ublime truths, in the obscurity of fable. The ancient Greeks, who, at first , were the most rude and uncivilized of all nation

god, governing all things by absolute necessity. Jupiter himself, the first and the greatest of the gods, was subject to his

since they had forgotten the instructions which God had given to the first patriarchs. Chapter I. Of the Different Orders

t Orders of the Gods. The gods were divided into four orders. The first order comprised the superior gods, who were also

ere known and revered by all nations. They were twenty in number, the first of whom was Jupiter. The inferior gods were compr

ries of life, as poverty, grief, and the like. The twenty gods of the first order were divided into two classes. The first cl

The twenty gods of the first order were divided into two classes. The first class formed the council of Jupiter; which was co

, Bacchus, Terra, and Luna. Indigetes and Semones were neither of the first nor of the second class. The word indigetes signi

stions. Into how many orders were the gods divided? What gods did the first order comprise? What were comprised in the second

urth order contain? Into how many classes were the twenty gods of the first order divided? What did the first class contain?

classes were the twenty gods of the first order divided? What did the first class contain? Who were the six gods? Who were th

ond class composed? What deities were there which were neither of the first nor of the second class? Was Jupiter superior to

served their slaves. Saturn was called Stercutius, because he was the first to fatten the earth with manure. He is represente

ertakings. The invention of crowns and banks is attributed to him, He first stamped copper coins. To Janus were offered cakes

he was deemed the god of peace. The temple was shut only three times: first , under Numa; next, after the second Punic war; an

garland yields his place; Why is’t that though I other gods adore, I first must Janus’ deity implore? Because I hold the doo

the Earth, which passed, with the other ceremonies of the Egyptians, first into Syria and Phœnicia, and afterwards into Phry

eft that country for Latium, where she married Saturn. It was she who first fortified the walls of cities with towers; which

us, by the Assyrians. He was surnamed Capitolinus, because he had the first temple at Rome on the Capitoline hill; Tarpeius,

s. Who was Jupiter? Where was Jupiter born and educated? What was his first exploit? Did he enjoy his new empire undisturbed?

Jupiter, that he sent him Pandora with a golden box. Pandora was the first woman that Vulcan formed. As soon as she was crea

nifying every gift. Obs. 2. — It is believed that Prometheus was the first inventor of statues. To render the fables of the

m. Hence, he is painted, stealing fire from heaven, either because he first established forge’s in Scythia, or because he was

ste delights.” An ewe lamb and a sow were burnt on her altars on the first day of every month. Young geese, the hawk, and pe

, before they made their bread. Intercidona was invoked, because she first taught the art of cutting wood with a hatchet or

ulture, was the daughter of Saturn and Cybele. She is regarded as the first inventress of the art of cultivating the earth. S

n her right hand. — See Fig. 9. Fig. 9. Ceres. “Ceres was she who first our furrows plough’d; Who gave sweet fruits, and

urrows plough’d; Who gave sweet fruits, and early food allow’d; Ceres first tam’d us with her gentle laws; From her kind hand

aise.” Pitt’s Virgil. Obs. 1. — In inquiring into the sense of the first of these fables, we find that the counsels of Asc

names, meaning red, luminous, resplendent, and loving the earth. The first designates sunrise, as the rays are red at that m

imagined about the raven, deserves to be related. Its plumage was at first white; but Apollo blackened it, because it misinf

ona. Did not Juno discover her retreat? Who was Apollo? What were his first exploits? How did Apollo incense Jupiter against

ubastis; Dictynna, from the name of the nymph whom she loved, and who first invented nets. Painters and sculptors represent h

planted a colony on the banks of the Indus. The Oschophoria were the first festivals instituted to Bacchus’s honour by the P

formis, or Tauriceps, because he was painted as horned, or because he first ploughed with oxen; Dithyrambus, because he was b

o the capitol, the soldiers exclaimed, “Io Triumphe.” “Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, Crushed the sweet pois

prove that Bacchus is the same as Nimrod, son of Chus, whose name at first was Bacchus, son of Chus; and, by corruption, bec

There were many gods of this name. Diodorus Siculus says that the first Mars, to whom were attributed the invention of ar

retinue Smiles, Graces, and Jests. Cicero reckons four Venuses. The first , daughter of Heaven and Light; the second, born o

reeable, caressing, deceptive, and malicious attributes. The poets at first distinguished two Loves, the one, son of Venus Ur

tributes were paid to the inventors of this cheat. It was Phocas, who first leaped from the rock. Repeated experiments succee

e crown of Ariadne, and the arms of Achilles; and likewise formed the first woman, whose name was Pandora. Vulcan is called L

cian shield.” Obs. 1. — There were three distinguished Vulcans: the first , Tubalcain, the son of Lamech, mentioned in Scrip

ain, the son of Lamech, mentioned in Scripture. He was, no doubt, the first inventor of smiths’ work. The second was one of t

doubt, the first inventor of smiths’ work. The second was one of the first kings of the Egyptians, or, rather, their first d

second was one of the first kings of the Egyptians, or, rather, their first divinity. Their silence respecting his origin, re

The Grecians have made up the history of the third out of that of the first two, together with additions of their own. Obs. 

caused them to be looked upon as the sons of Heaven and Earth. Their first settlement was probably made at the foot of Mount

or earth he flies, With rapid force they bear him down the skies. But first he grasps, within his awful hand, The mark of sov

l sea deity, was the son of Cœlus and Terra. He was considered as the first god of the waters, because he contains the greate

s and Penates, and each of them his honours, offices, and worship. At first , the gods were considered as beings invisible and

and the mortal became confounded together. They counted twelve of the first order, which were called Consentes. These differe

t gods, of whom we have previously spoken. Jupiter and Terra were the first two. The Sun and the Moon which so materially inf

ed over gardens. Finally, Water and Bonus Eventus were the sixth. The first , because, without it, the earth is dry and produc

of the earth discord that she might dwell on its surface. She was the first of his children. In like manner he sent forth the

als of Earth, one was called the festival of the good goddess. On the first day of May, Vestals entered the house of the high

? What deities sprang from the Earth and the sun? What nation was the first which considered the earth animated by a genius?

, And thus attempts to warm her heart to love.” Obs. 1. — Flora the first , appears to have existed anciently, but her origi

ns honoured a second Flora, and ascribed to her a worship paid to the first , who was probably nothing but an allegorical pers

th. Stercutius, Stercutus, or Sterculius, Sterquilinus, or Picumnus, first invented the art of manuring the earth. Proserpi

der of Tutelina, or Tutulina. Millers and bakers invoked Pilumnus. He first invented the art of grinding corn, and kneading a

loyed in baking corn in ovens. Her festivals, called Fornacalia, were first instituted by Numa. “A goddess Fornax island her

vinity was invoked to preserve the productions of the earth? What god first invented the art of manuring the earth? What godd

having received Silenus hospitably, Bacchus promised to grant him his first request. That prince, greedy after riches, asked

ts motions. Plato speaks of the Gnomes, Sylphes, and Salamanders. The first inhabited the earth; the second, the air; and the

shes crime and rewards virtue, is as ancient as the world itself. The first man received it from God himself, and transmitted

gnating the day on which the body should be interred. The judges were first informed; and next the relations and friends of t

rank of it, immediately forgot all past transactions. Avernus was the first door of hell, at which the iron beds of the Furie

” Obs. 1. — There were two kings of Crete by the name of Minos. The first was the son of Asterius. His ambition was, to be

nd Europa. In order to be thus considered, he promised to Neptune the first object that should be brought to him by the sea.

s. In order to celebrate his equity, the poets represented him as the first judge of hell. Rhadamanthus, brother to Minos, re

of the Centaur Chiron, brought him two sons, Telamon and Peleus. His first wife was Psamatha, of Nereus, by whom he had Phoc

h by water and by land. She was called Adrastæa, because an altar was first built to her by Adrastus, king of the Argives; Rh

of the Centaurs, may be referred to the men of Thessaly, who were the first , seen riding on horseback. Geryon was a monster,

nt, and agreed alternately to reign a year each. Eteocles reigned the first year, and then refused his brother his crown; upo

hip which was paid to her. Scipio, the destroyer of Numantia, was the first who dedicated a temple to that divinity. Marcellu

olable of all. It is generally thought that Numa Pompilius raised her first temple. The figure of two women shaking hands wit

ning into ridicule even the actions of the gods themselves. Though at first his bitter jests were admired, they ultimately ca

sed him to be turned off from the celestial court in disgrace. Of the first man that Vulcan had fashioned, Momus said, that h

the family of the Titans. He was king of Memphis, and brother to the first Mercury, and lived two centuries before the delug

mory of the great and good, and respected it; but the Greeks were the first to worship them. It is also from the Greek langua

e actions. This etymology is most generally adopted. This name was at first given to the children of the gods and mortals; bu

bsequies of their relatives by feasts, invocations, and offerings. At first , they raised them remarkable tombs; from which th

n Corinth. Bellerophon was son of Glaucus, king of Ephyre. He was at first called Hipponus, because he first knew how to gov

Glaucus, king of Ephyre. He was at first called Hipponus, because he first knew how to govern horses with bridles; but was a

she was found and married by Bacchus. Theseus had several wives. The first was Anthiope, or Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.

ants of Sicily, notorious for their crimes and barbarous actions. The first , called Phalaris, buried men alive in a brazen bu

atural or unalterable. Theseus met and killed two famous robbers. The first , Sinis, in his haunts, rushed upon the unwary tra

. Obs. — Considered historically, Theseus was a king of Athens, the first who divided the people into tribes, and who gave

m, he plundered the city of Troy, and married Hesione to Telamon, who first mounted the wall. Hercules was enamoured of Iole,

ile propitious on thy solemn day.” Virgil. “———— The Cleonian lion first he kills; With fire and sword then Lerna’s pest h

ame of Hercules? Did not Juno subject him to Eurystheus? What was his first labour? How did he remove this difficulty? What a

le, because he had taken away Hermione, daughter to Menelaus, who was first engaged to Orestes. For which reason the Furies d

pter VII. Troy. Dardanus, the son of Jupiter and Electra, was the first king and the founder of Troy. He reigned with his

ut for ten years before he returned to Ithaca. Questions. Who was the first king and the founder of Troy? Whom had Dardanus f

, after she had anointed him in the day-time with ambrosia. He was at first called Pyrisous, because he escaped safely from t

perides.” Obs. 1. — Atlas was a great observer of the stars, and the first who represented the world by a sphere; which gave

then withdrew, closing their ears, till they had left the temple. The first sounds that were heard, sent forth the desired an

er, in overflowing the portion of Egypt which now forms the Delta, at first seemed to be an immense marsh, and its vapours lo

megistus, arose. He restored the ancient religion and the laws of the first Hermes, already noticed, and collected them into

the Omnipresent Deity. Their priests were called Magi; their rites at first were solemnized in a plain and simple manner. But

pace, and by which spirits and bodies are rendered visible. He is the first principle of all things; and pervades all, and ma

dless and simple ceremonies. Mithras personified the sun. He was the first production of Oromasdes, and was the mediator bet

re it receives a just sentence from him. Thence it is to go up to the first heaven, called Swerga, or to go down to the regio

This temple is the abode of the chief Indian Bramin. When the Bramins first assume the Zennar, or sacred cord of three thread

itish, and Syrian mythologies. Idolatry is supposed to have sprung up first in Phœnicia. The worship of the heavenly bodies w

ings. Chronos or Saturn having appeared in a dream to Xixutrus, (the first king of the Chaldeans,) warned him that, on the f

n. In the Phœnician mythology, we are told, by Sanchoniatho, that the first principle of the universe was a dark and spiritua

le of all things and of the generation of the universe. There were at first none but irrational animals, rational beings bein

h and in the sea. The father of mankind was called Protogone, and the first woman, Aeon. It was she who found that the fruits

is incontestible; but we do not know the precise manner in which the first were built. Idolatry began in Phœnicia and Egypt

established at once, but by little and little. The false gods were at first honored in a gross manner. Altars of stone or of

ilderness, and which may be looked upon as a portable temple, was the first known, and served for a model to all others. This

of Herodotus, and on the monuments of antiquity. Deucalion raised the first temples in Greece, and Janus, the first in Italy.

tiquity. Deucalion raised the first temples in Greece, and Janus, the first in Italy. The temples of the ancients were divide

eful to notice in order to understand their descriptions of them. The first was the vestibule, in which was found the pool, c

sacrifice, afterwards he touched the stone which was to serve as the first foundation; and then it was bound around with a r

otus mentions among others, that of Vulcan, constructed by Menes, the first king who reigned in Egypt after the time in which

, and relates, that a long time before, the same Amazons, defeated at first by Hercules, came to take refuge in the temple of

d: one, among others, was by the celebrated Scopas. Ctesiphon was the first architect of this prodigious temple. The grandeur

e Agamedes and Trophonius. The flames consumed this new temple in the first year of the fifty-eighth Olympiad. At length the

confine our remarks to what were considered the earliest oracles. At first , Themis, Jupiter, and Apollo only, delivered orac

piter wished to establish an oracle in their country. This prodigy at first astonished the people; but soon a great number of

that the name of the dove Pleiai, was given to this woman. Nobody at first understood her language; but when one succeeded i

carried away by the Phœnicians, was taken to Libya. This stranger at first surprised the people. Whoever interrogated her, d

not known, which goes to prove its great antiquity. Apollo was not at first consulted there. Æschylus, in his tragedy of the

there. Æschylus, in his tragedy of the Eumenides, says that Terra at first delivered oracles; next Themis; and after her, Ph

to that office but women upwards of fifty years of age. There was at first one Pythia, but afterwards there were three. The

undered. That of Delphi, among others, was several times stripped: at first by a brigand descended from the Phlegyæ; and afte

w a man who said to him: Black. He carried back this reply, which, at first , appeared ridiculous. The governor then unsealed

authority of the ancients, and especially that of Varro: for, in the first place, he adduces no proof that all the Sibyls sp

were not permitted to let any body see them under pain of death. This first collection of Sibylline oracles, perished in the

ly occupied the Romans; races, fights, and spectacles (theatres.) The first , called the equestrian, or curule games, consiste

pinion among the learned, is that Pelops was the author, and that the first celebration of them was made in Æolis, in the twe

rated with songs of victory. They wore a triumphal crown, and had the first places in the assemblies: their cities enriched t

ays, they were entertained at the expense of the public treasure. The first who won the prize of running was Chorœbus, a nati

œbus, a native of Elis. Cynisca, daughter of king Archidamus, was the first of her sex who gained the prize of the chariot ra

or judges of the Greeks. None ever appealed from their decisions. At first , there were but two judges; but, in order to rend

f Rome, all the barbarian nations whose liberties she threatened. His first efforts appeared to be successful; but these peop

might be considered a man inspired by the gods, or because he was the first priest or the chief of the worship which was paid

ence, the Ynglinglians, a name which has long served to designate the first kings of Sweden, Gylphe died, or was forgotten. O

erses which he composed. Not only was he a great poet, but he was the first who inspired the Scandinavians with the charms of

passions; and man, obtaining nothing but by vigorous exertion, turns first upon objects of necessity, that activity which, u

s, winds, thunder, and tempests, received religious homage, which, at first , was directed only towards the intelligence that

m as barbarians; and every time they became the stronger party, their first care was to destroy all the objects of an idolatr

ons became the measure of their faith; wherefore the supreme god, the first idea of whom embraced all that exists, was only w

proceed to set forth some of the tenets of the Celtic religion: and, first , we will notice those in the Edda, and in the poe

as composed by Sæmond, surnamed the Learned. Several fragments of the first Edda are still extant. The most valuable is the p

the giant Ymer. It was called the family of Bor, from the name of the first of that family, who was father to Odin. The sons

ch with a horse and chariot, to drive round the earth daily. Nott was first drawn by her horse Hrimfaxi, (blackmane,) which e

in a boat; that renewing of the world which followed the deluge; that first man, that first woman, created by the gods, and w

renewing of the world which followed the deluge; that first man, that first woman, created by the gods, and who received moti

s two different abodes for the happy, and as many for the guilty. The first was the palace of Odin, called Valhalla, where th

of the world; and the other, called Nastroud, was to be eternal. The first two future abodes seemed to be intended rather to

f love and marriage. They held three great festivals in the year. The first was celebrated at the winter solstice. The night

ir offerings were simple, such as a pastoral people could afford. The first fruits of crops, and the most beautiful fruits of

yed all the magnificence known in that age. The kings and chief lords first gave toasts or salutes in honor of the gods; afte

that those rich and flourishing countries were the native soil of our first parents; and that they were also the brilliant ce

lows it. Without pretending to indicate the time in which England was first peopled, it is probable that Gaul was inhabited b

celebrity. Julius Cesar and Tacitus relate that Great Britain was the first country which the Celtic Gauls peopled. The relat

heir having had a common origin. It appears that the Gallic colony at first settled in that portion of the island which is op

ted to a knowledge of science, and associated in the mysteries of the first pontiffs. Their genius and knowledge elevated the

ting the poesies of the celebrated Ossian. After having long been the first instructers and the early historians of their cou

and the old romancers, the heroes of the early romances of chivalry, first arose. It may also be observed, that al the histo

artments in the palaces of the clouds. Merit and bravery obtained the first ; and this idea tended to redouble the emulation o

Phœnicians; for we have ample proof, that in very remote times, those first navigators of the world, brought their goods into

they considered as their superiors. The world, continues the Abbé, at first formed but one common family, and had but one cre

The conquests of Julius Cesar introduced new gods into Gaul; and the first temples were at that time built there, whilst the

Britons were, divided into different classes. The Druids composed the first class. They were the supreme chiefs; so that the

the council; so that the vergobrets were merely the ministers and the first subjects of the Druids. The supreme arbiters of a

ars, and could see into futurity. Those sages, so highly respected at first , and so worthy of respect, ended with being addic

ce of bread and wine. The vervain was collected before sunrise on the first day of the dog-star, after one had offered to Ear

d. This misletoe was consecrated and distributed to the people on the first day of the year. Chapter XI. Principal Maxims

ir greatest degradation. There existed three kinds of Druidesses: the first lived in celibacy; the second, though married, re

these distinctions, the Druidesses really formed but two classes. The first was composed of priestesses; and the second were

that a multitude of gods, as an object of faith, is preposterous. The first of these assertions, applies only to the corrupti

nce of ancient theology, and particularly that of the Greeks. “In the first place, the genuine key to this religion is the ph

partially studied, and imperfectly understood. For this, theology was first mystically and symbolically promulgated by Orpheu

niverse. These mighty powers, from their surpassing similitude to the first great God, were very properly called by the ancie

their connection with each other and their incorruptible nature. The first of these powers may be called intellectual; the s

h they allude. Thus, for instance, by a Saturnian power rooted in the first cause, we are to understand a pure intellect. For

anged. Since, too, these orders are four, and each consists of things first , middle, and last, it is necessary the governors

contrary, through transcendency of power. For, as the essence of the first cause, (if it be lawful so to speak,) it is full

k,) it is full of deity, his immediate energy must be deific, and his first progeny must be gods, just as the souls are the i

geny must be gods, just as the souls are the immediate progeny of one first soul, and natures of one first nature. Hence, as

souls are the immediate progeny of one first soul, and natures of one first nature. Hence, as the first principle of things i

eny of one first soul, and natures of one first nature. Hence, as the first principle of things is ineffable and super-essent

worshipped them. This question is answered by the fact, that when men first spread themselves over the habitable earth, they

the most interesting and the best known, therefore they must take the first place in the following compend of mythology, whic

dolaters, the images are Idols, and the worship is Idolatry. Men were first taught by God himself, that there is a God. Instr

of himself and of the uses to which his gifts were to be applied. The first and second chapters of Genesis contain this fact.

ieved in God, and worshipped him only. Who are heathens? How did men first learn that there is a God? Who are the most remar

related by the old to the young, and again related by the person who first heard it to others still younger than himself. Wh

preserved at the present time? What is tradition? When was God’s will first recorded in writing? How did wicked men represent

some acquaintance with the history of ancient fables. The Greeks were first civilized by colonies of Phœnicians and Egyptians

. At Rome, a festival was annually celebrated in honour of Saturn. At first , this festival, called the Saturnalia, lasted but

and was thence called Magna Mater — the Great Mother. Cybele was the first who fortified the walls of cities with towers, an

ated priestesses who bore the names of Vestals, or Vestal Virgins. At first , the vestals were only four in number, but were,

er, but were, afterwards, increased to seven. Roman virgins, from the first families at Rome, and destined for the service of

were free from their priesthood, and at liberty to marry. During the first ten years they were instructed in the duties of t

that Janus regulated the divisions of time among his subjects, as the first month of the year was called in honour of him, Ja

ed a festival in honour of Janus, which was celebrated at Rome on the first day of the year. On the first day of the year, th

us, which was celebrated at Rome on the first day of the year. On the first day of the year, the Consuls entered upon their o

al. Their number was twelve; as was that of the priests, or Salii, at first , though afterwards they were increased to twenty-

s imputed the art of forging metals to Prometheus. Perhaps Prometheus first discovered that metals were capable of fusion, an

: Pope] In the book of Genesis it is said that Tubalcain, one of the first men, was “an instructer of every artificer in bra

is the manufacture of metals? Whom did the ancients suppose were the first workers of metals? Whom say the Hebrew scriptures

e the first workers of metals? Whom say the Hebrew scriptures was the first metallurgist? What is the history of Vulcan? In w

n the most laborious services of society. In Peloponnesus some of the first edifices were constructed of vast stones, which s

an with his own mind. Byron. Prometheus was, doubtless, one of the first civilizers of mankind. He first yoked the ox, and

Prometheus was, doubtless, one of the first civilizers of mankind. He first yoked the ox, and disciplined the horse: he taugh

eace with the guilty world, which was punished and pardoned. When the first bow was set in the cloud this gracious promise wa

nted? What was Juno’s prerogative? What was the promise of God on the first appearance of the rainbow? Why was Iris represent

e he sleepeth and must be awaked.” 1 Kings, ch. xviii. Homer, in the first book of the Iliad, describes the gods as having l

, the daughter of Saturn and Ops, was the goddess of agriculture. She first instructed men to plough the soil, to sow seeds,

lds, and to mark out the limits of each individual’s property. In the first ages of society, men fed upon wild fruits, and th

artificial thunder and lightning, and pretended forms of spirits. The first introduction to these exhibitions was the initiat

poets represented her as having- sprung from the foam of the sea. She first appeared upon the surface of the waves in a sea-s

silver, drawn by hinds. Diana had two temples famous in history. The first was that of Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of

rom some particular accomplishment of mind, or branch of science. The first of the Muses, Clio, derives her name from the Gre

osed to resemble that of man; the lower part that of the dolphin. The first of them was the son of Neptune and Amphitrite. Th

rs and the woods? Rural Deities. Bacchus. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, Crushed the sweet pois

al, the dog, was sacrificed to them When infants quitted one of their first ornaments called the Bulla, it was deposited befo

the Greek philosopher, speaks of Gnomes, Sylphs, and Salamanders; the first inhabiting the earth; the second, the air; the th

sufferings and his triumphs, and observe days to commemorate him. At first , they say the gods assisted him, but after many y

of Jupiter to be subject to Eurystheus. King of Argos and Mycenæ. The first exploit which is related of the infant Hercules w

bow and arrow; and Vulcan, a golden cuirass, and brazen buskins. The first labour of Hercules was the killing of the lion of

ns of wild beasts? What is the effect of danger and fear? Who are the first deliverers from predaceous animals’? What respect

s? Who was Hercules? What was the education of Hercules? What was the first exploit of Hercules? How did Hercules next distin

n Hercules? Who enabled Hercules to achieve his labours? What was the first labour of Hercules? The second? The third? The fo

d limbs of a horse. This fable represents the people of Thessaly, who first bestrode the horse, and made him serviceable to m

and made him serviceable to man. Rude and ignorant people, when they first behold a man and horse thus coupled, imagine them

ng to common chronology, B. C. 1243. This expedition was probably the first considerable voyage undertaken by the Greeks to b

himself. On his road to Athens, Theseus met three famous robbers. The first , Sinis, used to dart out from his haunts, seize t

of Theseus, as a king, belongs to true history. Cecrops, who led the first Egyptian colony into Attica, was the first civili

tory. Cecrops, who led the first Egyptian colony into Attica, was the first civilizer of that country. Cecrops divided Attica

reign one year, each, alternately. Eteocles reigned over Thebes, the first year, and then his brother demanded the throne. E

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

r and Pollux were twin brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra. When Helen first look a view of the Grecian host at Troy, she did

Whom long my eyes have sought but sought in vain; Castor and Pollux, first in martial force, One bold on foot, and one renow

rete? The Lapithæ. The Centaurs were a people of Thessaly, who first tamed and used the horse. The battle of the Centa

s, until the king should sacrifice to her, his daughter Iphigenia. At first , Agamemnon chose rather to abandon the expedition

to Troy. Philoctetes hated Ulysses for his treachery, and refused at first to accompany him, but at length he was persuaded,

return from Troy, he was exposed to many misfortunes. His vessel was first driven out of its course to the coast of Africa,

ds him that generous hospitality which the ancients considered as the first of duties. At a convenient time, they persuaded h

ved to proceed to his palace in the disguise of an old beggar; but he first went to the cottage of one of his servants, Eumæu

ugh a warrior, was a peace-maker. When Achilles and Agamemnon, in the first book of the Iliad, had their fierce quarrel conce

founded what is called the Ionian sect in philosophy. Thales was the first of the Greeks who made discoveries in astronomy,

just sentence from him; and thence, either ascends to Swerga, or the first heaven; or is driven down to Narac, the region of

th a number of strange imaginary animals. The Hindu priests, at their first assuming the Zennar or sacred cord of three threa

opening of the gates, which universally front the east, to admit the first solar ray. Of these temples, that of Juggernaut i

f one religion made the Britons feel the want of another; and, in the first or second century, perhaps, the Roman soldiers fi

her; and, in the first or second century, perhaps, the Roman soldiers first brought the Christian religion into Britain, wher

rning Dagon and the ark refer to the fourth and fifth chapters of the first book of Samuel. There it is mentioned, that in an

lf, and other animals, and even some inanimate substances, which were first used as hieroglyphics, finally came to be objects

lence and meditation: a son of Isis. The Egyptians offered to him the first fruits of the lentils and pulse. The tree called

st religious people. Having heard, from the revelations of God to the first men, some imperfect accounts that God had long ag

ligion? People of what character are the most religious? What objects first dispose men to religious thought? What worship do

first dispose men to religious thought? What worship do ignorant men first practise? What are the first religious services?

us thought? What worship do ignorant men first practise? What are the first religious services? Does the religion of ancient

of Mexico was commenced, by the building of the temple of Mexitli, at first a miserable hovel. When the city had become popul

e temple stand, and what were the different apartments? What were the first images of idolatry? ——— Priests are the ministe

ony of Phœnicians settled there at a period of the same date with the first emigration of the Phœnicians into Greece; and if

sons who had lucky names, (according to the superstition of the age,) first entered the enclosure with boughs in their hands,

stones in the wall; into this trench, wedges of gold and silver were first thrown, and the corner-stone was then deposited,

the people.” A custom like this, of offering prayers, and laying the first stone of a house of worship with expressions of v

t time, among Christians. The memorable fact, that “groves were God’s first temples,” is found in the history of all primitiv

ation for places of worship? Were religious services performed at the first commencement of edifices for religious uses? Befo

the most magnificent ornament of that city. The accomplished Pericles first designed the Parthenon, as a suitable dwelling-pl

ark, “as the Parthenon has been described, the spectator, who for the first time approaches it, finds that nothing he has rea

hymns consisted of three stanzas or parts; while the singers sung the first , they moved from east to west, this stanza was ca

aid the philosopher Plato , would undertake any thing without having first asked the direction and the assistance of the god

devotions by their friends and neighbours. Being arrived in port, the first act of mariners was to thank the gods for their p

a short account of their deliverance. Those who undertook a journey, first implored the divine protection. When they departe

is people to observe. This law is contained in the Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Bible. The law of Moses, or mor

ace to another and a better; the Hebrews had a religion which was the first lesson of eternal truth, and which was not destro

n, the brother, companion, and counsellor of Moses, was appointed the first high-priest. The office of supreme pontiff, or a

Solomon. It was a magnificent building in the city of Jerusalem. The first temple was destroyed when Jerusalem was taken by

he Tabernacle divided? How was the Tabernacle enclosed? Who built the first Temple, and who destroyed the last? What was the

nacles. The Passover was celebrated during seven days of Abib, the first month of the Hebrew year. The Passover commemorat

reathéd horn.” But properly to understand even these translations we first require a knowledge of mythology which it would t

iece from general reading, and the aims, therefore, of this book are: first , to present outlines of the stories in a simple f

able was evolved, to be handed down from generation to generation. At first , when all things lay in a great confused mass, —

time, and called their son Erebus (Darkness) to their assistance. His first act was to dethrone and supplant Chaos; and then,

sent views, this marriage was a heinous sin; but the ancients, who at first had no fixed laws, did not consider this union un

ethroned them, and seized the supreme power. Space, illumined for the first time by their radiance, revealed itself in all it

forts, Pontus (the Sea) and Gæa (Ge, Tellus, Terra), as the Earth was first called, were created. In the beginning the Earth

flew through the air. All was silent, bare, and motionless. Eros, the first to perceive these deficiencies, seized his life-g

de.” Hesiod ( Elton’s tr.). Another popular version stated that the first divinities, Erebus and Nyx, produced a gigantic e

called Man, to rule over all the others. Prometheus’ and Epimetheus’ first care was, very naturally, to provide for the bein

his difficulty, they proceeded to fashion man from clay. “Prometheus first transmuted Atoms culled for human clay.” Horace.

metheus first transmuted Atoms culled for human clay.” Horace. They first moulded an image similar in form to the gods; bad

hen man with his own mind.” Byron. Epimetheus and Pandora The first mortals lived on earth in a state of perfect inno

entle a being can bring no evil!” and accepted her most joyfully. The first days of their union were spent in blissful wander

ity was unseemly, and then, to dispel the frown and pout seen for the first time on the fair face of his beloved, he entreate

he fresh air and join in the merry games of their companions. For the first time, also, Pandora refused to comply with his re

its had stung them, they began to weep, and, alas! quarrelled for the first time in their lives. Epimetheus reproached his wi

om the unfortunate box, whose cover Pandora had dropped again, in the first moment of her surprise and pain. “Open, open, and

d them all to escape. Little by little the world was peopled; and the first years of man’s existence upon earth were, as we h

t quite so prosperous, hence called the Silver Age, when the year was first divided into seasons, and men were obliged to toi

Then ploughs, for seed, the fruitful furrows broke, And oxen labour’d first beneath the yoke.” Ovid ( Dryden’s tr.). Yet, i

he summoned the gods to deliberate and aid him by their counsels. The first suggestion offered, was to destroy the world by f

: Her very motion lends her power: She flies and waxes every hour. At first she shrinks, and cowers for dread:         Ere lo

duced its use into Greece. Although his career was very prosperous at first , he finally incurred the wrath of the gods by for

ches all given, each turned to view her rival’s work, and at the very first glance Arachne was forced to acknowledge her fail

r beauty still — and thine is gone! Empires have sunk since thou wert first revered, And varying rites have sanctified thy sh

of the gods, as well as of mortal men — the pangs of love. They were first inspired by Coronis, a fair maiden, who kindled w

ymph by the name of Daphne, daughter of the river god Peneus. Love at first sight was the immediate consequence on Apollo’s p

s part, and he longed to speak to the maid and win her affections. He first tried to approach her gently, so as not to fright

n with outstretched arms, clasped nothing but a rugged tree trunk. At first he could not realise that the fair maiden had van

allenged him to make good his boastful words. Marsyas was called upon first to exhibit his proficiency, and charmed all by hi

his childish graces. Early in the morning, when the sun’s bright orb first appeared above the horizon, Clymene would point i

plendour, the youth still pressed on, straining his eyes to catch the first glimpse of the godly father, whose stately bearin

imely death, she thought her cup of sorrow was full; but long ere her first passion of grief was over, Diana began to slay he

hour of that mysterious birth.” Shelley. The ocean nymphs were the first to discover her, cradled on a great blue wave; an

y declared she would please herself. The Story of Alectryon Her first fancy was for Mars, the handsome god of war, who

these fond lovers could endure, and night after night, as soon as the first stars appeared, Hero lighted her torch, and Leand

h Hunt. No one suspected their meetings; and all went well until the first fierce storms of winter swept down over the Helle

she waited and watched for the lover who did not come; and, when the first sunbeams shone over the tossing sea, she cast an

ust without the city gates. Thisbe, anxious to see her lover, was the first to reach the trysting-place, and, as she slowly p

usly about to discover whether the lion were still lurking there. The first glance showed her Pyramus stretched dead beneath

selessly on tiptoe and cautiously peeping into the pool, became aware first of curly, tumbled locks, and then a pair of beaut

ed once more to clasp her in his arms, she vanished as rapidly as the first time. Time and again the same pantomime was enact

aw her sporting as usual in the palace gardens, and realised that her first plan had completely failed. She therefore began t

he enjoyment of his company. All night long they talked; and when the first faint streak of light appeared above the horizon,

s in her society. This divine couple’s happiness culminated when they first beheld their little son, Mercury (Hermes, Psychop

nds over them, produced strains of sweetest music, thus inventing the first lyre.                                           

her girlish loveliness, and where her son Epaphus was born, to be the first king and the founder of Memphis. “In coming time

Greece, was one of the principal Roman divinities. He is said to have first seen the light in Thrace, a country noted for its

ound, slain by his brother in a fit of passion. Alone now, Romulus at first vainly tried to pursue his undertaking, but, bein

Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). As founder of this city, Romulus was its first king, and ruled the people with such an iron hand

as none the less prone to fall in love with the various goddesses. He first wooed Minerva, who, having sworn never to marry,

unt Ætna. Amused by all the strange sights and sounds, the goddess at first seemed quite contented; but after a time Vulcan’s

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

ore. Neither would he allow any soul to enter his bark, unless he was first given a small coin, called an obolus, the ferryma

r cruelty found here the just punishment of their sins. Attention was first attracted by a group of beautiful maidens who car

man nerves could bear, and she dropped to the floor in a swoon at the first glimpse of her lover. Oblivious of all but her al

d Semele, who was saved by his father’s powerful hand. Jupiter was at first inconsolable at the death of Semele; and, to test

love! art thou for ever blind?” E. R. Sill. The infant Bacchus was first entrusted to the care of his aunt Ino, the second

ll madly dancing through the pleasant valley.’” Keats. Bacchus, the first to perceive the fair mourner, hastened to her sid

Cornwall. Frightened by his impetuous approach, the trembling nymphs first crowded around Proserpina, who, in her astonishme

Ceres’ trees took his axe and cut down one of her sacred oaks. At his first blow, blood began to flow from the tree; but, und

thither his home gods, and who, according to tradition, selected the first Vestal Virgins. The second king of Rome, Numa Pom

l gods: therefore in all religious ceremonies his name was always the first invoked. From this circumstance he often appears

ery short period. Festivals in honour of Janus were celebrated on the first day of the new year; and one month bore the god’s

riends and relatives to exchange calls, good wishes, and gifts on the first day of this month — a Roman custom in force to th

ast by the neck in each tiny hand and strangled them, thus giving the first proof of the marvellous strength which was to mak

enjoying any lasting peace or happiness. To achieve this purpose, she first extorted from Jupiter a decree that condemned Her

e Nemean Lion Eager to begin the appointed tasks, Hercules set out first to find and destroy a monstrous lion, whose den w

On his return to Argos to report the successful termination of his first task, Hercules was told to repair to the marshes

t with many adventures, and saw many strange sights. For instance, he first met the nymphs of the Eridanus River, and, questi

g existence had, from force of habit, become a necessity: so the hero first journeyed to Olympia, where he instituted games t

e Centaurs and Lapithæ, in the war of the gods and giants, and in the first siege of Troy, which proved successful Hercule

rcules, intending to toss him aside. The hero, skilfully avoiding his first onset, seized him by one of his great thick-set h

m’d the torrent, but with nervous arm Opposed and pass’d it: me, when first a bride I left my father’s hospitable roof With m

o fulfil his arduous tasks. She was still young and charming, and his first glance into her sweet face rekindled all his form

e lingered by her side, forgetful of duty, Deianeira, and all but his first dream of love and happiness. When absent, Deianei

ich reached her ear was that he had returned to his allegiance to his first love, and this roused her jealousy, so long dorma

, and bade his friend Philoctetes set fire to the stupendous mass. At first Philoctetes also refused to do his bidding; but,

The Nemean Games, celebrated in the forest of Nemea, the scene of his first great labour, were the principal games held in Gr

s. Sir E. Burne-Jones. By Permission of Mr. Frederick Hollyer. This first successful visit was frequently repeated, and Dan

. Here Perseus, the golden-haired, grew to manhood, and here made his first appearance in games and combats. In the meanwhile

m life’s blood its warmth to steal, To petrify the mortal clay In its first gleam of wild dismay, Is a dread gift to one like

generally fatal, all who strove to pass. Adroitly evading the giant’s first onslaught, Theseus plunged his sword deep into hi

came to the Isthmus of Corinth, where two adventures awaited him. The first was with a cruel giant named Sinis, nicknamed The

ly reached Athens, where he found that his fame had preceded him. The first thing that he heard upon his arrival was that Æge

his birth, claimed the precedence, and proffered a request to be the first victim — a request which the king granted with a

their treacherous intention was soon discovered by Pluto, who set the first on an enchanted rock, from which he could not des

d instantaneous death. The Argonautic expedition is emblematic of the first long maritime voyage undertaken by the Greeks for

d delay. Notwithstanding this, the maiden would have reached the goal first , as usual, had not a third golden treasure tempte

gnorance of the unfortunate circumstances under which he had made his first appearance at court, until one day at a banquet o

tion the queen, who, afraid lest he might do himself an injury in the first moment of his despair if the truth were revealed

the murderer, who slew them all, thus unconsciously accomplishing the first part of the prophecy; for the aged man was Laius,

angement seemed satisfactory to Eteocles; but when, at the end of the first year, Polynices returned from his travels in fore

of the Hippocrene (a fountain which had bubbled forth where his hoofs first touched the earth), or to visit the equally limpi

still preserves her name.” Ovid ( Pope’s tr.). Recovering from her first speechless terror, Dryope turned to flee, with a

leave of her father, sister, husband, and son, who, attracted by her first cry, had rushed to give her all the assistance in

ing young nymph named Penelope; and we are told that, when his mother first beheld him, she was aghast, for he was the most h

n I admire how crystal-smooth it felt, And buoyant round my limbs. At first I dwelt Whole days and days in sheer astonishment

but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then, like a new fledg’d bird that first doth show His spreaded feathers to the morrow chi

scription “To the fairest” was clearly traced. All the ladies were at first inclined to contend for the prize; but one by one

s besought him to judge their quarrel. Minerva, in glittering armour, first appeared before his dazzled eyes, and proffered t

all hesitated to leave the ships, for an oracle had foretold that the first warrior who attempted to land would meet with ins

ath.                          ‘“The Delphic oracle foretold That the first Greek who touched the Trojan strand Should die.’”

o live, or to concern myself In men’s affairs, save this: that Hector first , Pierced by my spear, shall yield his life, and p

By his skilful hands the marvellous weapons were forged; and when the first streak of light appeared above the horizon, he co

er, only temporary relief, as she was slain by Achilles in their very first encounter. He, too, however, was doomed to die “i

ins, it caused him grievous suffering. Paris then remembered that his first love Œnone, who knew all remedies and the best mo

e largest and fiercest among the gigantic Cyclopean race. The Greeks’ first impulse was to help themselves, since no one was

who had no need to call her repeatedly, for she always yielded to his first appeal, joyfully joined him, and sat beside him u

last To leave the cave? It hath not been thy wont To let the sheep go first , but thou didst come Earliest to feed among the f

among the flowery grass, Walking with stately strides, and thou wert first At the fresh stream, and first at eve to seek The

ng with stately strides, and thou wert first At the fresh stream, and first at eve to seek The stable; now thou art the last

ll made their preparation for landing early the next morning. For the first time since he had left the Æolian shores, Ulysses

mes, and prevailed upon their chief to leave the fair enchantress. At first Circe was loth to let him go, but, seeing that he

now safe at home, after twenty years of warfare and adventure, and at first greatly enjoyed the quiet and peace of his home l

nd rushed on to the palace, hoping to save the aged king, who, at the first alarm, had seized his weapons, determined to figh

e, and settle there. “‘Stout Dardan hearts, the realm of earth Where first your nation sprang to birth, That realm shall now

urporting that they would settle there, and also that Dardanus, their first progenitor, was reported to have come from thence

encounter during the seven years which had already elapsed since they first sailed from Troy. She was not yet weary of persec

nseen, for Venus had enveloped them both in mist. Their attention was first attracted by the festive appearance of the people

ourney. She consented, but at the same time informed him that he must first obtain a golden twig, which grew in a dark forest

whose moral and religious beliefs were deeply concerned.” Received at first with implicit faith, these myths became a stumbli

husband to see his wife’s face until after she has given birth to her first child, and in others a wife may not speak her hus

er. The most learned of all these philologists argues that during the first or Rhematic period there existed a tribe in Centr

period, and previous to the National era and “ the appearance of the first traces of literature,” he places “a period repres

skrit names of physical things, we have been able to read some of the first thoughts of primitive man; and “the obvious meani

ht sky”) and surya (“the sun”); and all the manifold changes which at first merely denoted the varying atmosphere, by being p

others, and have some main features of resemblance in all cases. The first sun myth mentioned in the course of this work is

h springs up opposite the sun at his setting”). This story — which at first was merely intended to signify that the sun (Œdip

uld receive signal punishment. As the Eumenides, or Erinnyes, were at first merely the searching light of day, from which not

“the killer,”), the Greeks, having forgotten the signification of the first part of the word, declared this hero was the murd

Moon Myths In the moon myths the most important personification is first Diana, the horned huntress, “for to the ancients

Maruts, the Indian god, and means the “grinder” or “crusher.” It was first applied “to the storms which throw heaven and ear

ult.” Otus and Ephialtes, the gigantic sons of Neptune, were also at first merely personifications of the wind and hurricane

and changed with his wife Halcyone into birds, 181, 182 Cha′os. The first of all divinities, who ruled over confusion, 2; e

269, 282; Leander swims across the, 89-94 He-me′ra (Day). One of the first divinities, who rules with Æther (Light), 3, 6 H

rds; wife of Vertumnus, 268, 269 Pon′tus. Name given to the sea when first created, 3, 4 Po-sei′don. Same as Neptune, god o

ural to the source before the stream; to introduce the young student, first , to Eastern mythology, and afterwards duct him to

e Celestial Deities were ranked in four distinct orders. What was the first order or division? The first order comprised the

ed in four distinct orders. What was the first order or division? The first order comprised the Supreme Gods, who were likewi

very nation. They were twenty in number. How were the Deities of this first order farther divided, and what were their names?

d, and what were their names? They were divided into two classes; the first was called the Council of Jupiter, the supreme di

were the Indigetes and Semones? Those divinities who were not of the first or second class. The word, Semones, signifies hal

but neither Saturn, nor he, was ever ranked among the Deities of the first class. Janus must be reckoned among those gods ca

invention of crowns and boats was attributed to him; he was also the first who coined copper money. This Prince came from Pe

rom her own country into Italy, where she married Saturn. She was the first who fortified the walls of cities with towers, an

Vestal Virgins. What was the number of these Priestesses of Vesta? At first , they were only four in number, but were, afterwa

were free from their priesthood, and at liberty to marry. During the first ten years, they were instructed in the duties of

Yes; and this circumstance renders his history the more obscure. The first of them, is the Jupiter Ammon of the Libyans, who

res was the daughter of Saturn and Cybele, and was supposed to be the first who cultivated the earth. What was her history? P

By what people was the Sun worshiped? The adoration of the Sun is the first idolatrous worship known. The Egyptians, Phenicia

Greek words, signifying red, luminous, hot, and loving the earth. The first denotes the rising of the Sun, whose rays are the

ssing fly the feather’d fates below. On mules and dogs, the infection first began; And last the vengeful arrows fixed on man.

rom some particular accomplishment of mind, or branch of science. The first of the Muses, Clio, derived her name from the Gre

r most celebrated temples? She had two temples famous in history. The first was that of Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of

troduction of Christianity, they excited a furious tumult against its first preachers. The second temple of celebrity was in

ites. Others have regarded Bacchus as being the same with Nimrod, the first ambitious conqueror, and enslaver of men; that mi

form was oval. Their number was twelve; as was that of the priests at first , though afterwards increased to twenty-four. Who

ks, the Romans, and others, Cythera, from the island to which she was first wafted in the sea-shell. Cypria, from Cyprus. Ery

s Vulcan? It appears that there were three of the name of Vulcan. The first was Tubalcain, mentioned by Moses as the inventor

ng metals. The second was one of the Egyptian kings, or rather, their first divinity. The third, the Grecian Vulcan, was a Ti

structed them in astronomy; invented the lyre: and from his being the first who paid particular attention to eloquence, had t

ooks have long been lost, and all that is known of them, is, that the first thirty-six contained the whole of the Egyptian ph

osed to resemble that of man; the lower part that of the dolphin. The first of them was the son of Neptune and Amphitrite. Th

imal, the dog, was their sacrifice. When infants quitted one of their first ornaments, called the Bulla, it was deposited bef

s and movements. Plato speaks of Gnomes, Sylphs, and Salamanders, the first inhabiting the earth; the second, the air; the th

which is always upon the watch5.  Within this seat of horror are seen first , the souls of infants who expired as soon as born

d young, in lofty lays, Resound great Hercules’ immortal praise, How, first , his infant hands the snakes o’er threw, That Jun

He invented the wedge, the axe, the level, and the auger, and was the first who made use of sails, which, by poetical licence

half horses; the idea of which was suggested by the Thessalians, who first mounted and managed horses. One of these Centaurs

in four divisions, succeeding each other in chronological order. The first is that of the doctrines of the Emanation and Tra

iring to raise up various creatures by an emanation of his own glory, first created the waters and impressed them with a powe

just sentence from him; and thence, either ascends to Swerga, or the first heaven; or is driven down to Narac, the region of

e sacred rites, and various ceremonies of the Hindû priests. At their first assuming the Zennar, or sacred cord of three thre

opening of the gates, which universally front the east, to admit the first solar ray. Of these temples, that of Jaggernaut i

is most probable that the Egyptians, like almost all other people, at first held the belief of one Supreme Deity, the Creator

ther animals, and even some inanimate substances, which were used, at first , as hieroglyphics, finally came to be objects of

an Pan? Mendes, or Pan, was one of the eight gods who constituted the first , or most ancient, rank of the Egyptian deities. H

mes, or Mercury, lived at the interval of an age from each other. The first of these existed in the earlies period of Egyptia

e midst of a brilliant constellation of learned and virtuous men, the first Hermes shone with peculiar lustre; he penetrated

eriod, to the doctrine of talismans, so celebrated among the Arabians first , and afterwards among the Europeans. Did not the

as standing round the throne of the Universal Ruler; the noblest and first among his subjects. Heaven was depicted as filled

ed from each other, as the Man, and the Man-Bull; that these were the first of beings formed by the immediate hand of the Sup

ed from the surface of the globe, the summit of mount Albordi was the first land that became visible. The sun and the moon th

not only bodies, but spirits also, axe rendered visible; as being the first principle of all things; as diffused throughout t

to have been a personification of the sun. He was esteemed to be the first production of the power of Orosmades, and was inv

n of the ancient Scythians, or Cuthites, is supposed to have been the first corruption of Patriarchism, or the primitive doct

the spot where it fell. The Scythians also offered to their gods the first fruits of the earth, and portions of the spoils t

wo clumps of wood, which were floating on the shore of the ocean. The first of these Divinities imparted to them life and sou

n men of exemplary virtue and high reputation. Their statues were, at first , only testimonies of civil honour, which, in proc

What was the origin of the Grecian Mythology? In which class of the first order of Deities were Saturn, Cœlus, Genius, Orcu

t was the golden age? What were the Megalesia? Which of the Indigetes first coined copper money? By whom was Jupiter Ammon wo

c systems of idolatry still the prevailing superstitions? What is the first division of Oriental Mythology? What was the doct

ribed Arimanius? What were the symbols of Orosmades, and what was his first production? What circumstance established the sup

the Allat, the Al-Uzzah, and the Manah of the Arabians? What was the first corruption of religion among the Arabians? What w

urn was no other than Nimrod, that mighty hunter before the Lord, who first usurped arbitrary power over his brethren of mank

, the founders of Nations. 2. During this festival, which lasted, at first , only one day, but from the time of Julius Cæsar,

d in his sable bark convey’d the dead. 5. Cerberus. Arriv’d, they first grim Cerberus survey; Stretch’d in his den th’ en

g dangerous images to the youthful mind. It was this difficulty which first led to the preparation of the present work. The S

he rite of sacrifice. We meet everywhere the same offerings: flowers, first fruits, libations of milk, honey, and wine; also

mine. Ovid thus describes the days of innocence: “The Golden Age was first , when man, yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reaso

obliged to build dwellings, and cultivate the ungrateful soil. Their first habitations were caves and grottoes, leafy covert

re, But greedy mortals, rummaging her store, Digged from her entrails first the precious ore (Which next to hell the prudent

aved Neptune and Pluto in the same manner. Ques. What were Jupiter’s first exploits? Ans. Titan was so much enraged against

e some of these fables. Ans. Jupiter was married to Juno, to whom he first appeared in the form of a crow. He constantly exc

the vengeance of the god whose grove he had desecrated. Cadmus was at first dismayed, but Minerva told him to sow the dragon’

jealous of Latona, sent the serpent Python to destroy her. One of the first exploits of Apollo was to kill the Python with hi

uch might be turned into gold. This prayer was granted, and he was at first overjoyed to see plants, stones and all around hi

ted on an ass, and following the car of Bacchus. Ques. What were the first exploits of Bacchus? Ans. He distinguished himse

ious. The Bacchanalia or Orgia were the most celebrated. They were at first participated in by women only but afterwards men

death without mercy. Hippomenes determined to undertake the race, but first , he had recourse to Venus. This goddess gave him

Night, under the name of Latona; hence she was said to have been the first wife of Jupiter, the mother of Apollo and Diana,

ed, Memnon came with an army to aid the kindred of his father. In the first engagements he slew Antilochus [Antil′ochus], the

ocal powers. It is commonly asserted by ancient writers that when the first rays of the rising sun fell upon this statue, it

closed but three times in seven hundred years. They were shut for the first time in the reign of Numa; again, after the first

y were shut for the first time in the reign of Numa; again, after the first Punic war; and Augustus closed the temple the thi

e to the world. This occurred just before the coming of our Lord. The first month of the year is named from Janus. Chapte

Vesta desired that she might remain always a virgin, and receive the first oblations in all sacrifices. Fire was the emblem

Juno and Ceres. Ques. How was she worshipped? Ans. Sacrifices were first offered to this goddess in Phrygia and Lydia. Her

worshipped as the goddess of fruits and corn. It is supposed that she first invented and taught the art of tilling the earth,

ade, however, which seem to prove that the person to be initiated was first introduced into a dark subterranean cave, where h

ory mentions only two; Ulysses [Ulys′ses] and Orpheus [Or′pheus]. The first was warned against the danger by the enchantress

as consumed. A new Phœnix also immediately arose from the flames. The first care of the young bird was to collect the ashes o

steers were among the sacrifices offered to these divinities, but the first fruits of the season were always laid upon the he

repast was properly begun, unless some portion of the viands had been first cast into the fire; in the more solemn form of ma

ose indirectly, by engaging Bellerophon in dangerous enterprises. The first task imposed upon the hero, was the slaying of th

the use of masts and sails in ships, and he is said to have been the first who represented statues in natural and lifelike a

hile Nestor was obliged to seek safety in the branches of a tree. The first wound was inflicted by an arrow from the bow of A

mer is founded on his two great poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first of these has been always considered among the fin

in the peaceful possession of his patrimony, form the subject of his first pastoral poem or Eclogue. Virgil enjoyed the favo

are, at the same time, to remove all other weapons from the hall. The first thing to be done, was to bend the bow, in order t

the brothers that they should reign each a year alternately. Eteocles first ascended the throne; but when the year had expire

ll future events, the good or ill success of an undertaking, etc. The first were drawn from the phenomena of nature, such as

emonies were observed in consulting this oracle? Ans. The votary was first purified by solemn ablutions; then, after offerin

called Lethe, or oblivion, he descended by means of ladders into the first , or upper cavern. The opening into the lower cave

Who instituted the Olympic games? Ans. They were very ancient; their first institution was attributed by the Greeks to Hercu

Macedon on the same day, each being the bearer of joyful tidings. The first announced that his general had gained a great vic

d seven four-horse chariots in the Olympic games, and carried off the first , second and third prizes. The poet Euripides cele

essful competitors. Cynisca, the sister of Agesilaus, king of Sparta, first opened this path of glory to her sex, and was pro

r and harmonious voices pleased the ear, and they were listened to at first with great attention, which gradually decreased a

arged with the superintendence of the games, which were celebrated at first every ninth, and afterwards every fifth year. The

n after the destruction of Corinth by the Romans. The victors were at first rewarded with garlands of pine leaves, but this c

ed in its full beauty for more than a century after his death. It was first despoiled by Lachares, who stripped the statue of

ese divinities? Ans. The names Baal and Moloch seem to have been, at first , different appellations of the Sun; later they as

rinciples, one of good, and one of evil, but they worshipped only the first . Ques. Did they not worship the sun? Ans. They

numerous, but ten are more especially celebrated. Ques. What was the first Avatar? Ans. The first Avatar was when Vishnu as

re especially celebrated. Ques. What was the first Avatar? Ans. The first Avatar was when Vishnu assumed the form of a fish

ncient? Ans. So much so, that it is impossible to say when they were first established. The Pariahs are being gradually rais

of this time, he began his career as a religious teacher. He preached first in Benares, but his doctrines were received with

g it in the adjacent countries. Ques. When was the worship of Buddha first introduced into China? Ans. About the year 65 of

bitter wars between their followers. Ques. What are these? Ans. The first , of which Confucius is in some sort the founder,

is Buddhism, which, as we have seen, was introduced into China in the first century of our era. Ques. Who was Confucius? An

it was uninhabited, they resolved to create man. Aske and Embla, the first man and woman, were therefore formed, the man out

ferent forms, engraven with characters called Runic, which appear, at first sight, very different from any letters we know. T

sun, and the celebration of the ancient Tauric festival, (held on the first of May, when the sun enters Taurus.) Ques. What

ees, or Babylonians. In Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland, the first of May takes its name from this solemnity, being

of the ancient Druid festival. Ques. What rites were observed on the first day of November? Ans. The day was consecrated to

was annexed to each temple, and the priests were further enriched by first fruits and other offerings. This large provision

nly about two hundred years before the Spanish Conquest. They were at first exceptional, but became more frequent as the Azte

up the sides of the pyramid, he played upon a musical instrument; at first , joyous airs, which grew graver and more mournful

nded as an allegorical representation of human life, which, joyous at first , terminates in sorrow and in death. In speaking o

It fronted the eastern portal of the temple in such a manner that the first rays of the morning Sun fell directly on his gold

Æschylus has been called the father of Grecian tragedy, as he was the first to give rules to the dialogue, and define the dut

Rome, about the year 161 A. D. Juvenal . A Roman poet of the first century. He was born in the reign of Caligula, bu

ecome mercenary in his old age, and Greek writers speak of him as the first who wrote verses for money. In this connection, w

f Greece. In true dramatic excellence, he is generally considered the first . The poet was only sixteen when he was selected t

chylus. He gained the same triumph over other competitors, taking the first prize on twenty-four different occasions. Irrepro

ontus, about the year 24, B. C. He spent many years in travelling, at first for his own gratification, and in the pursuit of

subject to make them intelligible. Let any one who doubts it read the first page of the “Æneid,” and see what he can make of

of the creation, according to which Earth, Erebus, and Love were the first of beings. Love (Eros) issued from the egg of Nig

alled Ophion, with Eurynome, (the wide- Encroaching Eve perhaps,) had first the rule Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven

ber of Vulcan. Janus was the porter of heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian d

on in stealing fire from heaven; and man, for accepting the gift. The first woman was named Pandora. She was made in heaven,

ormer statement? The world being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first age was an age of innocence and happiness, called

upiter shortened the spring, and divided the year into seasons. Then, first , men had to endure the extremes of heat and cold,

xtremes of heat and cold, and houses became necessary. Caves were the first dwellings, and leafy coverts of the woods, and hu

troy the whole of its inhabitants, and provide a new race, unlike the first , who would be more worthy of life, and much bette

on thus addressed Pyrrha: “O wife, only surviving woman, joined to me first by the ties of kindred and marriage, and now by a

e power of our ancestor Prometheus, and could renew the race as he at first made it! But as we cannot, let us seek yonder tem

bones of your mother.” They heard the words with astonishment. Pyrrha first broke silence: “We cannot obey; we dare not profa

t one glance the Deity.” Apollo and Daphne. Daphne was Apollo’s first love. It was not brought about by accident, but b

ltures, to the conqueror’s banner true,     Who feed where Desolation first has fed,     And whose wings rain contagion: how

he city’s bounds, called the Tomb of Ninus, and that the one who came first should await the other at the foot of a certain t

cause of thy death! Thou, more worthy of life than I, hast fallen the first victim. I will follow. I am the guilty cause, in

uld rise before the dawn to pursue the chase. Aurora saw him when she first looked forth, fell in love with him, and stole hi

; in fine there was nothing left of the heifer, except her beauty. At first she was afraid to speak, for fear she should low,

ot even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls the thunderbolts. The first part of the way is steep, and such as the horses

t how to guide them; nor, if he knew, has he the power. Then, for the first time, the Great and Little Bear were scorched wit

seas and rivers, till at length she returned to Sicily, whence she at first set out, and stood by the banks of the River Cyan

perceive a brood of serpents and barking monsters surrounding her! At first she could not imagine they were a part of herself

n I admire how crystal-smooth it felt, And buoyant round my limbs. At first I dwelt Whole days and days in sheer astonishment

g but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then like a new-fledged bird that first doth show His spreaded feathers to the morrow chi

fe of Andræmon, beloved by her husband, and happy in the birth of her first child. One day the sisters strolled to the bank o

the sea, she descries an indistinct object floating in the water. At first she was in doubt what it was, but by degrees the

and hid them out of sight of her husband. When he had fallen into his first sleep, she silently rose and uncovering her lamp

became Love’s angel bride in heaven!” The story of Cupid and Psyche first appears in the works of Apuleius, a writer of the

and shed their poison in the fountains. The force of the disease was first spent on the lower animals — dogs, cattle, sheep,

se attacked the country people, and then the dwellers in the city. At first the cheek was flushed, and the breath drawn with

t of the sick gave them infection, so that the most faithful were the first victims. At last all hope of relief vanished, and

ack color, and finally to assume the human form. Then I awoke, and my first impulse was to chide the gods who had robbed me o

of — reply. You shall still have the last word, but no power to speak first .” This nymph saw Narcissus, a beautiful youth, as

it was not in her power. She waited with impatience for him to speak first , and had her answer ready. One day the youth, bei

the story of Narcissus in the account which he makes Eve give of the first sight of herself reflected in the fountain: — “T

lected in the fountain: — “That day I oft remember when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade on

arcissus. Here are two epigrams which treat it in different ways. The first is by Goldsmith: — “On a beautiful Youth, struck

ho also aspired to it. The tale ran that in the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the

r name, and the name of your country, and why you are thus bound.” At first she was silent from modesty, and, if she could, w

As soon as he was seated on his back the horse, which had appeared at first vicious, and afterwards spirit-broken, rose kingl

uth exists, though overlaid by a mass of fiction. It probably was the first important maritime expedition, and like the first

It probably was the first important maritime expedition, and like the first attempts of the kind of all nations, as we know f

of the music of Orpheus, whom he calls the Thracian: — “So when the first bold vessel dared the seas,     High on the stern

praised, and sails full swelling; to the chiefs Unwonted objects. Now first , now they learned Their bolder steerage over ocea

cting root, falls prone. But an arrow from Atalanta at length for the first time tastes the monster’s blood. It is a slight w

e, now, for thine own crime. Return the life which twice I gave thee, first at thy birth, again when I snatched this brand fr

ate adventures, which are called the “Twelve Labors of Hercules.” The first was the fight with the Nemean lion. The valley of

determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwe

ssession of his club and bore it ever afterwards as a memorial of his first victory. Several similar contests with the petty

people, and retired to the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, who at first received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously

o mention here the other celebrated national games of the Greeks. The first and most distinguished were the Olympic, founded,

e to the custom of reckoning time and dating events by Olympiads. The first Olympiad is generally considered as corresponding

of the orgies met his eyes. At the same moment the women saw him; and first among them his own mother, Agave, blinded by the

t monster that prowls in these woods! Come on, sisters! I will be the first to strike the wild boar.” The whole band rushed u

 46, The story of Circe will be found in Chapter XXIX. 3Bacchus that first from out the purple grapes Crushed the sweet pois

ted the axe and the oak seemed to shudder and utter a groan. When the first blow fell upon the trunk blood flowed from the wo

ing him in all difficulties, and watching over his interests from the first to the last. Leucothea and Palæmon. Ino, th

onius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east. The first two have been chiefly celebrated by the poets, th

King Admetus for the subject of a short poem. He makes that event the first introduction of poetry to men. “Men called him b

are the kingdom between them, and reign alternately year by year. The first year fell to the lot of Eteocles, who, when his t

. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege continued long, with various

ater in a sieve, and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen. Then for the first time, it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were w

r his own advantage. Hence sprang the art of keeping bees. Honey must first have been known as a wild product, the bees build

the swarm when it has been lost by disease or accident. Aristæus, who first taught the management of bees, was the son of the

nd her nymphs, who spread their table with the richest dainties. They first poured out libations to Neptune, then regaled the

finding himself captured, immediately resorted to his arts, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast,

nished Marsyas by flaying him alive. Melampus. Melampus was the first mortal endowed with prophetic powers. Before his

that is, of the poets who have told them. In their present form, the first two are translated from the German, Arion from Sc

rstand the story of Ibycus which follows it is necessary to remember, first , that the theatres of the ancients were immense f

said to be the statue of Memnon. Ancient writers record that when the first rays of the rising sun fall upon this statue a so

n for me, forgot his flocks and his well-stored caverns. Then for the first time he began to take some care of his appearance

he noblest characters painted by heathen antiquity. He felt, from the first , a presentiment of the fall of his country, but s

e coast of Troy. The Trojans came to oppose their landing, and at the first onset Protesilaus fell by the hand of Hector. Pro

at victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall the first victim to the war. The poet represents Protesilau

mine should be The foremost prow impressing to the strand, — Mine the first blood that tinged the Trojan sand. “Yet bitter,

with her wishes. He fabricated a splendid suit of armor for Achilles, first a shield adorned with elaborate devices, then a h

to earth, and laid it down at Achilles’ feet at the dawn of day. The first glow of pleasure that Achilles had felt since the

roy. Then Achilles dismissed the old king with his attendants, having first pledged himself to allow a truce of twelve days f

th a flower sprang up, called the hyacinth, bearing on its leaves the first two letters of the name of Ajax, Ai, the Greek fo

ded. Philoctetes was cured of his wound by Machaon, and Paris was the first victim of the fatal arrows. In his distress Paris

nced directly to the spot where Laocoon stood with his two sons. They first attacked the children, winding round their bodies

e. Thus she became reconciled to her husband, and they were among the first to leave the shores of Troy for their native land

his return from Troy to his own kingdom Ithaca. From Troy the vessels first made land at Ismarus, city of the Ciconians, wher

battlements, till they came to the palace, where the goddess, having first given him some information of the country, king,

one their best, Ulysses being challenged to show what he could do, at first declined, but being taunted by one of the youths,

that belonged to him. Telemachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses

them to an improper use. All things being prepared for the trial, the first thing to be done was to bend the bow in order to

e months were spent in preparation, and at length they embarked. They first landed on the neighboring shores of Thrace, and w

navigator several times round the world, did they arrive there. Their first landing was at the island of the Harpies. These w

iff, screamed out, “Is it thus, Trojans, you treat us innocent birds, first slaughter our cattle and then make war on ourselv

Elegant Extracts: — From the Latin. “Unhappy, Dido, was thy fate In first and second married state! One husband caused thy

t in his den and fell asleep. Æneas and the Sibyl sprang to land. The first sound that struck their ears was the wailing of y

’tis all in leaves, Like Sibyl, unsubstantial, fleeting bliss; At the first blast it vanishes in air.                        

ummoned Alecto from Erebus, and sent her to stir up discord. The Fury first took possession of the queen, Amata, and roused h

river and all his tributary fountains to lend their aid. Then for the first time a vessel filled with armed warriors floated

quired to practise the greatest purity and simplicity of manners. The first lesson they learned was silence; for a time they

  In the white lily’s breezy tent (His conquered Sybaris) than I when first From the dark green thy yellow circles burst.” A

th to bestow gifts and blessings on its inhabitants. Isis showed them first the use of wheat and barley, and Osiris made the

and a temple was erected on the spot. The prophetic influence was at first variously attributed to the goddess Earth, to Nep

poets have always been prone to describe as a deterioration of man’s first estate, the Golden Age of innocence and simplicit

ius and art. Of the many attempts four have been most celebrated, the first two known to us only by the descriptions of the a

hat he took his idea from the representation which Homer gives in the first book of the Iliad, in the passage thus translated

ng been in the possession of the princes of that name in Rome when it first attracted attention, about two hundred years ago.

st is unknown. It is supposed to be a work of Roman art, of about the first century of our era. It is a standing figure, in m

n three different ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn The first in loftiness of soul surpassed, The next in majes

varying materially from the preceding, but adding some details. “The first care of the young bird as soon as fledged, and ab

for the most part very much like an eagle in outline and bulk.” The first writer who disclaimed a belief in the existence o

oems has this allusion to the Phœnix: — “So when the new-born Phœnix first is seen, Her feathered subjects all adore their q

They are very numerous, but ten are more particularly specified. The first Avatar was as Matsya, the Fish, under which form

times. It is supposed by some to have been founded upon conquest, the first three castes being composed of a foreign race, wh

the head of Brahma. A strong line of demarcation is drawn between the first three castes and the Sudras. The former are allow

ss of the new-born prophet. The child soon developed faculties of the first order, and became equally distinguished by the un

of that period he came forward at Benares as a religious teacher. At first some who heard him doubted of the soundness of hi

a limited extent a temporal monarch. He is styled the Dalai Lama. The first Christian missionaries who proceeded to Thibet we

ice. While she was one day licking the salt stones there appeared at first the hair of a man, on the second day the whole he

ongest of gods and men, and possesses three very precious things. The first is a hammer, which both the Frost and the Mountai

e danger by his cunning, wit, and skill. Loki has three children. The first is the wolf Fenris, the second the Midgard serpen

the space of one winter. But if any thing remained unfinished on the first day of summer he should forfeit the recompense ag

advice of Loki was granted to him. He accordingly set to work on the first day of winter, and during the night let his horse

and moon, and not even by sending him back to Jotunheim, for with the first blow he shattered the giant’s skull to pieces and

ing a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In the first course Hugi so much outstripped his competitor th

time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with ir

untie it. After this thou gavest me three blows with thy mallet; the first , though the least, would have ended my days had i

ilar illusions in the contests you have had with my followers. In the first , Loki, like hunger itself, devoured all that was

fferent forms, engraven with characters called Runic, which appear at first sight very different from all we know. The letter

as called “Samh’in,” or “fire of peace,” and was held on Hallow-eve, ( first of November,) which still retains this designatio

they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest then, robed in white, asce

ostle of the Highlands, by whom the inhabitants of that district were first led to profess Christianity. Iona. One of t

the fallentis semita vitœ. Engaged however in the literary career, my first thought was how I might at the same time promote

thus lay the foundation of a moderate independence ; and in that our first transaction originated a friendship which nothing

ich compose a nation’s mythology may be divided into two classes. The first will contain the true or fabulous Events which ar

y of every people, with whom it is of domestic origin, is mythic, its first personages and actions are chiefly imaginary3. It

hand, receive various embellishments and additions, till what was at first but a mere dry assertion or conjecture became a m

guages, denotes the south ; and Neem-rôz lies due south of Balkh, the first seat of Persian dominion. To return home, there i

xisting monuments, some men of learning venture to maintain, that the first inhabitants of that country were under the direct

riginal cause and support of all. Anaxagoras is said to have been the first who openly taught this truth ; and he was in cons

ones and with the heroes. Thus of Aphrodite he says, that she was the first who reduced gallantry to an art, and made a trade

distinguished for their piety and their hospitality to strangers. The first king who ruled over them was named Uranos. He col

ntry after himself. Like his father he was addicted to astronomy ; he first taught the doctrine of the sphere, whence he was

mer. The northern one was afterwards named Europe96; the southern, at first called Asia alone97, was in process of time divid

and origin of the gods worshiped in Greece. Chaos139 (Void Space) was first  ; then came into being ‘broad-breasted’ Earth, th

logical ideas above developed144. Void Space must naturally have been first  : Earth, which was to occupy the centre of the Wo

e been their original one, and their origin have been ascribed to the first violation of filial duty. We now proceed to the i

taros156. Hesiod, who evidently misunderstood the sense of the mythe, first gave it the form of a war, and narrated its detai

Kronids. Thus Pherecydes157 commences with saying that Uranos reigned first , and had by Earth the Cyclopes and the Hundred-ha

y called Ophiôn with Eurynome (the wide- Encroaching Eve perhaps) had first the rule Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven

rest of mankind200. The cup (λέβης or δέπας) of the Sun-god appeared first , we are told, in the Titanomachia of Arctinos or

he daughter of Aphrodite, Helios had the seven Heliades, who were the first inhabitants of the isle of Rhodes227. The Graces

hands, and the infernal dogs howled around her. Lucian’s ‘liar of the first magnitude,’ Eucrates308, gives a most terrific de

With his shrill neighings as away he fled. This legend, it is said, first appeared in the poem of the Gigantomachia321. It

Rhea, were Zeus, Poseidôn, Hades, Hestia, Hera, and Demeter. The four first we shall place here : the two last, as wives of Z

ying Cretans390 The Arcadians, on the other hand, asserted that Zeus first saw the light among their mountains. Rhea, they s

estial progeny of Zeus are enumerated in the following order393. Zeus first espoused Metis (Prudence), who exceeded gods and

s and men in knowledge. But Heaven and Earth having told him that her first child, a maid, would equal himself in strength an

e smote a rock in that country with his trident, and forth sprang the first horse, which was named Scyphios429. The vain peop

Attica affected to believe that it was on their soil that the sea-god first presented the horse to mankind430. The winged ste

must have been the Phœnicians, who also, we are assured, brought the first horses into Greece (as the Spaniards did into Ame

and Scythians, renowned in all ages for their horses437, should have first received these animals from the coast of Africa ?

metals. This notion, Voss461 thinks, began to prevail when the Greeks first visited Spain, the country most abundant in gold.

he heroine, Orcus, the Latin name of Pluto. In this drama we meet the first mention of a very remarkable notion of the Greeks

she had set as keeper over the transformed Io. Moschus509 (in whom we first meet this legend), when describing the basket whi

to Theophrastus introduced into Greece from the East512. Peafowl were first brought to Samos, where they were kept at the tem

to her, under the names of Virgin, Married (τϵλϵία), and Widow ; the first while she was a maid, the second when she married

erivation of his name therefore seems to be that which, regarding the first letter as euphonie, and Hephæstos as Phæstos (Φαȋ

gold. In the Homeridian hymn to the Pythian Apollo, the manner of his first getting possession of Pytho is thus related. When

Pytho is thus related. When Apollo resolved to choose the site of his first temple, he came down from Olympos into Pieria : h

heroic families could claim him as the head of their genealogy. «The first love of Phœbos,» says Ovid, «was Daphne, the daug

lo serving Admetos, Müller sees matter of deeper import than might at first sight be supposed. According to the Delphian trad

others again from ἀέλιος, the sun, with the digamma F between the two first vowels. The strangest etymon of all is that of Bu

f tracing the Greek religion from the East, from Jabal and Jubal, the first musician and herdsman according to Scripture668.

with dogs of an excellent breed. Mount Parrhasios then witnessed the first exploit of the huntress-goddess. Five deer larger

xercised much influence in the religious affairs of the colony, whose first seat was the islet of Ortygia. A temple was built

rtemis were Loxo, Hecaerge, Arge, and Opis, or Upis. She bore the two first as the sister of Apollo Loxias and Hecaergos. She

rean maidens, had been the companions of Apollo and Artemis when they first came to Delos694. According to another account, t

h the mutilated part of Uranos had been thrown by his son Kronos. She first , he adds, approached the land at the island of Cy

lly celebrated at Byblos by the Phœnician women during two days ; the first of which was spent in grief and lamentation, the

al was prolonged to eight days. It is uncertain when the Adoneia were first celebrated in that country ; but we find Plato752

be (as her name seems to denote761) an originally Grecian deity ; at first , probably, merely cosmogonic, but gradually adopt

his deity is unnoticed by Homer ; in the Theogony765 he is one of the first of beings, and produced without parents. In the O

id as he had done before ; and instantly another Love, similar to the first , except that his hair was of a bright dark hue, r

One of the last of the Homerids thus sang the story of the birth and first exploits of this sly deity. Hermes was born of th

y favourable for stealing a few of the heedless herdsman’s cattle. He first cast the dogs into a deep slumber, and then drove

of Herse was in the middle, that of Aglauros on the left. The latter first saw the god, and inquired of him who he was and w

e people of the hungry soil of Attica made them pretend that corn was first known and agriculture first practised in their co

of Attica made them pretend that corn was first known and agriculture first practised in their country. They fabled that the

attended on him, as Morpheus, Icelos or Phobetêr, and Phantasos ; the first of whom takes the form of man to appear in dreams

use with him the Trojans to battle1069. Strife is said to be small at first , but at last to raise her head to the heaven. She

lves, or because they occur in places justly liable to suspicion. The first of these passages is that in the sixth book of th

ed, increased. But that at the same time the mystic ceremonies, whose first traces appear in the Hesiodic and Cyclic poems, w

realms of the Trojan monarchs, whose power had been broken ; and the first colonies were planted by the Æolians along the co

he rural deities. The ancients had two modes of representing Pan. The first , according to the description already given, as h

him as the sun1189. Σάτυροι. Satyri. Satyrs. Hesiod1190 is the first who mentions the Satyrs ; he says that they, the

any of Artemis. In the Fairy Mythology1230, a work, for which, as our first effort in this department of literature, and whic

have it known among the gods, says of the child1235, — But him, when first he sees the sun’s clear light, The Nymphs shall r

er confining itself to the sober realms of the actual earth. We shall first direct our attention to the latter1325. In the Il

made to give an exaggerated idea of that of Polyphemos. When Odysseus first sees him, he compares him to ‘a woody peak of lof

f was in length and thickness equal to the mast of a large ship : the first rock which he flings at the ship of Odysseus was

eaving Ææa on their homeward voyage, Odysseus and his companions came first to the island of the Sirens. These were two maide

e speaks of cosmogony or of the ages of the world. Hesiod, who is the first that treats of them, gives in his didactic poem t

ives in his didactic poem the following venerable mythe1439. The gods first made the golden race of men, who were in the time

, and the brazen. Justice (Δίκη), he says, dwelt familiarly among the first , teaching them what was right and good. When the

ded them with their evil doings. Unable to endure the third race, who first forged arms and fed on the flesh of the labouring

races of men four in number, — golden, silver, brazen, and iron. The first enjoyed a perpetual spring, the earth producing e

spoken of1443. Hesiod makes these races separate creations : the two first , he says, were made by the gods, the three last b

oriental one, derived from the same source with the narrative in the first chapters of Genesis, and introduced into Grecian

age. It contained originally, as it is given by Aratus, but the three first ages. Its object was not to give a view of the gr

s elsewhere1465 ; the latter mythe may be perhaps thus explained. The first men lived in a state of bliss on the abundant pro

by an able mythologist1482. According to some very ancient mythe the first of mankind were two brothers, Prometheus and Epim

metheus and Epimetheus, that is, Forethought and After-thought. These first men lived in intimate relation with the gods, who

fects of this imprudent act were speedily felt. In the house of these first men stood a closed jar, which they had been forbi

ng apparent, Prometheus and his brother ceased to be looked on as the first men, but Pandora still kept her place as the firs

e looked on as the first men, but Pandora still kept her place as the first woman. Prometheus and Epimetheus were soon regard

ent mythe. We will now make a few observations on the subject. In the first place, as Buttmann and many others have observed,

the jar of evils ; and the introduction of evil into the world by the first woman. But Eve was tempted, Pandora was not ; the

neglected by the Alexandrians ; Apollodorus merely calls Pandora the first woman. In fact, with the exception of a dubious p

given in marriage to Epimetheus, and became the mother of Pyrrha, the first mortal woman. It is also deserving of notice, tha

clothes, And cast behind you your great parent’s bones. They were at first horror-struck at such an act of impiety being enj

guish three periods, the Pelasgian, the Achæan, and the Hellenic. The first is ante-historic and even ante-mythic, and its ex

with the glimmer of the dawn of real Grecian history, — of which the first or mytho-historic portion commences with the Dori

me case is given by making Ixiôn, that is the Suppliant 1580, and the first shedder of kindred blood as he is expressly calle

entally killed Eurytiôn : Atalanta with an arrow gave the monster his first wound : Amphiaraos shot him in the eye ; and Mele

er many variations in the tale. Thus it is said that Ino was Athamas’ first wife, and that he put her away by the direction o

ausanias1704 relates, that the country about Orchomenos in Bœotia was first possessed by Andreus, the son of the river Peneio

s. He was succeeded by his son Eteocles, who is said to have been the first who sacrificed to the Graces. Eteocles gave a por

ed next, and was wealthier than any of his predecessors. He built the first treasury, similar to that of Atreus at Mycenæ. Pa

lphi, and inquired of the god where he should settle. The Pythia then first named him Heracles1736, for hitherto he had been

ot to be recalled, and his son was fated to serve Eurystheus1737. The first task imposed by Eurystheus was to bring him the s

Centaurs armed with stones and pine-sticks to the cave of Pholos. The first who ventured to enter were driven back by Heracle

a stranger every year to Zeus. Busiris sacrificed the prophet himself first , and then continued the practice. Heracles on his

she had fixed on her brother Podarkes, Heracles replied that he must first be made a slave, and then she might give somethin

nothing, put on the fatal garment and prepared to offer sacrifice. At first he felt no effect from it, but when it warmed the

ose time the Bœotic flood is placed, is said by some to have been the first who reigned over Attica and Bœotia : his son Eleu

e founder of Eleusis. But in general Cecrops is held to have been the first who ruled over the country called Cecropia from h

slightest hint of any connexion between them. Plato is, in fact, the first who intimates it ; the priests of Saïs, he says,

ign manners and customs is especially implanted in our city1795.” The first notice of the Egyptian origin of the Athenians ap

, Field-dwelling (Agraulos), All-dew (Pandrosos) and Dew (Herse). The first bears a daughter, Strongmare (Alcippe), to the go

nstituted the festival of the Panathenæa. He is said to have been the first who used the four-horsed chariot. He had by the N

determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His first day's journey brought him to Epidauros, where dwe

session of his club, and bore it ever afterwards as a memorial of his first victory1834. Theseus now pursued his journey, and

seidôn had promised him the accomplishment of whatever wish he should first form, cursed and implored destruction on his son

hthonios or Erechtheus, whom the more ancient tradition viewed as the first Attic king. We have seen how entirely Cecrops and

received it, he resolved to comply with the desire of Prœtos ; and he first sent his guest to slay the Chimæra, a monster wit

ath of men.’ Later authorities tell us1881 that Bellerophontes was at first named Hipponoös : but having accidentally killed

ster the Oceanis Melia, by whom he had a son named Phoroneus1890, the first man according to one tradition, while another mak

s, from whom the peninsula was named Apia ; and a daughter Niobe, the first mortal woman who enjoyed the love of Zeus. Her of

logy. The principal river of the place is the parent or origin of the first man Phoroneus, that is, the Rearer or Feeder 1893

name, and Io of course had wandered thither. Finally, when the Greeks first settled in Egypt and saw the statues of Isis with

violence, he built with the aid of Athena a fifty-oared vessel, — the first that was ever made, — in which he embarked with h

, — in which he embarked with his daughters and fled over the sea. He first landed on the isle of Rhodes, where he set up a s

the delicate regard which he had shown to her modesty. Her father, at first , in his anger at her disobedience, put her into c

of his daughters. Melampûs, the son of Amythaôn a soothsayer, and the first who exercised the art of medicine, promised to re

promising that he and Athena would be his guides. Hermes brought him first to the faircheeked Grææ, whose eye and tooth he s

ke streams, in their progress. It is probable that this of Perseus at first consisted of no more than the account of his birt

t him in the war. To this Creôn assented, on condition of his guest’s first freeing Cadmeia from the fox which ravaged it, an

spread over sea and land1973. The Messenians asserted that Asclepios first saw the light in their country. His mother was Ar

temis-Calliste ; and he adds that it was the ancient poet Pamphôs who first gave Artemis this epithet in his verses, having l

four parts, said that one half of the prey should fall to him who had first eaten his share, and the remainder to him who nex

at we have of any connexion between Pelops and Tantalos, as it is the first mention of the Peloponnese. Pindar2073 calls Pelo

tween this god and Pelops is also intimated in the tradition that the first temple of Hermes in the Peloponnese was built by

have related the story of the gold-fleeced lamb2084. We know not who first told of the horrid banquet, but we find it freque

ooked down from the sky, the nymphs of Pelion gazed in wonder at this first of ships, and Cheirôn leaving his mountain-cave c

verers in the nature of their future voyage. The Symplegades were the first danger which they had to encounter. These were hu

se or Scythia, and this was probably the earlier one, as this was the first direction of the Grecian colonies ; the other alo

ast, and finally reaching the Phasis and Colchis, which last place is first named by the Corinthian poet Eumelos, who did not

us. The only question was how to bring them thither from Colchis. The first course was that taken by Hesiod, who was followed

gn on alternate years. According to some, Polyneices governed for the first year, and then resigned his throne to his brother

resigned his throne to his brother ; others say that Eteocles was the first occupant of the royal seat : all are agreed that

to restore each to his country. The expedition against Thebes was the first resolved on, and each valiant warrior was invited

ictory if led by Alcmæôn the son of Amphiaraos. Alemæôn would however first punish his mother ; but Eryphile, who had receive

y assailed by her Erinnys. In phrenzy he roamed through Arcadia, came first to his grandfather Oïcles, and from him went to P

. There is also a moral intended to be conveyed in the failure of the first expedition, led by arrogant boastful chiefs, who

eed to relate the war of Troy, following the Epic Cycle, of which the first portion was the Cypria of Stasinos. Zeus seeing t

Amazons, now leads her female warriors to the aid of Troy. But in the first engagement she falls by the hand of Achilleus, wh

t thither and taken and plundered a large city. This may have been at first a simple tradition ; it may have been then expand

poetry,) the chief events from the voyage of Æneas to the end of the first Punic war. The Calabrian Ennius boldly and contem

ler came gently wafted on the air and fell to the ground. Numa having first slain a heifer, took it up and named it Ancile. H

of which there appears to have been a reference to this goddess. The first was on the 23rd of April, the second day from the

ter and Venus again united, for on this day the Flamen Dialis, having first sacrificed a ewe-lamb, himself commenced gatherin

enever they can be discovered. 86. Ἰωνία, or Violarium. It forms the first volume of Villoison’s Anecdota Græca. 87. On the

ogony of the ancient Persians and Scandinavians. 96. The term Europe first occurs in the Homeridian hymn to the Delian Apoll

e Welcker, Kret. Kol. 55. 97. Pherecydes (Sch. Apoll. Rh. iv. 1396.) first mentions this division into Europe and Asia. We f

p. 13. Bip.). 98. Herod. iv. 37-41. 99. Asia seems to have been at first nothing more than the rich land on the banks of t

riefe, ii. 175. Heyne (on Apollod. p. 780.) is of opinion that it was first given in the Mysteries. It is employed occasional

n how or when the doctrine of the Metempsychosis came into Greece. We first meet it in Pindar, Ol. ii. 123. Fr. Thren. 4. 48

e been devised when this hymn was composed. We meet the latter notion first in Pindar (Fr. Prosod. 2.). 615. Hymn to Delos.

in. 160. 850. Pausan. ix. 22. These are both silly expositions ; the first is confuted by the fact that in the Carnasian gro

chwenk (247.) renders it Lighting, regarding, as we think justly, the first part of the name as akin to πȗρ, and to the Pers

Eumeli’ (Opusc. ii. 288.) and Buttman, Mytholog. i. 273-294. Creuzer first advanced this theory. 957. Il. v. 749 ; viii. 39

xi. 601. The last of these passages is undoubtedly spurious, and the first is perhaps not altogether free from suspicion. 1

ythic annals of Rome. “Mythology,” says Müller (Dor. i. 293.), “often first clothes the events of history in a fabulous garb,

d the Hesperides. Peisander it would seem (Sch. Apoll. Rh. iv. 1396.) first named him Ladôn, and called him the offspring of

ὶ ἐν νϵκύϵσσι ϕαϵίνω. 1404. Thucydides (vii. 1.) is we believe the first writer who uses the name Trinacria 1405. Od. xii

ous, and we think his reasons satisfactory. Aristarchus suspected the first six lines. 1426. Od. iv. 564. 1427. This is als

. 70. Apoll. Rh. iv. 982. seq. cum Schol. Tzetz. Lyc. 818. 1429. The first syllable of ἄπϵιρος is short, that of ἤπϵιρος is

. See also Il. xiv. 476 ; xvii. 597. 1518. Hesiod (Works, 528. 653.) first employed the term Hellenes to designate the whole

called Фῖξ. Though this legend is probably older than the time of the first intercourse with Egypt, the Theban monster bears

scribes him with shield and spear. Peisander and Stesichorus were the first who gave him the club and lion-skin. Athen. xii.

is highly probable. The legend was framed, he thinks, when the Greeks first began to have intercourse with Egypt, and express

on. 2109. Menoo is the name of the Hindoo legislator : Menes was the first mortal king of Egypt : Manes was the first king o

legislator : Menes was the first mortal king of Egypt : Manes was the first king of Lydia : Minyas one of the earliest kings

ing of Lydia : Minyas one of the earliest kings of Greece : Minos the first king and lawgiver of Crete. To these Buttmann (My

he study of language, has assisted students of mythology in two ways; first , by tracing the names of objects of worship to th

, — the sun, the moon, the heavens, the winds, or the sea. The fables first related about each deity represent, figuratively,

s in its history the moral dealings of God with man. Thus, Apollo is, first , physically the sun contending with darkness, but

gious observances the family hearth was consecrated. “When the Greeks first settled in Italy, they found there a mythology be

eeds of nature. According to the same legend, Gæa*, or Ge (the earth) first issued, in no very comprehensible manner, from Ch

was invoked as a witness to solemn oaths. Sun-worship was one of the first and most natural forms of idolatry. The island of

hter of Hyperion and Thea, and a sister of Helios and Selene. She was first married to Astræus, by whom she became the mother

ip was at Crete, into which place this divinity was introduced by its first colonists from Phrygia*, in Asia Minor, in which

e. Europa was the mother of Minos*, Rhadamanthus*, and Sarpedon*. The first two became judges in the lower world after death.

under the charge of the Hesperides at the foot of Mount Atlas. On the first day of every month a ewe-lamb and a sow were sacr

and guard the life of every woman from her birth to her death. On the first of March, a grand annual festival called the Matr

r. At length, however, he was befriended by Apollo and Athene. Apollo first purified him before his own altar at Delphi, and

the criminal should have the benefit of the doubt. The Furies were at first very angry, and threatened the land with barrenne

darkness and death. This legend grew out of the phrases which had at first described the change of summer and winter, and it

hus she appears as goddess of peace as well as of war. It was she who first taught mankind to manage the horse, to build ship

t families in Rome. Their term of office was thirty years. During the first ten years they were initiated in their religious

ental idea lies at the foundation of these legends, namely, that fire first came down from heaven in the form of lightning. H

to be his workshops and the Cyclopes his workmen. It is said that the first work of Hephæstus was a throne of gold, with secr

as replaced by another, that she was born of the foam of the sea, and first touched land on the island of Cyprus, which was h

ng been in the possession of the princes of that name in Rome when it first attracted attention, about two hundred years ago.

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

ases, they ultimately become the cause of disease and death. With the first beams of the light of the sun, all nature awakens

e latter part of November or the beginning of December. A he-goat was first solemnly sacrificed to the god. The chief amuseme

ed at Rome in honor of Bacchus about the month of December. They were first instituted by Romulus. Representations. In t

were originally nymphs of the fountains. The veneration of the Muses first arose in Pieria, a district on the eastern decliv

of the light and sun. Janus was believed to begin the new year, whose first month, January, was called for him and dedicated

s adorned with fresh laurel boughs. This offering was repeated on the first day of every month, because he was believed to op

shelter from the inclemency of the weather. These structures were at first of the simplest form, and without decoration. As

ch the name of the deity intended to be represented was engraved. The first attempts at sculpture were rude images with a hea

l acknowledgments for benefits received, and usually consisted of the first fruits of the fields, or the finest of the flocks

ube. Furious at having been outwitted, Zeus determined to be revenged first on mankind and then on Prometheus. He ordered Hep

ias*, and implored him to reveal the author of the crime. Tiresias at first hesitated, but yielding to the earnest solicitati

g to reign alternately one year at a time. Eteocles, being the elder, first ascended the throne, but at the expiration of the

s enterprises, in which he would in all probability lose his life. He first sent him to kill the Chimæra, a monster which was

ellerophon was said to have conquered the Chimæra, because he was the first to make his habitation on that mountain.” “In the

hild ivhen he was about eight months old. Heracles, however, gave the first proof of his divine origin by strangling them wit

and then, after mature deliberation, he decided to follow Virtue. The first exploit of Heracles was the slaying of an enormou

ortal. The Twelve Labors of Heracles. 1. The Nemean Lion. — The first task which Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles was t

t, and thus Heracles crossed over safely to the island of Erythia. He first slew the herdsman and dog, and was proceeding to

eople and retired to the court of Lycomedes*, king of Scyros*, who at first received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously

began, and the huge beast was driven from its lair. Atalanta was the first to inflict a wound. After a long and desperate en

and presented the head and hide to Atalanta, because she had been the first to wound the boar. The uncles of Meleager forcibl

ece if Jason would perform the tasks which he should set for him. The first was to harness to a plough two brazen-footed, fir

f the Fleet. The fleet now sailed with a fair wind. The expedition first stopped at Tenedos, opposite the coast of Troy. H

t great hesitation prevailed among the troops as to who should be the first to set foot on the enemy’s soil, it having been p

the most prominent actor. The wearisome monotony of the siege for the first nine years was broken only by the single combat b

walls. Zeus, at the request of Thetis, gave them the victory in their first engagement with the Greeks. Hector drove the latt

Telemachus returned from his fruitless search for his father. He went first to Eumæus to learn something of the state of affa

hich belonged to him. Telemachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal; but Odysseus

search of new settlements, embarked under the command of Æneas. They first landed on the neighboring shores of Thrace, and w

tined to subdue the world. The Trojans landed, and while eating their first meal on shore, the prediction of the Harpy was fu

ss into the regions of the dead. There were three orders of gods. The first was for the priesthood, and represented the ideal

the “Concealed God,” or “Absolute Spirit,” headed the deities of the first order. He was represented as having the head of a

he frightful monsters that constantly assailed it before reaching the first gate of heaven. That passed, it entered upon a se

Assyrian Mythology. The names of the Assyrian deities were at first mere epithets of the sun, but came in course of t

have crossed the rapid waters, to have shown the way to many, to have first known the path on which our fathers crossed over.

t was uninhabited, they resolved to create man. Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were then formed, the man of an as

they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest, robed in white, ascends t

ythologies, is the ‘earthborn.’ “After the darkness of the night, man first learns his whereabouts by the light kindling in t

said to be the statue of Memnon. Ancient writers record that when the first rays of the rising sun fall upon this statue, a s

ated as what were before believed and received, and not as tales then first invented and communicated; besides, as they are t

nsérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img005 The stars were the first recipients of the homage of mankind; and thus Hea

ncients were divided into many classes. The principal, or Gods of the first order, amounted to twenty, viz: — Jupiter, Juno,

And grosser air sunk from ethereal Heaven. The force of fire ascended first on high, And took its dwelling in the vaulted sky

the eldest of the sons of the murdered monarch. —— “Titan, heaven’s first born, With his enormous brood, and birthright sei

ompelled him to yield up those he had already swallowed. Jupiter, the first whom the Goddess had saved by her artifice, was b

s and herbs, and gave the golden age.” Virgil. “The Golden age was first ; when man yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason

h the Titans, who disputed with him the right to reign in Heaven. The first of their feats was to heap mountain on mountain i

le Amid the flowers that deck his native isle.” Horace. The Gods at first defended themselves with great courage, but at th

: Then ploughs for seed the fruitful farrows broke, And oxen laboured first beneath the yoke.” Ovid. Nor was crime long in

y with water, then To add the vigour and the voice of men; To let her first in virgin lustre shine, In form a goddess, with a

share, But greedy mortals rummaging her store, Dug from her entrails first the precious ore, Which next to hell the prudent

the dawning light, The Gods had summoned to the Olympian height. Jove first ascending from the watery bowers, Leads the long

usy speed and care, She gathers lilies here, and violets there; While first to fill her little lap she strives, Hell’s grizzl

ebrated in all Greece by the young Pythians; where crowns, ‌formed at first of the branches of oak, but afterwards of laurel,

shall present some of their adventures in this part of our work. The first is the struggle which the Muses maintained agains

ve. From human offerings, as the laws require, To Hecate the vows are first prefer’d; Happy of men whose prayers are kindly h

to the chase. Atalanta, daughter of the king of Arcadia, wounded him first , but she would have fallen beneath the fury of it

Huntress, or Dian, or whatever named, And he the veriest Pagan, that first framed A silver idol, and ne’er worshipped thee!

s descried by the Bacchanals, who rushed upon him. His mother was the first to attack him, her example was instantly followed

rude waves in Dian’s harbour play The fair forsaken Ariadne lay; Here first the wretched maid was taught to prove, The bitter

, having conducted Erigone to the fatal well, she hung herself in the first madness of her grief; while Mera, the faithful an

ori. All the goddesses claimed it as their own, and the contention at first became general; however, Juno, Venus, and Minerva

the priestesses of Venus, and it was in this occupation that Leander first saw and loved her: a love which led to results so

of the waters; “Behold a nymph arise, divinely fair, Whom to Cythera first the surges bear; Hence is she borne, safe o’er th

hilomeda known on earth, A name derived immediate from her birth: Her first attendants to the immortal choir Were Love, the o

uth —” Gay. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img074 The first fruit of the mechanical skill of Vulcan, was inve

s love. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img080 “——— Who first told how Psyche went On the smooth wind to realms

 Of weeping, and despair. “I saw a youthful warrior stand     In his first light of fame, His native city, filled the air   

behalf, that she received the greatest honour. On the evening of the first day, there was a race with torches, in which men

mand, Against the immortals lifts his raging hand; The heavenly Venus first his fury found: Me next encountering, me he dared

whom they considered the patron of their city, and the father of the first of their monarchs; a faith to which ‌they loved t

, with malicious art, the sounding door; On each, who in the entrance first appears, He fawning wags his tail, and cocks his

ust all his acts reveal, Loth to confess, unable to conceal, From the first moment of his vital breath, To his last year of u

y the oxen of Admetus which Apollo tended. “The babe was born at the first peep of day, He began playing on the lyre at noon

m their grasp. Divinities of the Second Class. The gods of the first order, were endowed by the writers of antiquity,

follows silently where’er he goes.” Unable, however, to address him first , she waited the sound of his beloved voice. “Now

ess we may gather a warning of the fatal effects of self-love. “What first inspired a bard of old to sing Narcissus pining o

r could contain, but, as he took his way, Impatient longs to make the first essay; Down from a lowly branch a twig he drew, T

image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img125 To them were offered the first fruits of everything, and they attended chiefly u

over bounds and limits, and punishing all usurpation. His worship was first introduced by Numa Pompilius, who persuaded his s

ch delicate bud O’ the Season, comes in turn to bloom and perish. But first of all the Violet, with an eye Blue as the midnig

white and hoary locks, to represent the appearance of old age. “When first the fiery mantled sun His heavenly race began to

athen-mythology_1842_img142 Portumnus, the guardian of doors, was at first known as ‌Melicerta, and was the son of Athamas a

in rewarding the good and the virtuous. The people of Smyrna were the first who made her statue with wings, to show with what

m from the commission of all crimes and impiety. The Genii, though at first reckoned only as the subordinate ministers of the

e, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known, Far be it that I should write thee si

sweet cry resounded, How his baskets were surrounded! Maids, who now first dreamt of trying Those gay knots of Hymen’s tying

o be of wood, and cut by the hero himself in the forest of Nemæa. The first labour imposed upon Hercules by Eurystheus, was t

kes the gift in haste, And o’er his shoulders Lerna’s poison cast, At first the fire with frankincense he strews, And utters

or more than one reason this was very agreeable to Polydectes, in the first place, as it would remove Perseus from the island

ced his expedition, traversing the air, conducted by Minerva. He went first to the Graces, the sisters of the Gorgons, who po

horrid seat. ’Twas from this monster, to afflict mankind, That nature first produced the snaky kind: On her at first their fo

afflict mankind, That nature first produced the snaky kind: On her at first their forky tongues appeared, From her their drea

first their forky tongues appeared, From her their dreadful hissings first were heard.” Ovid. Chrysaor, who married Callir

ather and mother of Andromeda interfere. “Chief in the riot, Phineus first appeared, The rash ringleader of this boisterous

s, and they turned to stone in the very attitudes they were when they first beheld it. The friends of Cepheus, however, and t

eed with Theseus to carry away one of the daughters of the gods. They first attempted their scheme upon Helen, the beautiful

r; And every spring the flowers of all the city, Young maids in their first beauty, stately youths, Were sacrificed to the fi

ne year alternately. Eteocles was the eldest, and took to himself the first period of government; but when his year had past,

unnatural combat was brief, though fierce, Eteocles the king was the first who fell, and Polynice regarding him with ill-dis

ood, the blows That spilt it (O worse torture) must she know? Ah! the first woman coming from Mycenai Will pine to pour this

) I might well forget I could not win you as I used to do. It was the first embrace since my descent I ever aimed at: those w

ngled in the fight. Hector and Achilles met in fierce combat, and the first fell gloriously. The son of Peleus refused to the

ulting throng, And in his parents sight now dragged along. The mother first beheld with sad survey, She rent her tresses vene

dangers he encountered in the isle of Cyclops. “The land of Cyclops first , a savage kind, Nor tamed by manner, nor by laws

closed in a leather bottle, all the dangerous winds. The vessels went first to the ‌borders of Ithaca, when the companions of

o that when Ulysses arrived, she was no nearer its completion than at first . Meanwhile Ulysses scarcely knew how to discover

his wife. By the advice of Minerva, he disguised himself as a beggar, first making himself known to Telemachus, and one of th

which grew there, and then to celebrate ‌their union. Thisbe was the first who arrived at the place appointed, when the sudd

for us both I dare, O see our ashes in one urn confined, Whom love at first , and fate at last, has joined. Thou tree, where n

er a night of such terror, as but rarely is known to mortals; for the first time Leander had not sought her bower, and an ind

g264 “Look no longer for thy sister,” replied Apollo, “but follow the first cow which presents itself to thy sight, and where

m Juno, out of hatred to Venus, cruelly persecuted. ‌ Cadmus was the first who introduced the use of letters into Greece, th

5 Bellerophon was son of Glaucus, King of Corinth, and named at first Hipponous. The murder of Beller, his brother, by

who surrounded him. ‌ The earth, being yet uninhabited, he made the first man and the first woman wherewith to people it. B

m. ‌ The earth, being yet uninhabited, he made the first man and the first woman wherewith to people it. Brahma is the objec

ighest price they could pay for the divine favour. In this manner the first King of Vermland was burned in honour of Odin, to

creator of the gods, and below him, they believed in two triads; the first was Chuquilla, Catuilla, and Intyllapa; and the s

considered the god of repentance: and it was by the direction of the first , that they built the magnificent city of Mexico i

combination, therefore an identification, of both divinities. In the first place he is enthroned on a couch, perfectly Egypt

necessary sentences, paragraphs, and sections. The Introduction, the first eight chapters (on the origin, elements, distribu

ext. The scope of selection has been thus confined for three reasons: first , the regard for necessary limits; second, the des

Bulletin, N°. I). In the Commentary four things have been attempted: first , an explanation, under each section, of ordinary

the Classic Myths are general and specific. 1. In general, and in the first place, classic mythology has been for poetry a tr

relaxation, of conduct, are the throbbing of the heart of reason; the first or the second is the primal pulse of every myth;

in this book at the fourth chapter (Greek Myths of the Creation). The first three chapters may be deferred until the class is

ive efforts of generations of story-tellers. The myth of Pandora, the first woman, endowed by the immortals with heavenly gra

what is man? Who made them? What else did the maker do? and what the first men? Whence came the commodities of life? What is

ung and old in the wonder of hearing a new thing. The æsthetic, myth, first , removes us from the sordid world of immediate an

art, and of religion. § 7. Theory of Deterioration. — Let us consider first the interpretations mythology that assume a backw

s light on the legend of the bearer of the name and on its origin and first home.” ‌ 7 But unfortunately there is very ofte

all. And this latter, in studying the origin of myths, is what should first be ascertained. We must not, however, fall into t

ts; or of moral, religious, philosophical truth. The stories would at first exist as allegories, but in process of time would

eserted the race. In some cases the myth was, without doubt, from the first an allegory; but where the myth was consciously f

If we seek,” says Ruskin, “to ascertain the manner in which the story first crystallized into its shape, we shall find oursel

at them with the earnestness of those childish eyes to understand the first words spoken of them by the children of men. And

unfading blue and fierce in its descent of tempest — the Greek forms first the idea of two entirely personal and corporeal g

priests, or “medicine-men,” as we might call them. Melampus was the first Greek said to be endowed with prophetic powers. B

d to possess mysterious power. As a synonym for writing, the term was first applied to the Northern alphabet, itself derived

Erda, Mother Earth, from whom, according to the lay in which the word first occurs, the earliest race of mankind sprang,36 —

dwelling in the remote regions of sunset. From Mother Earth proceeded first the starry vault of Heaven, durable as brass or i

n this or in other ways the world was furnished with inhabitants, the first age was an age of innocence and happiness. Truth

upiter shortened the spring, and divided the year into seasons. Then, first , men suffered the extremes of heat and cold, and

bones of your mother.” They heard the words with astonishment. Pyrrha first broke silence: “We cannot obey; we dare not profa

hidias informs us that the idea was suggested by Homer’s lines in the first book of the Iliad: — “Jove said, and nodded with

ousness and justice among the Greeks; but the golden god Apollo chose first to spend a year in the land of the Hyperboreans,

m-born .83 Wafted by the west wind, and borne upon the surge, she won first the island of Cythera; thence, like a dream, she

loquence. But his skill was not confined to speech: he was, also, the first of inventors — to him are ascribed the lyre, the

ettled, in opposition to nomadic, habits of life. She was worshipped, first of the gods, at every feast. Before her shrine in

onius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east. The first two, chiefly, have been celebrated by the poets,

; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus’ blessings are a treasure, Drinki

wither with the waning time, But each man keeps that age he had When first he won the fairy clime. The night falls never fro

d with Rhea). (2) Janus, the porter of Heaven. He opens the year, the first month being named after him. He is the guardian d

and shed their poison in the fountains. The force of the disease was first spent on the lower animals, — dogs, cattle, sheep

se attacked the country people, and then the dwellers in the city. At first the cheek was flushed, and the breath drawn with

st with Neptune, who also aspired to it. In the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities had contended for

ue: Müller.] … And when they were come nigh in onset on one another, first Mars thrust over the yoke and horses’ reins with

ing Diomede, to rage furiously against the immortal gods. The Cyprian first he wounded in close fight, in the wrist of her ha

tood they asunder, for Mars, piercer of shields, began the battle and first made for Minerva with his bronze spear, and spake

. The myths which cluster about the name of Phœbus Apollo illustrate, first , his birth and the wanderings of his mother, Lato

the Python that had infested- the slopes near Delphi, he sang for the first time that song of victory, which, as the Pæan, is

ot even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls the thunderbolts. The first part of the way is steep, and such as the horses

The horses rushed headlong and left the travelled road. Then, for the first time, the Great and Little Bears were scorched wi

e lord of the silver bow was not always prosperous in his wooing. His first love, which, by the way, owed its origin to the m

out of sight of her husband. That night, when he had fallen into his first sleep, she silently rose and uncovering her lamp

came Love’s angel bride in heaven!181 The story of Cupid and Psyche first appears in the works of Apuleius, a writer of the

. Of one such race Hippomenes was to be judge. It was his thought, at first , that these suitors risked too much for a wife. B

e ready. The signal was given. They both started; he, by one stride, first , For she half pitied him so beautiful, Running to

th deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight? He kneel’d; but unto her devoutly prayed:

stored with words aright the tale to tell, But listen: when I opened first mine eyes I stood within the niche thou knowest w

standing without the city’s bounds, — the Tomb of Ninus. The one who first arrived should await the other at the foot of a w

ite mulberry-tree, near a cool spring. Evening came. Thisbe, arriving first , sat alone by the monument in the dim light of th

or her daughter, till at length she returned to Sicily, whence she at first set out, and stood by the banks of the river Cyan

n a sieve,207 and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen.208 Then for the first time, it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were w

on the pastures watered by his streams. It is said, indeed, that the first and fleetest of horses, Arion, was the offspring

atues, one of which is called Memnon’s; and it was said that when the first rays of morning fell upon this statue, a sound li

lf to the task. The oak seemed to shudder and utter a groan. When the first blow fell upon the trunk, blood flowed from the w

attentions of the Cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus in Love. — For the first time in his life the Cyclops began to care for hi

n the gray wolf. I fell in love with thee, maiden, I, on the day when first thou earnest, with my mother, and didst wish to p

n I admire how crystal-smooth it felt, And buoyant round my limbs. At first I dwelt Whole days and days in sheer astonishment

g but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then like a new-fledged bird that first doth show His spreaded feathers to the morrow chi

e. Proteus, finding himself captured, resorted to his craft, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast,

fant to Polydectes, king of the country, by whom they were treated at first with kindness, but afterwards with cruelty. § 135

ed by Minerva and Mercury, set out against the Gorgon, and approached first the cave of the three Grææ: — There sat the cron

pitied, then comforted her, and sought the reason of her disgrace. At first from modesty she was silent; but when he repeated

e undertakings, which are called the twelve “Labors of Hercules.” The first was the combat with the lion that infested the va

of Bellerophon and of the Atalanta who ran against Hippomenes, and a first cousin of Admetus, the husband of Alcestis.301 Wh

praised, and sails full swelling; to the chiefs Unwonted objects. Now first , now they learned Their bolder steerage over ocea

the night she persuaded the daughters of Pelias to kill him. They, at first , hesitated to strike, but, Medea chiding their ir

ys and nights hast thirty-one Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot. … Fillet of a fenny snake In

smitten in twain; but. she Smote not nor heaved up hand; and this man first , Plexippus, crying out, “This for love’s sake, Sw

determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwe

g invites with her breezes, — Then, as with eager gaze she looked her first upon Theseus, Never a whit she lowered her eyes n

city, grant thee victory over the Minotaur, hoist on thy return, when first the dear hills of Attica greet thy vision, white

his people, retired to the court of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, who at first received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously

one, he went begging through the land. His other daughter, Ismene, at first , stayed at home. Cursing the sons who had abandon

the kingdom between them, and to reign alternately year by year. The first year fell to the lot of Eteocles, who, when his t

. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege continued long, with various

ot of to-day nor yesterday, But live forever, nor can man assign When first they sprang to being. Not through fear Of any man

waves, and impels, to the threshold of journeying Phœbus, — They, at first , blown outward unroughly when Dawn is a-rising, L

son Hector, one of the noblest figures of antiquity. He had, from the first , a presentiment of the ruin of Troy, but still he

s to the coast of Troy. The Trojans opposed their landing; and at the first onset one of the noblest of the Greeks, Protesila

at victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall the first victim in the war. The poet represents the Protes

ine should be The foremost prow in pressing to the strand, — Mine the first blood that tinged the Trojan sand. “Yet bitter,

with her wishes. He fabricated a splendid suit of armor for Achilles; first a shield adorned with elaborate devices, then a h

the dawn of day. The Reconciliation of Agamemnon and Achilles. — The first glow of pleasure that Achilles had felt since the

een impossible if Apollo had not, in the form of Agenor, Priam’s son, first encountered the swift-footed hero, then turned in

d be borne back to Troy. Then Achilles dismissed the old king, having first pledged himself to a truce of twelve days for the

d sank into the earth a hyacinth sprang up, bearing on its leaves the first two letters of his name, Ai, the Greek interjecti

ded. Philoctetes was cured of his wound by Machaon, and Paris was the first victim of the fatal arrows. Paris and Œnone. — I

nced directly to the spot where Laocoön stood with his two sons. They first attacked the children, winding round their bodies

mage. Thus she became reconciled to Menelaüs, and they were among the first to leave the shores of Troy for their native land

s return from Troy to his own kingdom, Ithaca. From Troy, the vessels first made land at Ismarus, city of the Ciconians, wher

battlements, till they came to the palace, where the goddess, having first given him some information of the country, king,

one their best, Ulysses being challenged to show what he could do, at first declined, but being taunted by one of the youths,

that belonged to him. Telemachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses

elief: Roscher 9: 1423.] All things being prepared for the trial, the first thing to be done was to bend the bow in order to

e months were spent in preparation, and at length they embarked. They first landed on the neighboring shores of Thrace, and w

l times round the world, did they arrive there. The Harpies. — Their first landing was at the island of the Harpies. These w

liff, screamed out, “Is it thus, Trojans, ye treat us innocent birds, first slaughter our cattle, and then make war on oursel

t in his den and fell asleep. Æneas and the Sibyl sprang to land. The first sound that struck their ears was the wailing of y

ummoned Alecto from Erebus, and sent her to stir up discord. The Fury first took possession of the queen, Amata, and roused h

river and all his tributary fountains to lend their aid. Then for the first time a vessel filled with armed warriors floated

ice. While she was one day licking the salt stones there appeared at first the hair of some being, on the second day his who

e strongest of gods and men, and possesses three precious things. The first is a hammer, which both the Frost and the Mountai

e danger by his cunning, wit, and skill. Loki has three children. The first is the wolf Fenris, the second the Midgard Serpen

n the space of one winter. But if anything remained unfinished on the first day of summer, he should forfeit the recompense a

by the advice of Loki was conceded. He accordingly set to work on the first day of winter, and during the night let his horse

and moon, and not even by sending him back to Jötunheim, for with the first blow he shattered the giant’s skull to pieces, an

ing a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In the first course Hugi so much outstripped his competitor th

time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with ir

untie it. After this thou gavest me three blows with thy mallet; the first , though the least, would have ended my days had i

milar illusions in the contests ye have had with my followers. In the first , Loki, like hunger itself, devoured all that was

the shades? “Nay,” replied Frigga, “no way is there but one, that the first god thou meetest on the return to Asgard, take Sl

Thok is she called, but now Lok wore her shape; She greeted them the first , and laughed and said: “Ye gods, good lack, is it

Volsung elders had told Was borne by their fathers’ fathers, and the first that warred in the wold, So strode he to the Bra

! The folk of the war-wand’s forgers wrought never better steel Since first the burg of heaven uprose for man-folks weal. Now

ram (the wrath). Then Sigurd swore that he would slay the dragon. But first , riding on his horse, Greyfell, of the blood of O

the runic letters with heathen mysteries and superstition caused the first Christian teachers to discourage, and, indeed, as

ed after some object whose name began with the sound represented. The first letter was F, Feoh, money; the second U, Ur, a bu

ost 10: 581, refers to the tradition of Ophion and Eurynome, who “had first the rule of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven

dbirth. In her honor wives held the festival of the Matronalia on the first of March of each year. The Latin Juno is for Diou

-Germanic race was that the fire-god, descending to earth, became the first man; and that, therefore, the spirit of man was c

and a temple was erected on the spot. The prophetic influence was at first variously attributed to the goddess Earth, to Nep

st is unknown. It is conceded to be a work of Roman art, of about the first century of our era (and follows a type fashioned

he princes of that name in Rome when, about two hundred years ago, it first attracted attention. An inscription on the base a

the goddess; the latter with her relation to the hearth-fire. She is “ first of the goddesses,” the holy, the chaste, the sacr

from the latter place to Rome. In 191 b.c. the Megalensian Games were first celebrated in her honor, occupying six days, from

130 he refers, however, to the Dionysus cult in Thrace. Hesiod is the first to call wine the gift of Dionysus. Dionysus means

eria, in December, March, January, and February, respectively. At the first , three dramatic performances were presented. Ill

, Munich). Flora. — Painting by Titian (Uffizi, Florence). § 57. The first love of Zeus was Metis, daughter of Oceanus and T

e ether. Europa would then be the broad-spreading flush of dawn, seen first in the purple region of morning (Phœnicia). Her b

afe keeping. Preller finds here “the wedlock of heaven and earth, the first day that it thunders in March.” Exactly why, migh

called Ophion, with Eurynome (the wide-Encroaching Eve perhaps), had first the rule Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven

the Peloponnesus. It lasted some nine or eleven days, probably in the first half of May. It consisted of chants of lamentatio

of May. It consisted of chants of lamentation and fasting during the first days; during the later days, of processions, joyo

philologically probable. “Daphne, or Ahanâ, means the Dawn. There is first the appearance of the dawn in the eastern sky, th

philosophical conception concerning three stages of the soul’s life: first , a former existence of bliss; second, an earthly

x). It might be more consistent to construe Eurydice as the twilight, first , of evening which is slain by night, then, of mor

ecay ( Preller); or the gray glimmer of the heavens overspread by the first ruddy flush of morning ( Welcker); or, as a solar

order to understand the story of Ibycus, it is necessary to remember, first , that the theatres of the ancients were immense f

P. L. 11: 135. § 130. Cyrene was sister to Daphne (§ 85). Honey must first have been known as a wild product, the bees build

y the way, means coin of the valley, — German Thal. The silver of the first dollars came from Joachimsthal in Bohemia, about

y mention here the other celebrated national games of the Greeks. The first and most distinguished were the Olympic, founded,

e to the custom of reckoning time and dating events by Olympiads. The first Olympiad is generally considered as corresponding

agon, and the Demons of Fire (Corp. Poet. 2: 459). Odin or Woden was first the god of the heaven, or heaven itself, then hus

rammars and the English dictionaries.] I. Quantity. — The reader must first ascertain whether the second last syllable of the

les precede the principal accent, the subordinate accent falls on the first syllable of the word: Hip 2-po-crē′ne. (b) If mor

ented syllable: Hes-per′-i-des; and sometimes i or y in an unaccented first syllable: Ci-lic′-i-a. (4) Consonants have their

uttorm, 397-399. Gy′es or Gy′ges, Centim′anus, Com. § 17- Gy′ges, the first king of Lydia; famous for his riches. Gyoll, 384.

owers of darkness, combated by Indra. Yama, and his sister Yami: the first man and woman; leaving this life they prepared fo

o divinities (1). Sche′ria, 324. Sco′pas: a Greek sculptor of Paros, first half of 4th century b.c.; he made the Niobe group

22. Teu′cer: (1) son of the river-god Sca-mander and the nymph Idasa; first king of Troy; (2) son of Telamon and Hesione, Com

Homer, read the sonnet by Keats. 352. The passage which precedes the first conflict between these heroes, describing the far

Preface. The first two books of this Series were devoted to fables a

al mythology. In writing it, two points were kept constantly in mind: first , that it should present the stories essentially a

nt that it was scarcely light at all. Proserpina could see nothing at first , but Pluto gave a sigh of contentment, for his ey

ady to die for what is good and true. Ah, the wonderful box! Then, first , men began to sing and to dance, to paint and to

to kill monsters and savage beasts. All mankind seemed then, for the first time, to be free and happy. Even Jupiter and the

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

e running toward him, as if she were afraid the other would reach him first . “Hercules,” she said, “I see that you are in dou

untain of Helicon, Hercules set out. He soon found the creature, and, first of all, let fly an arrow at him. The arrow never

cestis, the beautiful daughter of Pelias, and had loved her deeply at first sight. He had asked Pelias if he might sue for Al

ple feasted and made merry and were glad. All loved Alcestis from the first , for she was as kind and gracious as she was beau

ack to Admetus. He drew a veil over her face, however, and did not at first tell Admetus who she was. She herself spoke never

you on your way, and the helmet of Pluto, to make you invisible. Seek first the Grææ, the sisters of the Gorgons. They will t

, man!” “Listen,” said Perseus. “I will give you the eye, but tell me first where I shall find the Gorgon Medusa.” “No, no

obber and bore a great club of iron. It was here that Theseus had his first fight, and it was a hard one; but in the end the

s into it, and because the bed was much too short, the young hero had first to lop off the giant’s head. Thus the first day p

short, the young hero had first to lop off the giant’s head. Thus the first day passed. The following days were much like it,

the myrtle that blooms along the banks of the brooks, as fair as the first flower that the breath of spring brings forth; an

ll of Olympus. Juno, the wife of Jupiter and queen of the gods, spoke first . “Paris,” she said, “give me the prize. I shall m

recian ships, and at last one touched the strand. Protesilaus was the first Greek to leap ashore, but scarcely had he set foo

kept his vow and the victory was with the Trojans. By the end of the first day all the great warriors of the Greeks, except

es. Would that there were no such thing in the world as wrath, for at first it is sweeter than honey, but in the end it is a

hey could still hear the Greeks at work. Then all was still. With the first light of day, a great shout arose from the walls

found in the reeds by the shore. He was trembling with fright, and at first could not speak for fear. When at last he found h

t sail from the land of Troy, and, because the wind was favorable, he first went to the land of the Ciconians, which was near

ailed on steadily through unknown seas; but one night the keel of the first ship suddenly grated upon the bottom, and the shi

away, but he put aside the most of it in bowls for his supper. Then, first , he noticed Ulysses and his companions. “Who are

ses,” said Polyphemus, and he cast another rock, larger even than the first , but this time the great mass fell behind the shi

one should see him or do him harm. When Ulysses awoke, he did not at first know where he was, but soon the mist cleared, and

rings,” said Telemachus, “no one shall have you.” Telemachus was the first to, try. Once, twice, three times, he strove, in

kative nymph whom Juno punished by taking from her the power to speak first , though she cannot refuse to speak when addressed

., in whose publication, St. Nicholas, the poem “Invitation to Echo,” first appeared. G. H. K. Names Used in the Stories

d have frightened Arcas, so she merely kept her eyes fixed on him. At first Arcas was only startled at coming so suddenly wit

ful things, and these frogs were very ugly indeed; besides it was the first time the poet had ever seen such creatures. So he

g, full of hope, until he came to the black River of Death. Charon at first refused to carry him across; but Orpheus played f

ve undertaken a dangerous task, yet with my help you may succeed. But first of all, you must promise to do in all things just

ts the brooklet’s flow, But in mine is the wind of autumn     And the first fall of the snow. Ah! what would the world be to

le believed that no stranger could enter their gates, unless he could first secure the purple lock. When the king’s daughter

she beat her wings against the walls of the tower from which she had first seen King Minos. The other birds of the air seeme

t terms King Minos had proposed, there was great sorrow in Athens. At first the people felt that it would be impossible to do

the girl consented, for she had loved the prince from the moment when first she pitied him and his helpless companions. Toget

Flying Mercury ( Bologna ). The strangers knocked at the door of the first cottage they came to, and asked for a night’s she

ed, and he asked the king to tell him what the three tasks were. “The first is to yoke two fierce, fire-breathing bulls to th

care for this strange-looking creature, whom she saw that day for the first time; and she turned away from him, and left him

en, there were now six horrible, loudmouthed, fierce-looking dogs. At first she thought they were only in the water, and she

e faded away. Apollo’s grief was sad to see. He could not believe, at first , that the boy he loved so dearly was really dead,

e that day, so long ago, the beautiful purple hyacinth comes with the first breath of spring, to remind us of the story of th

re married in the temple of the goddess, at the altar where Pygmalion first offered up his prayer. They led a very happy life

You remember reading in another story how Pan, the god of the woods, first made the flute from the reeds that grew by the ri

n, and I wish all of you could have been there to see it. Pan was the first to play, and, amid a breathless silence, he lifte

gh a wild beast had been suddenly startled from its lair. Yet for the first time, the listeners found his music a little rude

m into a stream of we.cer, which gushed forth from under the rock. At first it was red and looked like blood, but as it flowe

. To punish their presumption, you must do as I command you; you must first see Psyche, and then find some very ugly old man,

god bore her in his arms to a flowery bank on his border, and now the first rays of morning light showed him her beauty, and

nquiries, but she sought him, and urged him to tell her the truth. At first Cupid would not open his lips, but when his mothe

e saw on a hill was dedicated to Ceres, a benevolent goddess, who had first taught these people to divide their fields, to so

indignation and sorrow, she learned the condition of her sister. Her first desire was to release her from confinement, and s

sprung up, and extended her bands in speechless supplication, to the first female she saw. In a moment Progne recognised her

that they were refreshed and purified by bathing themselves when they first entered a house. Mother. As you have pointed out

Mercury saw in the procession was Herse, the daughter of Cecrops, the first king of Athens. Gods liked mortal ladies for wive

m in those days for the eldest daughter of a family to be married the first , and if a young man desired to take a younger mem

elder was not chosen. Mercury did not conform to this custom. When he first entered the palace of Cecrops, he met the princes

is true? Mother. That Cecrops was king of Athens is true. He was the first king the Athenians ever had. He was the founder,

refresh himself. The water was smooth and limpid, and in it, for the first time, Narcissus saw his own person reflected in t

as the place where the gods intended he should establish himself. The first act which the founders of cities performed when t

; he did not love war; he tried to make his people wise and happy. He first taught letters in Greece, and after his time the

her infant to her bosom. The child was in a sweet sleep. Dictys spoke first . “Unhappy lady,” said he, “whence came you? Have

me. When I reached the country whither the god had directed me, I saw first some ugly women, called the Graiæ, and they infor

rseus got ready to return, with his mother and wife, to Argos; but he first restored the loans of the gods to their proper ow

laurel, and you shall read a story concerning it Ann. I should like first to know the true story of the Python, if I could.

the person who should be wounded by the leaden one would dislike the first one he or she should look upon. Cupid aimed the f

I can dispel it.” Io instantly recognised the silver tones which had first accosted her in her return from her paternal home

omprehend of that stupendous birth is contained in the opening of the first chapter of Genesis. That is the story of the crea

or divisions, each of which has its own adherents and supporters. The first school is that of the philologists, and the secon

The greatest authority among the philologists claims that during the “ first period” there was a tribe in Central Asia, whose

f physical things, it is comparatively easy to understand many of the first fancies and reflections of the earliest men who e

ixt cup and lip.” Ancil′ia [Ancilia], the twelve sacred shields. The first Ancile was supposed to have fallen from heaven in

round, On Ceres call, and choral hymns resound.” “Ceres was she who first our furrows plowed, Who gave sweet fruits and eve

a key. On her head is a castelated crown, to denote that she was the first to protect castles and walls with towers. “Nor C

e invented the wedge, the axe, the level, and the gimlet, and was the first to use sails. Dædalus also constructed the famous

ued by Pan, where she was changed into a reed, and where Pan made his first pipe. Læ′laps [Lælaps]. One of Diana’s hunting-d

a great enemy to new-born children. She was said to have been Adam’s first wife, but, refusing to submit to him, was turned

Mars took the part of the Trojans, but was defeated by Diomedes. The first month of the old Roman year [our March] was sacre

ect a foe.” Pope. Pando′ra [Pandora], according to Hesiod, was the first mortal female. Vulcan made her of clay, and gave

dertook to restore Pelias to youth, but required that the body should first be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling water.

erseus] was a son of Jupiter and Danae, the daughter of Acrisius. His first famous exploit was against the Gorgon, Medusa. He

ust all his acts reveal, Loth to confess, unable to conceal; From the first moment of his vital breath, To the last hour of u

emus was killed in a quarrel with his brother, and Romulus became the first King of Rome. Rumi′a Dea [Rumia Dea]. The Roman

skies51 Ere yet abroad the winged thunder flies An horrid stillness first invades the ear And, in that silence we the tempe