t their ever-making use of it against him, he seized them immediately after their birth, hurled them down into a dark abyss c

lty. Gæa finally induced him to lay violent hands upon his sire, and, after releasing him from his bonds, gave him a scythe,

ther unawares, defeated him, thanks to his extraordinary weapon, and, after binding him fast, took possession of the vacant t

child was born, but only to meet with the same cruel fate. One infant after another disappeared down the capacious throat of

uld put it into execution, he found himself attacked by his son, and, after a short but terrible encounter, he was signally d

mythology. The Story of Prometheus At the time of the creation, after covering the newborn Earth with luxuriant vegetat

us at times could not refrain from pitiful complaints; but generation after generation of men lived on earth, and died, bless

g was lacking, except a name for the peerless creature; and the gods, after due consideration, decreed she should be called P

in, however; for the waters rose higher and higher, overtook them one after another in their ineffectual efforts to escape, c

tr.). Deucalion and Pyrrha The rain continued to fall, until, after many days, the waves covered all the surface of t

d’s oracles can seldom be accepted in a literal sense; and Deucalion, after due thought, explained to Pyrrha what he conceive

lace the wicked beings slain by Jupiter. Deucalion and Pyrrha shortly after became the happy parents of a son named Hellen, w

myths, state that Deucalion and Pyrrha took refuge in an ark, which, after sailing about for many days, was stranded on the

ign will, and they continued to issue their irrevocable decrees, even after he supplanted his father and began to rule over a

ir future capital, which was to be called Thebes. Parched with thirst after their long walk, the men then hastened to a neigh

t into the portico, where her sons had thrown themselves down to rest after their unwonted exertions; but instead of finding

ized the sceptre and immediately began to rule in her stead. Not long after her birth, Cecrops, a Phœnician, came to Greece,

ch wished the privilege of naming it. A general council was held, and after some deliberation most of the gods withdrew their

rachne was forced to acknowledge her failure. To be thus outstripped, after all her proud boasts, was humiliating indeed. Bit

Given back to dwell on earth in vernal bloom?” Wordsworth. Apollo, after endowing Admetus with immortality, left his servi

lime and stagnant waters which remained upon the surface of the earth after the Deluge. None had dared approach the monster;

een greatly beloved through life. The Story of Daphne Some time after this episode, Apollo encountered in the forest a

poet, and the poem, crown; Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, And, after poets, be by victors worn.” Ovid ( Dryden’s tr.)

rpretation. Apollo’s principal duty was to drive the sun chariot. Day after day he rode across the azure sky, nor paused on h

ning to all rash mortals. Such was not the case, however; and shortly after Apollo found himself engaged in another musical c

rivacy of his own apartment, and sent in hot haste for a barber, who, after having been sworn to secrecy, was admitted, and b

e love lavished upon her by conferring her hand upon Orpheus. Shortly after their union, while walking alone in the fields, t

and subject daily to her rival’s cruel treatment. Zethus and Amphion, after besieging and taking the city, put Lycus to death

bit of boasting rather loudly of his divine parentage. His playmates, after a time, wearied of his arrogance, and, to avoid t

is exalted position, and that none would ever dare doubt his veracity after such a signal mark of Apollo’s favour. When the g

tona, and taunted her because her offspring numbered but two. Shortly after , Niobe even went so far as to forbid her people t

ay on the self-same spot, it recurred in all its sweetness; and night after night it was repeated when the pale moonbeams fel

ly forth to hunt the wild beasts in the forest. One summer afternoon, after an unusually long and exciting pursuit, Diana and

ate; for the pack had caught one glimpse of his sleek sides, and were after him in full cry. In vain poor Actæon strained eve

to join the other hunters in his favourite sport. But, alas, one day, after an exciting pursuit, he boldly attacked a wild bo

uto, whose subject he had now become, refused to yield up Adonis; and after much dispute a compromise was agreed upon, by vir

t separation by day was all these fond lovers could endure, and night after night, as soon as the first stars appeared, Hero

and tore to shreds, before beating a retreat into the forest. Shortly after , Pyramus came rushing up, out of breath, and full

to receive them. Wondering at her absence, Pyramus looked around, and after a short investigation discerned the lion’s footpr

and was biding her time to punish the disdainful Narcissus. One day, after a prolonged chase, he hurried to a lonely pool to

his own warmth was infused into the icy bosom, and as he pressed kiss after kiss upon the chiselled lips they grew at last so

eeing his fair image a living and breathing maiden was unbounded, and after a short but passionate wooing the object of his a

all her former envy, welcomed the blushing bride, who was happy ever after . The ancients, for whom Cupid was an emblem of th

ill readily be perceived by the numerous pranks he played immediately after his birth. First he sprang from his mother’s knee

pasture. The oxen were fat and sleek; and the mischievous little god, after satisfying himself that they were young, and ther

uds; and Mercury, the personification of the wind, born in the night, after a few hours’ existence waxes sufficiently strong

r perished; but, contrary to all previsions, the babes survived, and, after having been suckled for a time by a she-wolf, wer

nown as Mount Quirinal. Yearly festivals in Romulus’ honour were ever after held in Rome, under the name of Quirinalia. Well

the foot of his statues, and a bull was the customary thank-offering after a successful campaign. “The soldier, from succes

e sights and sounds, the goddess at first seemed quite contented; but after a time Vulcan’s gloomy abode lost all its attract

husband, and went in search of another more congenial mate. Some time after , Vulcan married one of the Graces, who, however,

ns, which were only checked by the sacrifice of a second virgin. Year after year, however, he returned, and year after year a

e of a second virgin. Year after year, however, he returned, and year after year a fair girl was doomed to perish, until fina

honesty incurred the hatred and contempt of this hero also. Some time after , having finished his time of servitude with Eurys

eived, Neptune was not yet cured of his grasping tendencies. Not long after his return from Troy, he quarrelled with Minerva

ay assumed the form of a horse, in which guise he contentedly trotted after her and renewed his attentions. The offspring of

they both lived. This choice was approved by Jupiter; and the lovers, after reaching a place of safety, returned the wondrous

ptune had, besides this, many subordinates, whose duty it was to look after various seas, lakes, rivers, fountains, &tc.,

out Greece, and all men demanded vengeance upon the murderer. Shortly after , a play was being enacted in the great amphitheat

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

’ favourite place of resort was the island of Naxos, which he visited after every journey. During one of his sojourns there,

. His devotion at last induced her to forget her recreant lover, and, after a short courtship, Bacchus won her as a bride. Th

tars, — an ornament which fitly enhanced her peerless beauty. Shortly after her marriage, however, poor Ariadne sickened and

his bright young creature. Long ere this he had tried to persuade one after another of the goddesses to share his gloomy thro

er child out of the flames, pressed him anxiously to her breast, and, after ascertaining that he was quite unharmed, turned t

f water. She immediately turned, and beheld the torrent Alpheus, who, after a disconsolate search underground for the lost Ar

and caused, him and all his crew to perish in the seething waves. Day after day the queen hastened down to the seashore, foll

, to watch for the returning sails of her husband’s vessel; and night after night she lay on her couch, anxiously expecting t

this theft Hercules forced his way into his cave, attacked him, and, after a memorable encounter, slew him. The animals were

im, and, after a memorable encounter, slew him. The animals were soon after delivered into the hands of Eurystheus, who then

to cheer or sympathise, Hercules had Deianeira ever at his side; and after many days they came to the river Evenus, whose us

irst glance into her sweet face rekindled all his former passion. Day after day he lingered by her side, forgetful of duty, D

monides ( Elton’s tr.). Her piteous prayer was evidently heard, for, after much tossing, the cask was finally washed ashore

for many a long year, —  a burden which seemed all the more grievous after the short taste of freedom he had enjoyed while H

r, that of Mycenæ, which he ruled wisely and well. When Perseus died, after a long and glorious reign, the gods, who had alwa

car, and fled to Media, whence she never returned. One day, some time after his arrival at Athens, Theseus heard a sound of w

ed could not find their way out; and even Dædalus and his son Icarus, after many days’ attempt, found they could not leave it

the direct rays of the ardent sun. The heat, which seemed so grateful after his chilly flight, soon softened and melted the w

ere crowned by the birth of a son, whom he called Hippolytus. Shortly after this joyful event, the Amazons invaded his countr

reathless and almost exhausted, Jason reached the opposite bank, and, after depositing his burden there, scrambled up beside

t they would discuss the matter and come to an amicable understanding after the banquet, which was already spread and awaitin

drew him down into their moist abode to keep them company. Hercules, after vainly waiting for Hylas’ return, went in search

s, where they remained immovable like any other rocks. The Argonauts, after other adventures far too numerous to recount in d

enium to the fury of wild beasts. Some hunters, passing there shortly after this, found a she-bear suckling the babe, who evi

all possible information about the murder committed so long ago, and after a short time they brought unmistakable proofs whi

uries, or Eumenides. Here Œdipus expressed his desire to remain, and, after bidding his faithful daughter an affectionate far

of no avail, however, for Thebes was well fortified and defended; and after a seven-years’ siege they found themselves no nea

hebes and avenge their fathers’ death. The Epigoni (or those who come after ), as these youths are collectively designated, re

and still could not refuse to comply with Prœtus’ urgent request; so, after much thought, he decided to send Bellerophon to a

nth. Bellerophon proceeded, therefore, to the latter fountain, where, after lingering many days in the vain hope of catching

monster, whose fiery breath and great strength were of no avail; for after a protracted struggle Bellerophon and Pegasus wer

ods, defeated these warlike women also, and returned to Lycia, where, after escaping from an ambush posted by the king for hi

hological hero, merely deprived Bellerophon of his eyesight; and ever after he groped his way disconsolately, thinking of the

hrough the open window sped the little creature, and as Rhœcus looked after it to mark its flight, his eyes fell upon the dis

, however, was not at all anxious to accept the hand of a mere mortal after having enjoyed the attention of the gods (for Nep

rescuing Hesione, his father’s sister, whom Hercules had carried off, after besieging Troy. He was promptly provided with sev

. He was promptly provided with several well-manned galleys, and soon after appeared at the court of Menelaus, King of Sparta

of one heel, by which she held him, and then returned home. Some time after an oracle foretold that Achilles would die beneat

mingle with the king’s daughters and their handmaidens. One messenger after another was despatched to summon Achilles to join

was despatched to summon Achilles to join the fleet at Aulis, but one after another returned without having seen him or being

to embark; but no favourable wind came to swell the sails, which day after day hung limp and motionless against the tall mas

iomedes in disguise effected an entrance into the city one night, and after many difficulties succeeded in escaping with the

ward journey was not as joyful as might have been expected; and many, after escaping from the enemy’s hands, perished in the

roken masts and torn sails, were driven far out of their course, and, after ten days, reached the land of the Lotophagi or Lo

he rams, reserving one for his own use, and watched them pass out one after the other undetected. Then, clinging to the wool

able winds, they were obliged to row against wind and waves, and only after many days came to the land of the Læstrygonians,

ing Ulysses, who alone had not partaken of the sacred flesh, and who, after clinging to the rudder for nine weary days, a pla

he construction of a huge raft, whereon our hero found himself afloat after many years of reluctant lingering on the land. Al

Nausicaa obeyed, and drove with her maidens down to the shore, where, after their labours were duly finished, they all indulg

eved her husband dead to credit this marvellous news; and it was only after Ulysses had given her an infallible proof of his

ceived him. Ulysses’ Last Journey Ulysses was now safe at home, after twenty years of warfare and adventure, and at fir

nd at first greatly enjoyed the quiet and peace of his home life; but after a while these tame joys grew wearisome, and he de

s, he saw Helen, the fair cause of all this war and bloodshed, — who, after Paris’ death, had married Deiphobus, his brother,

with unconcealed horror by the Trojans, who rowed away in haste. Soon after , Æneas moored his ships in the harbours of Sicani

f his darts into her heart, and made her fall in love with Æneas. Day after day now passed in revelry and pleasure, and still

by a sudden severe shower, which quenched the devouring flames. Soon after this miracle, Anchises appeared to Æneas, and bad

jans from the town — farewell.’” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Shortly after her death, in the very midst of the fray, Æneas s

d for many a year, and where one of his race, the Vestal Virgin Ilia, after marrying Mars, gave birth to Remus and Romulus, t

countries it is unlawful for the husband to see his wife’s face until after she has given birth to her first child, and in ot

sky (Jupiter), closely pursued by the sun (her brother Cadmus), who, after passing through many lands, slays a dragon (the u

rts; and, as “the sun was regarded naturally as the restorer of life” after the blighting influence of winter and disease, so

eappears opposite the place where he disappeared, but is no more seen after the sun himself has fairly risen, “they say that

o sleep,” instead of, “It is night.” These expressions remained long after their real meaning had ceased to be understood; a

day; and he, like many another solar hero, is cast adrift immediately after his birth, owing to an ominous prophecy that he w

ff the dawn (Ariadne); whom he is, however, forced to abandon shortly after on the Island of Naxos. In his subsequent career

ays of the sun), which Jason recovers by the aid of Medea (the dawn), after slaying the dragon (the demon of drought). Æetes,

hich vainly attempts to recover his children, the dawn and light (?), after they have been borne away by the all-conquering s

the same root as “Leto” and “Latmus”) is the emblem of darkness, who, after marrying Jocasta (like Iole, a personification of

Perseus, Theseus, and Jason, is forced to wander far from home, and, after a prolonged journey, encounters and slays Laius (

light, and ends his life amid lightning flashes and rolls of thunder, after being accompanied to the end of his course by Ant

beneath whose hoofs fresh fountains were wont to spring. Bellerophon, after many journeys, is finally united to Philonoe, a p

Clytæmnestra, and dies by her hand in a bloody bath; while Achilles, after a period of sullen gloom, meets with an untimely

after a period of sullen gloom, meets with an untimely death shortly after recovering the beautiful Briseis. Like Perseus an

usband’s temporary absence, and bears her off to the far east, where, after struggling for a while to retain possession of he

ion of the story of Hercules and Perseus: for Ulysses, early in life, after wedding Penelope, is forced to leave her to fight

for ever, and he returns home enveloped in an impenetrable disguise, after having visited the Phæacian land (the land of clo

g visited the Phæacian land (the land of clouds or mists). It is only after he has slain the suitors of Penelope (the weaver

ancients, he was born of the sky (Jupiter) and the plains (Maia), and after a very few hours’ existence assumed gigantic prop

ntic proportions, stole away the cattle of the sun (the clouds), and, after fanning up a great fire in which he consumed some

Sea. Delos chained in, 45; Arion borne by dolphins in, 63, 64; named after Ægeus 226 Æ-ge′us. King of Athens; father of Thes

gnificance, 354 De-iph′o-bus. Son of Priam and Hecuba; married Helen after the death of Paris, 324 De′los, Floating island;

son was in danger, 335 Eu-ry-cle′a. Nurse of Ulysses; recognises him after twenty years’ absence, 318; Penelope awakened by,

e, 358, 359 Hel′e-nus. King of Epirus, whose slave Andromache became after the death of Hector, 327 He-li′a-des. Sisters of

Ion, grandson of Hellen, 26 I-o′ni-an Sea. Sea west of Greece, named after Io, 114 Iph-i-ge-ni′a. Daughter of Agamemnon; sa

mphs subject to Neptune, 261, 262 Na-pæ′æ. Valley nymphs, who looked after the flocks also, 261 Nar-cis′sus. Youth loved by

6, 283; significance, 349 Phœ-nic′i-a. Province in Asia Minor, named after Phœnix, 32; significance, 349 Phœ′nix. Brother o

opes, might one day seize his power, buried them in Tartarus directly after their birth. This displeased Gæa, their mother, w

anation of the manner in which Helios reaches the east in the morning after having disappeared in the west. In later times po

she drove across the vast horizon both morning and night, before and after the sun-god. Hence she is a personification not m

ive her chariot across the sky whilst her brother Helios was reposing after the toils of the day. When the shades of evening

own, declared Chronos to be identical with Saturn. They believed that after his defeat in the Titanomachia, and his banishmen

nion of Zeus was now securely established, and no hostile attack ever after disturbed the peaceful ease of the inhabitants of

ented as supreme. In his palace on Olympus, Zeus was supposed to live after the fashion of a Grecian prince in the midst of h

oubtedly the temple erected by Tarquin* on the Capitol at Rome. This, after being nearly destroyed by fire in the time of Sul

a statue of gold and ivory, the work of the Greek artist Apollonius*, after the model of the Olympian Zeus. Capitolini Ludi*

uld deprive him of the empire it had cost him so much to attain. Soon after this, feeling violent pains in his head, he sent

pposed that they were ancient Peloponnesian divinities of light, who, after the Dorian invasion, were degraded to the rank of

nthus*, and Sarpedon*. The first two became judges in the lower world after death. “Europa is the morning with its broad-spr

m to do, beneath the ocean. Prometheus, in Lowell’s poem, says: “One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling upon

aken, and sacrifices and thanksgivings were gratefully offered to him after a safe and prosperous voyage. As the deity having

permitted all shades to enter, but none to return. The guilty souls, after leaving the presence of Minos, were conducted to

to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, it was supposed that, after the shades had inhabited Elysium* for a thousand

of the indestructibility of hope. It symbolizes the sun, which, daily after reaching the highest point, seems to drop down ag

of Orestes*, effected by this court. The story relates that Orestes, after having slain his mother, Clytemnestra*, and Ægist

eatened to extinguish the human race. In vain Zeus sent one messenger after another, beseeching the angry goddess to return t

a newer and lovelier garb, was supposed to symbolize the soul, which, after death, is free from corruption and lives in a bet

refers to the institution of the Eleusinian* Mysteries. When Demeter, after the loss of her daughter, was wandering over the

f the Greeks afforded. It was commonly believed that the souls of men after death led a dull, miserable existence in the worl

unavailing. Dionysus* induced Hephæstus to return to Olympus, where, after having released the queen of heaven from her undi

find Apollo, in later times, completely identified with Helios. Soon after his birth he slew the giant Tityus* and the serpe

istened to her utterances and expressed them in ambiguous verse. Soon after his victory over the Python, Apollo saw Eros bend

n a cavern in Mount Cyllene, in Arcadia. The story is that four hours after his birth he set forth to steal some of the cattl

s which were fighting. They curled around the staff and remained ever after permanently attached to it. The wand typified pow

otous god. It was originally a mere surname, and does not occur until after the time of Herodotus.” Dwight . Dionysus was

th the god and his attendants soon became intoxicated with its juice, after which, crowned with wreaths of ivy, and accompani

The most magnificent of these statues was the one erected by Augustus after his victory at Actium. The festival of this godde

were supposed to be the glorified spirits of ancestors, who exercised after death a protecting power over the prosperity of t

ncient times the victim was laid upon the altar and burned whole; but after the time of Prometheus portions only were sacrifi

rope, to indicate that it was not an unwilling sacrifice. The priest, after walking round the altar, sprinkled it with a mixt

round the altar, sprinkled it with a mixture of meal and holy water, after which he also sprinkled the worshipers, and exhor

ts of national importance. The most ancient festivals were those held after the ingathering of the harvest, or vintage, and w

tender plants force their way through the ground in the early spring after the frost of winter had disappeared, and so they

at Prometheus, son of the Titan, Japetus, made men of clay and water, after which Athene breathed a soul into them. The gods

ands. The Iron race was last. The earth now yielded her increase only after much labor. The goddess of justice having abandon

bor. The most distinguished persons of the race which occupied Greece after the restoration of mankind by Deucalion and Pyrrh

imself upon his own sword and expired. The Epigoni*. Ten years after these events, the sons of the slain heroes, who w

ved only by the sacrifice of the king’s daughter, Andromeda. Cepheus, after some time, yielded to the entreaties of his peopl

of the oracle, fled for protection to the king of Larissa. Some time after , Perseus went to Larissa to contend at some games

did not read the letter until he had hospitably received Bellerophon, after which he, too, abhorred the thought of violating

by following her. He listened attentively to both speakers, and then, after mature deliberation, he decided to follow Virtue.

Eurystheus by performing twelve tasks which should be imposed by him, after which he would be made immortal. The Twelve Lab

river Ladon; but in order to secure her he was obliged to wound her, after which he lifted her on his shoulders and carried

of this task the servitude of Heracles to Eurystheus ended. The hero, after his release from servitude, returned to Thebes, w

vengeance on Eurytus, who had refused to give him his daughter, Iole, after he had won her by shooting with the bow. He now m

of the sun as born to a life of toil, as entering on his weary tasks after a brief but happy infancy, and as sinking finally

s after a brief but happy infancy, and as sinking finally to his rest after a fierce battle with the clouds which had hindere

irst received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously slew him. Long after his death the Athenians obtained his bones from t

is by inadvertently neglecting her in a general sacrifice to the gods after a bountiful harvest. To punish this neglect, she

d anger knew no bounds. The Mœræ* (Fates) had appeared to Althea soon after the birth of Meleager, and informed her that her

of Lemnos. They were hospitabty entertained by the Lemnian women, and after remaining several days they again embarked. On ar

and caused the death of Creusa. Medea then murdered her two children, after which she fled to Athens in her chariot drawn by

is gave his famous decision in favor of the beauty of Aphrodite. Soon after this event, Priam proposed a contest among his so

elen, was reigning, he met with a hospitable reception. Menelaus soon after sailed to Crete; Paris availed himself of his abs

Greater Ajax* and other heroes, succeeded in rescuing his corpse only after a severe and obstinate struggle. The wrath of Ach

o had been the hope and stay of Troy. Penthesilea*. Immediately after Hector’s death, Penthesilea, the queen of the Ama

red of his father. King Priam received him with great honors. The day after his arrival, Memnon led his troops to the field.

s reason, and put an end to his existence. Final Measures. Soon after this the Greeks captured the Trojan seer, Helenus

achaon*, a son of Æsculapius*. In an engagement which took place soon after , he mortally wounded Paris. Death did not immedia

rge.” Cox . The Return of the Greeks from Troy. The Greeks, after sacrificing Polyxena*, a daughter of Priam, on th

yage was beset with manifold disasters, and many perished. Agamemnon, after escaping a storm, landed safely on his native sho

, drove out his flocks, and went out, carefully replacing the barrier after him. He came home at evening, rolled away the sto

d him a bowl of wine, saying, “Cyclops, this is wine; taste and drink after thy meal of man’s flesh.” Delighted with the deli

eries against him or them. She promised to dismiss them all in safety after hospitably entertaining them. The men were restor

e crew summoned from the shore, and all magnificently entertained day after day until Odysseus seemed to have forgotten his n

owed none to approach until Tiresias had appeared. The great prophet, after drinking of the sacrifice, proceeded to warn the

e island of the Sirens. Odysseus filled the ears of his men with wax, after having given directions that they should bind him

n they had finished their task, they bathed and sat down to a repast, after which they amused themselves with singing and pla

overruling, self-created God; the immortality of the soul; a judgment after death; the final annihilation of the wicked, and

e of the evening sun, taking the wearied traveler to rest in her arms after each day’s labor; the cow was her emblem. Neith*

ng magnificence was erected in his honor at Philoe, which became ever after the great burial-place of the nation, and the spo

of the Dead.” It is a ritual for the use of the soul in its journeys after death, and a copy more or less complete, accordin

and enchanters. “The religion of Zoroaster continued to flourish even after the introduction of Christianity, and in the thir

he Hindus believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death, into another human body; but that if he ha

Volsung, a descendant of Odin, is the hero of this story. He was born after the death of his father, and became the foster-ch

ards and minstrels, which were held in Wales for many centuries, long after the Druidical priesthood in its other departments

n the earlier period judges were appointed by the Welsh princes, and, after the conquest of Wales, by commission from the kin

, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter. The other gre

om of kindling fires on Hallow-eve lingered in the British Isles long after the establishment of Christianity. The Druids wer

f the mistletoe with a golden sickle. It is caught in a white mantle, after which they proceed to slay the victims, at the sa

the fabulous history of the heathen divinities serve the Greeks, and after them, the Romans, for their religion? As you have

and founded a small town called Janiculum. Saturn, as has been shown, after having been dethroned by his son Jupiter, was hos

peace. The temple was shut only three times: first, under Numa; next, after the second Punic war; and lastly, in the reign of

xt, after the second Punic war; and lastly, in the reign of Augustus, after the battle of Actium. Janus is called Bifrons by

it into Europe. They relate that Dardanus, contemporary with Cadmus, after the death of his brother Jasion, led Cybele, his

uth, whom he had taken up to heaven, was appointed in her stead. Soon after , Hebe was married to Hercules. Hebe is usually re

Nundina was invoked by parents, who gave names to their children soon after their birth; and was also called Nona Dies. When

ed; Trivia, when she presided over cross-ways; Chitone, because women after childbirth used to offer her their children’s clo

a, and India. In Ethiopia he was joined by a band of Satyrs that ever after attended him, with songs, music, and dancing. He

e relating to the birth of Bacchus, we find that Semele perished soon after the conflagration of her palace, but not before t

t access to the city, removed the miraculous image, and Troy was soon after taken by the Greeks. Minerva was called by the Gr

n; Tritonia, either because her father brought her forth three months after his head had been struck, or because she was educ

hearts; Armata, because the Spartan women dedicated a temple to her, after having won a victory over the Messenians; Apaturi

ehensions. The sudden appearance of a lioness so frightened her, that after having dropped her veil, she ran into a cave. The

ays and nine nights, he lighted on the isle of Lemnos, and was always after a cripple. The islanders used him so well, that h

Trismegistus, or three times great, king of Egypt, who lived a little after Moses. He was the author of ancient books on reli

es into one. The Mercury, son of Maia, and grandson of Atlas, reigned after Jupiter, his father, in a part of Italy and Gaul.

e is said to have had three thousand children. His nymphs were called after his name, Oceanides and Oceantides. The Argonauts

er of Proserpine. They requested the gods to grant them wings to look after her about the great sea, and obtained them. The j

in his sleep, and to bind him fast with cords; and assures him, that, after having in vain attempted his metamorphosis, he wi

strength by touching an herb upon which he had emptied out his nets, after which they instantly leaped into the sea. He wish

Bacchus promised to grant him his first request. That prince, greedy after riches, asked of him the gift of turning every th

Genii aided men by their private counsels and heir power, and looked after their most secret thoughts. They carefully watche

yers of men to the gods, and delivered them up to judgment. Just men, after death, were supposed to become dæmons. They are d

commission of vice. It is reported that, when Cassius fled to Athens after the defeat of Anthony at Actium, a being of gigan

o were the Genii? What was the office of the Genii? Were not just men after death, supposed to become dæmons? Did not some a

side; and it was given out, that he was going to pass the lake. Soon after forty judges met, and seated themselves in a circ

g the thick darkness of those times, it was generally believed, that, after the material body was reduced to dust or ashes, t

other to Meleager, extinguished the brand, and kept it carefully ever after . Among other exploits, Meleager slew the wild-boa

after. Among other exploits, Meleager slew the wild-boar of Calydon, after which he killed Troxeus and Flexippus, the brothe

The Fates. “Stern Clotho weaves the chequered thread of life; Hour after hour the growing line extends, The cradle and the

Cliffton. Obs. — In the Mythology of the ancients, the souls of men after death, became inhabitants of Hades, a region in t

im freely to enjoy the company of his daughter Anticlea, who was soon after married to Laertes, king of Ithaca. Sisyphus was

hip; invited his father-in-law to a feast at Larissa his capital; and after he had met with him, cast him into a pit, which h

he river Asopus, the place where Jupiter concealed his daughter Ægina after having stolen her away. Others affirm that he sto

by his son. He therefore ordered his wife to destroy their child soon after his birth; but the mother gave this child to a se

did not acknowledge the king for his father, but resolved to inquire after his parents. In consulting the oracle of Delphi,

elicity assumed the name of Macaria. The Romans honored Felicity long after the building of Rome. Lucullus raised a temple to

city long after the building of Rome. Lucullus raised a temple to her after the war against Mithridates and Tigranes. She was

ple, with this inscription: To the Fairest. Prayers, her sisters, run after her, to repair the evils she causes; but they are

ians, as has been mentioned, were in the habit of sitting in judgment after their death upon the actions of kings, generals,

granted to all celebrated men. The ancient philosophers taught, that, after death, the souls of great men inhabited the abode

d in the Labyrinth; but he extricated himself by the help of Ariadne, after he had destroyed the Minotaur. He forgot the prom

, the Labyrinth. On his return, he took Ariadne with him; but he soon after ungratefully left her in the island Naxos, where

he was received by Phyllis, queen of Thrace. He married her; but soon after , abandoned her, and she, unable to bear her grief

uented Mount Mænales, was sacred to Diana, and was caught by Hercules after a chase of a whole year. His fifth exploit was to

eaped into the mouth of the sea-monster to which she was exposed; and after being confined three days in his belly, he cut hi

h his tunic, stained with his blood, as a memento for love. Some time after , Hercules renewed his acquaintance with Iole. Dej

ter. After this, Thoas was slain, and the image of Diana was removed, after it had been hidden in a bundle of sticks: and fro

living and dying alternately, is founded on their being represented, after their death, by the sign of Gemini; and as one of

g. 75. Fig. 75. Orpheus. Orpheus was married to Eurydice; but soon after , she was stung by a serpent, and died of the pois

h of Eurydice? Did Orpheus perform the condition? What did Orpheus do after this? Who was Amphion? Who was Arion? In what adv

he was ransomed by the Trojans. His original name was Podarces. Soon after having possessed himself of the city, Priam forti

were Hector and Paris. In ravaging the country around Troy, Hercules, after having stolen away Hesione, whom he had delivered

was carried on to the destruction of both parties; but the Grecians, after a siege of ten years, reduced the Trojan capital

Ilius succeeded? Who succeeded Laomedon? What did Priam, immediately after possessing the city? Who was Priam’s wife? What o

his life. He wandered about from one place to another for years, and after struggling through many difficulties, finally arr

is a beautiful description of his descent into the infernal regions, after his father’s death, to learn from him the fate of

. It is said that his mother concealed him in the night under a fire, after she had anointed him in the day-time with ambrosi

r assistance, rushed upon the suitors of Penelope, and slew them all, after they had treated him in the most insolent manner.

ated into heaven: whence, upon their observing a bright star, setting after the sun, they called it Hesperus, Hesper, Hesperu

jects who, through his persuasion, observed good laws and morals; and after having effected a reform among his own subjects,

ed, incense was burnt on an altar, and a piece of money placed on it; after which the inquirers applied their ears to the mou

eration among the people, and three cities in the Thebais, were named after him. He was represented as the star of day and th

afts inwreathed with flowers. Suradevi is the goddess of wine. When, after the deluge, the ocean was disturbed by the gods w

to two parts: one of these parts formed heaven, and the other, earth; after which, monsters of irregular forms disappeared. B

ead, in order to mix with the blood, earth, and form men and animals, after which he formed the stars and planets, and thus f

g. It was no sooner finished, than the earth was overflown. Some time after , seeing the waters abated, he sent out some birds

neither food nor place to rest upon, returned to the ship. Some days after , he sent out others, which returned with a little

essel, not seeing their companions return, came out of it, and sought after them in vain. A voice was heard, announcing to th

ho accompanied him. The same voice exhorted them to be religious, and after they should discover the memoirs which had been d

tional animals, rational beings being not yet engendered. Immediately after Mob, the sun, moon, and stars, began to appear an

the immortality of the soul, in mettempsychosis, that honourable men, after death, became horses and noble quadrupeds, and th

which the first were built. Idolatry began in Phœnicia and Egypt soon after the deluge. It is in those countries that we must

s. Enclosed places, chapels, and temples, were not erected until long after . It appears that the Egyptians themselves had non

s tower of Belus existed in the time of Xerxes. This Persian monarch, after his unfortunate expedition against Greece, plunde

of Vulcan, constructed by Menes, the first king who reigned in Egypt after the time in which the Egyptians pretended that th

by Hercules, came to take refuge in the temple of Diana, at Ephesus, after they had fled from the banks of the Thermodon. Pl

ut, as previously observed, it did not attain to its completion until after a lapse of two hundred and twenty years. All the

covering that cave with laurel-branches; a chapel succeeded, and soon after they built a temple of brass, in imitation, no do

the work would be likely to fall into ruins. Knight Bernin, who long after aspired to show himself the equal of Michael Ange

is daughter Thebe. They had the gift of speech. Herodotus has sought after the event that could have given rise to this fict

menides, says that Terra at first delivered oracles; next Themis; and after her, Phœbe, daughter of Terra and mother to Laton

out of the cave as he had entered it, lying down upon the earth. Soon after he was asked what he had seen, but before he had

he time of Æneas, she said she had already lived seven hundred years; after which, her body being wasted away by time, there

creation of the world, and the terrestrial paradise. In it the Sibyl, after having spoken the language of Isaiah and of the e

reign of Iphitus in Elis, which was four hundred and forty-two years after . Greece then made their celebration her principal

on, they combated naked. This usage was adopted, because Callipatira, after the death of her husband, dressed herself after t

because Callipatira, after the death of her husband, dressed herself after the manner of an exercise-master, and conducted h

y Chersonesus Cimbrica. These provinces did not resist him; and, soon after , he passed into Fionia, which immediately became

ernal banquet, where he would receive, with great honours, those who, after having exposed themselves courageously in battle,

e arose the ravings of the priests among the Egyptians, Syrians, and, after them, the Greeks; and hence was produced that cha

ources wo learn, that the most important alteration which it received after Odin, related to the number of the gods to be wor

rpent Migdard, and Hela or death, all being enemies of the gods, who, after divers efforts, inclosed the wolf Fenris, where h

y watered the tree. This water keeps up the beauty of its leaves, and after having refreshed its branches, it falls back on t

the fathers of their children, and no one will spare his friend. Soon after a grievous winter will happen; the snow will fall

he palace covered with gold, where the just were to rejoice eternally after the renewing of all things. In regard to the plac

gs and chief lords first gave toasts or salutes in honor of the gods; after which each one drank whilst making his prayer or

the unfortunate victim of superstition, whilst pleading for his life, after having been stripped, by crime and force, from al

hat high authority among the Celts, especially in Great Britain; but, after the beginning of the second century, their credit

ivalry, first arose. It may also be observed, that al the historians, after having represented the druids as pontiffs, far su

e. According to their notions, the clouds were the residence of souls after their separation from the body. Valiant and virtu

elves at the moment in which two armies were going to combat, or even after they had commenced it, they laid down their arms

rmed by their receiving the embrace of the old Druids. The candidate, after having passed through it, exchanged his usual dre

ing to war, and exempted them from all taxes. The number of aspirants after that order was immense, and all classes and profe

ervain was collected before sunrise on the first day of the dog-star, after one had offered to Earth a sacrifice of expiation

ooked for it with the greatest care; and felicitated themselves when, after long and painful searches, they discovered a cert

ward singing hymns and canticles. A herald, carrying a caduceus, came after them. Three Druids followed him, and carried inst

Druids never wrote them. It is even probable that they were composed after the time stated by ancient authority. 1. Their ma

om sacrifices. 7. Souls are immortal. 8. Souls pass into other bodies after the death of those which they have animated. 9. I

he power of reading in the hook of fate, above any other. The Druids, after having persuaded the people that they understood

y more confidence than the oracles of Greece and Italy. The emperors, after they became masters of Gaul, often caused them to

. If it be thy will to grieve her, choose another to do it; and then, after watching her a considerable time, he snatched up

e way, winged messenger of Cupid — I will attend thee.” The two gods, after a speedy flight, alighted on the promontory where

way or other. He hesitated a moment when Psyche ceased to speak, but after a short pause, he replied: “If you desire it, my

will towards you. I am afraid they will injure you if they can.” Soon after , the sisters were invited to the palace, and were

ess to listen to this foolish and wicked counsel. The very next night after her sisters had left her, when Psyche presumed th

lprit caught one of his feet, hoping to detain him, but she was drawn after him into the open air, and instantly dropped to t

rth from their grottoes to look at her. As soon as Venus saw her son, after his return from earth, she perceived that an acci

che heard this refusal, she felt as if she should die of despair; but after a moment she indulged a hope, that Venus herself

nction their union. Jupiter received Cupid with a gracious smile, and after he had heard his petition, made some good natured

off worshipping heathen gods and goddesses about three hundred years after the birth of Christ. Ann. That is, they left off

er. Very likely some great king, who did much good and some harm, and after he was dead he was called the king of Gods and me

the pagans believe in Heaven and Hell, where the good and the bad go after death. Mother. Yes; they called their heaven Ely

her guests each a bath for his feet, which were soiled with dust; and after they were cleaned, she wiped them dry with her ow

beautiful youth, rushing from a grove near by, caught it, and running after Aglauria, presented it to her. They looked at eac

hat time they did. Ann. What time was that? Mother. A hundred years after Joseph, a hundred years before Moses, and fifteen

 — and he longed to dive into the water, and take it by the hand. Day after day, Narcissus resorted to the fountain, and supp

age disappeared, and he emerged disappointed and despairing. Not long after , he died of grief; and when the young girls came

r vessels of water, the dragon returned, and killed them all. Cadmus, after long wondering why they did not return, became se

g why they did not return, became seriously alarmed, and went to look after his friends. He took care to put on armour, to cl

obeyed Minerva. He drew the dragon’s teeth, and sowed them, when soon after he saw the points of spears pushing up from the s

e saw the points of spears pushing up from the surface of the ground; after which helmets appeared, and, by degrees, entire b

ake his people wise and happy. He first taught letters in Greece, and after his time the Greeks began to read and write. He c

Greeks began to read and write. He came into Greece about fifty years after Cecrops. Cecrops was truly beloved by his subject

n who had killed his followers. But they fought among themselves, and after some were killed, the survivers joined Cadmus. Yo

ho in their lives had been of no service to others, had their portion after death. The near approach to Hades was through a m

him, and, in spite of his remonstrances, carried off the prize. Soon after the ship had put off from the shore, Bacchus awak

ce to the stature of a man, and assumed an air of authority. Bacchus, after this transformation, held in his hand a staff, wr

taught the ignorant to cultivate the grape, and some other arts, and after he was dead, he was worshipped as a god. Mother.

ed of clean rushes, which was the best the poor woman had, but there, after all her fatigue, she found rest and refreshment.

, they said the horses of Apollo had descended to refresh themselves, after their glorious course from east to west. Perseus

d is called the Morning Star. When that star is seen at evening, just after sunset, then she is Vesper and Hesperus, in poetr

Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania, Clio, and Calliope.” Soon after Minerva had received the head of Medusa, she went

oy, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. Soon after Apollo had conquered the Python, he met Cupid in

t Daphne, a young girl, the daughter of the river Peneus. Apollo soon after , clad like a shepherd, went into the fields, and

dest Syrinx, but she did not reply to him; she only ran away. Pan ran after her, and, when he overtook her, seized her by the

s the Bosphorus, ran over Scythia and the mountains of Caucasus, and, after traversing Asia, pursued her career into Africa.

. Phæton. “The world’s vice luminary.” It is related that Io, after she became queen of Egypt, had a son named Epaphu

ou shalt see me return in gladness and triumph from the glowing west, after having dispensed thy glory to all the nations of

onstantly seen gliding by the tomb of his friend. Apollo, immediately after the death of Phæton, refused to guide the chariot

During our journey, we met with nothing extraordinary; but a few days after our arrival in Lydia, as we were walking through

ormed to a rivulet, and pouring into the earth in Greece, reappeared, after a submarine passage, in Sicily. 3. See Mitford's

er mother, for they were sadly in need of great Ceres’ help. At last, after wandering over all the earth in her fruitless sea

day, the archer Apollo came with his glittering arrows, and slew it, after a fierce battle. The people were then very happy;

e to Orpheus, who did all in his power to restore his dear wife; but, after a few hours of suffering, she died. Orpheus’ grie

he had been ready to bite. So Orpheus passed through the gateway, and after following many dark and winding passages, came to

ad passed the bounds of Hades. To this Orpheus gladly agreed, and so, after many kind parting words, he started to return thr

o nearly saved her. In vain Orpheus tried to get back into Hades; and after sitting for seven days on the bank of the river,

boy an honor, he thought he was really sending him to his death. Now after poor Perseus left the palace, he began to think o

this cave, in which the three sisters lived, Mercury led Perseus, and after giving him some parting advice, hid himself in th

loss of their precious eye was a thing too terrible to think of. So, after a few minutes, they told Perseus all he wanted to

ove where Mercury was waiting, and thanked him for all his help, and, after bidding him farewell, started out on his errand.

d aside the shield, the helmet, the sword, and the winged shoes; and, after wrapping the head of Medusa in a cloth, went to g

romeda by Perseus, which I promised to tell you next. It all happened after Perseus had slain Medusa, and when he was hurryin

Greece, there lived a beautiful woman whose name was Cassiopeia. Long after the time I am talking of, she was placed among th

ses of Perseus on all sides! The hero became Cassiopeia’s guest, and, after a few days, when he had seen that the rescued gir

t in their temple; and they called the statue Isis. Hundreds of years after Io was dead, the people of Egypt still came and l

orth afresh, and Diana seized her bow and shot her deadly arrows, one after another. As Niobe saw her daughters falling about

her dead, and gazed about her in silent grief. And thus she sat, day after day, and never moved nor spoke. Her grief was har

Deïanira had almost forgotten about the poisoned shirt of Nessus. But after some time, Hercules began to grow restless. He wa

Deïanira. He forgot all about his wife awaiting him at home, and day after day he lingered in the palace of the princess. Of

of escaping from the island; but he could not get a boat, though day after day he looked at the white-sailed vessels on the

n safety. For a while Icarus followed where Daedalus led the way. But after a time he began to feel bold; and when his father

his own son was his punishment for that wicked deed. For a long time after that, the place was known as the island of Icarus

s the boy was traveling back to the island of Crete, he sent some men after him to kill him on the road. Perhaps the people o

eir to the throne of Athens. And that was the reason why no one asked after the other young prince. While Athens was almost b

s was almost beside itself with joy, King Minos, in Crete, waited day after day for the return of his son. But alas! cruelly

kind to her, and would do anything to. give her pleasure. Still, day after day, as she watched Minos from her high tower, th

by winding up the thread which was fastened to the entrance. Theseus, after thanking the princess for her help, did as she to

loomy passages. Had the thread broken from its fastening, and had he, after all, lost his way? But still he followed it up an

hoots and cries. Philemon and Baucis, resting in their little cottage after their day’s work, heard the noise and uproar and

phele had now been gone a long, long while. The sky was cloudless day after day. Not a drop of rain fell, the fields became p

Percy Bysshe Shelley . II. The Sailing of the Ship Argo Long after Phryxus had died, there lived in a certain countr

. III. How the Fleece Was Brought Back to Greece The morning after their arrival at Colchis, the Greeks were brought

a few feet of the dragon, he threw the magic drug into its eyes; and after a few moments, the dragon was fast asleep. Jason

her until she disappeared behind the little hill. So it went on, day after day, and the more Glaucus saw of Scylla, the more

nto the foaming waves of the sea. She was changed to a rock, but ever after , that part of the sea was dangerous to sail throu

d his disc high into the air, and it shot up through the clouds, and, after a long pause, fell to the ground with a crash.

“King Midas wears great asses ears.” The barber felt very much better after this, and, rilling up the hole, went home with a

oing to tell you a story which will prove that the Cyclops could love after all, although there was something rough and shagg

lear sky, and he fell very deeply in love with her. He forgot to look after his sheep, but let them wander at their own sweet

Adam was formed nearly six thousand years ago. Sixteen hundred years after Adam, God taught Noah his own character and will.

Adam, God taught Noah his own character and will. Four hundred years after Noah, Abraham was also instructed how to serve Go

s also instructed how to serve God acceptably; and four hundred years after Abraham, and fifteen centuries before the birth o

by God concerning himself, and concerning events which were to happen after they were foretold. Moses was a prophet when he f

These were originally men who had performed great actions, and whom, after their death, men worshipped. Personifications of

consecration to the goddess lasted thirty years, and it was not till after this term that they were free from their priestho

d with the future as the past. This double gift of looking before and after , was nothing more than the experience and foresig

rant people supposed that he was a supernatural being, and therefore, after his death he was deified. It is probable, that Ja

ctacles. New enterprises were dated from this day, but they commenced after it: for on the day itself, business was suspended

a quoit, Apollo caused to spring up from his blood, the flower called after his name. Among the stories which relate to Apoll

tries round the Mediterranean, and which the Romans several centuries after completely subdued. Numa Pompilius, second king o

erful tyrants. The discoverer of America was sent to Spain in chains, after having given a new hemisphere to Europe: and Gali

were followed by those of middle age, clothed in polished armour, and after them proceeded youths under twenty years of age.

e immediate protection of the goddess, and not only in this life, but after death. Those who broke the vow to conceal what th

rk places, went over the world in search of her lost child. Ceres, after a while, discovered whither Proserpine had been c

d by many that the departed were liberated from a state of punishment after a thousand years, that they drank of Lethe, forgo

celebrated all over Greece, and continued in operation for centuries after his death. Who were the judges of the dead? What

the gods, especially employed in punishing the wicked upon earth, and after death. The Furies were women, commonly represente

off a thread. Stern Clotho weaves the checkered thread of life Hour after hour the growing line extends, The cradle and the

removed — is the mind lost? All hope that those they love still exist after death; and they hope to be reunited to their depa

till Christ came into the world. Christ declared that men should live after the present life, and they should receive in the

Coronis, the god of physic. Being exposed upon a mountain immediately after his birth, he was nourished by a goat. A shepherd

ays to commemorate him. At first, they say the gods assisted him, but after many years, those who hear of his achievements de

club, pursued him to his den, and choked him to death. Hercules ever after clothed himself in the skin of the Nemean lion. T

heaven. Hercules is sometimes called Alcides. Hercules was worshipped after his death. He was often invoked by people who wan

erature. It is said that Jason lived a melancholy and unsettled life, after he was separated from Medea; and that going one d

punished, which the generous Antigone as strongly resisted. Ten years after the first Theban war, the sons and descendants of

rated the death and character of Antigone? Was the Theban war renewed after the death of Eteocles and Polyniices? Orpheus

our’s wife,” and often stole each other’s wives. Aristæus one day ran after Eurydice; she fled from him, and as she was runni

mised to Paris, was Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Soon after Priam proposed a contest to the princes of Troy,

he Greek troops, who were concealed without; and thus Troy was taken, after a siege of ten years. Another story is told conce

to wound himself? What induced Ulysses to go to Lemnos? What happened after the departure of Philoctetes from Lemnos? Aga

Iphigenia, Clytemnestra was bitterly incensed against him, and, soon after that event, wickedly attached herself to Egisthus

s and Clytemnestra ruled together in his kingdom; and when Agamemnon, after the taking of Troy returned to Mycenæ, the guilty

she wished to detain him in her island as long as he should live; but after he had resided with her seven years, the gods com

Antinöus had him safely conveyed to his own kingdom, which he reached after an absence of twenty years. When Ulysses found hi

venly goddess, sing.” Achilles withdrew himself from the battle, and after his separation, the Trojans prevailed. Achilles h

romontory of Sigæum, not far from the site of ancient Troy. Some ages after the war of Troy, Alexander, as he was going into

rder to possess himself of the wealth of Sichæus, murdered him. Dido, after the loss of her husband, in fear for her own life

ecame of his family at the destruction of Troy? Did Eneas immediately after his escape from Troy proceed to Italy? Can it be

owers. Suradevi, the goddess of wine, who arose from the ocean, when, after the deluge, it was disturbed by the gods, with th

Europe, he governed them wisely and improved their condition; so that after his death they celebrated him equally as the god

l seasons. The fifth day of the week was dedicated to him, and called after his name, Thor’s day or Thursday. The principal o

depredation. They believed that those who fell in war, were conveyed, after death, to Heaven, and quaffed nectar from the sku

in great veneration in Egypt. Three cities in the Thebais were named after him, Horus was considered as the supreme lord and

ve him the power to think and feel, and also what becomes of the soul after death. Thus the most intelligent become the most

king, who kept his people in peace and order, and they worshipped him after his death as their benefactor. The Mexicans could

d not confine the blessed to the House of the Sun; they supposed that after a time, they might explore the whole universe — s

Heaven? What did they presume was the condition of good and evil men after death? What is the transmigration of souls? What

of peace, besides many religious ceremonies, which the Cholulans ever after observed. The Cholulans could give no account of

n were able, they were made to dance before the image of the god; and after that ceremony, some consecrated water, which had

, and were more tolerant than the Greeks. In the latter ages of Rome, after the conquest of Greece, (B. C. 146,) Rome itself

and America acknowledged the divinity in the thick shade. The Romans, after their temples became numerous and magnificent, st

tunity, applied to the augurs for instruction how to act. The augurs, after some mysterious consultations, told Tarquin that

with mutual oaths. False swearers are abhorred everywhere, and never after they are detected believed. False swearing is per

k the gods for their preservation; and if they had been safely landed after tempests, their custom was to consecrate the garm

blessed, namely, our Lord Jesus Christ. Four hundred and thirty years after God had given this promise to Abraham, his poster

elf; the heathens were left to seek out God, if haply they might feel after him and find him. The Hebrews worshipped one God,

ron’s eldest son, whose eldest sons were hereditary high-priests ever after , provided they had no bodily imperfection. The re

destroyed when Jerusalem was taken by the Babylonians. It was rebuilt after the restoration, adorned and beautified by Herod,

ple, called a holy convocation. The Pentecost was observed fifty days after the passover. It celebrated the beginning of the

Ops. According to the fable, Saturn promised his brother Titan, that after his death, the latter should succeed him in his k

that they petitioned the gods to deprive them of life. They were soon after changed into serpents. Ques. Relate the punishme

y was communicated to the waters of the stream, which was famous ever after for its golden sands. Ques. Who was Phæton? Ans

till the ground, and cultivate the vine. They disgraced his memory in after times by the drunken revels they held in his hono

t; and Minerva named the city, calling it Athena [Athe′na] or Athens, after her own name in Greek. Ques. What was the Pallad

an in the world. Paris then pronounced Venus the fairest. He was soon after acknowledged by his father, King Priam; and Venus

tilius, king of Rome. In early times the festival lasted one day, but after Julius Cæsar, it was prolonged to three, four, or

years. They were shut for the first time in the reign of Numa; again, after the first Punic war; and Augustus closed the temp

ut Hercules, to whom no one dared refuse anything, was initiated, and after him, other distinguished foreigners were admitted

of Phorcus? Ans. He was vanquished by Atlas, and drowned in the sea; after which the people worshipped him as a god. There w

ss of their singing, they allured all who sailed by those coasts; and after they had lulled them into a trance, drowned them

ontory Circæum. She presented to all travellers an enchanted cup; and after they had drunk, transformed them into wolves, swi

ters of Night; their office was to torment the wicked during life and after death. Ques. How were they represented? Ans. As

. This altar is said to have been erected by the kindred of Hercules, after the death of that hero. Pudicitia, or Modesty, ha

t himself up in a brazen apartment of his palace. Fourth. He caught, after a chase which lasted an entire year, a famous sta

ots. On this he laid the skin of the Nemean lion and his famous club, after which he ascended the pile and directed his follo

color, or, according to fable, with a fleece of pure gold. Some time after , Phryxus and his sister Helle, to escape from the

into the sea, which was called Ægean [Æ′gean] from his name. Theseus, after performing many other wonderful actions, was bani

r a service. The king of the gods remembered this, and permitted that after a certain time, Hercules should kill the eagle an

he latter alternative, but begged that he might die as became a bard, after having played for the last time upon his lyre, an

presumption, and sent a scorpion to sting him. The hero was changed, after death, into a constellation which is known as the

of a quoit. Perseus, Andromeda, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia were changed, after death, into the constellations which bear their n

d its Punishment — Deucalion — Legend of the re-peopling of the Earth after the Deluge — Probable Explanation — Dædalus — Lab

the principal subject of Homer’s Iliad. In the division of captives, after the taking of Troy, Cassandra, one of the daughte

s Achilles performed prodigies of valor, and at length killed Hector, after a desperate combat. According to Homer, Achilles

the performance of the funeral rites. Achilles was himself slain soon after ; his ashes were mingled in a golden urn with thos

olated by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles. Hecuba [Hec′uba] learned soon after the sad fate of her son Polydorus. This young pri

e, but he met with so many extraordinary adventures, that it was only after ten years of peril and hardships, that he was per

ut awaking him, and placed near him a chest filled with costly gifts, after which they sailed away. Neptune was so much displ

eturning to port, he transformed it into a rock, which continued ever after to obstruct the mouth of their harbor. The arriva

ance of his wife, the faithful Penelope. When a long time had elapsed after the fall of Troy, and no tidings were received of

ngs which followed, and the happiness enjoyed by Ulysses and Penelope after their long separation. Chapter XXXVI. Orest

hebes. Here he slew his father Laius in an accidental encounter, and, after his victory over the Sphinx, which we have alread

hemselves in the neighboring mountains until the Greeks had departed, after which they constructed a fleet of twenty sail. In

ter which they constructed a fleet of twenty sail. In the second year after the destruction of Troy, the remnant of the Troja

mediately disappeared and burned three of the volumes. Returning soon after , she asked the same price for the remaining six b

bought the books, upon which the sibyl disappeared and was never seen after . These books were preserved with great care, and

estroyed by fire in the year 548 B. C., but was soon rebuilt. Xerxes, after having forced the pass of Thermopylæ, sent a deta

racle? Ans. The votary was first purified by solemn ablutions; then, after offering sacrifice, and drinking of a water calle

d prizes. The poet Euripides celebrated this victory, and Alcibiades, after offering solemn sacrifices to Jupiter, feasted th

were celebrated every five years, and continued to be solemnized even after the destruction of Corinth by the Romans. The vic

on of Pericles. It existed in its full beauty for more than a century after his death. It was first despoiled by Lachares, wh

ame of Isis. Osiris was cruelly murdered by his brother Typhon. Isis, after a long search, found his body, which she laid in

l of Memphis. The Egyptians maintained that the soul of Osiris passed after death into the body of Apis; and that as often as

most ancient passages, which are in verse, were probably written soon after his time, when the knowledge of his doctrines was

oincidence should be accidental. It is supposed this book was written after our era by some one who had heard imperfect accou

e Hindoos believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death, into another human body, but that if he ha

sage among his people. Ques. Is Buddhism common in India? Ans. No; after being tolerated for a long time, a fierce and con

enjoyed unbounded popularity during life, but the honors paid to him after death, have no parallel in history. His tablet is

ition, and often into idolatry. The dispute was referred to Rome, and after a careful inquiry, the latter opinion prevailed;

d nation found a ready welcome, Christianity obtained a foothold only after three centuries of persecution. Chapter VI. Th

d oak, the Druids assembled; a banquet and a sacrifice were prepared, after which a priest in white vestments cut the plant w

plucked the helago, or hedge hyssop, barefooted, and without a knife, after ablutions, and offerings of bread and wine. The v

l. On the feast of the god, this was extinguished, and again lighted, after which all the fires throughout the country were r

o a future life? Ans. Their priests taught that the wicked were sent after death to expiate their sins in a region of eterna

f eternal darkness. Those who died of certain diseases were entitled, after death, to a state of indolent contentment; but th

rn anew. Ques. How did the Aztecs bury their dead? Ans. Immediately after death, the corpse was clothed in certain sacred h

look the offence, and Juvenal was exiled to Lybia, where he died soon after . Mæcenas . Minister and favorite of the E

hat he was slain by Paris; while others again assert that he went mad after being defeated by Ulysses, and killed himself. An

ueen, to Theseus for a wife. The race seems to have been exterminated after this battle. Ambarva′lia [Ambarvalia] were festi

ich bears his name of Atlas. A chain of mountains in Africa is called after him, and so is the Atlantic Ocean. He had seven d

æas], a king of Elis, the owner of the stable which Hercules cleansed after three thousand oxen had been kept in it for thirt

He is said to have married Ariadne, daughter of Minos, King of Crete, after she was deserted by Theseus. The most distinguish

but one, at the command of their father, slew their husbands directly after marriage. For this crime they were condemned to t

ither sowed nor spun.” Milton. Fays. “The yellow-skirted Fays Fly after the night-steeds, Leaving their moon-loved maze.”

aris. Taken captive in the Trojan war, she fell to the lot of Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, and was afterwards chang

Hippona. Horten′sis [Hortensis], a name of Venus, because she looked after plants and flowers in gardens. Ho′rus [Horus]. T

fe of King Osiris, and won such good opinions from the Egyptians that after her death she was worshiped as the goddess Isis.

agle. Justice, see Astrea, Nemesis. K Kali. A Hindoo goddess, after whom Calicut is named. Ka′loc [Kaloc]. One of th

leasure and pain.” Milton. Leucoth′ea [Leucothea]. The name of Ino after she was transformed into a sea nymph. Leva′na [L

oddess of tragedy. Mem′non [Memnon], son of Tithonus and of Eos, who after the death of Hector brought the Æthiopians to the

tolus. He did so, and the sands which he stood on were golden forever after . It was this same king who, being appointed to be

ammon. Moon. The moon was, by the ancients, called Hecate before and after setting; Astarte when in crescent form; Diana whe

killed himself. There sprang from his blood a flower, which was named after him, Narcissus. “Narcissus so himself forsook, A

of heaven and earth; and he was banished from the celestial regions, after having conspired with Pluto to dethrone Jupiter.

k every day. Ocrid′ion [Ocridion]. A king of Rhodes, who was deified after his death. Ocy′pete [Ocypete]. One of the Harpie

Ona′rus [Onarus]. A priest of Bacchus, said to have married Ariadne after she had been abandoned by Theseus. Onu′va [Onuva

A name given Apollo, from pæan, the hymn which was sung in his honor after he had killed the serpent Python. Pæans were sole

utiful woman in the world. Paris gave the golden apple to Venus. Soon after this episode Priam owned Paris as his son, and se

ction of Troy. Paris was among the 676,000 Trojans who fell during or after the siege. Parnas′sides [Parnassides], a name co

cchus. Any one who slept on this mountain became a poet. It was named after one of the sons of Bacchus. Par′thenon [Partheno

the mother of Bacchus (Dionysus), who was born in a miraculous manner after Jupiter had visited her, at her special request,

at her special request, in all his terrible splendor. She was deified after her death, and named Thyone. Semi-Dei were the d

is homeward voyage he was taken prisoner by the Cyclopes and escaped, after blinding Polyphemus, their chief. At Æolia he obt

any one else, and had the satisfaction of finding her husband return after an absence of about twenty years. The Greek name

habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from ever

Lemnos with such violence that he broke his leg, and was lame forever after . Vulcan was married to Venus. He is supposed to h

he Anglo-Saxon form of the Scandinavian god Odin; Wednesday is called after him. Women’s Safeguard, see Sospita. Woodpecker

sted in the mouths of the people. Embellishments have been introduced after the manner of the fairy-tale, and the plots have

d the lark. While Ceres went about the world from end to end, looking after the fields of wheat and rye and barley, Proserpin

fered her. Because of this, she had to spend a part of each year ever after with her grim lover in the underworld. But Ceres

Men were more comfortable, but they were not happier than before, for after that day when Prometheus brought down the fire, t

beyond all women born on earth, though she was only an earthly woman after all. When this was done, Jupiter smiled and said

irit that was called Hope. Those who heard it felt that life was good after all, for with all their troubles they could be br

re was no reply. But he dared not turn to look. He must not lose her, after all. Yet Eurydice was always following, though he

breathing. The joy and delight made him forget all else. “It is true, after all,” he cried. “They have really given you back,

t light of the cavern. Orpheus stood dazed; then he would have rushed after her, but the god stood in his way. “You can do no

d make him one of the gods of heaven.” Alcmena was a good mother, and after hearing that, she did all that was possible for h

le. However, Eurystheus trusted no one. He sought out one mighty task after another, hoping each time that Hercules would not

of Hesperides, do you?” said Atlas. “You will do better to let me go after them for you. I know just where the gardens are,

w so airy a thing as the sky could be so heavy. He wished he had gone after the apples himself. As for Atlas, he was glad to

d up the golden fruit. Eurystheus feared and hated him more than ever after this, but Hercules continued to be patient and br

nd the tawny lion; yet no wild beast ever harmed the flocks. Not long after the coming of the stranger, Admetus set out to at

upon all the land. Joy and peace and the fruits of peace reigned year after year. Alcestis was a loving mother to the little

Danaë and commanded her to consent to the marriage, threatening that after ten days, if she refused, he would come with his

e has come!” they cried, and spreading their swift wings, they darted after him. They could not see him, but they had the sce

ated Medusa’s head to Minerva, who had helped him so constantly. Ever after , the goddess of wisdom bore the terrible snaky he

whirlwind, and in a moment was gone. In many other lands she did evil after that, but the people of Athens never saw her more

es and much honor, but some of his jealous rivals lay in wait for him after the celebrations and slew him. Then King Minos wa

Delos. There Theseus offered sacrifices in the temple of Apollo. Ever after , it was the custom of the Athenians to send out e

last men shook their heads and smiled and said, “It was only a rumor, after all. They do not dare.” But one day the watchman

e Wrath of Achilles. The war in the land of Troy continued year after year. The Greeks drew up their ships upon the bea

d into its sheath and allowed Agamemnon to send and take Briseis, but after that he sat in his tent with his friend Patroclus

, it were better to die than to live in shame behind the Trojan walls after this day.” When Achilles saw that Hector was wait

meet the hero in his flaming, heavenly armor. Achilles followed close after him, but as often as he came near, Hector avoided

n the Trojans would not give up Helen. They had no mind to let her go after all they had endured on her account. In the city

all, Queenly and grieving — saw her pain    That Troy must fall. But after , when in flames and smoke    The city’s glorious

aw Ulysses, she loved him, and would not let him leave her land. Year after year she kept him by her, hoping that he would fo

e and sat looking out across the sea and thinking of Ithaca. At last, after seven years, the gods took pity on him. Jupiter s

hus, alone and unknown, the sleeping Ulysses reached his native land, after twenty years of absence. The Sirens. Slow s

those days a strong arm was needed at the head of the state. But year after year went by and Ulysses did not return, nor were

joy he recognized his native hills. Then Minerva appeared to him, and after helping him hide the gifts in a cave near by, tol

oung man flung his arms about his father’s neck. “Son,” said Ulysses, after their greetings were ended, “we have work before

Penelope had heard of the wandering beggar’s arrival. In the evening, after the suitors had gone to their houses, she came do

venge this, the princes of Greece waged war against Troy, 178, which, after ten years, they destroyed, 211. Helen was then ta

ttempted to identify him with the Grecian god Cronos, and fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter he fled to Italy, whe

r god, said to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after his death to a place among the gods. Bellona, a w

the porter of heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian deity of gates, on which

. The famous statue of Apollo called the Belvedere represents the god after this victory over the serpent Python. To this Byr

lted the frost from the grass, they met at the accustomed spot. Then, after lamenting their hard fate, they agreed, that next

n the hollow of a rock. As she fled she dropped her veil. The lioness after drinking at the spring turned to retreat to the w

ed it. The two bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree ever after brought forth purple berries, as it does to this

next morning, when Cephalus went to hunt as usual. Then she stole out after him, and concealed herself in the place where the

he Bear,” etc. And Prometheus, in J. R. Lowell’s poem, says: — “One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling upon

agus, Dorceus, Lelaps, Theron, Nape, Tigris, and all the rest, rushed after him swifter than the wind. Over rocks and cliffs,

nsformed to frogs     Railed at Latona’s twin-born progeny,     Which after held the sun and moon in fee.” The persecution w

ace with a fast knot. This was the celebrated Gordian knot, which, in after times it was said, whoever should untie should be

loft; Aloft rose every beam and rafter; The heavy wall climbed slowly after . The chimney widened and grew higher, Became a st

said that the Sicilian fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came up again in Sicily. H

h; —         Those that are nearest linked in order bright,     Cheek after cheek, like rosebuds in a wreath;     And those m

lovers to life.   The following is Glaucus’s account of his feelings after his “sea-change:” — “I plunged for life or death

elong stroke. The beast drew out the weapon with his jaws, and rushed after Adonis, who turned and ran; but the boar overtook

ere.” Psyche gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants, and after repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated he

rfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flu

embrace the beloved object. It fled at the touch, but returned again after a moment and renewed the fascination. He could no

ful of the two, and awarded the city to the goddess; and it was named after her, Athens. There was another contest, in which

loud, or twirled the spindle with skilful touch, or wove the web, or, after it was woven, adorned it with her needle, one wou

clusion of the story. The two stanzas which follow tell what was done after the goddess had depicted her creation of the oliv

s offended.” Cassiopeia is called “the starred Æthiop queen” because after her death she was placed among the stars, forming

and a general conflict ensued, the old king retreating from the scene after fruitless expostulations, calling the gods to wit

us, who thus unknowingly became the slayer of his own father. Shortly after this event the city of Thebes was afflicted with

oned by all except his daughters, who faithfully adhered to him, till after a tedious period of miserable wandering, he found

equest, struck the bold physician with lightning, and killed him, but after his death received him into the number of the god

ame of the fleece afterwards we do not know, but perhaps it was found after all, like many other golden prizes, not worth the

es its object, and kills instead one of their own dogs. But Meleager, after one unsuccessful stroke, drives his spear into th

put to death. Hercules was accompanied by a number of volunteers, and after various adventures at last reached the country of

ica. Atlas was one of the Titans who had warred against the gods, and after they were subdued, Atlas was condemned to bear on

dangers awaited him. Medea, the sorceress, who had fled from Corinth after her separation from Jason, had become the wife of

him falling, and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, the Partridge. This bird does not build

said to have assisted the Romans at the battle of Lake Regillus, and after the victory a temple was erected in their honor o

seen in the story of Theseus how Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, after helping Theseus to escape from the labyrinth, was

trife of deeds.’ With that he advanced towards me, and I was ashamed, after what I had said, to yield. I threw off my green v

o their eyes. In coincidence with such prognostics, Eurydice, shortly after her marriage, while wandering with the nymphs, he

out libations to Neptune, then regaled themselves with the feast, and after that Cyrene thus addressed him: “There is an old

hall pay such funeral honors as may allay their resentment. Returning after nine days, you will examine the bodies of the cat

with his wealth in a Corinthian ship for home. On the second morning after setting sail, the wind breathed mild and fair. “O

nt him immortality; but, forgetting to have youth joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mort

tion to his narrative of the wonders of the ocean shore. The very day after his arrival, Memnon, impatient of repose, led his

r turned the plough aside, showing plainly that he was no madman, and after that could no longer refuse to fulfil his promise

e in a manner besieged themselves, within their rampart. The next day after the unsuccessful embassy to Achilles, a battle wa

ing, and archery. Then the chiefs sat down to the funeral banquet and after that retired to rest. But Achilles neither partoo

aris went back to Troy and died. Œnone quickly repented, and hastened after him with remedies, but came too late, and in her

f the ancients, he made himself known to his sister Electra, and soon after slew both Ægisthus and Clytemnestra. This revolti

long the sea till they reached the country of the Lotus-eaters. Here, after watering, Ulysses sent three of his men to discov

, drove out his flocks, and went out, carefully replacing the barrier after him. When he was gone Ulysses planned how he migh

d him a bowl of wine, saying, “Cyclops, this is wine; taste and drink after thy meal of men’s flesh.” He took and drank it, a

ved by Circe, who entertained him as she had done his companions, and after he had eaten and drank, touched him with her wand

repeated it, at the same time promising to dismiss them all in safety after hospitably entertaining them. She was as good as

summoned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day, till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten his na

the thoughts that passed through the brains of the victims of Circe, after their transformation. In his Endymion he represen

oath, but contrary winds detained them at the island for a month, and after consuming all their stock of provisions, they wer

dry, and having themselves bathed, they sat down to enjoy their meal; after which they rose and amused themselves with a game

and his wife.   Tennyson’s poem of Ulysses represents the old hero, after his dangers past and nothing left but to stay at

ered people, under their chief Æneas, in their search for a new home, after the ruin of their native city. On that fatal nigh

led Italy, therefore, they directed their future course, and not till after many adventures and the lapse of time sufficient

heir oars to get out of his way. Hearing the oars, Polyphemus shouted after them, so that the shores resounded, and at the no

al of the closing events of the Trojan history and his own adventures after the fall of the city. Dido was charmed with his d

“Have you come at last,” said he, “long expected, and do I behold you after such perils past? O my son, how have I trembled f

y contracted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death, which is done by ventilating the souls in

one, are admitted at once to Elysium, there to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent

asked for the nine. The king again rejected them; but when the woman, after burning three books more, returned and asked for

Camilla. Camilla, the favorite of Diana, a huntress and warrior, after the fashion of the Amazons, came with her band of

came in sight of the scattered buildings of the infant town, where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose glory re

Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Capitol rose in all its magnificence. H

Having found him, he rode round him in a circle, throwing one javelin after another, while Æneas stood fenced with his shield

tood fenced with his shield, turning every way to meet them. At last, after Mezentius had three times made the circuit, Æneas

for his bride. Tradition adds that he founded his city, and called it after her name, Lavinium. His son Iulus founded Alba Lo

em as sufficient, without any proof. It was only the advanced pupils, after years of patient submission, who were allowed to

the coffin of the god. This tree with its sacred deposit was shortly after felled, and erected as a column in the palace of

ion of sycamore wood, and buried the body at Philæ, which became ever after the great burying place of the nation, and the sp

temples and tombs were built to commemorate the event. Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians. His soul

city as interesting as Pompeii. The monster tomb of Apis is now open, after having lain unknown for centuries. Milton, in h

hat they became silent at the birth of Christ, and were heard no more after that date. Milton adopts this view in his Hymn of

ganism, to have continued to enjoy an existence in the popular belief after Paganism was superseded by Christianity. They are

34) the miraculous bird known to the world by the name of the Phœnix, after disappearing for a series of ages, revisited Egyp

on as he heard the cock crow he expired. The basilisk was of some use after death. Thus we read that its carcass was suspende

Instantly perceiving what it was, he called for my sister and me, and after he had shown us the creature, he gave me a box on

ayer.” III. 91. The religion of Zoroaster continued to flourish even after the introduction of Christianity, and in the thir

as a destroyer; that power not being to be called into exercise till after the expiration of twelve millions of years, or wh

and when in conformity to the usage of the country he was, a few days after his birth, presented before the altar of a deity,

endowed by the former monarchs of the country. For several centuries after the appearance of Buddha, his sect seems to have

n the earth, it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout. Shortly after the gods had created the world they walked by the

of a forest and began to neigh. The horse thereat broke loose and ran after the mare into the forest, which obliged the man a

ran after the mare into the forest, which obliged the man also to run after his horse, and thus between one and another the w

Thor tightened his hold on the crone the firmer she stood. At length after a very violent struggle Thor began to lose his fo

, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter. Of this custo

of kindling fires on Hallow-eve lingered in the British islands long after the establishment of Christianity. Besides these

f the mistletoe with a golden sickle. It is caught in a white mantle, after which they proceed to slay the victims, at the sa

ards and minstrels, which were held in Wales for many centuries, long after the Druidical priesthood in its other departments

he earlier period the judges were appointed by the Welsh princes, and after the conquest of Wales, by commission from the kin

; Palæmôn was probably in its origin Halæmôn, and the change was made after the institution of the Isthmian games. Page 339. 

shermen there will gravely tell you, that when William the Conqueror, after landing in Pevensey-bay, was advancing to Hasting

oms,» says he, «is commonly unknown, for the practice often continues after the cause has ceased ; and concerning superstitio

legends68; and we may observe in the explanation given by Herodotus, after the Egyptian priests, of the legend of the sooths

work, that having had occasion to make a voyage in the Eastern ocean, after several days’ sail he came to three islands, one

erived their lineage from Crete, whence they had been brought by Zeus after he had succeeded his predecessors Uranos and Kron

ef seat of his dominion had been Crete, where he died and was buried, after having made five progresses through the world, al

rus in inventing this Utopia, which by the way many navigators sought after but no one ever found, was evidently to give a bl

hen he died, his people gave him divine honours and named the heavens after him. By several wives Uranos was the father of fo

lled the Great Mother. She succeeded her father in his dominion ; and after some time she married Hyperiôn, one of her brothe

le raised altars to her as a goddess, and they named the sun and moon after her hapless children. The Titans then divided the

o Atlas, who named the people and the highest mountain of the country after himself. Like his father he was addicted to astro

in poets of the Augustan age drew largely on the Alexandrian writers, after whom chiefly they related in their verses the myt

ern poets we may meet the Ptolemaïc astronomy and judicial astrology, after both had been exploded. The Greeks of the days of

ain, and possibly the shores of the Atlantic ; and it is likely that, after the fashion of travellers and sailors, mingling t

point, but probably viewed as such Olympos, the abode of the gods. In after times Delphi became the navel of the earth 95. Th

lian mountain, and those others which bore the same name, were called after the original heavenly hill124. A careful survey,

careered through void air, ‘bringing light to men and gods.’ When in after times the solid heaven was established as the abo

the Greeks to have had any knowledge of the signs of the Zodiac until after their intercourse with Asia and Egypt had commenc

er of Helios, drove her chariot through the sky while he was reposing after the toils of the day. There is, however, no allus

n to say that the dew was the progeny of the moon and sky personified after the usual manner of the Greeks. In the Homeridian

giving a separate and distinct existence to this deity. Kronos was in after times confounded with the grim deity Moloch, to w

oticed is Hellanicus, who says370 that Deucaliôn built altars to them after the flood. It was perhaps the number of the month

pithets derived from his name382. In his palace on Olympos Zeus lives after the fashion of a Grecian prince in the midst of h

nd men, he cajoled her when she was pregnant, and swallowed her ; and after a time the goddess Pallas Athene sprang from his

man (named Charôn in the language of Egypt) over the Acherusian lake, after it had received its sentence from the judges appo

d, and next day the rude ignorant people of the isle, in their search after it, finding it on the sea-shore, thought it had r

idently signify Wolf-killing, but they are of late origin, and formed after the derivation from λύκιος, wolf, had become the

ter (from παίω) The hymn sung to him on the cessation of a plague, or after a victory, was thus named. The name Phœbos-Apollo

and clung round the philosopher as if he had been their father ; and after caressing them for some time, he restored them to

cern nothing but amusing narrative. The story of Cupid and Psyche may after all have been, as some think, nothing more than a

anything of the Libyan Tritôn in the days of Homer, or probably till after the colony had been settled at Cyrene, this theor

ff of her daughter Persephone by Hades, and the search of the goddess after her through the world. It is noticed by Hesiod881

tly unknown to Homer, became a favourite theme with succeeding poets, after whom Ovid has related it882, and Claudian has sun

to sell her over and over again, and thus obtain the means of living after all his property was gone891. This last legend, w

tly represented with a torch in her hand, — significant of her search after Persephone. At times she appears in her chariot d

with which they were performed, eclipsed all others, — retained ever after a lively sense of the happiness which he had enjo

man can never divest himself of the belief of his continued existence after death, a vivid hope of enjoying bliss in the next

struck him blind, and deprived him of his knowledge of music. Shortly after the birth of the Muses, the nine daughters, it is

aughters of Pieros and Pimpleia (Fattener and Filler), and named them after seven rivers953. They probably figured in this co

choice of two keres ; — one, to die early at Troy ; the other, to die after a long life at home1009. On the shield of Achille

nform Poseidôn of what he has done. The Latin poet Ovid1052, probably after some Grecian predecessor, as was usually the case

tself with the systems of these countries, and entered Greece, where, after a long struggle with the Apollo-system, the two r

es which it is probable the mythology of this god gradually underwent after the time of Homer. It has been very justly observ

f Dionysos, it is not improbable, was not introduced into Greece till after the time when the Æolians colonised the coast of

have been narrated in continuity, like those of Heracles, until long after the decline of Grecian poetry. It was in the fift

is proved by the perfection of lyric poetry, which commenced a little after the time of Hesiod, and by the origin of philosop

Proselenian philosophers, but was commenced perhaps a century or two after Homer, and completed a little before the time of

racleids, which is said to have occurred somewhat less than a century after that event, caused portions of the Achæan race to

of the Lydian kings, (who according to the usual practice were named after their god,) was probably, like Adonis, a personif

oddess was originally distinct from the Artemis of the Greeks. Yet in after times we find them so completely identified, that

a whole day’s journey toward the north, Memphis is no longer founded after the destruction of Troy. The more ancient Greeks

her to Egypt, where they landed and began to plunder the country. As, after the Grecian fashion, they wore brass armour (a si

the skin of a lynx on his back, and delighted with the sweet song. In after times the care of Pan was held to extend beyond t

s is supposed, from the employment usually assigned him by the Romans after they had adopted his worship – merely the god of

gods : And Satyrs wailed and sable-cloaked Priaps ; And Pans sighed after thy sweet melody. It was fabled1219 that Priapos

th, he foolishly Cut it ; and to him and his race the Nymph Gave ever after a lot profitless. “The scholiast gives on this p

hat they could dance better themselves. The nymphs were offended, and after a long dispute the shepherds began to contend wit

ity of Boreas for the country of Oreithyia, and built a temple to him after that event1320. Boreas is also said by Homer1321

along the sea, till he reached the country of the Lotus-eaters. Here, after watering, he sent three of his men to discover wh

oncealed themselves under the forms of various animals. Zeus however, after a severe conflict, overcame him, and placed him b

estivity, with his wife and his six sons and as many daughters, whom, after the fashion set by Zeus, he had married to each o

een conferred on Æolos by Zeus ; and when he was dismissing Odysseus, after having hospitably entertained him for an entire m

cylla. As Odysseus sailed by, Scylla took six of his crew ; and when, after he had lost his ship and companions, he was carri

he Wandering Rocks and Thrinakia (if this last be Sicily) ; for it is after passing those rocks that Odysseus comes to the la

ghters Phaëthusa and Lampetia, and to which he would come immediately after escaping Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus was desir

west than Sicily, for it could not have been more than the third day after leaving Ææa that Odysseus arrived at it. Καλυψ

y took a final leave of him. Calypso, that is The Concealer (the poet after his usual manner giving her a significant name),

king in an assumed character, he says that Odysseus, when shipwrecked after leaving Thrinakia, had reached Scheria, and had g

instead of successively following that of gold, exist simultaneously after it, — effeminacy and violence, the two vices into

. The heroes who correspond to the golden race are like them rewarded after death, but in an inferior degree : the iron are m

n the original narrative the three races were represented as becoming after death three different classes of spirits, the gol

56. Pleione, an Ocean-nymph, bore him seven daughters, named Pleiades after their mother1457. He was also said to be the fath

of Prometheus’ punishment. The pragmatisers also explained the mythe after their own fashion. Prometheus was, they say, a ki

iberty to sport and lead the inquirer an eager and a delightful chase after the forms which float before him in the distance,

resounds, pleasant to view and curious to explore ; where the search after truth is rewarded by insight into the powers and

tic Expedition ; this period is succeeded by that of the Theban Wars, after which come the War of Troy and the Returns of the

, and put to death their remaining child. Desirous of revenge, Iasôn, after he had delivered the fleece to Pelias, entreated

os conquered several barbarous tribes, and the country which he named after himself, and finally fell in battle against the I

ent therefore that this poet supposed Iasôn to have reigned at Iolcos after his return from his great adventure. According to

o landed and took possession of the kingdom, which however he shortly after gave up to Acastos the son of Pelias, who had acc

h Medeia to Corinth1549. Iasôn is said to have put an end to his life after the tragic fate of his children ; or, as another

aved him, and then looked for and returned him his sword1561. Shortly after Peleus attacked and took Iolcos single-handed acc

d Apis the son of Phoroneus or Iasôn, fled to Curetis, which he named after himself Ætolia. His sons were Pleurôn and Calydôn

t her away by the direction of Hera and married Nephele, who left him after she had borne two children, on finding that he st

orinth ; or, as others say, the neatherds of Polybos found the infant after it had been exposed, and brought it to Peribœa th

d unwittingly accomplished the former part of the oracle. Immediately after the death of Laïos, Hera, always hostile to the c

to be purified of the blood which defiled it. Inquiry was set on foot after the murderer of Laïos, and a variety of concurrin

es ; and accompanied by his daughters, who faithfully adhered to him, after a tedious period of miserable wandering he arrive

re to Poseidôn a son named Minyas1705. Phlegyas obtained the dominion after Eteocles, and named the country Phlegyantis. He a

er, beheld fifty of his progeny. He slew the lion, whose hide he ever after wore on his shoulders, and made the skin of his h

by Athena. He himself cut his club in the Nemean wood1735. Some time after his war with the Minyans he fell into madness, ow

and slain Diomedes, built a city by the tomb of Abderos, and named it after him. He brought the mares to Eurystheus, who turn

ntaurs. Eumolpos however purified him, and he then saw the mysteries, after which he proceeded to Tænaron in Laconia, where t

Œta. He thinks that the Peloponnesian adventures were mostly invented after the time of the Dorian invasion, which they were

tyôn, also an autochthon, or as others said the son of Deucaliôn, who after a reign of twelve years was in his turn expelled

r resistance. The legend proceeds to relate the birth of Erichthonios after a manner which gives no very high idea of Athenia

ered himself and reproached her. She fled from him in shame, but soon after they were reconciled. Cephalos went constantly to

ared and dedicated to the service of the temple ; and when some years after Zuthos and Creüsa come to consult the oracle on t

ôn ; and distinguished himself so much in the conflict, that Heracles after the victory bestowed on him, as the reward of his

st his friend in a bolder and more perilous attempt : for Peirithoös, after the death of Hippodameia, resolved to venture on

carried off Ægina the daughter of Asopos, the river-god in his search after her came to Corinth. Sisyphos, on his giving him

, rambled on through Scythia and the country of the Kimmerians ; and, after wandering over various regions of Europe and Asia

t her disobedience, put her into close confinement. Relenting however after some time, he gave his consent to her union with

the cows chancing to run aside, he flung the stick he had in his hand after her, which happening to strike Electryôn on the h

a serpent came and crept to his staff ; he struck and killed it. Soon after another serpent came, bearing a herb in its mouth

we shall see, her frailty caused the war of Troy. It was fabled that after death Helena was united in marriage with Achilleu

abitants2021. Τυρώ. Tyro. Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus was, after the death of her father, brought up in Thessaly b

(ἰὸν) of bees.’ When Æpytos returned from ‘rocky’ Pytho, he inquired after the child which Euadne had borne ; for Phœbos, he

known in remote antiquity as that of calling a country or even a town after a person ; Pelops must be therefore either the pe

is enveloped in obscurity ; for in those times lands were not called after gods any more than after men. Pelops, the water-l

y ; for in those times lands were not called after gods any more than after men. Pelops, the water-land, is made the son of T

e thinking he had deceived them deprived him of the kingdom. Sometime after however Atreus returned and said that to prove hi

gave her to him. She was already pregnant by her father, and shortly after her marriage brought forth a son, whom Atreus cau

ode, and dedicate the coffer, where he should find people sacrificing after a strange fashion. He re-embarked, and the wind c

dne, and Phædra. The Cretans hesitating to give him the royal dignity after the death of Asteriôn, to prove his claim to it h

ns of the moon, Minôs and his family may have been real persons named after their favourite deity. We regard this hypothesis

a storm, and they became their guides to Colchis, where they shortly after entered the Phasis. Iasôn lost no time in informi

ded to Ægina, where they watered ; and they finally arrived at Iolcos after an absence of four months. When Pelias in Pindar2

first named by the Corinthian poet Eumelos, who did not flourish till after Ol. 20. This became the prevalent opinion, and th

rrived as the Cadmeians were feasting in the halls of Eteocles ; and, after delivering his embassy, challenged them to a tria

ph Calybe he had a son named Bucoliôn2198. Priamos reigned over Ilion after his father. He married Hecabe (Hecuba), the daugh

Trojan at the banquet bestows gifts on his fair hostess, and shortly after Menelaos sails to Crete, directing his wife to en

th eight young ones, devoured them all, and then the mother herself ; after which Zeus turned him into stone, whence Calchos

ned to ravaging the surrounding country, and took several towns. Soon after Achilleus being desirous of seeing Helena, he had

ughters the cattle in the camp, and then slays himself. Odysseus soon after takes Helenos by stratagem, and having learned fr

ourable wind has been already related2229. Menelaos stayed at Tenedos after his companions, whom he overtook at Lesbos. He an

having offered a sacrifice to the Nymphs sailed over to Elis to look after his cattle, and on his return he went as directed

gdom to his son by her, named Polypœtes, and returned to Ithaca. Soon after , Telegonos, his son by Circe, coming in quest of

e Epic Cycle really was. The Cycle, as we have observed, existed long after the commencement of the Christian æra, and variou

and Tzetzes in three books put into verse the events before, in, and after the Ilias. To these later times also belong the t

voked in the usual manner and promised a stately temple at Rome ; and after the capture of that city, says the legend, when t

er lightnings2299. It was named Quinquatrus as being on the fifth day after the Ides2300 : the ignorance of the Romans made t

s imposed on matrons convicted of adultery2317 ; but as this was long after the introduction of the Grecian deities, nothing

the Titans were also shut up. 142. See v. 239. 143. It was shown in after times in the neighbourhood of Delphi (Hes. Th. 49

of the departed. They go to sleep in their houses in the evening, but after a little time they hear a knocking at the doors,

727. “A man subject to the rays of the moon and the night-damp air, after the burning heat of the day, was almost sure of a

d on the child the day it was named, which was usually the eighth day after the birth. See Terence, Phormio, i. 1, 12. 1038.

ion. 1093. See end of this chapter. 1094. Not till a century or two after the time of Homer, in the opinion of Lobeck (Agla

1760. Аνταȋος (Opponent, from ἀντὶ). This legend was perhaps invented after the Greeks had settled in Libya, and was designed

id (Met. vii. 517. seq.), who says that the isle was thus replenished after a pestilence. It is indebted for its origin to th

rough their means, its transmission may be traced to the Greeks, who, after adopting, purified, or at least assisted in great

ts to escape. They all arose against him, but were compelled to yield after a desperate struggle ‌for supremacy; while rebell

which intimates that she had received every necessary gift. Jupiter, after this, gave her a beautiful box, which she was ord

ser of good and evil. “While we to Jove select the holy victim, Whom after shall we sing than Jove himself? The God for ever

ss poet and the poem crown! Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, And after poets, be by victors worn! Thou shalt returning C

has the ears of an ass, King Midas has the ears of an ass.” Not long after her visit, some reeds arose in this place; and as

immediately spread their wings and flew away. The king wishing to fly after them, essayed the daring adventure, and throwing

hter of Memnos, whom Theseus, conqueror of the minotaur had abandoned after having seduced her. The God was so smitten with t

ried her, and offered to her acceptance a crown of seven stars, which after her death, was formed into a constellation.‌ “W

eautiful wife of Pluto, was by no means insensible to his merits; but after an absence of three years, Bacchus returned to Ar

s to the favoured shore, From Ocean’s foam the lovely goddess bore,” after the mutilated body of Uranus had been thrown ther

mis. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img066 She was soon after carried to heaven, where all the gods admired her

ere, lo! two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies.” Shakspere. Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him int

ellows blew.” Homer. It is stated that Bacchus made him intoxicated after he had been expelled from Olympus, and then preva

ful and too pure, not to meet with something which should realize the after thought of the poet, that “the course of true lov

merous. ‌ His most celebrated temple at Rome, was built by Augustus, after the battle of Phillippi, and was dedicated to “Ma

e? Is this fountain left alone For a sad remembrance, where We may in after times repair, With heavy heart and weeping eye, T

y many she is said to be the daughter of Juno only, who conceived her after eating lettuces. Being fair, and always possessed

er was granted the power of restoring to age the vigour of youth; and after Hercules was elevated to the rank of a God, he be

preservation, prevailed upon Vulcan to make him a suit of armour; but after it was done, she refused to fulfil the promise sh

Thetis issued out of the sea with the Nereids to mourn his death, and after she had collected his ashes in a golden urn, rais

iod Manes. The Manes was a name applied generally to the soul after it has separated from the body, and were among th

the captives, they slew their ravishers while they slept. Immediately after this, Hymenæus repaired to Athens, and promised t

ux revenged the death of his brother, by slaying Idas, but was unable after this to support life, so devotedly was he attache

, had lost one of his sandals, alarmed him, and his terrors were soon after augmented, as Jason, accompanied by his friends r

in the glory and the danger. They set sail in a ship called Argo and after a series of adventures arrived at Colchis. Alarme

amour in comfort. This infidelity was severely avenged by Medea, who after destroying the children of Glaucus in her presenc

their dens below!” Ovid. When in Athens, to which place Medea came after leaving Corinth, she underwent the penance necess

he penance necessary to purify her from the crimes she had committed, after which she became the wife of King Ægeus, to whom

m fell upon and crushed him to death. Medea also died at Colchis, and after her death is said to have been married to Achille

aven, and to free themselves from a plague which devoured the country after so frightful a massacre, they engaged the poet Eu

victims bleed” Euripides. Hercules. This celebrated hero was, after his death, as a reward for the many courageous de

s to shoot with the bow and arrows, and Autolycus to drive a chariot; after this, he perfected himself under the tuition of t

subservient to the commands of Eurystheus for twelve years, and that after he had been successful in the labours to be impos

arrow, boldly attacked him with his club, pursued him to his den, and after a close and sharp engagement, he choked him to de

death. He carried the dead beast on his shoulders to Mycenæ, and ever after clothed himself with the skin. Eurystheus was so

heads. This celebrated ‌monster he attacked with his arrows, and soon after he came to a close engagement, and by means of hi

her accounts, Hercules gathered them without the assistance of Atlas, after killing a dragon which guarded the tree. ‌ The t

to drag him away. Hercules, as some report, carried him back to hell, after he had brought him before Eurystheus. Besides the

e labours and difficulties which he underwent, and became so powerful after his death, that they alone had the bravery to inv

anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img192 As Perseus pursued his journey, after inflicting this just punishment upon his foe, acr

were saved from the same fate by a previous warning of Perseus. Soon after this memorable adventure, Perseus went to Seripho

his merit and of his humanity, placed him on the throne of Seriphos, after he had employed Medusa’s head to turn the wicked

the bride, was one of the most forward to defend: and when Pirithous, after this, had lost Hippodamia, he agreed with Theseus

ts for her: Theseus was successful, and she became his prize. Shortly after , he assisted his friend in his attempt to descend

innocence. Remorse, however, at last preyed upon the bosom of Phædra; after taking poison she confessed to Theseus the crime

nice and Eteocles, and two daughters, Ismene and Antigone. Some years after , a plague visited his territories, and the oracle

y act of striking him. Their implacable hatred manifested itself even after death, for when their bodies were placed on the b

ingdom of Eurystheus, King of Argos, and succeeded him on his throne, after marrying his daughter. Here he treated his brothe

ion of the meeting of Iphigenia with her father in the lower regions, after his death, when the latter was ignorant of the ‌i

ate she moans, While the sad father answers groans with groans; Tears after tears his mournful cheeks o’erflow, And the whole

ed a superb tomb to his memory upon the shores of the Hellespont, and after the taking of Troy, Polyxena was sacrificed to th

t of Neptune and Juno, and a crowd of miseries beset them. At length, after a thousand reverses on the seas, a tempest precip

uld only indulge his wrath by throwing at random large pieces of rock after their vessel, which was bearing them quickly away

to her, one of the most magnificent of which was raised by Vespasian, after the war of Judea, and contained all the treasures

ction, two travellers, with a melancholy and impoverished appearance, after having asked hospitality, and been refused by the

t lulling still her fond anxiety.” L. E. L. Morning came, and came after a night of such terror, as but rarely is known to

the eyes of this superstitious people. At his death, which took place after a reign of forty-three years, not only the Romans

n in the application of them. He forbade the Romans to burn his body, after their usual custom, but ordered them to bury it n

ich he had written, which being accidentally found four hundred years after his death, were burned by order of the senate. Th

er, leaving only five, who assisted him in building the city. He soon after married Hermione, the daughter of Venus; and had

was composed of seventeen letters, and to these were added some time after , by Palamedes, an additional four, and by Simonid

m, procured his second name of Bellerophon or the murderer of Beller; after he had committed which, he fled to the court of P

form their ablutions in its waters, to die on its brink, to be thrown after death into its waves, are the supreme happiness o

n preparation, they made choice of a young and beautiful slave, whom, after bathing in the lake dedicated to their Gods, they

he edition which bears the name of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale. But, after a year’s work, I find that half my material for c

e Greek gods, names exclusively Greek have been placed in parentheses after the usual Roman equivalents, Latin appellations,

e came the commodities of life? What is death, and what becomes of us after death? The answers to such questions crystallized

early civilization. They are; — (1) The Historical, or better called after its author, Euhemerus (b.c. 316), the Euhemeristi

pervert facts. Jupiter, Odin, and Hercules were accordingly men who, after death, had been glorified, then deified, then inv

e. If these stories should survive in the literature of these nations after the nations have been civilized, they would appea

he true narrative of unenlightened observation, of infantine gropings after truth. Whatever reservations scholars may make on

e undeveloped germ or idea in common would not, with any probability, after they had been developed independently of each oth

lled Homeric Hymns to the gods which were composed, by various poets, after the death of Homer, are a source of valuable info

s, is 850 b.c. The preservation and further fashioning of myths fell, after Homer’s time, into the hands of the Rhapsodists,

metaphors and similes, retained its supremacy over literary form even after the influence of Christianity had revolutionized

poems cannot well be placed earlier than the ninth or tenth centuries after Christ; and a consideration of the habits, laws,

left in me.” Had he not been lame before, he had good reason to limp after either of these catastrophes. He took part in the

name Apollo, perhaps, the cruel and destructive heat of noonday. Soon after his birth, Jupiter would have sent him to Delphi

enormous serpent, Python, had crept forth from the slime with which, after the flood, the Earth was covered; and in the cave

rnassus this terror of the people lurked. Him Apollo encountered, and after fearful combat slew, with arrows, weapons which t

of Diana and Apollo, flying from the wrath of Juno, had besought, one after another, the islands of the Ægean to afford her a

’s pleasure; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.”92 Fig. 23. Bacchus (Dionysus and Ampe

ds. In these Islands of the Blest, the Titans, released from Tartarus after many years, dwelt under the golden sway of the wh

e to identify him with the Grecian god Cronus; and it was fabled that after his dethronement by Jupiter, he fled to Italy, wh

the porter of Heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian deity of gates, on which

r-god, said to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after his death to a place among the immortals. (4) Bel

gadfly to torment Io, who, in her flight, swam through the sea, named after her, Ionian. Afterward, roaming over many lands,

e sons are famous in Greek myth: Minos, who became king of Crete, and after his death a judge in the lower world; Rhadamanthu

Them and their praises of my brows and hair. The light girls pointed after me, who turned Soul-sick from their unending fool

loft; Aloft rose every beam and rafter; The heavy wall climbed slowly after . The chimney widened and grew higher, Became a st

rva produced the olive. The gods awarded the city to the goddess, and after her Greek appellation it was named. Fig. 37. M

satiate of battle. Even as gloomy mist appeareth from the clouds when after heat a stormy wind ariseth, even so to Tydeus’ so

rogs in the slimy pool.139 § 73. Apollo, the Light Triumphant. —Soon after his birth the sun-god spent a year among the Hype

od in garments of mourning over the biers of their dead brothers. One after another they fell, struck by arrows, beside the c

Jupiter struck the bold physician with lightning and killed him, but after his death received him into the number of the god

and woman’s eyes, They laughed, and called him good-for-naught. Yet after he was dead and gone And e’en his memory dim, Ear

. As Admetus revived, Alcestis sickened, rapidly sank, and died. Just after the funeral procession had left the palace, Hercu

long stroke. The beast drew out the weapon with his jaws, and rushing after Adonis, buried his tusks in the lad’s side, and s

cle was yet to be fulfilled. The lovers, full of their own happiness, after all, forgot to pay due honor to Aphrodite; and th

thorough Sestos, from her tower To Venus’ temple, where unhappily, As after chanc’d, they did each other spy. So fair a churc

maiden fled at the sight, dropping her veil as she ran. The lioness, after drinking at the spring, turned toward the woods,

nto the eyes. In coincidence with such prognostics, Eurydice, shortly after her marriage, was seen by the shepherd Aristseus,

Troy. Neptune and Apollo had fallen under the displeasure of Jupiter, after the overthrow of the giants. They were compelled,

aiden, told the secret to Procris. Hoping against hope, she stole out after him the next morning, and concealed herself in th

s Ceÿx was likewise transformed. For seven days before and seven days after the winter solstice, Jove forbids the winds to bl

ant him immortality; but forgetting to have youth joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mort

o the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immo

re her tears.222 The kinship of Memnon to the Dawn is certified even after his death. On the banks of the Nile are two colos

l — sea high; Then with shouts and yells, Down mossy dells, I stagger after The wood-nymphs fleet, Who with mocking laughter

embrace it, languished for it, and pined until he died. Indeed, even after death, it is said that when his shade passed the

o’er itself.” With that again there murmured, “Nevermore!” And Rhœcus after heard no other sound, Except the rattling of the

oung fisherman; but having noticed that a certain herb revived fishes after they were brought to land, he ate of it, and suff

amorphosis into a something new and strange, half man, half fish, and after the fashion of a sea-god. Of his experience durin

ashioned of serpents and barking dogs.245 In this shape Scylla, there after , infested the shore of Sicily, and worked evil to

onveyed to Minos. But recoiling from the treacherous gift, that king, after he had conquered Megara, bound Scylla to the rudd

halt pay such funeral honors as may allay their resentment. Returning after nine days, examine the bodies of the cattle slain

h, stinging Pegasus, caused him to throw his rider, who wandered ever after lame, blind, and lonely through the Aleian field,

ples of the Hesperides. Hercules did not know where to find them; but after various adventures, arrived at Mount Atlas, in Af

ter writers tell of an army of Pygmies which, finding Hercules asleep after his defeat of Antæus, made preparations to attack

onsidered a gigantic undertaking. The vessel was named Argo, probably after its builder. Jason soon found himself at the head

nachus, in the sixth generation. A son of Jupiter and Europa, he was, after death, transferred, with his brother Rhadamanthus

aur, roaming therein, lived upon human victims. For, it is said that, after Minos had subdued Megara,321 a tribute of seven y

is wings. Off they came; and down the lad dropped into the sea, which after him is named Icarian. Fig. 88. Dædalus and Ica

riage to Tereus, king of Thrace (or of Daulis in Phocis). This ruler, after his wife had borne him a son Itys (or Itylus), we

t triumph! hark! — what pain! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years in distant lands, Still nourishing in

gers awaited him. For Medea, the sorceress, who had fled from Corinth after her separation from Jason,331 had become the wife

d the attendant; and thus unknowingly fulfilled both oracles. Shortly after this event, the city of Thebes, to which Œdipus h

the husband of his mother. These horrors remained undiscovered, till, after many years, Thebes, being afflicted with famine a

Creon, was made regent of the realm for the two sons of Œdipus. But, after Œdipus had grown content to stay, these sons of h

her fate, would not survive her, and fell by his own hand. It is only after his son’s death, and as he gazes upon the corpses

rdurous Tempe — Tempe embowered deep mid superimpendent forests. And after the river-god, who bore with him nodding plane-tr

, in a manner themselves besieged, within their rampart. The next day after the unsuccessful embassy to Achilles, another bat

fter the unsuccessful embassy to Achilles, another battle was fought, after which the Trojans, favored by Jove, succeeded in

aris went back to Troy and died. Œnone quickly repented, and hastened after him with remedies, but came too late, and in her

or nine days till they reached the country of the Lotos-eaters. Here, after watering, Ulysses sent three of his men to discov

, drove out his flocks, and went out, carefully replacing the barrier after him. When he was gone Ulysses planned how he migh

d him a bowl of wine, saying, “Cyclops, this is wine; taste and drink after thy meal of man’s flesh.” He took and drank it, a

ed by Circe, who entertained him as she had done his companions; but, after he had eaten and drunk, touched him with her wand

repeated it, at the same time promising to dismiss them all in safety after hospitably entertaining them. She was as good as

summoned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day, till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten his na

oath; but contrary winds detained them at the island for a month, and after consuming all their stock of provisions, they wer

dry, and having themselves bathed, they sat down to enjoy their meal; after which they rose and amused themselves with a game

ered people, under their chief Æneas, in their search for a new home, after the ruin of their native city. On that fatal nigh

ed Italy, they, therefore, directed their future course, and not till after many adventures, and the lapse of time sufficient

heir oars to get out of his way. Hearing the oars, Polyphemus shouted after them, so that the shores resounded, and at the no

al of the closing events of the Trojan history and his own adventures after the fall of the city. Dido was charmed with his d

ost thou come at last,” said he, “long expected, and do I behold thee after such perils past? O my son, how have I trembled f

y contracted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death, which is done by ventilating the souls in

one, are admitted at once to Elysium, there to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent

. Camilla. — Camilla, the favorite of Diana, a huntress and warrior, after the fashion of the Amazons, came with her band of

came in sight of the scattered buildings of the infant town where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose glory re

Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Capitol was to rise in all its magnific

Having found him, he rode round him in a circle, throwing one javelin after another, while Æneas stood fenced with his shield

stood fenced with his shield, turning every way to meet them. At last after Mezentius had three times made the circuit, Æneas

bride. Tradition adds that he founded a city and called it Lavinium, after her name. His son Iulus founded Alba Longa, which

n the earth, it caused the vegetable world to bud and sprout. Shortly after the gods (the Anse-race, Anses, Aesir, or Asa-fol

of a forest and began to neigh. The horse thereat broke loose and ran after the mare into the forest, obliging the man also t

and ran after the mare into the forest, obliging the man also to run after his horse, thus, therefore, between one and anoth

Thor tightened his hold on the crone the firmer she stood. At length, after a very violent struggle, Thor began to lose his f

is aptly described in a conversation held between Balder and Hermod, after Hermod has a second time ridden to Hel: — And th

r Sigi nor Rerir were to compare with Volsung, who ruled over Hunland after his father Rerir went home to Odin. To Volsung we

rowed nigh to death over his son, and drove away that queen, and soon after she died. He then married Hiordis the fair; but b

foemen, on the death-heap his deeds had piled that day. To Hiordis, after Sigmund’s death, was born Sigurd, like whom was n

torm; and he performed deeds of valor such that they honored him. But after many days, Grim-hild, the mother of Gudrun, admin

still accepted the invitation, and arriving at the hall of Atli, were after a fearful conflict slain. But they did not surren

visible, had fulfilled for Gunther. He had also succored poor Gunther after his marriage with Brunhild. For that heroine, in

om wall. By agreement Siegfried had again assumed Gunther’s form, and after a fearful tussle with the queen had reduced her t

r that they may obtain the hoard of the Nibelungs. But this treasure, after it has been brought to Worms, is sunk, for precau

gs because of their possession of the hoard, to Etzel’s Court, where, after a desperate and dastardly encounter, in which the

which the Latin alphabet had no letters provided. Each rune was named after some object whose name began with the sound repre

ording to other accounts, was not doomed to support the heavens until after his encounter with Perseus. See § 136. § 21. See

s, he struggled for his daily bread. Don Quixote was published in and after 1605. Corybantes: the priests of Cybele, whose fe

hat they became silent at the birth of Christ, and were heard no more after that date. Milton adopts this view in his Hymn to

s darkness ( Preller 1: 190, note 4); and even if light is born of or after darkness, the sun (Apollo) and the moon (Artemis,

illustration in the text is the Artemis Knagia (Diana Cnagia), named after Cnageus, a servant of Diana who assisted in trans

choly 1; Spenser, F. Q. 1, 2: 2. Poems. — Aubrey de Vere, The Search after Proserpine; Jean Ingelow, Persephone; Swinburne,

goddess both of the moon and of the earth ( Helbig, in Roscher). Cox, after his usual method, finds here the Dawn borne acros

irrational part of the myth, Jove takes the child Dionysus (Bacchus) after Semele’s death, and sews him up in his thigh for

dipus, etc., § 159. Eight years: the usual period of penance. Apollo, after slaying the Python, had to clear himself of blood

is still a third cloud; and this the Sun dissipates. A storm follows, after which new conflicts arise between the clouds that

te she held at one time the rank of lawful wife to Zeus. Preller and, after him, Cox, take Leto as the dusk or darkness. Cox

he weary journey of the night over the mountain-tops, both before and after the Sun (Apollo) is born, in Delos (the land of D

ned to stone. The burial was, accordingly, performed on the tenth day after the massacre, by Jupiter and the other gods. This

he dawn in the eastern sky, then the rising of the sun as if hurrying after his bride, then the gradual fading away of the br

said that the Sicilian fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came up again in Sicily. H

re of spring, and whom his mistress, the goddess of fertility, seeks, after his death, in the lower regions. With their depar

rfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flu

asked for the nine. The king again rejected them; but when the woman, after burning three books more, returned and asked for

rs of Attila: for the historic Theodoric was not born until two years after the historic Attila’s death. These historic figur

unaccented syllable: A-chæ′-a; so, also, the vowel i or y, not final, after an accented syllable: Hes-per′-i-des; and sometim

thical grandson of Æneas; fabled to have colonized the island called, after him, Britain. Brynhild, 396-399; Com. §§ 185, 186

g strife of good with evil, the course of human life, and of the life after death. O. is represented as a mummy crowned with

absorption into the Infinite, of the Karma (human character, or soul) after it has passed through innumerable existences, and

ubrey Thomas, 1814. — Com. § 38, Lines under Delphi; § 50, The Search after Proserpine; § 61, The Rape of Europa; § 105, On t

consecration to the goddess lasted thirty years, and it was not till after this term that they were free from their priestho

e in regarding it as a confused tradition of the repeopling the world after the deluge, as related in the book of Genesis. No

them thither, gave them another defeat, and thus terminated the war, after it had lasted ten years. Becoming master of such

n his favourite island Crete, having lived 120 years, and reigned 60, after the defeat of the Titans. What were the principal

oy. One of them, adorned with a crown, sang the praises of Ceres; and after they had offered an oblation of wine mixed with h

of a quoit, he caused to spring up from his blood, the flower called after his name. Apollo was challenged to a musical cont

on, and afterwards metamorphosed him into a river in Phrygia, called, after him, Marsyas. Midas, king of Phrygia, having dete

. This was effected by his washing in the river Pactolus, which, ever after , retained the reputation of possessing golden str

uted for the same purpose. How came the city of Athens to be so named after this Goddess? The fable relates, that Minerva and

nswering to the Grecian Mercury; took charge of the body, immediately after death. Another, who wore a mask resembling three

the virtuous to the latter. It was almost universally believed, that after remaining a thousand years in that abode, the sou

son of Apollo and Coronis. Being exposed upon a mountain immediately after his birth, he was nourished by a goat. A shepherd

who, having, in their life-time, performed illustrious actions, were, after their death, placed in the rank of subordinate De

animal of astonishing size and fierceness. He, on foot, hunted down, after a chace of a year, a hind consecrated to Diana, w

try began, as the sacred records of the Old Testament inform us, soon after the Deluge, being known in the time of Abraham. T

ars. In process of time, another Buddha is to appear upon earth; and, after an infinite number of ages, the universe will per

re forbidden to marry, to partake of animal food, or to eat any thing after noon-day. Their business is to keep the temples c

owers. Surádevi, the Goddess of wine, who arose from the ocean, when, after the deluge, it was churned by the Gods, with the

stination. Who was Sarāpis, or Sorāpis, or Serāpis? The solar Osīris, after he was overcome by Typhon, the power of darkness,

ery. He was likewise regarded as a type of the annual rise of the sun after passing the winter solstice, when his beams are a

roë. There he was received with great pomp, and reconducted to Egypt, after he had been exhibited at the annual festival of t

king of fire, who setteth in array the universe, who revolveth circle after circle. As Jupiter Ammon denoted the vital force

he Grecian Lucina. To her was dedicated a city in the Thebaid, called after her name. She was ranked among the ancient or eld

hat the man was the pure and holy soul of the Man-Bull. For some time after the production of this intelligent creature, ther

e great Deity. By his venom, the Man-Bull was poisoned, and died. But after he was dead, from his left arm issued a being cal

to have caused every thing to be produced, when the world was renewed after the general deluge. She is celebrated as the comm

general opinion is that he was a Prince of some Scythian tribe, who, after the ruin of Mithridates, with whom he was in alli

resented as instinct with life, and voluntarily returning to his hand after he had hurled it at his foes; his belt, inspiring

l seasons. The fifth day of the week was dedicated to him, and called after his name, Thor’s day; Thursday. Which were the pr

By what name was Jupiter known among the Gauls? What became of Saturn after his liberation from the power of Titan? How came

in? What was the name of his wife, and what day of our week is called after her? After which of the Scandinavian Divinities i