The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... fell into corruption . So in Greek mythology the attributes of the various gods would be imperfect irradiations of the attributes of the one God . A more limited conception is , that all mythological legends are derived from the ...
... fell into corruption . So in Greek mythology the attributes of the various gods would be imperfect irradiations of the attributes of the one God . A more limited conception is , that all mythological legends are derived from the ...
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... fell , after Homer's time , into the hands of the Rhapsodists , who chanted epic songs , and of the Cyclic Poets , who elaborated into various epic circles , or completed wholes , neglected traditions of the Trojan War and myths of the ...
... fell , after Homer's time , into the hands of the Rhapsodists , who chanted epic songs , and of the Cyclic Poets , who elaborated into various epic circles , or completed wholes , neglected traditions of the Trojan War and myths of the ...
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... fell upon him , and drove him , grievously wounded , from the encounter . From the blood of the mutilated Uranus leaped into being the Furies , whose heads writhe with serpents ; the Giants , a novel race of monsters ; and the Melic ...
... fell upon him , and drove him , grievously wounded , from the encounter . From the blood of the mutilated Uranus leaped into being the Furies , whose heads writhe with serpents ; the Giants , a novel race of monsters ; and the Melic ...
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... fell from the wound- ed Uranus , renewed the revolt against the Olym- pian gods . They were creatures nearer akin to men than were the Titans , or the Cyclopes , or Typhon . They clothed themselves in the skins of beasts , and armed ...
... fell from the wound- ed Uranus , renewed the revolt against the Olym- pian gods . They were creatures nearer akin to men than were the Titans , or the Cyclopes , or Typhon . They clothed themselves in the skins of beasts , and armed ...
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... fell asleep in death , they were translated in a pleasant dream to a spiritual existence , in which , unseen by mortal eyes , they still attended men as monitors and guardians . 1 Consequently the creation of these men could not be ...
... fell asleep in death , they were translated in a pleasant dream to a spiritual existence , in which , unseen by mortal eyes , they still attended men as monitors and guardians . 1 Consequently the creation of these men could not be ...
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Common terms and phrases
Achilles Adonis adventures Ægyptus Æneas Æneid Agamemnon ancient Apollo Argos Ariadne arms arrows Athens Bacchus Balder beauty behold body brother Cadmus called cave Ceres chariot clouds Commentary Cronus Cupid Cyclops daughter dead death deity Deucalion Diana divine earth Edipus eyes fate father fell giant goddess gods golden Greece Greek Hades hand head heart heaven Hector Hercules Hermod hero Homer horses Iliad immortal Jove Juno Jupiter king land Loki Lond maiden Mars Meleager Mercury Metam Milton Minerva Minos monster mortal mother mythology myths Neptune night nymph Odin Olympus oracle Ovid palace Peleus Pelops Perseus Phaëton Pluto poem poet Prometheus Proserpine Psyche queen race river Roscher sacred Satyrs serpent shore Sigurd sister sleep song spear spring stars stood story sweet sword Thebes thee Theseus Thessaly Thor thou translation tree Trojan Trojan War Troy Ulysses Utgard-Loki Venus Vulcan wife wind wound youth