The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855) : Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative Commentary |
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... Achilles taken from Scyros by Ulysses and Diomedes . [ Pompeian wall painting : Roscher 1 : 27 . ] .... 284 286 291 292 95. The Surrender of Briseis . [ Pomp . wall painting : Roscher 5 : 820. ] 96. Hector fighting before the Ships ...
... Achilles taken from Scyros by Ulysses and Diomedes . [ Pompeian wall painting : Roscher 1 : 27 . ] .... 284 286 291 292 95. The Surrender of Briseis . [ Pomp . wall painting : Roscher 5 : 820. ] 96. Hector fighting before the Ships ...
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... Achilles . He was lame of gait , a figurative suggestion , perhaps , of the flickering , unsteady nature of fire . According to his own story , ' he was born halt ; and his mother , chagrined by his deformity , cast him . from Heaven ...
... Achilles . He was lame of gait , a figurative suggestion , perhaps , of the flickering , unsteady nature of fire . According to his own story , ' he was born halt ; and his mother , chagrined by his deformity , cast him . from Heaven ...
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... Achilles , the grandson of King Æacus , in the Trojan War . $ 64. Antiope was , according to the Odyssey , another daughter of Asopus , therefore a sister of Ægina . But later poets make this darling of Jove daughter of Nycteus , king ...
... Achilles , the grandson of King Æacus , in the Trojan War . $ 64. Antiope was , according to the Odyssey , another daughter of Asopus , therefore a sister of Ægina . But later poets make this darling of Jove daughter of Nycteus , king ...
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... Achilles ; and , at her instance , he under- took a contest against the river Xanthus . Homer1 describes the burning of elms and willow trees and tamarisks , the parching of the plains , the bubbling of the waters , that signalized the ...
... Achilles ; and , at her instance , he under- took a contest against the river Xanthus . Homer1 describes the burning of elms and willow trees and tamarisks , the parching of the plains , the bubbling of the waters , that signalized the ...
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... Achilles ; and , at her instance , he undertook a contest against the river Xanthus . Homer describes the burning of elms and willow trees and tamarisks , the parching of the plains , the bubbling of the waters , that signalized the ...
... Achilles ; and , at her instance , he undertook a contest against the river Xanthus . Homer describes the burning of elms and willow trees and tamarisks , the parching of the plains , the bubbling of the waters , that signalized the ...
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