to view the site of

evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the West.” « The great conflict of the Iliad is the battle of the powers

wo of the Greeks, dashed out their brains and then devoured them with great relish. He then stretched himself on the floor, a

to her abode was guarded by wolves and lions, which, however, to the great surprise of the strangers, were tame and harmless

s sword and allowed none to approach until Tiresias had appeared. The great prophet, after drinking of the sacrifice, proceed

eneath the sea to journey in silence and darkness to the scene of the great conflict with the powers of darkness. « The ten w

rren, encroaching desert. The Sun, especially in later times, was the great exponent of Deity. His mysterious disappearance e

cence was erected in his honor at Philoe, which became ever after the great burial-place of the nation, and the spot to which

t the expiration of this time the priests repaired, at new moon, with great pomp, to his habitation, and saluted him “Apis.”

attack the city. The worship of Moloch was practised by the Jews with great persistency until the time of the Babylonish capt

a deity with its idol, that, in the inscriptions of kings, where the great gods were invoked in turn, the images of the same

up the rain, brings drought upon the earth. Vritra is described as a great dragon smitten by the lance of Indra, as Python*

frequently called Mahâdeva, or Mahadeo* (in Greek, Megas Theos*), the great god, and is regarded as a reproducer; to destroy,

d this sacrifice about ten years ago. Every year, particularly at two great festivals in March and July, pilgrims flock in cr

rce they froze into ice, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of m

ved our name Thursday. Loki* was a malevolent deity described as the great serpent that encircles the earth, and as the fath

bed in the tale of the Volsung, which was afterwards remodeled in the great epic poem called the “Nibelungen-Lied,”* or “Lay

ected with their religious services. The Roman writers assert that on great occasions they offered human sacrifices. Cæsar gi

hey thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter. The other great festival of the Druids was called “Samhin,” or th

of Mona or Anglesea, whence they were driven by the Roman troops with great slaughter. They found a last asylum in the island

ew into an island, into a mountain, into a country, finally into this great earth that we dwell upon. As it grew, Michabo wal

said to dwell in the skies with his brother, the Snow, or, like many great spirits, to have built his wigwam in the far nort

making the earth rejoice. The name Michabo is compounded of “michi,” great , and “wabos,” which means both “hare” and “white.

ods in all; our chief god often appears to us in the form of a mighty great hare; the other four have no visible shape, but a

falling leaves, by way of composing himself for his nap, he fills his great pipe and divinely smokes; the blue clouds gently

er, and “established his lodge in the far east, on the borders of the great ocean, whence the sun comes. In time he became th

3. Read Tennyson’s “Œnone.” 4. The Romans, like the Greeks, attached great importance to the interment of their dead, as the

and by means of them to give an additional zest to the perusal of the great poets and writers of antiquity, whose works are e

presented them by the young and beautiful Hebe. In the middle of the great circle shines, with distinguished lustre, the unr

imagine or relate, they must be calculated for other uses. What has a great weight with me is, that many of these fables seem

tions of that age and of those who delivered them down to us, nothing great and exalted, according to my opinion, could be ex

writers have bestowed on them… The wisdom of the ancients was either great or happy, great if these figures were the fruits

stowed on them… The wisdom of the ancients was either great or happy, great if these figures were the fruits of their industr

ants to Vulcan, forging, under his direction, the thunderbolts of the great Jove; while the remainder wandered around the coa

a piece of stone, meant to represent the stability of the earth. This great Goddess saw and became enamoured of a shepherd, w

xtinguished, for if it ever happened, it was deemed the prognostic of great calamities to the state: the offender was punishe

erely scourged by the high priest. The privileges of the Vestals were great : they had the most honourable seats at the public

in — thy destiny is fixed. Vestal. Mercy — oh! mercy; tho’ my sin be great , Life is so beautiful I cannot die; And earth see

of mount Ida, to whom Cybele had confided her son, educated him with great care; but his cries being likely to call the atte

is native isle.” Horace. The Gods at first defended themselves with great courage, but at the appearance of the hundred-hea

— “Awful sufferer! To thee unwilling, most unwillingly I come, by the great Father’s will driven down, To execute a doom of n

ng fawn, We track all things that weep, and bleed, and live, When the great king betrays them to our will.     Pro. Oh! many

victim, Whom after shall we sing than Jove himself? The God for ever great , for ever king, Who slew the earth-born race, and

er king, Who slew the earth-born race, and measures right To heaven’s great habitants. Swift growth and wondrous grace, oh! h

lesser gods hast well assigned Their proper shares of power; thy own, great Jove, Boundless and universal. Each monarch rules

s misfortune, begging her not to betray his trust. The secret was too great for the bosom of its holder; she longed to tell i

om the almighty hand, With power extensive o’er the sea and land; And great the honour, she, by Jove’s high leave, Does from

r him whose sleep Drank in Elysium on the Latmos steep.” Bulwer. In great horror at this transformation, Calista fled to th

ined be,     To our mad minstrelsy. “Over wide streams and mountains great we went, And save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent,

nts a faun, with the head of Pentheus in one hand, and in the other a great knife. Another has a spear with its pine cane, wh

notorious on account of the disgrace which accompanied it, while her great partiality for Adonis, induced her to abandon her

st received a mortal wound from a wild boar which he had speared; and great was the misery evinced by Venus at his loss.    

ed there more for ridicule than any other purpose; and was indeed the great butt of Olympus, even his wife laughing at his de

however, of his mother’s displeasure, he carried on the ‌affair with great secrecy, and by his divine power, conveyed her to

ts o’erturns.” Homer. Arachne, a woman of Colophon, having acquired great perfection in working with her needle, became imp

of the Trojans; but while he defended these favourites of Venus with great activity, he was wounded by Diomedes, and hastily

les very numerous in Greece, but among the warlike Romans he received great homage, as they were proud of sacrificing to a de

ing human; the lamb and kid were offered to them by the peasants with great solemnity.‌ The Sylvans were the children of the

old, A clod he touches, and the crumbling mould Acknowledged soon the great transforming power, In weight and substance like

ry, were considered as mischievous, and inspired by their appearance, great fright in the shepherds — although they bore with

and Flora with Spring. The four seasons have also been described with great distinctness, by poets, both ancient and modern,

were very reverential in their homage to Oceanus, and worshipped with great solemnity a deity, to whose care they entrusted t

her inclination. Their nuptials were celebrated on Mount Peleon with great pomp, at which all the deities attended. “Proteu

s. Eurus, God of the east, is represented as a young man, flying with great impetuosity, and often appearing in a playful and

Of him that sins the retribution falls.” Hesiod. Their powers were great and extensive, and they are represented by some a

eaven to earth. The garment which Lacheses wore was variegated with a great number of stars, and near her a variety of spindl

to contain. “The three Parcæ, Fates fair offspring born, The world’s great spindle as its axle turn; Round which eight spher

r of all things, of gods no less than of men, and was worshipped with great solemnity by the ancients, who erected to her a f

e sought for fame, he won it, bravely won; He died for fame, when his great task was done. What tho’ I turn the banquet room

, burial places, and monuments of the dead. They were worshipped with great great solemnity, particularly by the Romans, and

al places, and monuments of the dead. They were worshipped with great great solemnity, particularly by the Romans, and were a

ssed upon the body. The Genius of Socrates is famous in history. That great philosopher asserted that the Genius informed him

, disguising his sex by women’s clothes. When they reached Eleusis, a great part of the procession were seized by a band of p

f the young hero, who immediately embarked for Europe with Medea, the great instrument of his preservation. Enraged at the de

imposed upon him, he also achieved others of his own accord, equally great and celebrated. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-myt

passion, he presents the bride.” Ovid. Ceyx received them both with great favour, but Hercules could not forget that he had

arge of the youthful Perseus entrusted to them. His rising genius and great courage fell under the displeasure of Polydectes,

his right shoulder, destroyed it. This happy event was attended with great rejoicings, and the nuptials of Andromeda with Pe

to free? And shall you claim his merit? Had you thought Her charms so great , you should have bravely sought, That blessing on

such had been the decree of the oracle, and that he was to become the great source of prosperity to the country in which his

araus, who was famous for his knowledge of futurity, and a warrior of great renown: knew from his power of divination, that h

however consented to betray him, bribed by an offer of a bracelet of great worth from Polynice, who was desirous of gaining

treated his brother Thyestes, who had followed him to the court, with great kindness, but he was recompensed with ingratitude

ere was now one son left, named Egisthus, who, himself the fruit of a great crime, had been brought up by Agamemnon, and to h

ngdom by Thyestes, they went to Calydonia, and they were treated with great kindness, and from thence to Sparta, where, like

ersuaded to sacrifice a daughter so tenderly beloved but as she was a great favourite with Clytemnestra, her mother, the Gree

e unavailing, but as the fatal blow was about to be struck, a goat of great beauty was found in her place for the ‌sacrifice.

respects; and, as he was striving to enter the palace, there arose a great tumult, the officers of the place refusing him ad

er of Jupiter and Saturn, is the parent of Justice and of Virtue. The great Apelles has represented her, in his painting of C

e most remarkable of the Allegorical Divinities, the number being too great to mention all. For the same reason we must omit

lus, he was chosen by the senators to be their sovereign, it was with great difficulty that he could be persuaded to undertak

e Roman Emperor, thus showing he had no distrust of his subjects. His great object was to quell the spirit of war and conques

ythology_1842_img266 After this he was sent on various expeditions of great danger, in all of which he was so successful, tha

of the Greek wrestlers, who having early accustomed himself to carry great burthens, became so strong, that nothing seemed t

equal number of followers. The books of his priests signalize twelve great epochs in his career, classed and entitled as fol

e supreme essence. The grand lama is the Supreme priest of one of the great parties of this church, which has its principal h

and make prayers for the dead. The images of Buddh are multiplied in great numbers in all the pagodas of India, of Tartary,

by the gods. The poetry of the East frequently alludes to fairies of great and ‌exquisite beauty, who people the air, the ea

ies equally new and beautiful. This deity is adored in India, under a great number of names, Camdeo, however, being the one b

acle of poetry no less than of history: and forms of itself a work of great interest. Scandinavia. Insérer image anonym

shed a tear for him. One only refused, and Balder was doomed, to the great grief of his mother, to rest in the infernal regi

heir destiny. But they did not always sacrifice such mean persons. In great calamities, in oppressive famine, for instance, i

he first King of Vermland was burned in honour of Odin, to put away a great dearth. The ancient history of the North abounds

him in the figure of a warrior, was placed upon a column of marble. A great number of priests of both sexes served in the tem

rifices, and the choice of victims. The priests of this God possessed great importance in public affairs. During certain sole

their sepulchral excavations. “Evidences also exist in Mexico, of two great branches of hieroglyphical language, both having

e inner wall of the Adytum of one of the sanctuaries belonging to the great temple of Palenque, appears the chief god of the

to serve him; one thing is certain, that this people hold sorcery in great esteem. Ovisara is the supreme being of another p

bidden to them, under very severe penalties, to enter the capital. On great occasions, when a sacrifice of prisoners is to be

e clouds, winds, rain, sunshine, etc. Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, the great languages of antiquity, they demonstrate, had the

alive in our minds the old animative theory of nature, that it is no great effort in us to fancy the waterspout a huge giant

he beautiful young sorceress, and daughter of Æetes, who pursued with great energy, for Medea had taken with her the most pre

e′as [Æneas] was the son of Anchises and Venus. He was one of the few great captains who escaped the destruction of Troy. He

w great captains who escaped the destruction of Troy. He behaved with great valor during the siege, encountering Diomed, and

he shields were carried in procession, and in the evening there was a great feast, called Cœna Saliaris. Androm′eda [Androme

mous lyric poet of Methymna, in the Island of Lesbos, where he gained great riches by his art. There is a pretty fable which

Atlas, was King of Mauritania, now Morocco, in Africa. He was also a great astronomer. He is depicted with the globe on his

nomer. He is depicted with the globe on his back, his name signifying great toil or labor. For his inhospitality to Perseus t

Boundaries, see Terminus. Boxing, see Pollux. Brah′ma [Brahma]. The great Indian deity, represented with four heads looking

like the fingers, they were ten in number. Dæd′alus [Dædalus] was a great architect and sculptor. He invented the wedge, th

ke, hanged herself. Jove. A very general name of Jupiter. “From the great father of the gods above My muse begins, for all

earth, when they made war against heaven. Jupiter was worshiped with great solemnity under various names by most of the heat

. Lam′ia [Lamia]. An evil deity among the Greeks and Romans, and the great dread of their children, whom she had the credit

[Lilith]. A Jewish myth representing a finely dressed woman who is a great enemy to new-born children. She was said to have

edea killed two of her children in their father’s presence. She was a great sorceress. See Jason. “Now to Medæa’s dragons fi

desses of vengeance. Meg′ale [Megale]. A Greek name of Juno, meaning great . Melicer′ta [Melicerta], see Palæmon. Mello′na

ave sprung from the head of Jupiter fully armed for battle. She was a great benefactress of mankind, and patroness of the fin

Ni′lus [Nilus], a king of Thebes, who gave his name to the Nile, the great Egyptian river. Nine, The, see Muses. Ni′obe [N

of Bacchus were so designated. Ori′on [Orion]. A handsome hunter, of great stature, who was blinded by Œnopion for a grievou

, on which was inscribed “Let the fairest take it.” This occasioned a great contention, for each thought herself the fairest.

teer, became unmanageable, and overturned the chariot. There was such great fear of injury to heaven and earth, that Jove, to

go and assist at the siege. He appears to have used the weapons with great dexterity and with wonderful effect, for Paris wa

rs. Pine-Tree, see Atys. Pirith′ous [Pirithous]. A son of Ixion and great friend of Theseus, king of Athens. The marriage o

hymns, in praise of the god in whose honor the sacrifice was made. On great occasions as many as a hundred bullocks were offe

“Five satyrs of the woodland sort. ……………………………………… With asses’ hoofs, great goggle eyes, And double chins of monstrous size.”

They were the sons of Uranus and Gæa, men of gigantic stature and of great strength. Hence our English word Titanic. Ti-tho

na. Triptol′emus [Triptolemus]. A son of Oceanus and Terra. He was a great favorite of the goddess Ceres, who cured him of a

t this artifice was discovered, and he was compelled to go. He was of great help to the Grecians, and forced Achilles from hi

ith their friend; and at this day ’Tis Jupiter who brings whate’er is great . And Venus who brings every thing that’s fair.”

d around the disk of the earth, which they probably regarded as of no great width, nations enjoying the peculiar favor of the

bode was the earth, the waters, or the underworld. It was also in the great hall of the palace of the Olympian king that the

riends made presents to one another and the slaves were indulged with great liberties. A feast was given them at which they s

, or the command is one we may obey without impiety. The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bones; these we

y crown; I will decorate with you my harp and my quiver; and when the great Roman conquerors lead up the triumphal pomp to th

nt a ravenous fox to annoy the country; and the hunters turned out in great strength to capture it. Their efforts were all in

ttered over the surface of heaven. Here the Scorpion extended his two great arms, with his tail and crooked claws stretching

marks the heavens with its brightness as it falls, and Eridanus, the great river, received him and cooled his burning frame.

a given signal Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melody gave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower

s laid a cushion stuffed with sea-weed; and a cloth, only produced on great occasions, but ancient and coarse enough, was spr

gathered some poppies. As they entered the cottage, they found all in great distress, for the boy seemed past hope of recover

mortal, but you have frustrated my attempt. Nevertheless, he shall be great and useful. He shall teach men the use of the plo

s a fisherman. One day he had drawn his nets to land, and had taken a great many fishes of various kinds. So he emptied his n

tness. The festival of Venus was at hand — a festival celebrated with great pomp at Cyprus. Victims were offered, the altars

ters, woods, and other things without life. These wait upon kings and great personages in their sleeping hours, while others

ge is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so great that strangers from neighboring countries came in

ge due only to the immortal powers to the exaltation of a mortal gave great offence to the real Venus. Shaking her ambrosial

acious beauty; give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great ; infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a pas

me low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exultation and triumph.” Cupid pre

Psyche to be led to the storehouse of her temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, millet, vetches, beans

of; but it was not her husband’s fame, nor her own beauty, nor their great descent, nor the power of their kingdom that elat

time the unequal contest; but the numbers of the assailants were too great for them, and destruction seemed inevitable, when

nd perished. The gratitude of the people for their deliverance was so great that they made Œdipus their king, giving him in m

pound of the lion and the goat, and the hind part a dragon’s. It made great havoc in Lycia, so that the king, Iobates, sought

l he relaxed his rage, stood for a moment motionless, then shut those great round eyes, that had never been known to shut bef

ngers were carrying off their queen. They instantly armed and came in great numbers down to the ship. Hercules, thinking that

comes the chief in triumph     Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren     In harness on his right. Safe c

the ship to haven,     Through billows and through gales. If once the great Twin Brethren     Sit shining on the sails.”

t, a deep groan, heard through all the isles of Greece, told that the great Pan was dead, and that all the royalty of Olympus

repeated blows and drawn by ropes, fell with a crash and prostrated a great part of the grove in its fall. The Dryads in dism

                   “Sabrina fair, Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace, And

rcules arrived at the palace of Admetus, and found all the inmates in great distress for the impending loss of the devoted wi

saint     Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,     Whom Jove’s great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death

on either side. He descended to the region where the fountains of the great rivers lie; he saw the enormous receptacles of wa

Neptune, whose herd of sea-calves he pastures. We nymphs hold him in great respect, for he is a learned sage and knows all t

he flocks. Meanwhile Antiope, their mother, who had been treated with great cruelty by Lycus, the usurping king of Thebes, an

dwelt in the court of Periander, king of Corinth, with whom he was a great favorite. There was to be a musical contest in Si

rted poet returned to his seat amidst the laughter which followed the great man’s jest. In a little time he received a messag

outh joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mortification, that he was growing old. When his

indred of his father in the war of Troy. King Priam received him with great honors, and listened with admiration to his narra

stronger, I cannot tell you; they were in equal measure. O Venus, how great is thy power! this fierce giant, the terror of th

and thereby betrayed himself to the keen eye of Ulysses, who found no great difficulty in persuading him to disregard his mot

t illustrious warrior. After him ranked Ajax, gigantic in size and of great courage, but dull of intellect; Diomede, second o

quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon. It is at this point that the great poem of Homer, The Iliad, begins. The Greeks, tho

pius, who inherited his father’s art of healing, and was therefore of great value to the Greeks as their surgeon, besides bei

liberty of passing freely over the scene of the late encampment. The great horse was the chief object of curiosity. All wond

s: — “O thou who never yet of human wrong Left the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis! Thou who didst call the Furies from the

cient geographers, but no other evidence of the former existence of a great city. Byron thus describes the present appearance

tting the rest aside for his customary drink. Then, turning round his great eye, he discerned the strangers, and growled out

Ulysses replied most humbly, stating that they were Greeks, from the great expedition that had lately won so much glory in t

e cave, and dashed out their brains. He proceeded to devour them with great relish, and having made a hearty meal, stretched

l wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew;” etc. Chapter XXXI. A

ning to the strains of music. They were in a laurel grove, whence the great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men.

inspected only by especial officers appointed for that duty, who, on great occasions, consulted them and interpreted their o

fer to join our arms with yours.” Pallas, in amaze at the sound of so great a name, invited them to land, and when Æneas touc

g spoke thus: — “Illustrious Trojan, it is but little we can do in so great a cause. Our state is feeble, hemmed in on one si

They have offered the crown to me, but I am too old to undertake such great affairs, and my son is native-born, which preclud

. Under you he shall learn the art of war, and strive to emulate your great exploits.” Then the king ordered horses to be fur

stablished himself, his extraordinary qualities collected round him a great number of disciples. The inhabitants were notorio

poet Longfellow, in Verses to a Child, thus relates the story: — “As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmit

lyre.” See also the same poet’s Occupation of Orion. “The Samian’s great Æolian lyre.” Sybaris and Crotona. Sybaris

amore wood, and buried the body at Philæ, which became ever after the great burying place of the nation, and the spot to whic

At the expiration of this term the priests repaired at new moon, with great pomp, to his habitation and saluted him Apis. He

he earth. The oracle of Trophonius was at Lebadea in Bœotia. During a great drought the Bœotians, it is said, were directed b

skin. The worship of Æsculapius was introduced into Rome in a time of great sickness, and an embassy sent to the temple of Ep

ry cannot without extravagance be pushed so far as to account for any great proportion of the stories. 2. The Historical theo

se poem of the Æneid we have taken the story of Æneas, was one of the great poets who made the reign of the Roman emperor Aug

f the Augustan age. Virgil was born in Mantua in the year 70 B.C. His great poem is ranked next to those of Homer, in the hig

ations, is in many respects equal, in some superior, to either of the great works of antiquity. The following epigram of Dryd

ious, and they are read with pleasure and even with sympathy. The two great works of Ovid are his Metamorphoses and his Fasti

irregular way in which he came into the world, was supposed to have a great antipathy to a cock; and well he might, for as so

to circumvent the poor unicorn at last. They discovered that it was a great lover of purity and innocence, so they took the f

as a pleasing sacrifice to the idol. Every year, particularly at two great festivals in March and July, pilgrims flock in cr

ce, they froze into ice, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of m

uncreated and eternal. Of the Joys of Valhalla. Valhalla is the great hall of Odin, wherein he feasts with his chosen h

and armed with helmets and spears. Odin, who is desirous to collect a great many heroes in Valhalla to be able to meet the gi

lly stern and forbidding countenance. The wolf Fenris gave the gods a great deal of trouble before they succeeded in chaining

sured him that she had not tasted any thing for eight long nights, so great was her desire to see her lover, the renowned rul

rther, they came before the king, Utgard-Loki, whom they saluted with great respect. The king, regarding them with a scornful

ing to boast of, but if the youth would win the match he must display great agility. He then arose and went with all who were

rom the ground; nor should I have dared to mention such a feat to the great Thor if I had not already observed that thou art

himself. Thor told him that he could not deny but that he had brought great shame on himself. “And what grieves me most,” he

st so much strength in thee, and wouldst have brought me so near to a great mishap, I would not have suffered thee to enter t

topp, and Freya drove in her chariot drawn by cats. There were also a great many Frost giants and giants of the mountain pres

another class of beings, inferior to the gods, but still possessed of great power; these were called Elves. The white spirits

s body, and were afterwards endowed by the gods with a human form and great understanding. They were particularly distinguish

the sea leave its basin, the heavens tear asunder, and men perish in great numbers, and the eagles of the air feast upon the

the monster, who is, however, slain by Vidar, Odin’s son. Thor gains great renown by killing the Midgard serpent, but recoil

cannot travel far in Denmark, Norway, or Sweden without meeting with great stones of different forms, engraven with characte

st nothing. The classical (Roman) writers affirm that they offered on great occasions human sacrifices; as for success in war

the fountain, Blooming at Beltane in winter to fade;” etc. The other great festival of the Druids was called “Samh’in,” or “

lands long after the establishment of Christianity. Besides these two great annual festivals, the Druids were in the habit of

mating the resistance of the people to his sway, persecuted them with great cruelty. This tradition has furnished the poet Gr

his father’s chariot, which if he failed to manage, yet he fell in a great undertaking. No. 5. Page 171. Imponere Pe

nts of Psyche dared not disobey the oracle, but they were thrown into great affliction at the thoughts of parting with her. W

If, thought she, his face should resemble this delightful voice, how great a pleasure would it he, to see as well as to hear

“you will see some cakes and some money. The cakes you will give to a great dog called Cerberus, who will bark at you and bit

en by men. Ann. Who think you was Jupiter? Mother. Very likely some great king, who did much good and some harm, and after

What dug was Cerberus, to whom Psyche gave a cake. Mother. He was a great dog with three heads, who barked at those who wen

people believe such unlikely things? Mother. Because we must know a great deal, and think a great deal, before we can know

ikely things? Mother. Because we must know a great deal, and think a great deal, before we can know whether what we hear is

to set her free. It was not difficult to do this. On a certain day, a great number of Thracian women issued forth to the wood

parate the fields, and to buy and sell property; and he taught them a great deal more, which they did not know before. Cecrop

he Egyptians were civilized, and that they might teach the ignorant a great deal. Their knowledge and their arts were their w

on is a fabulous animal, mentioned only in fables. It is drawn like a great lizard with wings, having a serpent’s tail, terri

een a noted robber. He was condemned to roll, to the top of a hill, a great stone, which instantly rolled back again. Near Si

e or spear, to shoot the arrow with dexterity, to dance, and run with great speed, to wrestle, and drive a chariot, and manag

great speed, to wrestle, and drive a chariot, and manage horses, with great skill. Every body admired and loved Perseus. They

away to some distant country. One day Polydectes invited Perseus to a great banquet. On this occasion, it was expected that e

gons were three sisters, Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa; they dwelt at a great distance from Seriphus, on the borders of Western

roposed to cut off the head of Medusa for Polydectes. This would be a great achievement, and his courage would be commended e

palace court of Atlas, king of the country. Atlas was famous for his great wealth. To him belonged innumerable docks and her

graciously, and Perseus thus announced himself: “You see before you, great king, a son of Jupiter. Descended from the immort

andsomer than Juno or the Nereides. Neptune, as god of the sea, had a great regard for the Nereides. They were fifty daughter

ighest branches of trees; some were drowned and others starved, and a great sea monster came up and devoured many. Cepheus, i

s sordid garments in the cottage of the rock; and, as he was a man of great benevolence and good sense, when he was establish

our father Jupiter, and all the gods. “She sung that the giants were great and brave; they desired to reign in heaven, and t

rt story; nothing more than that Apollo killed the Python. Mother. A great many circumstances belong to this story: many ass

thon is supposed to have been some fatal disease, which had destroyed great numbers o people; at length, it was stopped. Some

her. It only means Shakspeare’s fame, or reputation. Shakspeare was a great poet. He lived more than two hundred years ago; b

ding from Mount Lyceus, she met the god Pan, a rural deity, who was a great favourite in Arcadia. Pan accosted the modest Syr

que altar in the middle of a small lake, on the banks of which grew a great quantity of rushes, and the surface was covered w

n reached the place where we now stand, it happened to be a season of great drought; the streams no longer flowed through the

my companion, ‘they jump, and splash, and croak, in the lake, to the great annoyance of all who come hither to enjoy the ple

of my books at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and most of the other great public schools, besides a number of private ones,

der the show of patriotism and public spirit. I do not think that the great publishing houses can be properly classed among o

y at the end of his life, or of the twenty-eight years. Otherwise the great publishers will be almost the only gainers by a c

n of this law ; and while the philosopher ascribes all effects to one great intelligent cause, and usually views not so much

we place it here only because it has been generally so regarded. 3. A great number of legends in all countries are indebted f

e same objects. The ancient inhabitants of Greece were divided into a great variety of little communities, dwelling separatel

cient legends as mere materials.The belief in their truth having in a great measure vanished, the poets, especially the later

the writer himself was stigmatised as an atheist74 : but it exerted a great influence over the subsequent historians, as we m

receding sketch of its history. The Ilias and the Odyssey, as the two great heroic poems which are regarded as the works of H

of that name in Italy,) where they exchanged iron for copper. But the great authorities of the Greeks respecting foreign land

edge of the disk of the earth, which they probably regarded as of no great width, nations enjoying the peculiar favour of th

ove the earth contained Olympos, the abode of the gods ; but there is great difficulty in ascertaining its exact nature and s

gy of the ancient Greeks, to compare with it that invented by our own great poet in his Paradise Lost, more especially as it

hter of Oceanos, Helios was father of Æetes, and his sister Circe the great enchantress223, and of Pasiphae, who espoused Min

fore all of the human form, but of far larger dimensions than men333; great size being an object of admiration both in men an

ot of Diomedes, Loud groan’d the beechen axle with the weight, For a great god and valiant chief it bore. When in the battl

nspired in the duty of doing homage to the sovereign of the gods. His great oracle was at Dodona, where, even in the Pelasgia

sed ships, which are For men the horses of the sea, and pass O'er the great deep ; in Plautus439 one of the characters says,

day when she was out walking alone near Mount Thronax, and raising a great storm of wind and rain fled shivering and trembli

erhaps to the chastity of the goddess, the willow being regarded as a great promoter of this virtue525; she is bound to it pr

whole was set on fire, and a flame thus raised which was visible to a great distance531. From the very confused account of th

er name would seem to come very simply from ἔρα, earth ; yet there is great plausibility in the theory of Ἥρα being the femin

ided and became the Olympian queen, she may have been regarded as the great Mistress545. Ἄρης. Mars. Ares, the god of

w of his character which we find even in the Ilias587. Fire being the great agent in reducing and working the metals, the fir

Hera and Eileithyia, (whom the art of Hera kept in ignorance of this great event,) were assembled in the isle. Moved with co

æ, was playing one day at discus-throwing with the god. Apollo made a great cast, and Hyacinthos running too eagerly to take

ncient Greek word signifying light (Λϒ ΚH)664, of a similar form, the great probability, in the eyes of all who regard Apollo

eyes of all who regard Apollo as the sun-god, or as a moral being of great purity, will be that this last is the real root o

ir account, and making offerings to them evidently as gods of the two great luminaries (Mithras and Mitra in the Persian syst

the epithets and attributes of Apollo all answer to a moral being of great purity, while the bow and arrows are a natural sy

all of a late age, and having no connexion with his worship. Finally, great stress is laid on the fact of Apollo and Artemis

ncing, in honour of Artemis, with the nymphs and other maidens, and a great crowd was standing around, Hermes had snatched he

t ; In it the Gorgon-head, the portent dire, — Dire and terrific, the great prodigy Of ægis-holding Zeus. Upon her head She p

e had for suspecting the baby of being the thief. All this is, to the great amusement of the Celestials, manfully denied and

the inconsiderateness of his mother, but announcing that he would be great and honoured, since he had ‘sat in her lap and sl

ect of the so celebrated mysteries of Eleusis, in which they were the great objects of adoration. But instead of going into a

eneration. The Gotho-German race (whose language and religion bear so great an affinity to those of Greece) seem also to have

seasons were regarded as presiding over law, justice, and peace, the great producers of order and harmony among men. It is p

he Homeridian hymn to Artemis describes that goddess as going to the ‘ great house’ of her brother at Delphi, and regulating t

ation of them was easy. The moon was believed by the ancients to have great influence over growth in general996 ; and as more

ese goddesses, in which they are only a form of Demeter and Kora, the great goddesses of the earth. For everything in nature

for the war. Prayers (Λιταὶ), says the poet1072, are the daughters of great Zeus, lame and wrinkled, with squinting eyes. The

ves of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom terrified, — for great fear possessed him from the shouting of the man.

st ancient deities, is noticed in the Ilias, it should not excite any great surprise to find the poet totally omitting all me

ac religion, where the worship of the god of wine was celebrated with great noise and tumult by the people of that country ;

gypt ; and Dionysos was honoured by being identified with Osiris, the great god of the land of Nile1101. Herodotus informs us

took occasion to fable that Dionysos had, like Heracles and their own great king, marched as a conqueror throughout the East 

ious liquor ; but Hera struck him with madness, and he roamed through great part of Asia. In Phrygia Rhea cured him, and taug

or the youth Ampelos. His triumph over the Indians is represented in great pomp. The captives are chained and placed on wago

e care of plants, particularly the vine1122. Water and heat being the great causes of growth, we find this deity closely conn

se image we behold expressed in the poems of Homer had passed away, a great change took place in civil affairs, but a still g

e incentives of pleasure and of virtue, fluctuating alternately, with great commotion of mind, and often with extreme ennui,

, while the ground and foundation lie concealed. But that there was a great agitation of the human mind, and some new efforts

y shepherdesses, who named her Cybele. When she grew up she displayed great skill in the healing art, and cured all the disea

ced at Athens and at Corinth, where it was celebrated in private with great indecency and licentiousness1145. Bendis, another

h, were conveyed thither in barges round the Delta. Amasis, who was a great favourer of the Greeks, permitted them to erect a

oat-footed god of the Arcadian herdsmen1171 ; and Pan was elevated to great dignity by priests and philosophers, becoming a s

ear, the mountain-haunting Nymphs, Deep-bosomed, who on this mountain great And holy dwell, who neither goddesses Nor women a

came on ; all the streams and torrents were frozen, the snow fell in great quantities, and the flocks of Terambos vanished a

first rock which he flings at the ship of Odysseus was ‘the top of a great hill,’ and falling before the vessel it drove her

cannot help thinking that it was on the coast of Libya. It lay at no great distance from that of the Lotus-eaters, which was

the night was of extremely short continuance1358. Notwithstanding the great distance which lay between the country of the Cyc

, as it was asserted that it once had been surrounded with water to a great extent1367. The Latin poets thence took occasion

on, it was at once inferred to be that of the Phæacians. Völcker lays great stress on the circumstance of Penelope seeing not

tellectual vigour and weakness of man. In this mythe however there is great confusion, for its original sense seems to have b

es of vessel was so expressly stated by Hesiod, who also mentions its great lid (μέγa πῶμa), a phrase that does not at all ac

en that the ancient mythology of Greece contained accounts of the two great events of the Creation and Fall of man. In like m

liôn and Pyrrha, whom Ovid, who gives a very poetical account of this great catastrophe, conveys in a small boat to the summi

il your heads and loose your girded clothes, And cast behind you your great parent’s bones. They were at first horror-struck

should we perhaps be too forward to maintain that a tradition of the great deluge was preserved by the early inhabitants of

that those tribes who appear to have retained a recollection of that great event, have inferred it from the evident tokens o

ns made him a king of Attica or Bœotia. Deucaliôn was regarded as the great patriarch of Greece, or the progenitor of those r

to treat their father in the same manner1541. Pelias was buried with great splendour by his son Acastos, and the most renown

named Medeios, whom Cheirôn reared in the mountains, and ‘the will of great Zeus was accomplished1544.’ It is evident therefo

et supposed Iasôn to have reigned at Iolcos after his return from his great adventure. According to the poem of the Nostoi, M

bands to an ever-revolving fiery wheel1579. This mythe is probably of great antiquity, as the customs on which it is founded

Lapith chiefs to aid them against the Wild-men, whom they routed with great slaughter. From all this we may collect the tradi

Meleager. The tale of the Calydonian Hunt is probably a legend of great antiquity. In the Ilias1617, when Phœnix joins hi

It has been already observed that the tragic poets allowed themselves great liberties in their treatment of the ancient mythe

form of it among the mythes of Attica. In this history also there are great variations, caused chiefly, it is probable, by th

rifling and insignificant. This story affords convincing proof of the great liberties which the Attic tragedians allowed them

t Mycenæ. Pausanias saw the ruins of it, and describes it as being of great size and strength. The son of Minyas was Orchomen

equent punishment1707. The subject of the Minyans has been treated at great length by Müller1708 and Buttmann1709. The result

logy, by Poseidôn’s forming a part of it, and by the tradition of the great wealth of Orchomenos. Their port was Iolcos, and

was a celebrated oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia in Bœotia. During a great drought the Bœotians were, it was said, directed

ent him away to where his herds were feeding, and there he grew up to great strength and size. His look was terrible, for he

before the gates. Some even say that the terror of Eurystheus was so great , that he had a brazen jar made, in which he used

ia, and crossing the Isthmus came to Marathôn in Attica, where he did great mischief to the inhabitants. For his eighth task

nd taking her girdle made sail homewards. He stopped at Troy, then in great distress from the wrath of Poseidôn and Apollo. T

n afflicted with a dearth for nine years, a Cyprian named Phrasios, a great soothsayer, came thither, and said that it would

ic1784. This mythe is, according to him, one of extreme antiquity and great beauty, setting forth the ideal of human perfecti

the conception of a Peloponnesian hero1790, who, in obedience to the great goddess of the country (the goddess of the earth)

er in marriage by pretending that Procne was dead1806. Again there is great discrepancy respecting the transformations, some

sion threw his dart and killed her1817. This legend also is told with great variations. It was said that Cephalos refused to

he Isthmus of Corinth. Here he found another ‘faitour,’ who, from the great mischief which he did to all the surrounding coun

her name than that of Sinis1835, i. e. Evil-doer. His strength was so great , that he was able to take by their tops the pine-

shed numerous festivals, particularly the Panathenæa, solemnized with great splendour every fifth year, in commemoration of t

urrection of the Pallantids, brought on Theseus the usual fate of all great Athenians, — exile. He voluntarily retired to Lyc

n the earth, giving increase to fruits and cattle ; and Poseidôn, the great nourishing principle of water. These are the only

ose of Aristomenes. The poem which recorded them was apparently of no great merit, and the history of Theseus yielded few sub

regarded as the inventor. His nephew, named Talôs or Perdix, showed a great genius for mechanics ; having, from the contempla

ymphs1864. Its situation rendered it in the earliest times a place of great commerce, for it was the thoroughfare between Hel

rived to outwit Death, and even to put fetters on him ; and there was great joy among mortals, for no one died. Hades however

marks as usual ; but when Sisyphos came in quest of them, he, to the great surprise of the thief, selected his own beasts ou

meet a mythic cycle totally distinct from those of Hellas Proper. The great patriarch of the latter was Deucaliôn, whose post

17. The son of Amymone by Poseidôn was called Nauplios. He attained a great age, and passed his time on the sea lamenting the

egend may have existed long before there was any intercourse with the great land of mystery, and like that of Io have been su

rgos were named the Perseids. The mythe of Perseus is probably one of great antiquity. It is alluded to in the Ilias1949, and

fore the moon. The mythe of Danae and Perseus being manifestly one of great antiquity and peculiar to Argos, we should feel r

ch deed he was banished from Olympos. The tradition at Epidaurus (the great seat of the worship of Asclepios) was that Phlegy

ed her as a constellation in the sky1985. This fable is narrated with great difference in the circumstances. Some say it was

thra they dragged in return into captivity. They took part in all the great undertakings of their time, were at the Calydonia

Phæacians what he had beheld in Erebos, says2052, And Tantalos I saw great woe enduring, Placed in a lake that reached up to

his place at the celestial table2058. It was probably the idea of the great wealth of Lydia that caused the mythe of Tantalos

ictor ; but his companions coming to his aid, they were repelled with great loss2156. Leaving Bebrycia, they sailed to Salmyd

then fixed on the Ister, for he supposed this river to flow out of a great lake in the Celtic mountains, from the opposite e

e Saranges into the Mæotis, whence another stream ran northwards with great velocity. They entered this and were whirled alon

a tract about the Hellespont, they may easily have conceived that the great hero of Argos, Heracles, had done the same, or th

plays. Popular poetry is, as the example of ancient Greece shows, the great preserver of the popular religion in a society wh

rtion of Lesser Asia. This is perhaps the best principle on which the great similarity of the Latin and Greek languages can b

atin and Greek languages can be accounted for ; and it will also in a great measure, taken however in combination with the ge

resemblance to that of the Latins. It has always been asserted that a great portion of the Roman religion was of Sabine origi

and Minerva adorned the Capitol in Rome, and who was regarded as the great guardian of the fortune of the city. Jupiter Elic

om the following circumstance2276. In the time of Numa there occurred great thunder-storms and rain. The people and their kin

heir protecting deities2281. Juno Romana or Capitolina, as one of the great tutelar deities of Rome, had her share in the sta

uine conception of what heaven might really be. The fact is, that our great poet was, as any one who reads with attention the

, but see the Appendix. 623. Ovid, Met. i. 452. seq. Hygin. 203. The great majority of the authorities place the legend in A

. Birds, 873. Lys. 388. Wasps, 9. 1096. It was thus that there was a great resemblance observed between the Dionysia of Athe

ys and Keto the ‘dread serpent which in a cavern of dark earth at its great extremity watches the golden apples,’ but he does

ly alluded to in these pages. The ‘Ælteste Weltkunde’ of Voss has two great defects ; he will localise every place and people

time of the first intercourse with Egypt, the Theban monster bears a great resemblance to the symbolical statues placed befo

hor. Hence our ‘Charles’ Wain.’ The Icelanders call the Bears ‘Stori ( great ) Vagn,’ and ‘Lith Vagn.’ Edda Sæmundar, iii. 304.

the Troas. 2243. Payne Knight (Proleg. § 54.) finds the cause in the great magnitudes of the empires of Agamemnôn and Priamo

or the general reader to a field of æsthetic profit neglected by the great mass of our people. Since this book is intended f

swelling udders, driven to the milking by Hermes, the summer wind; or great sheep with moist fleeces, slain by the unerring a

and the grass to wither, and the wells to dry up. Sometimes, too, the great all-seeing divinity, in his wrath at the impiety

cal import were invented by savages. Where the myth has every mark of great antiquity, — is especially silly and senseless an

whose existence they were ashamed. We find, moreover, in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth

great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth, one with as great claim to credence as another, since they spring f

cannot, without extravagance, be pushed so far as to account for any great proportion of the stories. For many myths antedat

vage curiosity and credulity: for instance, in the adventures of some great hero, or in a disease of language by which statem

ry to follow; they, and the events they record, being yet involved in great , though attractive and penetrable, mystery. But t

and lastly, the moral significance of the image, which is in all the great myths eternally and beneficently true.” Myth, in

nt Helicon, his manhood in the neighborhood of Corinth, and wrote two great poems, the Works and Days, and the Theogony, or G

text from which to draw morals appropriate to the occasion. The three great Tragic Poets of Greece have handed down to us a w

se poem of the Æneid we have taken the story of Æneas, was one of the great poets who made the age of the Roman emperor, Augu

gustus, celebrated. Vergil was born in Mantua in the year 70 b.c. His great poem is ranked next to those of Homer, in that no

re called the “Tristia,” or Sorrows, and Letters from Pontus. The two great works of Ovid are his “Metamorphoses,” or Transfo

thereabouts, it assumed the form preserved in the latest of the three great manuscripts.49 But the theory advanced by Lachman

great manuscripts.49 But the theory advanced by Lachmann is still of great value: that the poem consists of a number of anci

, or the command is one we may obey without impiety. The earth is the great parent of all; the stones are her bones; these we

his son Xuthus, the Achæans and Ionians derived their origin. Another great division of the Greek people, the Pelasgic, resid

hose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the underworld. In the great hall of the Olympian king the gods feasted each d

res (Demeter); Liber (Bacchus); Libera (Proserpina); Magna Mater, the great mother of the gods (Rhea, Cybele); Orcus (Pluto,

ends made presents to one another; and even slaves were indulged with great liberties. A feast was given them at which they s

Youth; Fides, Honesty; Feronia, goddess of groves and freedmen; and a great number of personified abstractions of conduct and

w the girls, so soon as they were come to the flowering meadows, took great delight in various sorts of flowers, whereof one

ing on the back of the divine bull, with one hand clasped the beast’s great horn, and with the other caught up the purple fol

I will. But ‘tis love of thee that has compelled me to measure out so great a space of the salt sea, in a bull’s shape. So Cr

And wasn’t it a sight to see, When, ere his song was ended, Like some great landslip, tree by tree, The country-side descende

s both from life.” Their prayer was granted. When they had attained a great age, as they stood one day before the steps of th

s, glorying in his might. Then fared the twain back to the mansion of great Jupiter, even Juno and Minerva, having stayed Mar

dost thou match gods with gods in strife, with stormy daring, as thy great spirit moveth thee? Rememberest thou not how thou

ms scattered over the surface of heaven, — the Scorpion extending two great arms, his tail, and his crooked claws over the sp

marks the heavens with its brightness as it falls, and Eridanus, the great river, received him and cooled his burning frame.

e stood the strength, Happy, as always; something grave, perhaps; The great vein-cordage on the fret-worked front, Black-swol

le sinking back Into the sleepy smooth it leaped from late. Under the great guard of one arm, there leant A shrouded somethin

slow smile, Alkestis’ silent self! It was the crowning grace of that great heart, To keep back joy: procrastinate the truth

a given signal Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melody gave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower

wed her way with chaplets and flowers. This perversion of homage gave great offence to Venus, who complained that Paris might

Psyche to be led to the storehouse of the temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, millet, vetches, beans

to death, over her heart ‘gan creep Ill dreams; so that for fear and great distress She would have cried, but in her helples

vory. The festival of Venus was at hand, — a festival celebrated with great pomp at Cyprus. Victims were offered, the altars

be, And once again her silver voice rang clear, Filling his soul with great felicity, And thus she spoke, “Wilt thou not come

s babe in swaddling clothes, accused him of it, the sweet boy swore a great oath by his father’s head that he stole not the c

less praises to the vine-god sing. … But oh! within the heart of this great flight, Whose ivory arms hold up the golden lyre?

ss; for I would have made thy son immortal. Nevertheless, he shall be great and useful. He shall teach men the use of the plo

d delivered her message to the god, who, scarce opening his eyes, had great difficulty in shaking himself free from himself.

outh joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mortification, that he was growing old. When his

and thy choice, Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem’d To his great heart none other than a God! I ask’d thee, ‘Giv

of Christ, a deep groan, heard through the isles of Greece, told that great Pan was dead, that the dynasty of Olympus was det

’ dark greenness in the eventide; And at the fountain’s brink Casting great shades, they drink, Gazing upon me, tame and sapp

he hot noon-day. Nay, once indeed, I vow By Dian’s truthful brow, The great god Pan himself did pass this way, And, all in fe

e silver lake, Listen and save. “Listen and appear to us In name of great Oceanus. By th’ earth-shaking Neptune’s mace, And

idual exploits or for the part played by them in one or more of three great expeditions, — the War against Laomedon of Troy,2

the following is related: — In Lycia a monster, breathing fire, made great havoc. The fore part of its body was a compound o

to death. For Proetus, suspecting that his wife Antea looked with too great favor on the young warrior, schemed thus to destr

trackless briars, and ranged over much country. “Reckless are lovers: great toils did Heracles bear, in hills and thickets wa

a bull for sacrifice. The bull appeared; but Minos, astonished at its great beauty, declined to sacrifice the brute. Neptune,

d of the hiding-place of the artificer, followed him to Sicily with a great fleet; and Dædalus would surely have perished had

in word or deed, To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to gray-haired age Teach wisd

nign of the opulent gold and the silver: Ivory gleams on the thrones, great goblets glint on the tables, Glitters the spaciou

ack comes the chief in triumph Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes

omes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails.345 C

tar-like sorrows of immortal eyes, Spoke slowly in her place. “I had great beauty: ask thou not my name: No one can be more

ed the weapons, and thereby betrayed himself to Ulysses, who found no great difficulty in persuading him to disregard his mot

m ranked his cousin Ajax, the son of Telamon, gigantic in size and of great courage, but dull of intellect; Diomede, the son

quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon. It is at this point that the great poem of Homer, the Iliad, begins. The Wrath of A

pius, a brave warrior, who, having inherited his father’s art, was of great value to the Greeks as their surgeon. Nestor, tak

liberty of passing freely over the scene of the late encampment. The great horse was the chief object of curiosity. Some rec

Ulysses replied most humbly, stating that they were Greeks, from the great expedition that had lately won so much glory in t

e cave, and dashed out their brains. He proceeded to devour them with great relish, and having made a hearty meal, stretched

l wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much

ning to the strains of music. They were in a laurel grove, whence the great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men.

fer to join our arms with yours.” Pallas, in amaze at the sound of so great a name, invited them to land, and when Æneas touc

spoke thus: — “Illustrious Trojan, it is but little we can do in so great a cause. Our state is feeble, hemmed in on one si

They have offered the crown to me, but I am too old to undertake such great affairs, and my son is native-born, which preclud

. Under thee he shall learn the art of war, and strive to emulate thy great exploits.” Then the king ordered horses to be fu

ce, they froze into ice, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up. Southward from the world of m

and silver palaces: but the most beautiful of these is Valhalla, the great hall of Odin. When seated on his throne he overlo

s a stern and forbidding countenance. The wolf Fenris gave the gods a great deal of trouble before they succeeded in chaining

ssured him that she had not tasted anything for eight long nights, so great was her desire to see her lover, the renowned rul

urther, they came before the king Utgard-Loki, whom they saluted with great respect. The king, regarding them with a scornful

ing to boast of, but if the youth would win the match he must display great agility. He then arose and went with all who were

rom the ground; nor should I have dared to mention such a feat to the great Thor if I had not already observed that thou art

himself. Thor told him that he could not deny but that he had brought great shame on himself. “And what grieves me most,” he

st so much strength in thee, and wouldst have brought me so near to a great mishap I would not have suffered thee to enter th

topp, and Freya drove in her chariot drawn by cats. There were also a great many Frost giants and giants of the mountain pres

another class of beings, inferior to the gods, but still possessed of great power; these were the Elves. The white spirits, o

body. They were afterwards endowed by the gods with a human form and great understanding. They were particularly distinguish

the sea leave its basin, the heavens tear asunder; men will perish in great numbers, and the eagles of the air feast upon the

e monster. Fenris is, in turn, slain by Vithar, Odin’s son. Thor wins great renown by killing the Midgard serpent, but, recoi

n chain; While from the east the giant Rymer steers His ship, and the great serpent makes to land; And all are marshall’d in

er father’s desire, betrothed to him. Now on the night of the wedding great fires were made in the hall of the Volsungs, and

made in the hall of the Volsungs, and in the midst stood Branstock, a great oak tree, about which the hall had been built, an

the Early-comers shall have abundant rest While Earth grows scant of great ones, and fadeth from its best, And fadeth from i

ted Ovid. Translations and Studies. — For a general treatment of the great poets of Rome, the student is referred to W. L. C

l love for Beatrice Portinari, was written between 1290 and 1300; his great poem, the Divina Commedia (the Divine Comedy) con

tary. § 31. In the following genealogical table (A), the names of the great gods of Olympus are printed in heavy-face. Latin

v. April 1892), about twenty Olympian deities:401 (1) The five really great gods, Zeus, Hera, Posidon, Apollo, and Athene; (2

Venus was a deity of extreme antiquity among the Romans, but not of great importance until she had acquired certain attribu

er of Argos lived about 431 b.c., and was a contemporary of two other great sculptors, Phidias and Myron. His greatest work w

skin. The worship of Æsculapius was introduced into Rome in a time of great sickness. An embassy sent to the temple of Epidau

spoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove’s great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death

. The seventeenth century satirist, Marston, wrote a Pygmalion, of no great worth. Frederick Tennyson, Pygmalion (in the Daph

or in the western ocean. Midas is fabled to have been the son of the “ great mother” Cybele, whose worship in Phrygia was clos

has, however, its moral significance also, being connected with that great mystery of Joy and Grief, of Life and Death, whic

pes hanging above his head withdrew when he would pluck them; while a great rock was forever just about to fall upon him. Ixi

e inspected only by especial officers appointed for that duty, who on great occasions consulted them and interpreted their or

Historically: Siegfried has been identified, variously, with (1) the great German warrior Arminius (or Hermann), the son of

, and, invading the Western Empire, was defeated by the Romans in the great battle of Chalons sflr Marne, 451. He died 454 a.

res were, of course, merely suggestions for, or contributions to, the great heroes of the epics, not prototypes; the same is

e; home of Minos, 264. Gods, the Egyptian, see under Egypt. Gods, the great , of Greece, origin of, 38; enumerated, 52; discus

, 88; distinctively Roman, 88-90; derived from Etruscan, 90; myths of great Greek divinities of heaven, 91-173; of earth, 174

il. Maruts; see under Hindoo divinities (1). Mars (A′res), one of the great gods, 52; attributes of, 57, 58; meaning of names

in the Orient, 34-36. Greek Myths of Creation, 37-50: Greek Myths of great divinities of heaven, 91-173; of great divinities

reation, 37-50: Greek Myths of great divinities of heaven, 91-173; of great divinities of earth, 174-180; of earth and underw

′can (Vulca′nus, Hephæstus), 6; identified with Tubal, 12; one of the great gods, 52; attributes of, 58, 59; meaning of names

ods there were demi-gods. These were originally men who had performed great actions, and whom, after their death, men worship

of his majesty. The ancients represented this god as having a face of great dignity and beauty. His head wag surrounded with

] Virgil, the Roman poet, represents Jove’s power over nature, with great efiect, thus; Great Jove himself, whom dreadful

beauty of the animal, approached and began to play with him as with a great but gentle dog; when he lay down at her feet she

ion of the god’s character. We reverence God because he is infinitely great and powerful; and we love him because he is as go

supposed to have fallen from heaven. The Palladium was preserved with great vigilance in the citadel of Troy, because an Orac

Palladium away, and Troy was taken. Eneas, the son of Venus, and the great ancestor of the Romans, is said, by some of their

” that is, little altars and images of the goddess, and models of the great temple, (probably for the embellishment of houses

aft is in danger to be set at naught, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnifi

ia and the world worshippeth.” The citizens of Ephesus then raised a great clamour against Paul, but one of the town officer

hat knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down f

ceanides, and Nereus had fifty, these were the Nereides. There were a great multitude of sea-nymphs besides the Oceanides and

ddess in the cultivation of fruit-trees and gardens, procured for her great reputation among the Romans, who placed her in th

ive a different account of him. They say that he was a philosopher of great wisdom and learning, who accompanied Bacchus in h

oice of pain, The crashing fetter, and the rattling chain, Strike the great hero with the frightful sound, The hoarse, rough,

punishment of guilt. She is represented as traversing the earth with great diligence, in search of the wicked; furnished wit

s heaven. Being regarded as implacable, these deities were objects of great terror. No hymns were composed to their honour, a

many lives, and retarded the war, before Troy was taken. The loss was great on both sides; the most valiant of the Trojans, a

rojans, and particularly of the sons of Priam, were slain; indeed, so great was the slaughter, that the rivers of the country

Ulysses. They proceeded together among the unwary Trojans, committed great slaughter, and returned to the Greek camp, having

tter instructed in the nature of God, and in the proper way to honour great men. Who was Eneas, and what became of his famil

e people, and the courts of justice. Solon discharged this trust with great ability, and gave the Athenians a republican gove

order, and his enemies in fear. He caused to be built and equipped, a great number of ships, which carried on a great trade,

to be built and equipped, a great number of ships, which carried on a great trade, and defended the maritime state of Corinth

mins. The Hindus acknowledge one supreme deity, called Brahma, or the great one; and they acknowledge that he is uncreated an

they acknowledge that he is uncreated and eternal, and infinitely too great to be comprehended by mortals; as the Hebrew scri

la, the prophetess. Hard by the eastern gate of Hell In ancient time great Vala fell; And there she lies in massive tomb, Sh

eities, such as Mercury, Jupiter Ammon, and Juno. ——— Osiris, the great object of the adoration of the Egyptians, was som

mblem of the Sun. This deity, the son of Osiris and Isis, was held in great veneration in Egypt. Three cities in the Thebais

as the god of the air. This god was, like the Saturn of the Romans, a great improver of rude men. He invented the working of

exicans offered to him the greatest number of human sacrifices. Three great sacrifices to this god were made every year. Thes

sm. The images of the Penates were kept in every house. The kings and great lords kept six of these images, the nobles four,

f these gods, besides those which have been briefly noticed, was very great ; and little clay images of them, found by the Spa

fasts, and penances were practised by them. All the heathens attached great reverence to the sanctity of an oath. When the go

he city had become populous and rich, this sanctuary was rebuilt with great labour and cost. According to Cortes, the Spanish

wealth of the people who worship them. The Mexicans worshipped before great masses of stone; and the Achaians, among the Gree

accomplish what human piety had begun. This prayer being concluded, a great company, consisting of priests, senators, knights

tly temples, what were the places of worship? ——— The Romans placed great confidence in soothsayers and auguries. Soothsaye

f Pontifex Maximus, or chief priest. The Roman history represents the great men of that nation as eminent for wisdom and cour

xperienced from the Venetian artillery.” It is to be regretted that a great portion of these specimens of Grecian art were lo