ol, and so on. The Chaldeans, the Phœnicians, the Egyptians, and many other nations of antiquity, paid adoration to objects i

corded in Scripture; thus enveloping the history of the creation, and other sublime truths, in the obscurity of fable. The an

idols? Had not the Chaldeans, the Phœnicians, the Egyptians, and many other nations besides the Grecians and Romans, a mythol

Varron mentions more than three hundred Jupiters. It was so with the other gods and the demi-gods; upwards of forty Hercules

s figure; hence, they never adored his statue as they did that of the other gods. Yet some attempted to represent him in the

aven, and were not in the council of Jupiter. Pan, Pomona, Flora, and other rural deities, were included in this order. The t

ecrepit old man, with wings, holding in one hand a scythe, and in the other a serpent with its tail to its mouth; designed th

n his right hand he held a key, because he invented doors; and in the other , a staff, because he presided over public ways. H

a fresh and verdant garland yields his place; Why is’t that though I other gods adore, I first must Janus’ deity implore? Be

s of different creatures. In one hand she holds a sceptre, and in the other a key, and wears a crown of turrets on her head.

to be the origin of the worship of the Earth, which passed, with the other ceremonies of the Egyptians, first into Syria and

h a veil on her head, holding a lamp in one hand and a javelin in the other . On some medals she is depicted with a drum. — Se

al; whereas Vulcan’s was gross. One is the fire of the artificer; the other is expressive of that vital heat which cherishes

image of the Supreme Being. It was the Persians’ abhorrence of every other idol that induced them to demolish the Grecian te

on, and Typhon. They threw enormous rocks, oak trees, pine trees, and other inflammable substances at heaven, and heaped up m

l. The Infernal Regions were placed in Spain, Italy, or Epirus, or in other countries west of Greece. The Titans having taken

ss in Thessaly. Let our readers sharpen their minds in explaining the other fables related in relation to Jupiter. Obs. 3. —

not be surprised, because fifty of his eyes remained open, while the other half was given up to sleep, (a perfect image of j

seated on a throne, holding in one hand a golden sceptre, and in the other , a spindle; her head is sometimes covered with a

a spindle; her head is sometimes covered with a radiant crown, and at other times, is encircled with a rainbow. Sometimes she

nd intrigues into execution. She appears with a head, but no legs, or other limbs. Volumnus and Volumna presided over the wi

n-ears on her head. In one hand she holds a lighted torch, and in the other , a mixed bunch of poppies and corn-ears. In Sicil

with the head of a horse, and holding a dove in one hand, and in the other , a dolphin. Sometimes she is represented as a cou

ed her to spend one part of the year in the kingdom of Pluto, and the other part in the usual abode of her mother Ceres. Obs

ar the sight of the crimes which men committed, she returned with the other gods to heaven. She was the last, who left the ea

r.) He represents Gænymede, pouring out the nectar to Jupiter and the other gods. He also designates abundant rains which fal

ire? Of what is Apollo said to have been the inventor? Had Apollo any other adventures while on earth? Did Apollo continue on

e motion, wore the stock, and held a mask in one hand, and leaned the other on a pillar. — See Fig. 13. Fig. 13. Thalia. 3

tiara of flowers, and was surrounded with flutes, lyres, guitars, and other attributes of music. — See Fig. 15. Fig. 15. Eu

headdress of rose and myrtle, and bore in one hand a lyre, and in the other a lute. She inspires light poetry, amorous songs;

elibacy, and had for her attendants sixty of the Oceanides and twenty other nymphs, all of whom swore an aversion to marriage

iana. She had two temples of high celebrity; one at Ephesus, and the other in Chersonesus Taurica (now the Crimea.) The temp

ns. Who was Diana? Did she always avoid the addresses of lovers? What other actions are recorded of her? Had not Diana variou

India with an army, composed of men and women, armed with cymbals and other musical instruments, himself in a chariot drawn b

adne brought him a son, named Hymen, the god of marriage. He had many other children, but they deserve no particular notice.

untain called Meros, a word, which signifies thigh. This fable has no other origin. Obs. 2. —  Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diod

nd ivory, 26 cubits high, was one of the masterpieces of Phidias. The other temple was called Victory. In it the goddess was

where Wisdom says, that she descended from the divine head before any other creature. Minerva allegorically stands for fortit

o was Minerva? Was Minerva a powerful goddess? Did Minerva bestow any other benefits on mankind? Relate her contest with Arac

any other benefits on mankind? Relate her contest with Arachne? What other exploits did Minerva perform? What city was under

entrusted to the god Priapus, who instructed him in dancing and every other exercise. “And mighty Mars, for war renown’d, In

rd, war, and carnage. With one hand he extends a spear, and, with the other he grasps a sword, imbued with blood. Sometimes h

nated with the Roman poets, it being wholly unknown to the Greeks and other ancient nations. It was suggested by the jealousy

he one, son of Venus Urania, who presided over legitimate unions; the other , they called Anteros. Obs. 6. — The mixture of t

both youths of Bahlon. In age, size, and fortune, they resembled each other . With their beauty they alternately refined their

their cares, and by the most agreeable participation, considered each other as objects of delight. Their love shot its roots

t nothing is impregnable to love; for they regularly talked with each other through a chink in the wall, where they conversed

— The Graces are described as naked, young, smiling, and holding each other by the hand. They are naked, to intimate that the

are naked, to intimate that they borrow nothing from art, and have no other charms than those of nature; they are young, beca

gesture or a smile. They are in the attitude of dancing, holding each other by the hand, in order to teach us that we should,

y reciprocal benefits, strengthen those bands which attach us to each other , and that we should be grateful for benefits and

e victims were burnt, with no part reserved, as in immolations to the other gods. A calf and a boar-pig were the principal vi

fighting, and when he laid his wand between them, they regarded each other with eyes of affection, and entwined themselves a

nged sandals, called Talaria. He held in one hand his rod, and in the other , a purse. —  See Fig. 30. Fig. 30. Mercury. Me

cury? Where was Mercury, born? What actions are recorded of him? What other actions are attributed to him? What are the attri

nce sprang the sea deities whose number surpassed those of heaven and other parts of the universe. Oceanus had by Tethys, sev

contains the greatest collection of water, and communicates it to the other seas and to the earth by that admirable circulati

ter itself. The enterprise of the dolphin shows that it surpasses all other fishes in industry. Neptune placed in the rank of

nus by the Latins. His prime duty was to take care of sea-calves, and other marine animals. He could convert himself into any

cho. “She was a nymph, though only now a sound; Yet of her tongue no other use was found, Than now she has; which never coul

e waist, and holding in one hand fruits, and a crown of plenty in the other . He was often represented in the character of a p

d; Avistupor, because he drove away mischievous birds; and by various other names. The Orientals worshipped Priapus under the

it of Priapus? and what were his names? Chapter IV. Pales and some other rural deities. Pales was the goddess of sheep

the skin of a leopard. In one hand he holds a sheep-crook, and in the other a pipe of unequal reeds. — See Fig. 37. Fig. 37

hat each one who felt it, would prove a happy mother. There were some other rural deities resembling Pan. The Fauns, his serv

n, panic fear? Was not Pan’s worship well established? Were there any other rural deities that resembled Pan? By what surname

or garlic. They were sometimes fashioned in the shape of trumpets; at other times, in the figure of young men with spears. Th

Remorse, Force, Fraud, Strife, War, and Discord. To these were added other horrible figures, Centaurs, Scyllas, Harpies, Gor

tyx, they were to touch the earth with one hand, and the sea with the other . The Phlegethon was likewise a marsh, the waters

and holds in one hand a bident, or sceptre with two teeth, and in the other , keys. The three-headed dog Cerberus watched at h

chains, and whips of scorpion in one hand, and burning torches in the other . The Fates, or Parcæ, were three sisters, daughte

ager, extinguished the brand, and kept it carefully ever after. Among other exploits, Meleager slew the wild-boar of Calydon,

one made of clear ivory, through which false dreams escaped, and the other of transparent horn, through which true visions p

t off by Jupiter’s thunderbolts, Apollo’s arrows, and the arms of the other gods. Serpents and venomous animals were produced

ls to death. He touched the east with one hand, and the west with the other , and the heavens with his head. As soon as born,

tooth, the horn, and the eye which the Gorgons mutually lent to each other . Those ships had prows representing monsters. Per

wo deities so great. He therefore constructed two, contiguous to each other , so that one had to pass through the temple of Vi

hand ears of corn, a symbol of plenty, which she procures, and in the other , and the caduceus. She had given her, by some, Ve

sed her first temple. The figure of two women shaking hands with each other , commonly represents this goddess. — See Fig. 54.

two feet. The one is placed on a wheel, which turns swiftly; and the other , in the air. She presided over good and evil. — S

with the fear of a severe chastisement. Fear was always added to the other gods when oaths were pronounced. Atea or Discord

igure of folly in one hand, and raising a mask from his face with the other , under which a satirical smile beams from his cou

en as giants, or, at least, as men of uncommon stature. Homer and the other poets make them employ darts, which the ordinary

had the right of eulogising his ancestors, and even of granting them other honors; but often their celebrity was extended en

protecting heroes of the people among whom they had lived; and often other nations adopted them, and rendered them a worship

uced from the blood of Medusa? Give some account of Bellerophon? What other exploits did Perseus perform? Who was Andromeda?

head; Here to sev’n streets, sev’n dials count the day, And from each other catch the circling ray. Here oft the peasant, wit

ith unprecedented cheerfulness and good will. Hercules performed many other exploits worthy of notice. He strangled Antæus, a

Farnese statue, express such corporeal powers as never existed in any other . He is painted sometimes naked, and sometimes cla

and holding a knotted club, with the Hesperian apples in his hand. At other times Cupid is described as wounding his heart fo

— one was Virtue, who advised him to perform his arduous duties; the other was Pleasure, who advised him to lead an easy and

not he accomplish this arduous undertaking? Did Hercules perform any other exploits worthy of notice? Was not Hercules devo

ux and Helena, who inherited their father’s immortality, and from the other , Castor and Clytemnestra, who are said to have be

mortality by turns. Accordingly they lived and died alternately every other day, or, as some say, every other fortnight, or,

ey lived and died alternately every other day, or, as some say, every other fortnight, or, according to others, every other s

r, as some say, every other fortnight, or, according to others, every other six months. When Castor was dead, armed youths in

and sacred was their friendship, that the one would have died for the other . In the worship of the goddess Diana Taurica, hum

the two stars of that sign hides itself under the horizon whilst the other appears, their pretended reciprocity in sharing i

him a lute, at the sound of which the stones were seen to answer each other , to lay themselves in the form of a regular build

fire; and afterwards, Achilles, because he had but one lip, with the other burnt off in the act of licking the ambrosia. Oth

ishes; almost in the same manner that the multitude of insects and of other animals in Egypt are still seen to issue from the

” The Egyptian Mythology had two senses, one sacred and sublime, the other sensible and palpable. The priests placed the. Sp

logy had, therefore, two significations, one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal. The figures of animals repres

s they highly appreciated an opinion which elevated them so far above other men, they enveloped it with impenetrable mysterie

d superstition. In these absurdities and mummeries they surpassed all other nations. The Scriptures represent Egypt as the si

Jupiter and Juno. According to others, Jupiter was the father of five other deities: Osiris, Isis, Typhon, Apollo, and Aphrod

among his own subjects, to have travelled and spread civilization in other regions; to have entrusted his throne to the care

ed with a globe in one hand, and a vessel full of ears of corn in the other ; sometimes, as a woman, with a cow’s horns on her

ove Horus into Chemnis, a floating island; to avoid his fury, all the other deities changed themselves into different animals

he Serapeum. It is reported to have exceeded in magnificence, all the other temples of that age, except the capitol at Rome.

s a man with a dog’s head, holding in one hand a caduceus, and in the other , a branch of palm. He is commonly called Barker;

The Persian religion was purer and more rational than that of some other nations. It inculcated a belief in one Supreme Go

icated system of polytheism, that constituted the popular religion in other countries, was rejected. The Persians gave to the

t heaven, appeared on earth in the shape of a serpent, and introduced other evil spirits which he had seduced from their obed

God, who had dispelled the gloom by displaying the five elements and other glorious forms. He produced the water by an emana

ith eyes, having six heads, and numerous hands which grasp sabres and other weapons of war. Seraswatti, the wife of Brahma,

s full of superstition. They worship the ox, the cow, large apes, and other animals. They believe that Vishnu, having already

n the Ganges, or exposing themselves to be devoured by alligators and other beasts. The Fakirs are the most disgusting of the

at’ry plain. Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons; Peor, his other name. With these, in troop, Came Astoreth, whom t

divided her into two parts: one of these parts formed heaven, and the other , earth; after which, monsters of irregular forms

they regarded as the only god and master of heaven. Genus engendered other men, whose names were Light, Fire, and Flame. It

n oath. If one took an oath, he would say, “Does not Mexitli (or some other god) behold me now?” Cortes the Spanish conquero

e tops of hills, and in the woods, in honour of the mountain-gods and other rural deities. The city of Mexico was begun with

ad with divine honours? Who was Ix-lil-tot? Who was Coat-li-cue? What other divinities did the Mexicans acknowledge? Appen

ove, that the custom of building temples passed from the Egyptians to other nations. Lucian says, that Assyria, Phœnicia, Syr

ans to other nations. Lucian says, that Assyria, Phœnicia, Syria, and other countries around, received that custom from the E

the gods, which were generally made of gold, ivory, ebony, or of some other valuable material. There were also placed the sta

. The whole work was composed of eight towers, built the one upon the other , which went on decreasing as they ascended. Some

uction of which Nebuchadnezzar had employed the sea of brass, and the other utensils of the same metal, which had been taken

to the building of it for two hundred and twenty years, and that two other centuries must be spent in adorning and embellish

learned treatise, in which he strives to prove, that oracles have no other origin than in the deception of priests. M.  De F

ight from the Egyptian city of Thebes. The one went to Libya, and the other flew as far as the forest of Dodona, situated in

t invincible.” At these words, Alexander exclaimed, that he wished no other oracle; and he then marched to the conquest of th

ver the will of Apollo. The priests or prophets were charged with all other cares. It was they who placed the priestess in su

succeeded in obtaining for it general confidence. Chapter XII. Of other Oracles. Having briefly noticed some of the m

upiter and Lamia. She travelled in Claros, Delphi, Samos, and several other countries. 3. The Delphian, daughter of Tiresias.

consulted by the Romans, as that of Delphi by the Grecians. As to the other oracles of the Sibyls, which had been collected,

ry which gave him birth, the time in which he flourished, and various other circumstances of his life, are enveloped in a clo

performed the functions of this worship, as a chief, aided by twelve other pontiffs, a sort of druids, who also administered

Odin or Woden in the number of their ancestors. The same was true of other Anglo-Saxon princes. The name of Odin, therefore,

he point of a lance, nine wounds, in the form of a circle, and divers other cut-paper works in his skin with his sword. Whils

e declared that he was going into Scythia, to take his place with the other gods at an eternal banquet, where he would receiv

ves that the ancient Germans had retained its principal tenets, while other nations, subdued and corrupted by the arms and lu

ucing himself to the people of the North as an awful divinity, had no other end than to secure dominion. Chapter III. Of t

parts of the universe, they considered it a duty to call to his aid, other minds, genii, and divinities of every description

ith Earth, in order to produce by her subaltern deities, man, and all other creatures; and upon this belief was founded the v

and the wool of sheep grow; and held in one hand a sword, and in the other , a trumpet, the noise of which was heard in all w

a presides over waterfalls. Besides these twelve goddesses, there are other virgins in Valhalla, or the paradise of heroes. T

t history, show that many did not follow this creed, acknowledging no other subaltern divinity than their own courage. Having

the clouds. They there placed flambeaux to enlighten it, and fixed to other fires the space which they were to survey; some i

called Nislheim, was to last only until the end of the world; and the other , called Nastroud, was to be eternal. The first tw

are still found altars about which they assembled for sacrifices and other religious ceremonies. Three large rocks raised up

s. In proportion as the people of the North formed new alliances with other nations, their religion underwent alterations; st

be razed and broken. There were found in it immense riches; and among other things, a very costly golden ring. Iceland had al

two that were highly celebrated, situated, the one in the north, the other in the south of the island. In each of these temp

that the ancient Danes were no less attached to that worship than the other nations of the North. The large temple at Upsal s

in, had a crown on his head, a sceptre in one hand, and a club in the other . Sometimes he was represented in a chariot drawn

of the North generally, was computed from one winter solstice to the other . This feast, the most solemn of all, was called J

enevolence. The history of the North teems with examples of kings and other fathers who imposed silence on nature in order to

or his life, after having been stripped, by crime and force, from all other rights. The same spirit of inquietude which induc

language having been adopted among those nations separated from each other by immense forests is the only monument which rem

s, forgetting the noble inspirations of their predecessors, sought no other employment than that of amusing and flattering se

to others, unite in placing the druids of England above the druids of other countries. They extol those of the college of Cha

covered with a second bed of clay, upon which a wooden stag, or some other wild beast, was placed. Sometimes his favorite ma

his ceremony, left the soul in the mists of the lake Lego, or of some other water, and to the forgotten and unfortunate souls

very evident, that Esus, Dis, Pluto, Samothes, Teutates, and various other gods, had not come to their knowledge until by th

Chapter VIII. Of the Druids. Cesar and Tacitus contradict each other ; the former, by saying that the religion of the D

but one common family, and had but one creed. In separating from each other , men changed their primitive religion, and lost i

religion of the Gauls appears to have always been purer than that of other heathen nations.’ Their ideas on divinity were mu

ual than those of the Greeks and Romans. Tacitus, Maximus Tyrius, and other historians, inform us that the Druids believed th

one the offices of religion, and the subaltern ministers exercised no other functions than those granted by the Druids. The o

This illiberal idea sprung out of the warlike genius of the Gauls and other Celts, who followed nothing but the profession of

of collecting the oak-misletoe. This parasite plant grows on several other trees; but the Druids thought that God had chiefl

ds mounted on the oak, cut the misletoe with a golden sickle, and the other Druids received it with great respect into the sa

be removed from sacrifices. 7. Souls are immortal. 8. Souls pass into other bodies after the death of those which they have a

ts. 15. Money lent in this life, will be rendered to creditors in the other world. 16. There is another world, and those who

isles, carried that respect and those virtuous regards as far as any other nation. Faithful to the one which their heart had

ity of men places the power of reading in the hook of fate, above any other . The Druids, after having persuaded the people th

nks of that golden chain, of which deity is one extreme, and body the other . “In the second place, the First Cause, on accoun

etually subsisting in the most admirable and profound union with each other , and with the First Cause; yet so, as amidst this

y the poets, a golden chain, on account of their connection with each other and their incorruptible nature. The first of thes

likewise primarily possess the world, it is necessary to consider the other mundane gods as subsisting in them; as Bacchus in

ial, all things proceed from him ineffably and super-essentially; and other intermediate causes are necessary to the evolutio

n from that of the Oriental nations. Orpheus, Pythagoras, Thales, and other founders of Grecian philosophy and mythology, stu

d from that of the Oriental nations. Orpheus, Pythagoras, Thales, and other founders of Grecian philosophy and mythology, tra

they admitted to the Council of Jupiter. Pan, Pomona, Flora, and the other rural Deities, were of this class. What was the t

the Persian Monarchs in their wars; and their utter abhorrence of any other representation of the Divinity, instigated them t

an, seated upon a throne, holding, in one hand, a sceptre, and in the other , a spindle; wearing a radiant crown, and sometime

hould pass only one half of the year in the infernal regions, and the other in heaven. Proserpine was frequently considered a

t ancient monuments prove that they should be distinguished from each other . Under what figures are they represented? Apollo

ng many absurd and immoral actions ascribed to him, as well as to the other heathen divinities, the following exploits are sa

uttered the fatal secret, “Midas has the ears of an ass.” A number of other stories, equally ridiculous, are told of Apollo.

iling countenance; and one foot lightly touching the earth, while the other sports in air. Erato. Her name is derived from th

voice. She presided over rhetoric and epic poetry. Had the Muses any other names? They had names common to them all. Helicon

ter Ammon. From them it appears that the Bacchus of the Greeks was no other than the famous Osiris, conqueror of India. This

t. A cock, the emblem of valour, stood on one side of her; and on the other , the owl, the emblem of meditation. A crown of ol

ned around her helmet, because she taught the use of that fruit. What other names were given her, besides that of Minerva? Sh

dess? The fable relates, that Minerva and Neptune disputing with each other the honour of giving a name to that city, the god

ests called? He had several temples at Rome, and among the Greeks and other warlike nations. His priests, at Rome, were calle

st thirty-six contained the whole of the Egyptian philosophy, and the other six treated of medicine, surgery, and anatomy. Wh

ea nymphs, and the Tritons sounding their trumpet of shells. Were any other names given to this god? Besides Neptune, the Gre

s entrusted with the care of his flocks, consisting of sea calves and other marine animals. He is represented by the poets, a

s in the figure of a young man, holding fruit in one hand, and in the other , the horn of plenty. Who was Priapus? He was cons

uring this feast, they celebrated the founding of Rome. What were the other rural Divinities? Anna Perenna, nearly the same a

mes, adored the whole collectively, under a figure half man, and half other animals. To this deity the Greeks gave the appell

to have two, accompanying him; one, the author of his happiness, the other , of his misery. They were represented as young me

ted as young men, holding, in one hand, a drinking vessel, and in the other , a horn of plenty. Sometimes they were depicted u

ondemned to wander for a whole century on its solitary shores. On the other side of the river, is the gate leading to the pal

ousand years in that abode, the souls returned to earth, and animated other bodies, either of men or animals. Before they qui

ise from the Egyptians, and in imitation of them, Orpheus, Homer, and other poets, introduced it into their writings. Chap

of day, Cerberus, the triple-headed dog of the infernal regions. What other actions of his life were remarkable? When in his

Boreas; and Lynceus, famous for astonishingly quick sight, with many other heroes, were engaged in this expedition. Were the

th many other heroes, were engaged in this expedition. Were there not other heroes highly respected, if not worshiped by the

ge and virtue. To him was committed the education of Achilles, and of other heroes. What was the Sphynx? A monster, having th

n were employed in building it, during the space of twenty years. The other two are smaller. It is supposed they were intende

y and superstition may be arranged in four divisions, succeeding each other in chronological order. The first is that of the

igration of souls; that is, their passing through numerous animal and other forms. With the same principle was closely connec

p of the heavenly bodies, or pure Sabism, but, likewise, that of many other material, visible objects; such as deified illust

enly bodies, men proceeded to that of the elements, seas, rivers, and other sensible objects; and, at last, celebrated heroes

both eternal, carrying on perpetual warfare; the one benevolent, the other malevolent. To these deities different nations as

ere is but one Being existing; a Being eternal, infinite; of whom all other beings are parts; and that consequently there are

is still professed, though greatly corrupted, by the Hindûs, and many other people in the central and eastern regions of Asia

and many other people in the central and eastern regions of Asia. The other may be styled the Thothic, or Buddhic superstitio

the Thothic, or Buddhic superstition, the parent of the Scythian and other systems, which, in a corrupted state, likewise ex

ghteen cubits high; as eating rice and vegetables, and as having many other attributes of human nature: and yet he is imagine

with red, covers the whole body, excepting the right breast. Like all other Indian statues of gods, they are adorned with bra

The sides of the temples are generally decorated with the figures of other divinities. On one side of the temples of Buddha,

f-existent, invisible God, making it manifest with five elements, and other glorious forms, perfectly dispelled the gloom. He

having six heads, and numerous hands, which grasp spears, sabres, and other weapons of war. Seraswatti, the wife of Brahmá, a

hand a rabbit. Fountains are by them dedicated to this Divinity. What other imaginary Deities do the Hindûs worship? Rama, an

re commonly erected near the banks of the Ganges, the Kistna, or some other sacred river, for the benefit of ablution in the

mins abstain entirely from animal food and fermented liquors; and the other Castes exercise an uncommon degree of temperance

itions? The Hindûs pay religious worship to the Ox, the Cow, and many other animals; to the Ganges, and other rivers, which t

orship to the Ox, the Cow, and many other animals; to the Ganges, and other rivers, which they account sacred. They believe t

y the unthinking multitude for real adventures of gods or daemons, or other superhuman beings. Barbarous nations have ever re

y. But though it is most probable that the Egyptians, like almost all other people, at first held the belief of one Supreme D

blue. The Crocodile, the Cow, the Dog, the Ox, the Ibis, the Cat, and other animals, and even some inanimate substances, whic

rus, his son, into the floating island Chemmis; and compelled all the other deities to take refuge under the forms of various

ed the Serapeum. It is said to have exceeded in magnificence, all the other temples of that age, excepting that of the capito

r and esculent plants. There were no animals sacred to him, as to the other Egyptian deities; but the first-fruits of legumin

niverse, which was conceived to be invisible in its nature; but, like other objects of Egyptian superstition, to be subject t

them laws, and instructed them in astronomy, geometry, medicine, and other sciences. Hence the books composed by the priests

ted to Hermes, and supposed to be the effect of his inspiration. Like other Egyptian deities, Thoth had a sacred animal appro

the Egyptians represented the heart; and as they, in common with many other ancient nations, regarded that part of the body a

o Thoth, the personification of wisdom and intelligence. Is there any other account given of the Egyptian Mercury? Yes. Some

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

by the figures of animals, of insects, of plants, of stars, and many other symbolical characters; concealing the mysteries o

he two principles of good and evil, perpetually at variance with each other . Ormuzd, or Oromazes, was the name given to the p

pted religion of the ancient Persians was greatly superior to all the other Oriental systems, in sublimity, in its near appro

sacrifices were abolished by that religion; and simple vegetable, or other offerings, indicated a secret intercourse with th

it soon degenerated into Sabism, the adoration of the sun, moon, and other celestial bodies. Temples were dedicated to them;

usly consisted of two characters, or persons, distinguished from each other , as the Man, and the Man-Bull; that these were th

thology? The religion of the ancient Germans, Gauls, and Britons, and other Celtic nations. This, like almost all the other s

uls, and Britons, and other Celtic nations. This, like almost all the other systems of Paganism, in its primitive simplicity,

declared that he was going into Scythia to take his place amongst the other deities, at the immortal banquet, where he would

o spend nine out of every twelve days in the hilly regions, while the other three were spent on the shores of the ocean. Nior

alediction. One half of her body was of the colour of putrid, and the other of living, flesh. In this region of horrors roame

r, and Surtur. Tyr attacks the horrible dog Garme, and they kill each other . At the same instant Frey is beaten down. Thor ov

to religious reverence. The Arabians had, likewise, a great number of other idols; each tribe and family maintaining its own

servatory. The temple consisted of eight towers, raised one above the other . In an apartment of one of them was placed a magn

at were the idol deities of the Canaanites, Philistines, Syrians, and other tribes, the hostile neighbours of the Israelites?

turn of the Carthaginians, was the chief deity of the Phenicians, and other neighbouring nations; in honour of whom, human vi

at’ry plain. Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons; Peor, his other name. With these, in troop, Came Astoreth, whom t

a band of the same colour passed under his nose, from one ear to the other . On his head was a rich plume of feathers, covere

il of Jupiter composed? To what order did Pan, Pomona, Flora, and the other rural deities belong? In what order were the pers

tance established the superiority of the Persian Mythology over every other ? Repeat Glover’s description of the God Mithras.

st 180 THE END. 1. Some writers have supposed that Saturn was no other than Nimrod, that mighty hunter before the Lord,

erved. Further, it was written at such hours as I could withdraw from other literary avocations, and with but a moderate appa

anticipated. The praises which it has received from Mr. Thirlwall and other competent judges have naturally given me much gra

ption of my books at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and most of the other great public schools, besides a number of private

itics on the minds of those who will be future legislators, or occupy other important stations in society. The present work i

a field which lay totally unoccupied. This can hardly be said of any other part of classic literature, but many may be bette

ill to the proprietors, some of whom are the publishers of most of my other works, but simply to let the world see how inadeq

 ; the hero in the one seeking the abode of Hades in the west, in the other in the under-world. The name Geryoneus might corr

the centre, holding a drinking-horn (ῤυτὸν) in one hand, a cup in the other  : Ariadne with a thyrse in one hand, a cantharus

in the other : Ariadne with a thyrse in one hand, a cantharus in the other  ; a Genius hovers over her ; a female stands behi

rry rhyta and thyrses : one Centauress plays on the double flute, the other on the tambourin. Cameo, G. M. 275. Buonarroti, M

y knew the power of intelligence to produce effects. When they beheld other and greater effects, independent of and beyond hu

y stood in daily need of food and repose. Chariots drawn by horses or other animals of celestial breed conveyed them over ear

theory is well founded, and whether it will apply with equal force to other mythologies as to that of Greece, is a question w

y may have given occasion to many legends. Thus cause and effect, and other relations, are in various languages, particularly

Comes39; Chemistry according to Tollius40. Finally, Dupuis41 and some other ingenious writers, chiefly French, look to Astron

assigning a common source to the systems of India, Egypt, Greece, and other countries, and regarding the East as the original

so a small heroic cycle, of which Cuchullin, Fingal, Gaul, Oscar, and other personages whose names are familiar to the reader

and by the labours of Voss47, Buttmann, Müller, Völcker, Welcker and other writers, whose names will appear in the following

of the wildest mysticism, and has led to the degradation of those of other countries. The Asiatic Researches, and the works

nd independently, and not to suppose any connexion between it and any other till both have been examined minutely and careful

single mythes existed long before the system, and were the product of other minds than those which afterwards set them in con

and revolutions of nature under the guise of the loves, the wars, and other actions of these deities, to whom they ascribed a

communities, dwelling separately, parted in general by mountains and other natural barriers. As they were naturally endowed

the origin of the one is as far beyond our attainment as that of the other . The Greeks, like most of the ancient nations, we

«This,» says Buttmann57, «was the case when they found traditions of other kings of the gods whom they could not reconcile w

n as having been his sole and lawful wife in the creed of some one or other of the tribes of Greece. Of the Titans we shall p

an priests, of the legend of the soothsaying pigeon of Dodona, and in other places of that historian, a similar desire69. Thi

t, and made a trade of it, that she might not appear more wanton than other women72. Cadmos was cook to a king of Sidôn, and

ed with marvellous sense and beauty, named Helios and Selena. But the other Titans now grew jealous, and they murdered Hyperi

im Father, and finally placed him on the throne. Kronos, aided by the other Titans, sought to recover his dominion ; but the

ages80. Beside the Ilias and the Odyssey, the ancients possessed some other narrative poems, which were ascribed, but falsely

eiæ, or poems on the subject of Hercules, by Peisander, Panyasis, and other poets, a Theseïs on the adventures of Theseus, po

the various mythic legends which formed the Epic Cycle, the Eoiæ, and other poems of the same nature. The principal of these

epitome alone has come down to us ; and Crates, Aristarchus, and the other editors of the ancient poets gave the legends a p

of the empress Eudocia. It would be tedious to particularise all the other sources of information, for in fact there is hard

rce, dwelt the Sirens, the Hesperides, the Grææ, the Gorgons, and the other beings of fable. The only inhabitants of the nort

7 divides the Æthiopians into two tribes, the one on the eastern, the other on the western margin of the earth108. In later a

always so called by these poets115, and they describe the sun and the other heavenly bodies as rising out of and sinking into

e dubious. Were we to follow analogy, and argue from the cosmology of other races of men, we would say that the upper surface

dge Bifröst, i. e. the Rainbow. The ideas of the ancient Italians and other nations seem to have been similar. Hence we might

and western extremities of the heaven, through which the sun-god and other deities ascended from and went down into the stre

ung’ in the midst of the round world ; and the sun, the moon, and the other heavenly bodies were set in the firmament to illu

osmogony and theogony, are in the Grecian system, as in those of some other nations, closely united. The sages of antiquity s

Oceanos and Tethys, and that from these sprang Kronos, Rhea, and the other deities. This is apparently, however, an attempt

a sprang Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. Earth bore to her other son Pontos the ‘truth-speaking’ Nereus,Thaumas (W

the children whom he had devoured. When Zeus was grown up, he and the other children of Kronos made war on their father and t

recedes light, so Erebos and Night, the one the darkness beneath, the other that above the earth, succeed, and from them spri

ries, and the fructifying streams. The making thunder, lightning, and other celestial phænomena to be children of Heaven and

and have undergone a change of character like the Giants, Hermes, and other similar beings ; or their late character — that o

om Coios, Crios, Hyperiôn, Theia, and Phœbe spring the sun, moon, and other luminaries and light-beings ; and the material wo

local one ; the one being the dwellers of the brilliant Olympos, the other the inmates of the gloomy Tartaros156. Hesiod, wh

again comes to his aid163. There would also appear to have been some other ancient system of the celestial dynasties, which

71. Night and Day, he says, are there by turns ; when one goes in the other goes out. Day bears light to mortals ; Night, ‘wr

ey are rested the god drives them round the Ocean to the East. In two other passages of his wild poem210 Nonnus places the ab

m ‘the ruler of fire-breathing steeds’. It is probable that, like the other Homeric gods, Helios had originally only two hors

sacred cattle, but they were dedicated to him more frequently than to other deities for obvious reasons, such as his being, a

with temples in Greece, but he had altars at Corinth, Argos, and some other places. The chief seat of his worship was the isl

ts high, in his honour239. The legend said240 that, when Zeus and the other Immortals were dividing the earth among them by l

eeds. Theocritus244 also gives Selene horses ; but we do not meet any other mention of her chariot and horses in the Greek po

he moon, and the stars retire before her. Sometimes she is winged, at other times not. Eôs was styled by the poets281, 1. Ros

nd many instances as we proceed) to form from the epithets of a deity other similar deities, or even hostile and rival beings

milar deities, or even hostile and rival beings, sometimes nymphs, or other companions of the original deity. In this manner,

youngest son Kronos, and the overthrow of the latter by Zeus and his other children, the Kronids, have been already narrated

if, as it would appear, he taught his heroic pupils music as well as other accomplishments, a more suitable mother could not

rother354, exercised a supremacy, and his power was the greatest. The other inhabitants of Olympos were Hera the sister and s

nd smith ; he formed all the arms, household furniture, chariots, and other articles in use among the Celestials ; but their

is remains, was shown by the ‘lying Cretans390 The Arcadians, on the other hand, asserted that Zeus first saw the light amon

in a cavern of Mount Lycæon, where there was a place named Cretes, as other spots in Arcadia were designated by names belongi

eir own country, a practise of which as we proceed we shall meet with other instances. In the Theogony the celestial progeny

of Dionysos, who became a god. By Io he had a son named Epaphos. Many other heroes could also boast of being the sons of Zeus

ios, the guardian of oaths, were numerous. He was also named like the other gods from the places where he was worshiped, ex.

o the offspring of this deity425: so also were Theseus, Eumolpos, and other heroes. Poseidôn was worshiped in Arcadia under t

sea ; the one name might therefore be metaphorically employed for the other . Thus in Homer438 Penelope says, Why, herald, is

ce454, Trœzên, and the promontories of Sunion, Tænaron, Geræstos, and other headlands455. Poseidôn is represented, like Zeus,

the trident, the three-pronged symbol of his power : the dolphin and other marine objects accompany his images. The poetic e

ers the dead were led to drink previous to their returning to animate other bodies on earth479. In the sixth book of Virgil’s

cut off a lock of the hair of Alcestis494. Of this rite, however, no other mention is, we believe, to be found in Grecian li

who also, as shall hereafter be related, made Io, Semele, Alcmena and other women, pay dear for their intrigues with the Olym

s, and Platæa. She was also honoured at Sparta, Corinth, Corcyra, and other places. The victims offered to her were kine, ewe

ut down that tree, and made an image from it. It is probable that the other cities of Bœotia did the same ; and this was call

there sacrificed to Zeus, and a cow to Hera ; wine and perfumes, and other victims, were cast on the altar, as also were the

, holding in one hand a pomegranate, the emblem of fecundity ; in the other a sceptre, with a cuckoo on its summit540. Her ai

feminine of Ἥρως, anciently Ἥρος 543, and that they answered to each other as the Latin herus, hera, and the German Herr, He

enopæos, and Tereus. He was also said to be the sire of Meleagros and other hero-princes of Ætolia561. The Hill of Ares (Ἄρϵι

they were all made of the various metals ; no wood, or stone, or any other substance, entering into their composition : they

s also were their chariots and arms. He made armour for Achilleus and other mortal heroes569. The fatal collar of Harmonia wa

this god575. The only instances we meet of Hephæstos’ working in any other substance than metal are in Hesiod, where at the

arth advanced, Ætna582, Hiera (one of the Liparæan isles)583, and all other places where there was subterranean fire, were re

deaths of men were ascribed to his darts ; sometimes as a reward, at other times as a punishment. He was also by his shafts

or he never ventures to use the same familiarity with him as with the other gods, Zeus himself not excepted. Apollo is the fr

of Peneios. Daphne loved the chase, and it alone, indifferent to all other love. Phœbos beheld her, and burned with passion.

ts the fact of the Homeric gods not having birth-places on earth. Two other epithets of Apollo, λύκιος and λύκϵιος, which are

who aiming their darts at the supposed beast, by her art pierced each other and died678. We have already noticed the practice

and the others companions or attendants ; and also to form nymphs and other subordinate beings attached to the service of the

. Of these practices Artemis furnishes more examples perhaps than any other deity. The Cretans worshiped a goddess the same a

ure of Leto and her children, the one regarding them as physical, the other as moral beings. Both however are agreed that the

that while she was dancing, in honour of Artemis, with the nymphs and other maidens, and a great crowd was standing around, H

ors and painters, particularly Praxiteles and Apelles, vied with each other in forming her image the ideal of female beauty a

e warm springs. They replied that one of them was called Erôs and the other Anterôs, but that they knew not the cause of thei

present were in amazement : the philosopher then leading them to the other spring did as he had done before ; and instantly

er of Zeus ; in one place784 it seems to be intimated that she had no other parent. In the Theogony Zeus swallows Metis, and

his guide and director. In like manner Cadmos, Heracles, Perseus, and other heroes were, as we shall see, favoured and aided

mples at Athens and Alalcomenæ815. It could hardly have been from any other cause than that of her being regarded as the moon

hat which derives it from the three phases of the moon. There are two other interpretations of this name which have had more

ruple about coining a term if they wanted it to suit any purpose. The other interpretation, which makes the banks of the rive

at we think it not improbable that the Pelasgian goddess of Argos and other places, who had been identified with the Athenian

e stealing of the cattle of Apollo is somewhat differently related by other writers. According to them839, Apollo, delighted

e incensed at her unhallowed cupidity, and provoked with her also for other causes, sent Envy to fill her bosom with that bal

d gardens. The Hermæ were also pillars of stone, and the head of some other deity at times took the place of that of Hermes ;

like manner as the shepherd-lads amuse themselves with wrestling and other feats of strength and activity, their tutelar god

ral deity. In one place868 the offering to him is milk and honey ; in other parts of it869 fishermen when grown old dedicate

mely difficult, or rather impossible, to treat of the one without the other  : we therefore combine the two deities. Demeter,

, but the disconsolate goddess will not comply with the call. All the other gods are sent on the same errand, and to as littl

rth, till she shall have seen her daughter. Finding that there was no other remedy, Zeus sends ‘goldrodded Argos-slayer’ to E

g onethird of the year with her husband ; she should however pass the other two with her and the gods : And when in spring-t

freely, for my song, the means of life. But I will think of thee and other songs. Such is in all probability the oldest acc

en of Hades and put seven of the seeds into her mouth. In this, as in other legends, the fancy of poets and vanity of the inh

two others ; 3. Well-garlanded ; and 4. Food-full. She was termed by other poets, 5. Youth-rearing ; 6. Bright-fruited ; 7.

such as were promoters of increase. We however deem that, like every other people, the Pelasgians believed in a future state

into which they were divided had very little communication with each other , and a stranger was regarded as little better tha

ians, from which the Athenians were of course excluded as well as all other Greeks. But when Eleusis was conquered, and the t

a public discourse on the origin of things and that of the gods, and other high and important matters, was delivered by the

man (Epibomios), the moon ; the Herald (Hierokeryx), Hermes ; and the other ministers, the lesser stars. These fancies of pri

ly from their confounding them with the Bacchic, Isiac, Mithraic, and other private mysteries, mostly imported from Asia, whi

nine. Perhaps originally, as in the case of the Erinnyes and so many other deities, there was no precise number. Pausanias93

nd-soother), Aœde, Melete, and Arche (Beginning) 932. Alcman and some other poets made the Muses the daughters of Heaven and

λος). Urania, the muse of Astronomy, held in one hand a globe, in the other a rod with which she was employed in tracing out

a, the patroness of Comedy, held a comic mask in one hand, and in the other a crooked staff. She was also regarded as the pat

eople in Germany and Scandinavia954. In fact, this, like almost every other article of popular belief, has its origin in natu

; etc. .Χάριτϵς Gratiœ. Graces. The Graces, like the Muses and other sister-goddesses, are spoken of by Homer in the p

ifying Decree. The Theogony of Hesiod limits the Fates, like so many other goddesses, to three, and gives them Zeus and Them

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

onsense ! Egad, Hermes, who is a god, Wears wings and flies, and many other gods Do just the same. Thus Victory, mark ye, fli

through the world, to instruct mankind in the culture of the vine and other useful arts. And thus the knowledge of the vine c

also despised his rites, and continued plying their looms, while the other women ran through the mountains. He came as a mai

hyone, and ascended with her to the abode of the gods1112. Like every other portion of the Grecian mythology, the history of

shaded by trees, is described in a similar manner with Panchaia, and other happy retreats of the same nature. It therefore h

the details of which are probably the inventions of the poet1115 ; in other parts he seems to have adhered with tolerable fid

ified with Osiris, and regarded as the Sun. He is sometimes alone, at other times in company with Ariadne or the youth Ampelo

e of action, as gods of the sun, the moon, the heaven, the earth, and other parts of nature. Dionysos was therefore, it is li

in the stories of Archilochus, Periander, and Pausanias, built on any other foundation : and these were posterior to Homer ;

very different from their own ; the one being calm and cheerful, the other wild and orgiastic. This religion was that of Κ

mes she is veiled, and seated on a throne with lions at her side ; at other times riding in a chariot drawn by lions. Her hea

essels were allowed to enter that port alone ; and if driven into any other by stress of weather, they were obliged to sail f

carried him away to Olympos : then taking his seat with Zeus and the other gods, he produced his babe. All the gods, especia

r naked, or clad in the light cloak called chlamys 1184. Like many other gods who were originally single, Pan was multipli

or Adonis1225, or even Zeus himself for a sire1226. Priapos, like the other rural gods, is of a ruddy complexion. His cloak i

e at the same time charged him strictly to avoid the society of every other woman, and told him that a bee should be her mess

phnis. A Naïs loved him, and forbade him to hold intercourse with any other woman under pain of loss of sight. Long he abstai

disposition to Zeus ; and while he was engaged in his pranks with the other nymphs, Echo, being of a very loquacious characte

sos, however, suffered the penalty of his hard-heartedness to her and other nymphs and maidens ; for seeing his own figure in

, who was loved by the Cyclôps Polyphemos. The Nereïdes, like all the other female deities, were originally conceived to be o

ut the painters and sculptors, who contributed so much to degrade the other gods, robbed the sea-nymphs also of their charms,

ured, the isle of the Hesperides, in which grew the golden fruit, and other places of light and bliss. When Atlas had been fi

says, intercepted the eye as they were handing it from the one to the other , and having thus blinded the guards was enabled t

ng to Hesiod1316 the children of Astræos (Starry) and Eôs (Dawn). The other winds, he says1317, (probably meaning only those

ed the tales of Phœnician mariners, and he transferred the wonders of other mythic cycles to the West-sea, which he made the

these parts is distinct, the one lying in the domains of romance, the other confining itself to the sober realms of the actua

, and this circumstance also would accord well with Italy. But on the other hand the Greeks, when they began to plant colonie

ions bored out his eye with it. Polyphemos roaring out with pain, the other Cyclopes came to inquire what had befallen him ;

canic eruptions. Typhôn is made the sire of the Chimæra, Echidna, and other monsters. The Greeks gave his name to the Egyptia

aughters, whom, after the fashion set by Zeus, he had married to each other . The isle had no other tenants. The office of dir

he fashion set by Zeus, he had married to each other. The isle had no other tenants. The office of directing and ruling the w

ce, who seized one of them and killed and dressed him for dinner. The other two made their escape, pursued by the Læstrygonia

pears to have lain on the very edge of the Ocean-stream ; and all the other isles and coasts mentioned in the poem, except Og

rse lay. She said1392 he would come to two lofty cliffs opposite each other , between which he must pass. One of these cliffs

he stretches out these necks and catches the porpoises, sea-dogs, and other large animals of the sea which swim by, and out o

lie in the northwestern part of the West-sea, far remote from all the other isles and coasts ; and he thus brought his hero i

mmortals. We dwell apart in the wavefull sea, the last ; nor does any other mortal mingle with us : but this is some unfortun

ave been brought from Apeiros, which is taken to be Epeiros1429 ; the other the fictitious narrative of Odysseus to Penelope1

lace them in the Ægæan, making the one the same as Delos1433, and the other identical with Syros, one of the Cyclades1434. Th

hers will not be at unity with their children, nor brethren with each other  ; friends and guests will be discordant, children

to cut away this last part of the original mythe. Völcker1446 on the other hand considers the Heroic race to have been an es

eing a post-Homeric position, framed with a regard to the Homeric and other contemporary poems. He also thinks that the lines

find Iapetos frequently joined with Kronos, apart as it were from the other Titans ; and it is worthy of notice, that in the

n henceforth became a prey to care and anxiety, the love of gain, and other evil passions which torment him1467, and which ar

hilosophical mythe in Plato1472 says that the gods formed man and the other animals of clay and fire within the earth, and th

a vulture to prey on his liver, and the incensed gods sent fevers and other diseases among men1474. As Care, says the fable,

is fable of Pandora is certainly not capable of being reconciled with other Hellenic mythes of the origin of mankind, such as

Hephæstos to make a woman of clay also, whom Athena animated and the other gods adorned with gifts ; and that she was given

: they are mentioned by Homer1510. Cauconians1511, Lelegians1512, and other tribes are spoken of as dwelling in Greece in the

arious portions of them which will be produced by local situation and other accidental circumstances1519, and which should ca

recian mythology, as it will be found to pervade that of almost every other people. The names of rivers, mountains, and other

hat of almost every other people. The names of rivers, mountains, and other natural objects, made persons, also largely contr

inite period, in which are to be placed Cadmos, Cecrops, Perseus, and other heroes ; then follow the times of Heracles and Th

e Poseidôn, invited all his subjects. Iasôn, who was ploughing on the other side of the Anauros, crossed that stream to come

hands the hero and heroine have undergone the same fate with those of other places whose people were politically opposed to t

aurs, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of Pelion ; Theseus, Nestôr, and other strangers, were likewise present. At the feast, E

xicated with the wine, attempted to offer violence to the bride ; the other Centaurs followed his example, and a dreadful con

he Centaurs were finally driven from Pelion, and obliged to retire to other regions1587. According to the earliest version of

Centaur Pholos ; and this gave rise to a conflict between him and the other Centaurs, which terminated in the total discomfit

gnised in these Ætolian legends, the one relating to agriculture, the other to war. The former are Œneus (Viny), Melas (Black

s teeth, and immediately a crop of armed men sprang up, who slew each other , either quarrelling or through ignorance : for it

nking it was done by some of themselves, they fell upon and slew each other . Five only survived ; Echiôn (Viper), Udæos (Grou

, and her name be like Electra, Galateia, Galene, Glauce, Ianthe, and other names of water-nymphs. Σεμέλη. Semele. Se

as others say, dashed him to pieces against a rock. Ino fled with her other son ; and being closely pursued by her furious hu

neatherd having found them, reared them, calling the one Zethos, the other Amphiôn. The former devoted himself to the care o

sented these twins, like those of Leda, as being the one immortal the other mortal, corresponding to the nature of their sire

profusion. The revolution of the year, denoted by Apollo and Artemis ( other forms of the sun and moon), withers up and destro

d the bravest warriors of Greece. These separated themselves from the other people of the country, and took to robbing and pl

pervious. He then built up one of the entrances, and going in at the other , and grasping the lion’s throat in his hands, hel

to die for Prometheus, he was released by death from his misery. The other Centaurs fled to different places ; some remained

n the rivers Peneios and Alpheios by a canal, let them run out at the other side. Augeas, on learning that this was one of th

t the bull among his herds ; and Heracles, committing the care of his other cattle to Hephæstos, went in quest of the stray o

dest son, was for giving his sister to Heracles ; but Eurytos and his other sons refused, lest he should destroy her children

ers, and bringing home to his own country the valuable productions of other regions1785. These labours are chiefly allegorica

purest of elements ; his shade or image (ϵἵδωλον)1787, like those of other men, descends to the realms of Hades, while the d

arriage with Hebe, are noticed. In the Eoiæ the conquest of Pylos and other events were recorded ; the Shield relates the com

e he civilised the rude aborigines, gave them religion, marriage, and other social institutions, and taught them to cultivate

everything relating to it, is as pure a fiction as the Utopia or any other political romance, and that Plato makes in it the

t Plato makes in it the same use of Solôn that he does of Socrates on other occasions. At all events he gives not the slighte

“Neither a Pelops nor a Danaos, nor a Cadmos, nor an Ægyptos, nor any other , who, being originally a Barbarian, has been natu

cked the traditions and history of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes. On the other hand Callistratus and Phanodemus maintained that

honios says, that Hephæstos having made golden seats for Zeus and the other gods, Hera when she sat in hers was unable to ris

d failed herself, fancied that he was attracted by the charms of some other fair-one. She questioned the slave who used to ac

thonian bull, and the valiant youth fell in the attempt. According to other accounts, Ægeus laid an ambush for him as he was

ischief which he did to all the surrounding country, was called by no other name than that of Sinis1835, i. e. Evil-doer. His

tful (Πολυπήμων). This Damastes had two iron bedsteads, one long, the other short. When a stranger came, he took him, if shor

ey swore inviolable fidelity. Like faithful comrades, they aided each other in every project. Each was ambitious in love, and

ich the care was committed to the sisters Dew and Field-dwelling. The other circumstances of the legend may be referred to th

hed most, he is presented to us under a more historic aspect than the other heroes. Though his adventures are manifestly form

e of his children is an ancient or poetic name of the peninsula ; the other is the young land blooming with verdure1894, to w

and proclaimed gymnic games, in which the victors were to receive his other daughters as the prizes. It was said, however, th

eedily the madness of the maidens increased, and even extended to the other women, who killed their children, abandoned their

orgo was probably the injurious, inimical Pallas. With respect to the other names in the mythe, Acrisios is apparently connec

ycæos1983. Καλλιστὼ καὶ Ἄρκας . Callisto et Arcas. Beside his other sons, and Nyctimos who reigned over Arcadia at th

eus and the transformation of himself and his bride1995. According to other accounts1996 Atalanta was the daughter of of Schœ

ffer, and in due time Helena was produced from it2001. Hesiod, on the other hand, called Helena the daughter of Oceanos and T

the form of the mythe are equally well adapted2011. To proceed to the other names of the legend, Idas and Lynceus, that is Si

n took and reared the babes, naming the one with the mark Pelias, the other Neleus. When they grew up they discovered their m

e took successively those of an eagle, a lion, a serpent, an ant, and other animals. He was detected by Athena as he was sitt

end of the year he heard the worms in the timber conversing with each other . One asked how much of the beam was now gnawed th

little remaining. Melampûs immediately desired to be removed to some other place ; the man took up the bad at the head, the

state, and this is probably the more ancient form of the legend. The other form2057 perhaps represents the cares and fears a

to have promised Myrtilos for his aid one half of the kingdom, or as other accounts have it, to give him a share in the favo

rich in cattle legitimately transmitting the sceptre from one to the other , a state of things totally at variance with the a

he appointed sacrifice ; but at the sight of her, love overcame every other sentiment in the bosom of the priest, and he slew

, the people of Crete took no share in the Persian, Peloponnesian, or other wars. The political insignificance of Crete in th

e evidently later than the time of Homer, none ventures to assign any other cause to it than the goddess Artemis, whose wrath

s raised to it. Man loves to trace in natural objects resemblances to other objects with which he is familiar. Hence many leg

Pleiades and Hyades are those of nymphs who were previously placed in other relations. Thus Maia is in the Hymn to Hermes mer

ed to the Minyans and to them alone ; that Heracles, Theseus, and the other heroes who did not belong to this people were add

erprise and colonisation. At Lampsacos, Cyzicos, Kios, Byzantion, and other places along the Hellespont, Propontis and Bospor

er one, as this was the first direction of the Grecian colonies ; the other along the southern coast, and finally reaching th

became the prevalent opinion, and the establishment of Heracleia and other Grecian colonies on this coast enlarged the cycle

d up the Phasis to the point where it divided, and then went down the other branch named the Saranges into the Mæotis, whence

f the Christian æra. To these are to be added the detached notices in other writers and in the various Scholia. Of the dramas

Parthenopæos, Sthenelos of Capaneus, Eurypylos of Mecisteus, were the other leaders. Alcmæôn had the chief command2185. They

yginus, beside the scattered notices in the Scholiasts, Pausanias and other authors. Of the dramas on this subject there have

, with its legs joined, holding in one hand an elevated spear, in the other a distaff and spindle. Laomedôn the son of Ilos m

by Eôs), Lampôs, Clytios, Hiketaôn, Priamos2197 and Hesione, and two other daughters ; by the nymph Calybe he had a son name

her's dream2203. Beside his children by Hecabe Priamos had several by other women. The whole number of his offspring was fift

g over the enterprise he prevented their departure. He then took some other towns, killed Troïlos, and captured and sold for

n of Pœas, Podaleirios and Machaôn sons of Asclepios, Protesilaos and other chiefs. The number of ships was one thousand one

es, led by Sarpedôn the son of Zeus, by Glaucos, Pandaros, Asios, and other princes. Οἱ Νόστoι. The Returns. After th

hsen in a manuscript of the Ilias in the library of the Escurial, the other , containing the remainder, by Siebenkees in a man

allads ; the number of warriors have been increased as colonists from other parts of Hellas came to partake in them ; the art

s related by contemporary writers, and becomes as true as that of any other people. We have thus seen that the heroes, like t

ng the will of the supernal powers by the thunder, the lightning, and other aërial phænomena. The rules and principles of thi

ounce by lightning any change in the present order of things2251. The other consisted of twelve gods, six male and as many fe

, for we find animus and anima used of the vital powers, and Rome and other Italian towns politically divided into a Populus

e here a proof of the identification of the Roman deity with those of other religions, for that Venus was the Phœnician Astar

have studied the writings of Creuzer, Görres, Schelling, Sickler, and other writers of this school, to read as a sure antidot

ce to give the Israelites more correct ideas on natural subjects than other nations, relieves Scripture from many difficultie

sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the cast. — Comus, 95-101.

by the way, strongly resembles Milton’s Hither as to their fountain other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light.»

of shoeing in a hoop. 366. The carliest instances to be found of any other species of animal drawing the chariots of the god

seq. 465. Sch. Il. v. 395. 397. Sch. Od. xi. 605. Eudocia, 207. The other authorities arc collected by Heyne in his note on

ut supra. 1273. Possis ap. eund. 1274. Euanthes ap. eund. Several other opinions about Glaucos will be found in this plac

. 2. Völcker, H. G. 110. seq. This critic places the Cyclopes and the other fabulous tribes which we shall meet with on the w

g. Buc. iv. 6. Voss. in loco. Seneca, Octavia, ii. 1. 16. seq. On the other hand see Lobeck, Aglaoph. 791. seq. 1445. Buttm

Claudian (De IV Cons. Honor. 228. seq., and In Eutrop. ii. 490. seq). other accounts of this creation of man. 1475. Hygin. 2

urip. Fr. Æolos, 23. Apollod. i. 7, 3. This last writer names several other children of Æolos. 1530. Od. xi. 257. 1531. Ib

Crete. 1637. Müller, Orchom. 461. seq. Proleg. 146. seq. See on the other side Welcker ut sup. 31. seq. Lobeck, 1253. seq.

and Hyginus make Cyllene the scene of Teiresias’ adventure. There are other differences also in the narrative. 1700. Οἲην

s-Amphitryôn (Wearer-out or Vanquisher). 1791. Apollod. iii. 14. For other marks of the vengeance of this god, see Sch. Aris

also be derived from ΠΗΓΩ, πηγνȗμι, to construct or build. There are other instances of legends founded on different derivat

ay here observe that the Grecian mythes frequently borrowed from each other . Compare those of Cadmos and Iasôn, of Andromeda

τηρ Ἀμϕιάραον ἔκρυψ՚ ὑπὸ γῆν αὐτοῖσι σὺν ὅπλοιѕ 2189. Ismene, the other sister, was probably invented for the sake of uni

ds however could hardly have believed them to be true. Anaxagoras and other early philosophers regarded even the Ilias as an

[Epigraph] ”Thou shall have no other gods before me.” [Bible] [Dedication] TO M

nexion with the fine arts, and with the fictions and superstitions of other ages and countries. We cannot comprehend our New

t age of the world, and who are educated as Christians, often hear of other gods besides that true and only God who is repres

rgot and altered the revelation which God had made to Adam, Noah, and other patriarchs, and invented new and false gods, whom

ho came into the world as Moses had predicted. Moses was succeeded by other prophets. Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc. were pro

ucted in a true religion, and to teach it to the rest of mankind. The other nations of the world were partially taught the ch

rtially taught the character of the Supreme Being by the Hebrews. All other nations believed in a plurality of gods, or many

nd which is still read. English poets, and almost all modern poets of other countries, often allude to the ancient mythology.

d him secretly educated. This son was Jupiter. Neptune and Pluto, two other of Saturn’s sons, were saved. When Titan discover

ometimes styled Saturnia. Saturn taught his subjects agriculture, and other useful arts, and made them so happy that the time

anus had in one hand a key, to denote his power in heaven, and in the other hand a sceptre to express his authority upon eart

th rays and clouds. Beside him were placed two urns, one of good, the other of evil. From these he distributed benefits or af

iad, Pope's translation. Jove’s peculiar habitation, and that of the other celestial gods, was supposed to be Olympus, a mou

Many absurd and immoral actions are imputed to Apollo, as well as to other of the heathen deities. Apollo had a son named Es

ve been brought to much higher utility and beauty by them than by any other people. The Hermes of Egypt was probably some phi

Because Prometheus employed fire more curiously and successfully than other men, he is said to have stolen it from heaven. He

ueen, seated upon a throne, holding in one hand a spindle, and in the other a sceptre. Her deportment was majestic, and her c

rainbow? Why was Iris represented as a divine messenger? Had Iris any other office than those of favour to mankind? Hebe

earth and hell. She was to spend six months with her mother, and the other six months with Pluto. The mythologists say this

s of wisdom, is usually drawn with an owl by her side. This owl is no other than Ascalaphus. When Proserpine heard him inform

elf. Proserpine spent half the year with her mother on earth, and the other half with Pluto in hell. These allegories signify

hand in hand, to show that virtues, though different, belong to each other , and that they are not found single but united. T

iling countenance: and one foot lightly touching the earth, while the other sports in air. Erato. Her name is derived from th

sea, and therefore held. Neptune in more grateful estimation than the other states. Who was Neptune, and how was he represen

hat the rock Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, were so near to each other in the strait of Messina, that a ship, when it wo

care of his flocks, consisting of sea-calves, (phocæ, or seals,) and other marine animals. He is represented by the poets as

? Who was Proteus? What is Homer’s description of Proteus? Were there other inferior deities who presided over different part

, in the figure of a young man, holding fruit in one hand, and in the other the horn of plenty. Priapus was considered as th

o was Flora? Who was Pomona? Who was Priapus? Who was Pales? Who were other rural deities? Who were the Fauns and Satyrs? Who

ey adored the whole collectively, under a figure of half man and half other animals. To this deity the Greeks gave the appell

were crowned with garlands, and sacrifices were offered to them. The other household gods, the Penates, were worshipped only

ted as young men, holding, in one hand, a drinking vessel, and in the other , a horn of plenty. Sometimes they were depicted u

ed all the miseries of violent passions and a guilty conscience — the other , which imposed those lesser evils that soften the

abodes — one a happy and glorious place suitable to virtuous men; the other a region of grief and horror, proper for the puni

ed the happy inhabitants. These were gratified by the society of each other , and by those occupations that had been agreeable

of Justice ordinarily bears a balance in one hand, and a sword in the other , and her eyes were covered with a bandage. These

peared to him, — one was Virtue, who proposed his arduous duties; the other was Pleasure, who offered to his acceptance an ea

the time of Theseus, these petty states were always at war with each other . When Theseus became King of Attica, he perceived

ould not improve nor be happy, because they were always injuring each other , and always in fear. No man wishes to cultivate h

eneral of an army, and command the soldiers: and when the army of any other state should come into Attica, he would be ready

oon became so happy under his regulations, that peaceable people from other places where no wise government existed, went to

rds Peloponnesus, was written, On this side is Peloponnesus. On the other side the inscription was, On this side is Ionia.

and they traversed Greece together, doing more harm than good. Among other violent acts, Theseus seized the beautiful Helen,

e he had abandoned his duty, and had shown no regard to the rights of other princes, and they banished him to the island of S

thers agreed to end the quarrel by single combat, and each killed the other . These brothers hated each other with such perfec

y single combat, and each killed the other. These brothers hated each other with such perfect hatred, that it was said, when

tar. Castor and Pollux are constellations, one never appears with the other , but when one rises the other sets. Who were the

stellations, one never appears with the other, but when one rises the other sets. Who were the brothers of Helen? Were Casto

cord came also among them: that is, the goddesses contended with each other , which of the three was the most beautiful. Disco

. At first, Agamemnon chose rather to abandon the expedition, but the other princes at length persuaded him to yield to the w

reeks invent to deceive the Trojans? How was Troy taken at last? What other story is told concerning the fall of Troy? On wha

whose name was Pylades, and so much did Orestes and Pylades love each other , that their friendship has become a proverb. To

m as she was a Greek, that she had friends in Greece, and that one or other of them should be permitted to return to their co

my dangerous way, Some god within commands, and I obey. But let some other chosen warrior join. To raise my hopes and second

r chosen warrior join. To raise my hopes and second my design.” This other “chosen warrior” was Ulysses. They proceeded toge

r, Anchises, and in one hand his household gods, while he led, in his other hand, his young son, Ascanius. Creusa, the wife o

having six heads, and numerous hands, which grasp spears, sabres, and other weapons of war. Seraswatti is the wife of Brahma,

re commonly erected near the banks of the Ganges, the Kistna, or some other sacred river, for the benefit of ablution in the

igion, and instantly killed those who refused it; and the subjects of other religions, being unable for the most part to read

their political regulations also hinder them from learning from each other . Among the Hindus a very remarkable political ord

mins abstain entirely from animal food and fermented liquors: and the other castes exercise an uncommon degree of temperance

o what classes are the Hindus divided? How do the Brahmins regard the other castes, and what are their manners? Scandina

declared that he was going into Scythia to take his place amongst the other deities at the immortal banquet, where he would r

o spend nine out of every twelve days in the hilly regions, while the other three were spent on the shores of the ocean. Nior

alediction. One half of her body was of the colour of putrid, and the other of living flesh. In this region of horrors roamed

imaginary deity. Moloch was the chief divinity of the Phœnicians and other neighbouring nations, in honour of whom, human vi

y plain.     Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons; Peor, his other name. With these, in troop, Came Astoreth, whom t

tries? Who was Baal, and what was his worship? Who was Dagon, and the other principal gods of the Philistines? How has Milton

uperstitions and sound philosophy. And much as the Egyptians excelled other nations in the wisdom of their laws, and the perf

the crocodile, the dog, the cat, the cow, and ox, the ibis, wolf, and other animals, and even some inanimate substances, whic

led the Serapeum. It is said to have exceeded in magnificence all the other temples of that age, excepting that of the capito

to the most authentic historians, was more rational than that of most other nations of the world. It consisted in the belief

bol of the deity? Who were the ancient Magi? Did the Persians worship other objects besides the Sun and Moon? Who reformed th

ind, to whom men lift up their thoughts, and to whom, in some form or other , worship is offered. Among the nations of the wes

f the heathens; and curious also to compare heathen nations with each other . There are many particulars in which the Greek my

igious services? Does the religion of ancient Greece resemble that of other nations? Does fabulous history afford any facts a

c, dancing, the praises of the gods, and the pleasant society of each other , according to their belief, formed the eternal ha

god of Physic? Who was the goddess of flowers? Had the Mexicans still other gods? Did the Mexicans possess many images of the

declared an important truth, he would say, “Does not Mexitli (or any other god) behold me now;” and kissing his hand, he tou

ted altars in the open air, for the worship of the mountain gods, and other rural deities. The priests of Mexico were numerou

protection. What are temples? What were altars and their uses? Were other places of worship, besides temples, held in rever

tains of Greece,” contributed the material of which the Parthenon and other edifices of the Acropolis were composed. Modern t

l covers for the head, the Petasus, and the Pileus. Homer mentions no other covering of the head, but the helmet of the milit

aning; and pretending to explain that meaning as the will of Jupiter, other credulous persons repaired to that place, to lear

ose, to those who consulted them. In Greece, besides these, were many other oracles; but those of Dodona and Delphi were the

rs among the ancients dance and sing, and what were their hymns? What other offerings besides sacrifices were presented to th

the curse. The misfortunes which happen in consequence of our own or other person’s faults, are sometimes called curses. The

n oath and a vow, and who were permitted to take oaths? Was there any other mode of swearing except in the name of some god,

ent of the temple which was called the most holy place, into which no other person could enter, and to oversee all the public

tted his hair to grow during the time for which the vow was made. The other holy persons were the whole tribe of Levi, called

holy things were altars, garments, and vessels, besides incense, and other substances used in the Hebrew worship. The ark of

ordinary text-books on the subject. Copies were sought for the use of other institutions, and the principals of the academy r

Reynaud, have been consulted, together with the Irish Chroniclers and other standard authorities. The matter of the Mexican a

n an offended god subjected a mortal to some cruel transformation, no other deity, not even Jupiter himself, could undo the s

ures the head of the god is represented as darting rays. Apollo, like other divinities, had many names. Ques. What was the c

an emblem of the vigilance which guards against surprise. Ques. What other names had Mars? Ans. He was called Quirinus [Qui

king the form of a lion to strike terror into the latter. Ques. What other actions are attributed to him? Ans. He taught me

vine and till the ground. He is said to have subdued India, and many other countries of the East. Ques. How was he worshipp

ser Bear continually circle around the pole, and never sink, like the other stars, beneath the waves of Ocean. In the fables

inspired by the Muses with a poetic spirit. Perseus went through many other adventures in which Medusa’s head did him good se

people were allowed to wear purple cloaks, a distinction reserved at other times to the patricians. The Saturnalia is probab

os, where he manufactured Jupiter’s thunderbolts, and the arms of the other gods. Vulcan was the god of fire, and the patron

ed origin of the Fable — Momus — His Parentage — Criticisms passed on other Divinities — His Banishment from Olympus. Æol

he name Momus signifies a jester. His occupation was to criticise the other gods, and censure their actions. Ques. Give an e

oyed in learning their duty; they remained in office for ten, and ten other years were employed in instructing the novices. I

a terrific noise with the clashing of cymbals, the sound of pipes and other instruments. In their frenzy, they cut their fles

In their frenzy, they cut their flesh with knives, and performed many other extravagances, but the people regarded them with

nvented and taught the art of tilling the earth, and sowing wheat and other grains, so that men ate wholesome bread, where be

to divide the year, spending six months with her mother on earth, the other six with Pluto in the infernal regions. Ques. Wh

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

f Ceres, and wherever he went, instructed men in sowing, reaping, and other arts of husbandry. Triptolemus is usually represe

the figure of a woman holding scales in one hand, and a sword in the other . The scales have been variously explained, but th

d. Thalia, the Muse of comedy, holds in one hand a comic mask, in the other a crooked staff. Polyhymnia [Polyhym′nia] preside

d a garland of pine: he holds in one hand a crooked staff, and in the other a pipe of uneven reeds. The music which he made o

materials of the building have been since used in the construction of other edifices. The great dome of Santa Sophia, in Cons

his opportunity, while one of the sisters was handing the eye to the other , he snatched it from her, and left all three in d

s cleft and crooked, and his hair resembled wild parsley. Ques. What other sea-monsters were celebrated? Ans. The Sirens, a

cup; and after they had drunk, transformed them into wolves, swine or other animals. Ulysses escaped by throwing an herb into

man, Charon, was always waiting on the shore to carry the dead to the other side of the lake. The ghosts of those who had not

y the gloomy waters of Avernus, before Charon could carry them to the other side. This superstition made the ancients very ca

h there never existed more than one at the same time. It excelled all other birds in beauty of plumage, and fed only on frank

taly. Servius Tullius dedicated two at Rome; one to Bona Fortuna, the other to Fors Fortuna. This capricious goddess was some

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

been directed. Hercules had plundered Œchalia, and carried off, among other captives, the beautiful Iole [I′ole], daughter of

s called Ægean [Æ′gean] from his name. Theseus, after performing many other wonderful actions, was banished from his country,

ul group which we admire in the constellation Taurus. Atlas had seven other daughters who underwent the same transformation;

carpenter’s saw, and applied it to the cutting of timber. By this and other efforts of skill, the young man excited the jealo

of Minos, Dædalus was imprisoned in a lofty tower. As there seemed no other means of escape, he resolved on attempting a flig

loyed in his works, with a slight mixture, however, of the Æolic, and other forms. With regard to the time in which Homer liv

gil enjoyed the favor of Augustus, with the friendship of Mæcenas and other generous and powerful patrons; his life was, ther

Who was Ulysses? Ans. He was king of Ithaca, and had been, like many other princes of Greece, a suitor of the beautiful Hele

were filled with a sort of indolent contentment, so that they had no other desire than to remain always in that country. Uly

a long time in search of his father. He had visited the courts of the other kings who had taken part in the Trojan war, but w

th its quiver of arrows; taking care, at the same time, to remove all other weapons from the hall. The first thing to be done

ward, Telemachus placed himself by his father’s side, with Eumæus and other armed retainers. The suitors, deprived of their w

nd carried as victims to the temple. The officiating priestess was no other than Iphigenia, the sister of Orestes, whom Diana

ble contest of friendship, each desiring to sacrifice himself for the other . Pylades at length yielded to Orestes, and consen

ry over the Sphinx, which we have already mentioned, he fulfilled the other predictions of the oracle. Œdipus reigned many ye

red the happy plains of Elysium. This was the abode of the heroes and other favorites of the gods. Here, in a fragrant meadow

ore likely to fall under this demoniac influence than the priests and other ministrants in these shrines of imposture. Many i

at Apelles, was afterwards placed in the same temple. Ques. Were any other exercises admitted at the Olympic games? Ans. Ye

ectual competition, which was perhaps more lively and ardent than any other , as the victory in such a contest was more highly

mes, may be applied with some little variation to those solemnized in other places. Ques. By whom were the Pythian Games ins

ffairs as exemplified in the scenes which they had just witnessed. At other times the chorus broke forth into lamentations ov

eek temples, and was enriched by the hand of Phidias with statues and other ornaments. This magnificent temple would have bee

tians worshipped the dog, the wolf, the crocodile, the ibis, and many other animals. They even attributed divinity to certain

existence of one supreme Being called “the Eternal,” who created two other mighty beings, and imparted to them a portion of

any future reward as a motive for virtuous actions. Filial piety and other social and domestic virtues are strongly inculcat

oints of belief? Ans. Never. When Chinese, who are strangers to each other , meet, a polite formula is to ask “To what sublim

of the great western nations whose power they so much fear. There are other reasons; the purity of Christian morals has been

erstitions, though still sensual, are more gentle and refined. On the other hand, the wild and rugged North made its own impr

y of the week, Woden’s day, changed to Wednesday. Ques. Has Odin any other name? Ans. He was sometimes called Alfâdur, (All

e hand of the goddess Freya, and refused to restore the hammer on any other terms. Thor was much troubled, as he knew how vai

to see her eat for supper eight salmons, besides a full grown ox and other delicacies, washing down the repast with proporti

of the roots of stones, the noise made by the footfall of a cat, and other equally absurd and imaginary material. Baldur

t Hela keep her own.” It was strongly suspected that this hag was no other than Loki himself, who never ceased to work evil

nters will pass away without being tempered by a single summer. Three other winters will then follow, during which war and di

r so picturesque nor so well defined as that of Scandinavia. Odin and other Scandinavian divinities were worshipped by the tr

d by the tribes who dwelt along the borders of the Northern Ocean; in other parts of Germany, Druidism prevailed. The Germans

an end. Notwithstanding these enlightened ideas, they reverenced many other divinities. The Assyrian Baal was worshipped amon

at work. Camul, the Celtic Mars, Tarann, the god of thunder, and many other divinities of inferior rank, were worshipped in G

fe, after ablutions, and offerings of bread and wine. The vervain and other plants had also their distinct ceremonial. Amber

ood should flow more or less rapidly. This ceremony was repeated with other victims until the augury was deemed decisive. The

of wicker work in which they were consumed together. In offerings to other gods, different rites were observed. These remark

in the centre of the island, but the same rite was performed in many other places. According to what seems an authentic trad

of natural religion, and the purest maxims of morality, while on the other , their sacrifices and public worship were marked

the very phraseology of Scripture. Ques. Did the Aztecs worship any other deity? Ans. Yes, they worshipped many subordinat

or, this offering formed no necessary part of the burial rite; on the other hand, the obsequies of an Aztec noble were always

ach temple, and the priests were further enriched by first fruits and other offerings. This large provision became necessary

ed for their support, should be distributed among the poor. This, and other benevolent provisions, seem very inconsistent wit

he temple; fruits, ripe maize, and the sweet incense of the copal and other odoriferous gums; while the birds and domestic an

uced by the Aztec conquerors, whose wars were often undertaken for no other purpose than to procure victims for their altars.

before the foundation of the Peruvian monarchy. Ques. Are there any other Peruvian legends? Ans. Among the traditions of t

hrine offered an inexhaustible supply of material for the erection of other buildings. Fields of maize are now waving where t

man, who had saved Rome from the plots of Catiline, and rendered many other signal services to his country, was basely murder

hese are either traditions of remote times, or accounts received from other travellers. The general opinion is that where Her

ill a patron of literature and literary men; Virgil, Horace, Ovid and other celebrated writers of the Augustan age, were amon

d off the tragic prize from Æschylus. He gained the same triumph over other competitors, taking the first prize on twenty-fou

, one of which passed through the island of Ierne, (Ireland,) and the other through Ceylon. Titicaca. A lake in Bolivia

s, sculptured in a style entirely different from that observed on any other American monuments. We may form some idea of the

ow lost, with the exception of two treatises; one on agriculture, the other on the Latin language. The latter is dedicated to

h in the Index of Mythological Subjects the more common myths of some other nations are briefly stated, no myths save those k

becomes Atrīdes; Ποσειδῶν, Posīdon; Ιφιμέδεια, Iphimedīa. But, on the other hand, Κυθέρεια becomes Cytherēa; Πηνειός, Penēus;

University (published by Morton & Co., Louisville: 1872); and of other works to which due reference is made in the footn

t, I am indebted in some cases directly to Baumeister and Roscher, in other cases to the selection made by Messrs. Allen and

ris: 1811), Müller’s Denkmäler der Alten Kunst (Göttingen: 1832), and other collections, to which reference is made in the Li

fixed to the Text. The Maps, furnished by Messrs. Ginn & Co. from other of their publications, have, with the kind consen

ond its proper limit) that mythology is primitive philosophy, and the other statement that an ancient philosophy never dies,

s of oral and written expression may all be furnished or developed by other educative agencies; but what stimulus to fancy, t

ed to act and speak with human interests and passions.” Myths, on the other hand, are stories of anonymous origin, prevalent

ll, at any one time, have been entertained by the myth-makers. On the other hand, the current explanations of certain myths a

distinction between our imagination and theirs. They, at some time or other , believed in these personifications. We do not be

nce. The custom of worshipping ancestors, still existent in China and other countries is adduced in support of this method of

’ chance to be influenced by the same set of religious doctrines; the other , that God made his revelation in the beginning on

ess since then. The theological theory has been advocated by Voss and other Germans in the seventeenth century, by Jacob Brya

tralians, Bushmen, Red Indians, the lower races of South America, and other worse than barbaric people of the nineteenth cent

d ability to be transformed, and to transform others into animals and other objects. “2. Magical accomplishments, such as pow

occasionally the questionable element of the myth originated in germs other than savage curiosity and credulity: for instance

into its shape, we shall find ourselves led back generally to one or other of two sources — either to actual historical even

eir shoulder, and the chariot bends beneath their weight. And, on the other hand, collaterally with these corporeal images, a

th a constant fire, whatever in humanity is skilful and wise; and the other , like the living air, breathes the calm of heaven

tine gropings after truth. Whatever reservations scholars may make on other points, most of them will concur in these: that s

t for exchange only between nations historically acquainted with each other . It will not account for the existence of the sam

any probability, after they had been developed independently of each other , possess the remarkable resemblance in details th

Aryan tribes: it ignores Africans, Mongolians, American Indians, and other peoples whose myths resemble the Aryan, but are n

of Orpheus, was attributed a hymn on the Eleusinian Mysteries,24 and other sacred poems and oracles. Milton couples his name

capable of transmitting long productions were not yet in use. On the other hand, it is asked how poems of such length could

have them, were interpolated. Beside the Iliad and the Odyssey, many other epics passed in antiquity under Homer’s name. The

ical material. From the plays of Æschylus (525 b.c.) we gather, among other noble lessons, the fortunes of the family of Agam

aste, and in stylistic form. Ovid, often alluded to in poetry by his other name, Naso, was born in the year 43 b.c. He was e

mar, and rhetoric have been, with more or less certitude, assigned to other writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

that since, during the twelfth century, when no poet would adopt any other poet’s stanzaic form, the Austrian Von Kürenberg

1) The Hieroglyphs, or sacred inscriptions in Tombs of the Kings, and other solemn places, — conveying ideas by symbols, by p

necromantic incantations, prayers for the souls of the departed, and other rituals. Indian Records. — (1) The Vedas, or Hol

t have contributed to its composition. The Adventures of Rama, on the other hand, recalls a more primitive stage of credulity

rpent with its tail in its mouth, was the source of all. According to other myths Night and Darkness were the prime elements

son of its rapid rotation, into halves. Of these, one was Heaven, the other Earth. From the centre of the egg proceeded Eros

the other Earth. From the centre of the egg proceeded Eros (Love) and other wondrous beings. But the most consistent account

Typhon, the Giants were buried in the abyss of eternal darkness. What other outcome can be expected when mere physical or bru

was now committed the office of making man and providing him and all other animals with the faculties necessary for their pr

the image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature, so that while other animals turn their faces toward the earth, man ga

h, and thoughtful when too late, had been so prodigal of his gifts to other animals that no blessing was left worth conferrin

science, and the arts. § 23. The Age of Gold. — Whether in this or in other ways the world was furnished with inhabitants, th

were the chieftains of the Theban and the Trojan wars and of numerous other military or predatory expeditions. ———— Since mos

gods. With the remaining ten “Great Gods” are sometimes reckoned the other sister of Jupiter, Ceres (Demeter), properly a di

sest of the divinities and most glorious. In the Iliad he informs the other gods that their united strength would not budge h

e district that they should establish there an oracle of Jupiter. The other dove flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon in the L

f, though wedded to the goddess Juno, should be charged with numerous other love affairs, not only in respect of goddesses, b

therefore, not wise to assume that the love affairs of Jupiter and of other divinities always symbolize combinations of natur

hat Jupiter, when represented as appropriating the characteristics of other gods, was sometimes, also, accredited with their

vement of Grecian sculpture. It was of colossal dimensions, and, like other statues of the period, “chryselephantine”; that i

martial music, and protecting the war-horse and the war-ship. On the other hand, she is of a gentle, fair, and thoughtful as

them. His forge in Olympus was furnished not only with anvils and all other implements of the trade, but with automatic handm

ut guardian, of wild beasts, — mistress withal of horses and kine and other domestic brutes. She ruled marsh and mountain; he

ury, swift as the wind, was the servant and herald of Jupiter and the other gods. On his ankles (in plastic art), and his low

he holy flame was religiously cherished. From her altars those of the other gods obtained their fires. No new colony, no new

yrinx, or shepherd’s pipe, which he played in a masterly manner. Like other gods who dwelt in forests, he was dreaded by thos

t mix and meet her From many times and lands. She waits for each and other , She waits for all men born; Forgets the earth he

he, from which the souls of those that were to return to the earth in other bodies drank oblivion of their former lives. F

gates, — one of ivory, whence issue false and flattering visions; the other of horn, through which true dreams and noble pass

riot over the sea, which became smooth before him, while dolphins and other monsters of the deep gambolled about his path. In

umeister 964; Roscher 18: 50.] (3) Quirinus, a war-god, said to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after

ved to keep some of his eyes open, though he shut the rest. But among other stories, Mercury told him how the instrument on w

and round in the neighborhood of the pole, but never sink, as do the other stars, beneath the Ocean.112 § 61. Europa was th

in the shape of women. Of these one had the guise of a stranger, the other of a lady of that land, and closer still she clun

aying how she was her mother, and herself had nursed Europa. But that other with mighty hands, and forcefully, kept haling th

And how mild he is, and dear, and gentle to behold, and no whit like other bulls! A mind as honest as a man’s possesses him,

vine bull, with one hand clasped the beast’s great horn, and with the other caught up the purple fold of her garment, lest it

ries of deceptions that resulted in his eternal punishment.118 On the other hand, the inhabitants of the island that had the

, and compacts the web. Wool of Tyrian dye is contrasted with that of other colors, shaded off into one another so adroitly t

suspended.128 3. Myths of Mars. § 68. The relations of Mars to other deities may be best illustrated by passages from

n and baleful, whose thought is ever of iniquitous deeds. For all the other gods that are in Olympus hearken to thee, and we

g art thou, and to me thy mother bare thee. But wert thou born of any other god unto this violence, long ere this hadst thou

ictim to a fourth, and in like manner the whole crowd dealt with each other till all but five fell slain. These five joined w

bbling of the waters, that signalized the fight, and how the eels and other fish were afflicted by Vulcan till Xanthus in ang

words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low.

leap Out of my lair, and seize — encircle him Till one hand join the other round about — There lives not who shall pull him

ll. Say, does the seed scorn earth and seek the sun? Surely it has no other end and aim Than to drop, once more die into the

he nymph Cyrene, whose son was Aristæus161. Of his relations with two other maidens the following myths exist. § 85. Daphne.

quiver two arrows of different workmanship, — one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp poi

And, though ’twas a step into which he had driven her, He somehow or other had never forgiven her; Her memory he nursed as a

and as he passed through his daily course to his setting, she saw no other object, — her eyes fixed constantly on him. At la

re were, in Venus’s garden, two fountains, — one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from

f the chase and rural scenes. Other apartments were filled with still other beautiful and precious productions of nature and

t an instant Cupid, staying, reproached her with distrust of him. “No other punishment inflict I than to leave thee forever.

He did take The apple and the hand. “Both I detain,” Said he, “the other two I dedicate To the two Powers that soften virg

tood, Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptune’s might The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair

n her face, was strooken blind. But this is true: so like was one the other , As he imagined Hero was his mother; And oftentim

er To Venus’ temple, where unhappily, As after chanc’d, they did each other spy. So fair a church as this had Venus none; The

stript long e’er the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold

unds, — the Tomb of Ninus. The one who first arrived should await the other at the foot of a white mulberry-tree, near a cool

ich, in the splendor and solemnity of their observance, surpassed all other religious celebrations among the Greeks. Fig.

e nightingale is said to sing over his grave more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. His lyre was placed by Jupiter am

ord of the sea illustrate his defiant invasions of lands belonging to other gods, or his character as earth-shaker and earth-

s character as earth-shaker and earth-protector. Of his contests with other gods, that with Minerva for Athens has been relat

Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem’d To his great heart none other than a God! I ask’d thee, ‘Give me immortality.

y me! ay me! with what another heart In days far-off, and with what other eyes I used to watch — if I be he that watched

At ease against a Doric pillar: One hand a droning organ play’d, The other held a Pan’s pipe (fashion’d Like those of old) t

cho. One maiden, however, uttered a prayer that he might some time or other feel what it was to love and meet no return of af

hem like the Naiad of the following verses, sacred for Diana, or some other divinity. “Dian white-arm’d has given me this co

n that form she assured the slave-owner that she had seen no woman or other person, except herself, thereabouts. Then, resumi

d that the stem of the plant was bleeding. Indeed, the plant was none other than a nymph, Lotis, who, escaping from a base pu

ith that again there murmured, “Nevermore!” And Rhœcus after heard no other sound, Except the rattling of the oak’s crisp lea

d, guardian especially of the apple-orchards, but presiding also over other fruits. “Bear me, Pomona,” sings one of our poets

t is all for the shaggy brow that spans my forehead, from this to the other ear, one long, unbroken eyebrow. And but one eye

y baskets are always overladen. “Also I am skilled in piping, as none other of the Cyclopes here, and of thee, my love, my sw

This Phoroneus conferred upon the Argives the benefits attributed by other Greeks to Prometheus. He was succeeded by his son

orning. Here was the realm of Atlas, whose bulk surpassed that of all other men. He was rich in flocks and herds; but his chi

280 His adventures might therefore be recited with those of Jason and other descendants of Æolus in the next chapter, but tha

were the “Choice of Hercules.” Soon afterward he contended with none other than Apollo for the tripod of Delphi; but reconci

nd Hercules remained true friends, each respecting the prowess of the other . Returning to Thebes, the hero aided his half-bro

essed. As a consequence, Hercules became involved in a broil with the other centaurs of the mountain. Unfortunately, his frie

e.284 Fig. 83. Hercules and Cerberus. [Vase picture: Müller.] Two other exploits not recorded among the twelve labors are

he throne, and gave Hesione to Telamon, who, with Peleus, Oïcles, and other Greek heroes, had accompanied him. Also worthy of

rse with mortals. Next she erected two altars, the one to Hecate, the other to Hebe, and sacrificed a black sheep, — pouring

k of a crow, which outlives nine generations of men. These, with many other things “without a name,” she boiled together for

erwards lost the favor of Minos, and was imprisoned by him. Seeing no other way of escape, the artificer made, out of feather

her silence, and, pretending that she was dead, took in marriage the other sister, Philomela. Procne by means of a web, into

anied by his daughter Antigone, he went begging through the land. His other daughter, Ismene, at first, stayed at home. Cursi

arrel by single combat. They fought, and fell each by the hand of the other . The armies then renewed the fight; and at last t

ift of Harmonia’s wedding garment, impelled not only Alcmæon, but her other son, Amphilochus. The descendants (Epigoni) of th

uri (sons of Jove). ———— So like they were, no mortal Might one from other know; White as snow their armor was, Their steeds

er own favor. Paris decided in favor of the last, thus making the two other goddesses his enemies. Under the protection of th

himself gained for the undertaking, Ulysses lent his aid to bring in other reluctant chiefs, especially Achilles, son of Pel

ss could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virgin, and that none other but the daughter of the offender would be accepta

Greeks. Apollo was neutral, sometimes taking one side, sometimes the other . Jove himself, though he loved Priam, exercised a

ruck Ajax where the belts that bore his sword and shield crossed each other on the breast, but the double guard prevented its

his early love revived, and forgetting the contending armies and all other affairs of state, he gave himself up to her and l

espective sires: the one to aspire to the highest pitch of glory; the other , as the elder, to keep watch over his friend, and

ed him from the fate impending, but Juno hinted that if he did so the other inhabitants of heaven might be induced to interpo

threw his spear, but missed Patroclus; the spear of the Greek, on the other hand, pierced Sarpedon’s breast, — and he fell, c

his adversary, and acknowledging the prodigy, turned his arms against other champions. But none dared stand before him; and P

it is from the Odyssey and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector, Troy did not i

it. Ajax and Ulysses were the only claimants. A select number of the other chiefs were appointed to award the prize. It was

emple to be made victims. But the priestess of Diana in Tauris was no other than Iphigenia, the sister of Orestes, who had be

ess conducted her guests to a seat, and had them served with wine and other delicacies. When they had feasted heartily, she t

re. She shut them in her styes and supplied them with acorns and such other things as swine love. Eurylochus hurried back to

hs to seize one of the crew of every vessel passing within reach. The other terror, Charybdis, was a gulf, nearly on a level

em what was on her mind; not alluding to her wedding day, but finding other reasons equally good. Her father readily assented

rple wool or ply the loom. For the Phæacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that c

and all went forth to the arena for games of running, wrestling, and other exercises. After all had done their best, Ulysses

time, been absent in quest of his father, visiting the courts of the other kings, who had returned from the Trojan expeditio

ay, by any display of unusual interest in him, that he knew him to be other than he seemed, and even if he saw him insulted,

head, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog, that he had in other days often led to the chase. Soon as he perceiv

ll of arrows was laid in the hall. Telemachus had taken care that all other weapons should be removed, under pretence that in

y ancient mother; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce all other nations to their sway.” The Trojans heard with jo

houted after them, so that the shores resounded, and at the noise the other Cyclopes came forth from their caves and woods, a

gave orders to Æolus, who sent forth his sons, Boreas, Typhon and the other winds, to toss the ocean. A terrible storm ensued

death. O, how willingly would they now endure poverty, labor, and any other infliction, if they might but return to life! Nex

me to a place where the road divided, the one leading to Elysium, the other to the regions of the condemned. Æneas beheld on

, moon, and stars. Of this seed the inferior gods created man and all other animals, mingling it with various proportions of

y received. Latinus immediately concluded that the Trojan hero was no other than the promised son-in-law announced by the ora

ver and swam across, and found the spear, with the infant safe on the other side. Thenceforth he lived among the shepherds an

h age, walked between his son and Æneas, taking the arm of one or the other of them, and with much variety of pleasing talk s

n ever since have called his reign the golden age; but by degrees far other times succeeded, and the thirst of gold and the t

ause. Our state is feeble, hemmed in on one side by the river, on the other by the Rutulians. But I propose to ally thee with

ere in the camp with thee rather than stay and live in peace with the other matrons in Acestes’ city.” Euryalus replied, “Say

. For me she left the Trojan soil, and would not stay behind with the other matrons at the city of Acestes. I go now without

e boldly into whatever dangers may present themselves.” Iulus and the other chiefs were moved to tears, and promised to do al

mor fabricated by Vulcan, at her request, for her son. Turnus, on the other hand, was deserted by his celestial allies, Juno

ense roots, extending one into Asgard (the dwelling of the gods), the other into Jötunheim (the abode of the giants), and the

y they ride out into the court or field and fight until they cut each other in pieces. This is their pastime; but when meal t

eing her eat for her supper eight salmons and a full-grown ox besides other delicacies, washing the whole down with three tun

for no one is permitted to remain here who does not, in some feat or other , excel all other men?” “The feat that I know,”

rmitted to remain here who does not, in some feat or other, excel all other men?” “The feat that I know,” said Loki, “is to

et on the, hall floor, Loki placed himself at one end and Logi at the other , and each of them began to eat as fast as he coul

a man here as thou art at home if thou showest no greater prowess in other feats than methinks will be shown in this.” Thor

thou art not quite so stout as we thought thee; but wilt thou try any other feat? — though methinks thou art not likely to be

ear me again, for shouldst thou do so, I shall again defend myself by other illusions, so that thou wilt only lose thy labor

wife of Odin, exacted an oath from fire and water, from iron and all other metals, from stones, trees, diseases, beasts, bir

as dead, and Odin was forced to seek her in Hela’s dominions. But the other gods, feeling that what Frigga had done was quite

too, came home distraught with grief, Loathing to meet, at dawn, the other gods; And he went in, and shut the door, and fixt

d talking of the life we led in heaven, While we yet lived, among the other gods.” He spake, and straight his lineaments bega

things very willingly complied with this request, both men and every other living being, as well as earths, and stones, and

tears? Thok with dry eyes will weep o’er Balder’s pyre. Weep him all other things, if weep they will — I weep him not! let H

ch winters will pass without being tempered by a single summer. Three other like winters will follow, during which war and di

thin my breast, though vain, But not to me so grievous as, I know, To other gods it were, is my enforced Absence from fields

And pastime of the gods — the wise discourse Of Odin, the delights of other days. O Hermod, pray that thou may’st join us the

she taught him many wise sayings; and they plighted troth, one to the other , both then and again; and Sigurd gave her the rin

ild to the union, and exchanged rings with her, — she giving him none other than the ancient Ring of Andvari back again. But

done and I may not undo, I have given and I take not again; Art thou other than I, Allfather, wilt thou gather my glory in v

max the same day, when each queen attempted to take precedence of the other in entering the cathedral for the celebration of

66-68. § 14. For Translations of the Nibelungenlied, see § 185 C. For other German lays of myth, the Gudrun, the Great Rose G

child heir in chief. — Lang, Myth, Ritual, etc., 1: 297. According to other legends Zeus was born in Arcadia, or even in Epir

as born in a cave of Mount Dicte, in Crete. § 19. Atlas, according to other accounts, was not doomed to support the heavens u

enes, as earth-born, claimed descent from Pyrrha (the red earth); the other and older, by which Deucalion was represented as

wers given at the shrine. Illustrative. — Allusions to Jove on every other page of Milton, Dryden, Prior, Gray, and any poet

zabethan and Augustan periods. On the Love Affairs of Jupiter and the other gods, Milton, Paradise Regained 2: 182. Dodona: T

the Graces and the Hours; in one hand she held a pomegranate, in the other a sceptre surmounted by a cuckoo. Of the extant r

e and dignified beauty, and freedom from any transient expression; in other words, by repose. The most important copy extant

od. The goddess was represented standing; in one hand a spear, in the other a statue of Victory. Her helmet, highly decorated

ere”; Dekker, The Sun’s Darling; Burns (as in the Winter Night) and other Scotch song-writers find it hard to keep Phœbus o

49-53. Of modern paintings the most famous are the Sleeping Venus and other representations of Venus by Titian; the Birth of

imes she is veiled, and seated on a throne with lions at her side; at other times she rides in a chariot drawn by lions. She

Hesiod’s account of the Family of Night. (Theogony.) According to other theogonies, the Fates were daughters of Jove and

e times, traced their descent from a she-bear, and if they also, like other races, recognized a bear in a certain constellati

he Elder of Argos lived about 431 b.c., and was a contemporary of two other great sculptors, Phidias and Myron. His greatest

ountains, — one in Crete, where Jupiter was nurtured by Amalthea; the other in Phrygia, near Troy. Mount Helicon: in Bœotia,

: in Sicily. Parnassus: in Phocis; one peak was sacred to Apollo, the other to the Muses. The Castalian Spring, sacred to the

h Mount Pelion in the story of the giants who piled one on top of the other in their attempt to scale Olympus. These mountain

ly, performed on the tenth day after the massacre, by Jupiter and the other gods. This petrifaction of the onlookers may indi

e’s juvenile poems he alludes to the practice of throwing garlands or other light objects on the stream of Alpheüs, to be car

serpents, and Phantasus, who assumes the forms of rocks, streams, and other inanimate things. The following table will indica

ithful Shepherdess); Landor, Pan and Pitys, “Pan led me to a wood the other day,” etc.; Landor, Cupid and Pan; R. Buchanan, P

minary as struggling against, and overcoming, monsters, or performing other laborious tasks in obedience to the orders of som

of Hercules is composed of such tasks, it is easy to, class him with other sun-heroes. But to construe his whole history and

ing, now revealing the mangled body of the sun.” In this way Cox, and other interpreters of myth, would explain the series. B

he flaming sunset?). Jason is no more faithful to his sweetheart than other solar heroes— Hercules, Perseus, Apollo — are to

Minerva, the patron deity of Athens. This festival differed from the other Grecian games chiefly in two particulars. It was

eum among those known as the “Elgin marbles.” We may mention here the other celebrated national games of the Greeks. The firs

seus fights with the Amazons (clouds, we may suppose, in some form or other ), and, like him he descends to the underworld. Ar

s the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father. Among other places which he visited, following on his father’

ed all his movements, made him repel her allurements. Finally when no other means of escape could be found, the two friends l

dead, where it remains till it returns to the world, to dwell in some other human or animal body; at last, when sufficiently

visible creation, meaning by it the just adaptation of parts to each other . This is the idea which Dryden expresses in the b

king. On the one hand, his attributes recall those of Apollo; on the other hand, his story appeals to, and is colored by, th

tioned above. For the originals and literal translations of these and other Norse lays of importance, see Vigfusson and Powel

of supreme godhead. Worshipped through all Egypt, and associated with other gods who are then manifestations of his various a

of the Egyptian Thebes; generally -associated in attributes with some other god. As Amen-Ra he is the king of Theban gods, th

ife they prepared for those that should follow blissful abodes in the other world, of which they are king and queen. 2. Brahm

ned into logical subtleties, intelligible only to the learned; on the other hand, crystallized into symbols, rites, and unend

Com. § 33; his oracles, 52, 53; explanation of his love-affairs, 53; other children of, 53; Greek conceptions of, 53; in art

; the mental state of savages, 13; senseless element, a survival, 14; other germs than savage curiosity and credulity, 15; ph

in Thessaly occupied by the Titans in their war with Jupiter and the other Olympians. Otter, 395. O′tus, 120. Ov′id (O-vid′

’ Thebais of Statius; Cooke’s Hesiod, etc.). 3 vols. Lond.: 1810. For other translators, see Com. §§ 11-15, 167-185. Turchi,

4 Amphion; and Commentary. 27. §§ 133-137. 28. §§ 133-137. 29. For other authorities, and for a few standard translations

, see Commentary, § 11. 30. With regard to translations of these and other Latin poets, see Commentary, § 12. 31. Based up

e Commentary, § 12. 31. Based upon Lucian’s ‘Lucius or the Ass’ and other Greek stories. 32. Translation in Walter Pater’s

als, oracles, and his place a literature and art, see Commentary. For other particulars, see sections on Myths of Apollo. 8

elegant literature, is respectfully inscribed. Preface. If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that w

is very unattractive reading. Neither are they in verse, as well for other reasons as from a conviction that to translate fa

ich prevailed among the Greeks — the people from whom the Romans, and other nations through them, received their science and

Sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing towards the other goal Of his chamber in the east.” The abode of t

here the inhabitants divine rejoice Forever.” Cowper. The robes and other parts of the dress of the goddesses were woven by

said to have been the golden age of innocence and purity, and on the other he is described as a monster who devoured his chi

vanquished them, and imprisoned some of them in Tartarus, inflicting other penalties on others. Atlas was condemned to bear

he son of Jupiter and Maia. He presided over commerce, wrestling, and other gymnastic exercises, even over thieving, and ever

like the Satyrs of the Greeks. Quirinus was a war god, said to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after

image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature, so that while all other animals turn their faces downward, and look to th

eus was committed the office of making man, and providing him and all other animals with the faculties necessary for their pr

. But when man came to be provided for, who was to be superior to all other animals, Epimetheus had been so prodigal of his r

ht down fire to man. With this gift man was more than a match for all other animals. It enabled him to make weapons wherewith

, hope never entirely leaves us; and while we have that, no amount of other ills can make us completely wretched. Another sto

s quiver two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp poi

d the Tomb of Ninus, and that the one who came first should await the other at the foot of a certain tree. It was a white mul

liss,) Through whose small holes this dangerous pair     May see each other , but not kiss.” In Mickle’s translation of the L

have thought, as you looked at them, that one was going to bark, the other to leap forward. Cephalus, though he had lost his

ontrived to keep some of his eyes open though he shut the rest. Among other stories, Mercury told him how the instrument on w

nd Little Bear move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars do, beneath the ocean.   Milton alludes to

but more remains before. He turns his eyes from one direction to the other ; now to the goal whence he began his course, now

ich, in the splendor and solemnity of their observance, surpassed all other religious celebrations among the Greeks.   There

lludes to the same story, and to the practice of throwing garlands or other light objects on his stream to be carried downwar

laces where her sister had broken them off the stem. The plant was no other than the nymph Lotis, who, running from a base pu

he huntress Diana; and calls her dogs, and chases hares and stags, or other game that it is safe to hunt, but keeps clear of

es to sleep. Poppies grow abundantly before the door of the cave, and other herbs, from whose juices Night collects slumbers,

hantasos is a third, who turns himself into rocks, waters, woods, and other things without life. These wait upon kings and gr

ng the British song.” But Pomona was also regarded as presiding over other fruits, and as such is invoked by Thomson: — “Be

. There are two fountains in Venus’s garden, one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from

ters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine. I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you forever. Love

not the dangerous flood, nor venture among the formidable rams on the other side, for as long as they are under the influence

ictim to a fourth, and in like manner the whole crowd dealt with each other till all fell, slain with mutual wounds, except f

with her own hands whatever stood in the way of her love. And can any other woman dare more than I? I would encounter fire an

endeavored to attract him uttered a prayer that he might some time or other feel what it was to love and meet no return of af

ould be like Cupid blind,     To save him from Narcissus’ fate.” The other is by Cowper: — “On an ugly Fellow.” “Beware, my

and as he passed through his daily course to his setting; she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on him. At las

makes the labor light. Wool of Tyrian dye is contrasted with that of other colors, shaded off into one another so adroitly t

ing. It was the realm of King Atlas, whose bulk surpassed that of all other men. He was rich in flocks and herds and had no n

oxicated with the wine, attempted to offer violence to the bride; the other Centaurs followed his example, and a dreadful con

erwards we do not know, but perhaps it was found after all, like many other golden prizes, not worth the trouble it had cost

rse with mortals. She next erected two altars, the one to Hecate, the other to Hebe, the goddess of youth, and sacrificathed

eak of a crow, that outlives nine generations of men. These with many other things “without a name” she boiled together for h

imes she is veiled, and seated on a throne with lions at her side, at other times riding in a chariot drawn by lions. She wea

Minerva, the patron deity of Athens. This festival differed from the other Grecian games chiefly in two particulars. It was

itish Museum among those known as the “Elgin marbles.” Olympic and other games. It seems not inappropriate to mention h

ic and other games. It seems not inappropriate to mention here the other celebrated national games of the Greeks. The firs

together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Dædalus was s

ppeared occasionally in later times, taking part with one side or the other , in hard-fought fields, and were said on such occ

es to the legend: — “So like they were, no mortal     Might one from other know; White as snow their armor was,     Their st

aunts to protect him from his mother. Autonoë seized one arm, Ino the other , and between them he was torn to pieces, while hi

pherd’s pipe, which he himself played in a masterly manner. Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those w

hand. Its trunk measured fifteen cubits round, and it overtopped the other trees as they overtopped the shrubbery. But for a

; but I wish I may never catch another fish if I believe any woman or other person except myself to have been hereabouts for

name the Latins designated the Muses, but included under it also some other deities, principally nymphs of fountains. Egeria

aters. Having finished his story, he added, “But why should I tell of other persons’ transformations when I myself am an inst

ich he had exceeded the exactions of Juno, his step-mother. I, on the other hand, said to the father of the maiden, ‘Behold m

e nightingale is said to sing over his grave more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. His lyre was placed by Jupiter am

the silver lake!                Listen and save.” The following are other celebrated mythical poets and musicians, some of

ontest, was deprived by them of his sight. Milton alludes to him with other blind bards, when speaking of his own blindness,

corded of them in the following stories rest on the same authority as other narratives of the “Age of Fable,” that is, of the

private enemy slay him? The all-discerning sun alone can tell, for no other eye beheld it. Yet not improbably the murderer ev

informed against himself. Seize the man who uttered that cry and the other to whom he spoke!” The culprit would gladly have

g men who had sent for him, Simonides was satisfied that they were no other than Castor and Pollux themselves. Sappho .

in favor of Venus and gave her the golden apple, thus making the two other goddesses his enemies. Under the protection of Ve

g now himself gained for the undertaking, he lent his aid to bring in other reluctant chiefs, especially Achilles. This hero

placed some arms. While the king’s daughters were engrossed with the other contents of the merchant’s pack, Achilles handled

be appeased by the sacrifice of a virgin on her altar, and that none other but the daughter of the offender would be accepta

Greeks. Apollo was neutral, sometimes taking one side, sometimes the other , and Jove himself, though he loved the good King

uck Ajax, where the belts that bore his sword and shield crossed each other on the breast. The double guard prevented its pen

his early love revived, and, forgetting the contending armies and all other affairs of state, he thought only of her and let

his adversary, and acknowledging the prodigy, turned his arms against other champions. But none dared stand before him, and P

it is from the Odyssey and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector, Troy did not i

it. Ajax and Ulysses were the only claimants; a select number of the other chiefs were appointed to award the prize. It was

d to the temple to be made victims. But the priestess of Diana was no other than Iphigenia, the sister of Orestes, who, our r

to the description given by Homer and the ancient geographers, but no other evidence of the former existence of a great city.

ess conducted her guests to a seat, and had them served with wine and other delicacies. When they had feasted heartily, she t

re. She shut them in her sties and supplied them with acorns and such other things as swine love. Eurylochus hurried back

hs to seize one of the crew of every vessel passing within reach. The other terror, Charybdis, was a gulf, nearly on a level

s the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father. Among other places at which he arrived, following on his fath

verned all his movements, made him repel her allurements, and when no other means of escape could be found, the two friends l

em what was on her mind; not alluding to her wedding-day, but finding other reasons equally good. Her father readily assented

rple wool or ply the loom. For the Phæacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that c

r waters, one flowing by artificial channels over all the garden, the other conducted through the court-yard of the palace, w

and all went forth to the arena for games of running, wrestling, and other exercises. After all had done their best, Ulysses

, was absent in quest of his father. He had gone to the courts of the other kings, who had returned from the Trojan expeditio

ay, by any display of unusual interest in him, that he knew him to be other than he seemed, and even if he saw him insulted,

head, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog, that he had in other days often led to the chase.                    

ll of arrows was laid in the hall. Telemachus had taken care that all other weapons should be removed, under pretence that in

r ancient mother; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce all other nations to their sway.” The Trojans heard with jo

houted after them, so that the shores resounded, and at the noise the other Cyclopes came forth from their caves and woods an

s obeyed the goddess and sent forth his sons, Boreas, Typhon, and the other winds, to toss the ocean. A terrible storm ensued

married state! One husband caused thy flight by dying, Thy death the other caused by flying.” Palinurus. After touchi

death. O how willingly would they now endure poverty, labor, and any other infliction, if they might but return to life! Nex

me to a place where the road divided, the one leading to Elysium, the other to the regions of the condemned. Æneas beheld on

, moon, and stars. Of this seed the inferior gods created man and all other animals, mingling it with various proportions of

y received. Latinus immediately concluded that the Trojan hero was no other than the promised son-in-law announced by the ora

ver and swam across, and found the spear, with the infant safe on the other side. Thenceforth he lived among the shepherds an

h age, walked between his son and Æneas, taking the arm of one or the other of them, and with much variety of pleasing talk s

n ever since have called his reign the golden age; but by degrees far other times succeeded, and the thirst of gold and the t

ause. Our state is feeble, hemmed in on one side by the river, on the other by the Rutulians. But I propose to ally you with

here in the camp with you rather than stay and live in peace with the other matrons in Acestes’ city.” Euryalus replied, “Say

. For me she left the Trojan soil, and would not stay behind with the other matrons at the city of Acestes. I go now without

e boldly into whatever dangers may present themselves.” Iulus and the other chiefs were moved to tears, and promised to do al

mor fabricated by Vulcan, at her request, for her son. Turnus, on the other hand, was deserted by his celestial allies, Juno

became his disciples and enrolled themselves in a society to aid each other in the pursuit of wisdom, uniting their property

dead, where it remains till it returns to the world, to dwell in some other human or animal body, and at last, when sufficien

visible creation, meaning by it the just adaptation of parts to each other . This is the idea which Dryden expresses in the b

, Isis found thirteen pieces, the fishes of the Nile having eaten the other . This she replaced by an imitation of sycamore wo

the district that they must establish there an oracle of Jupiter. The other dove flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon in the L

being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold. The height of the figure

oddess was represented standing. In one hand she held a spear, in the other a statue of Victory. Her helmet, highly decorated

containing such long productions were yet introduced into use. On the other hand it is asked how poems of such length could h

to Homer, but that there are numerous interpolations and additions by other hands. The date assigned to Homer, on the authori

e force of nature could no further go; To make a third she joined the other two.” From Cowper’s Table Talk: — « Ages elapse

ning plumes again.” Ovid . Ovid alluded to in poetry by his other name of Naso, was born in the year 43 B. C. He wa

cal. Though these poems (the Tristia and Letters from Pontus) have no other topic than the poet’s sorrows, his exquisite tast

id tells the story of the Phœnix as follows. “Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which re

thee dead!” The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents and snakes, behaving like good subjects,

aturalist Pliny thus describes him: “He does not impel his body, like other serpents, by a multiplied flexion, but advances l

would be presumptuous to deny the existence of a one-horned quadruped other than the rhinoceros, it may be safely stated that

wrapping up such articles as were too precious to be intrusted to any other envelopes. These fire-proof cloths were actually

is a hibernating animal, and in winter retires to some hollow tree or other cavity, where it coils itself up and remains in a

y. Zoroaster taught the existence of a supreme being, who created two other mighty beings and imparted to them as much of his

ning the sea for the beverage of immortality, Amrita. We may omit the other Avatars, which were of the same general character

aims the superiority of its favorite deity, denying the claims of the other , and Brahma, the creator, having finished his wor

urniture. They are not allowed to visit the pagodas or temples of the other castes, but have their own pagodas and religious

religious exercises. They are not suffered to enter the houses of the other castes; if it is done incautiously or from necess

to procure their maintenance by perambulation and begging, and among other things it is their duty to endeavor to turn to so

nued till the present day, in the several Lamas of Thibet, China, and other countries where Buddhism prevails. In consequence

sed to find there in the heart of Asia a pontifical court and several other ecclesiastical institutions resembling those of t

nse roots, extending one into Asgard, (the dwelling of the gods,) the other into Jotunheim, (the abode of the giants,) and th

y they ride out into the court or field and fight until they cut each other in pieces. This is their pastime; but when meal t

ing her eat for her supper eight salmons and a full grown ox, besides other delicacies, washing the whole down with three tun

for no one is permitted to remain here who does not, in some feat or other , excel all other men?” “The feat that I know,” sa

rmitted to remain here who does not, in some feat or other, excel all other men?” “The feat that I know,” said Loki, “is to e

et on the hall floor, Loki placed himself at one end, and Logi at the other , and each of them began to eat as fast as he coul

a man here as thou art at home if thou showest no greater prowess in other feats than methinks will be shown in this.” Thor,

thou art not quite so stout as we thought thee: but wilt thou try any other feat, though methinks thou art not likely to bear

ear me again, for shouldst thou do so, I shall again defend myself by other illusions, so that thou wilt only lose thy labor

wife of Odin, exacted an oath from fire and water, from iron and all other metals, from stones, trees, diseases, beasts, bir

f men with speed And saddled straight his coal-black steed.” But the other gods, feeling that what Frigga had done was quite

gods were struck speechless with horror, and then they looked at each other , and all were of one mind to lay hands on him who

things very willingly complied with this request, both men and every other living being, as well as earths, and stones, and

t Hela keep her own.” It was strongly suspected that this hag was no other than Loki himself, who never ceased to work evil

nters will pass away without being tempered by a single summer. Three other similar winters will then follow, during which wa

altar, which was a large stone, placed in the manner of a table upon other stones set up on end. The Druids had also their h

wn by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane in winter to fade;” etc. The other great festival of the Druids was called “Samh’in,

Wales for many centuries, long after the Druidical priesthood in its other departments became extinct. At these meetings non

religious persons associated together for the purpose of aiding each other in the common work of preaching the gospel and te

ection of tales, or legends, relating to the gods, heroes, demons, or other beings whose names have been preserved in popular

y kept the names which they had given to the sun, the clouds, and all other things when their original meaning had been quite

logy was given us by Professor Max Müller, who has done more than all other writers to bring out the exquisite and touching p

Sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing towards the other goal Of his chamber in the east.” “The ancient

ved, at fixed times, memorial rites in their honor, and for these and other religious observances the family hearth was conse

), Nemesis* (Vengeance), Eris* (Strife), the Hesperides*, and several other deities. It is a principle of all cosmogony that

and as he passed through his daily course to his setting; she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on him. At las

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

e temple at Dodona were two columns. On one was a brazen vase, on the other the figure of a child holding a whip with three b

were found by a shepherd, who reared them, and named one Zethus*, the other Amphion*. Antiope, who was treated with great cru

bol of the starry heaven. Argus was slain by Hermes, the rain-god; in other words, the stars were rendered invisible by the t

d Little Bears move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars seem to do, beneath the ocean. Prometheus,

holding in one hand thunderbolts just ready to be hurled, and in the other a sceptre of cypress. His looks express majesty,

idon, and the promontory to Apollo. The contests between Poseidon and other deities merely signify the encroachments of the s

subsequently supplanted by one of a less dismal nature, in which the other side of his character is brought into prominence.

instead of being sprinkled on the altars or received in vessels as at other sacrifices, was permitted to run into the ground.

led with the Romans, who worshiped Aides under the name of Pluto, his other appellations being Dis (from dives, rich) and Orc

nhabited Elysium* for a thousand years, they were destined to animate other bodies on earth, and before leaving Elysium they

of wrath and grief, the goddess now withdrew from the society of the other deities. Meanwhile all the fruits of the earth ce

ne to spend six months of the year with her mother, whilst during the other six she was to be the joyless companion of her gr

ed, with the assistance of the goddess, she initiated Celeus and some other princes of Eleusis in the solemn rites of her ser

Sometimes she appears seated in a chariot drawn by winged dragons; in other representations she stands erect, and always full

he bears a sheaf of wheat-ears in one hand and a lighted torch in the other . Her brows are frequently garlanded with poppies.

earth, whence the grave is called “the chamber of Persephone.” On the other hand, she appears as Cora, the lovely daughter of

cending from the sky, resting one hand on a mountain-cliff, while the other holds a spear and buckler. Epithets. — Blood-sta

well as an owl and olive branch. It could scarcely have been from any other cause than that of her being regarded as the moon

is should spend one-half of the year in the world of shadows, and the other in the upper world. Clearly, the monster that dep

conical stone; but the Grecian painters and sculptors vied with each other in forming her image the ideal of female beauty a

nification of autumn has her hands filled with clusters of grapes and other fruits. Sometimes they appear as lovely girls dan

and unerring arrows. In one hand he bears his golden bow, and in the other a torch. Hymenæus*, or Hymen* Hymenæus was

ne hand is laid protectingly on the head of the stag, whilst with the other she draws an arrow from the quiver which hangs ov

was the Muse of astronomy. She holds in one hand a globe, and in the other a wand. Thalia* was the Muse of comedy. She carr

doorkeeper of heaven, he carries a key in one hand and a staff in the other . Flora*. Flora* was the goddess of flowers.

ed on the 23d of February. The proprietors of lands bordering on each other crowned the boundary-stone with garlands, and mad

peculiar to himself, which was deemed more acceptable to him than any other . Thus the Doric style of architecture was sacred

. On a pedestal in the centre of the edifice, surrounded by images of other gods, stood the statue of the divinity to whom th

was, at a later period, adopted by the general public at banquets and other festivities. On occasions of special solemnity th

nd Prometheus was released. “Care and anxiety, the love of gain, and other evil passions that torment man, are personified i

men, at whom Cadmus flung stones. They turned their arms against each other and were all slain except five. These joined with

sed the worship of Dionysus, and was torn to pieces by his mother and other votaries of the god. Ino was persecuted by Hera f

tted out by the vapors, the light of the sun is quenched in gloom. In other words, Jocasta dies, and Œdipus tears out his eye

om he regarded as his equal. The brothers were stationed against each other . A battle ensued equally fatal to both parties. H

s fell by the hand of Melanippus*; Eteocles and Polynices killed each other in single combat; Amphiaraus was swallowed up by

d by the gods. Two female figures appeared to him — one was Vice, the other , Virtue. Each represented to him the advantages t

rocrustes* (Stretcher), who had two iron beds, one being long and the other short. In the short one he placed the tall men, w

ere they were welcomed by Minos. He built the Labyrinth, besides many other wonderful works of art, but afterwards, having lo

them the stone she had given him, and they immediately attacked each other . The ground was soon covered with their slain bod

e. Soon after this event, Priam proposed a contest among his sons and other princes, promising to reward the conqueror with o

unhappy father refused to listen to all arguments, but at length the other generals succeeded in persuading him that it was

part in the war, while the Trojans, who feared him more than all the other Greeks, became bolder, and no longer kept within

of the armor. Menelaus, with the assistance of the Greater Ajax* and other heroes, succeeded in rescuing his corpse only aft

til, near the gates of the city, Achilles and Hector encountered each other . Hector was slain, and his body dragged at the ch

Polyphemus and effectually blinded him. His cries being heard by the other Cyclopes dwelling in caves not far distant, they

him how to avoid them. Tiresias having retired, Odysseus allowed the other shades to approach. Among them he recognized his

form of a man named Mentor, Telemachus had gone to the courts of the other kings who had returned from the Trojan expedition

usion, his wife was lost. They sought refuge on Mount Ida, where with other fugitives they remained until the following summe

r ancient mother; there the race of Æneas shall dwell, and reduce all other nations to their sway.” Anchises remembered a tr

dread of the Cyclopes, they took him on board and sailed round to the other side of the island. Here Anchises died. Seeing th

rds and died at the feet of its mistress. Tyrrheus, with his sons and other herdsmen, assaulted the hunting party. These were

nd the Greek systems of mythology grew up quite independently of each other . After Egypt had been thrown open to Greek commer

rew-mouse was sacred to her. Typhon* was the common enemy of all the other gods; his emblems were the pig, the ass, and the

ejected soul was sent back to the earth in the form of a pig, or some other unclean animal, to suffer degradation and torture

od and evil spirits were represented as perpetually warring with each other . Pestilence, fever, and all the ills of life were

. “Zoroaster taught the existence of a Supreme Being, who created two other mighty beings, and imparted to them so much of hi

hundred and twenty-eight hymns, invoking: as gods the sun, moon, and other powers of nature. “The Vedic, or earliest Hindu

furnishing a key to that of the Persians, Greeks, Latins, Romans, and other races. The names by which the Greeks denoted diff

e Sphinx in the story of Œdipus, as well as to many monsters slain by other heroes. Yama* was the Hindu god of the dead. As

aims the superiority of its favorite deity, denying the claims of the other . Brahma, the creator, having finished his work, s

most beautiful of all the dwellers in Valhalla; but, although all the other gods had sworn not to hurt him, no oath had been

Wales for many centuries, long after the Druidical priesthood in its other departments became extinct. At these meetings non

he Cromlech, or altar, which was a large stone placed as a table upon other stones set up on end. The Cairns were large stone

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

points are represented as twins — the one sending forth the sun, the other lying in wait to conquer it; but, though the sun

o the soil; they became tree trunks, and he then transfixed them with other arrows, which became branches. It was said that h

and therefore the hunters invoked him, and offered to him tobacco and other dainties, placing them in the clefts of the rocks

r wet earth, ‘ajishki.’ The one word was probably substituted for the other . The original statement was, that from wet mud, d

chief god often appears to us in the form of a mighty great hare; the other four have no visible shape, but are indeed the fo

ther of his intention to disobey her. She might, perhaps, employ some other minister of her will, who could not feel the same

ng, and the musicians were invisible. The invisible bridegroom was no other than Cupid, and a voice proclaimed that Psyche wa

ted their sister, and he feared they would trouble her in some way or other . He hesitated a moment when Psyche ceased to spea

of the immortals.” The blooming pair then made a vow to love each other eternally, and a benediction was pronounced upon

teen hundred years ago. How came they ever to worship Jupiter and the other false gods and goddesses? Mother. They did not k

s to instruct the ignorant in planting trees, or in making bread, and other useful arts. One day it happened that Pluto, the

y crown which he wore, and his magnificent appearance, it could be no other than the lord of the world below. She shrieked ou

ay, that she ran to a neighbouring fountain, and drowned herself; and other young women, afterward, went yearly to the founta

any people, and that they are more easily procured and prepared than other farinaceous food. Ann. What is farinaceous food?

y belongs, Pandion, king of Athens, found that he must call upon some other king to punish the robbers, for he was not able t

t communicate her misfortunes to Progne. All the Greek women, and all other women of antiquity, practiced embroidery, and mad

throwing off her disguise, pressed her to her heart. They kissed each other , and shed many tears. Progne entreated Philomela

refused at all. One man said, “My friends are with me; I can admit no other guests;” a second answered their application by s

rom hand to hand, of their own accord as it were. They looked at each other , and then at the strangers. Their faces were grac

ilemon, “I thank you for your hospitality. We, for my companion is no other than the god Mercury, sought kindness from the pe

bowed submissively, and taking a staff in one hand and Baucis by the other , away they went, as fast as they could travel, no

r,” exclaimed the god; “just man, excellent woman, and worthy of each other ! Have you a wish in your hearts which the gods ca

wishes desire, Providence has in store for you.” They looked at each other , and withdrawing a moment from the god, conferred

le, that are good-natured, honest, and industrious, and who love each other , are happy. Luxuries are not necessary to happine

ear a folded seat, on which she might rest if she were tired; and the other to held over her head a sort of parasol, to scree

and running after Aglauria, presented it to her. They looked at each other with pleasure, and Herse blushed. At this moment,

in Egypt, where he came from. Ann. Did the Egyptians know more than other people? Mother. At that time they did. Ann. Wha

les say, the god, or witch, calls up absent or dead persons, and does other wonders, which he could not do without it Mercury

lled it and it made a low sound. Mercury thought that if he stretched other strings across the shell, it would make more musi

one another; because, if they should be afflicted, they comfort each other , and sympathy and pity make us happy, even when w

erus, of blood newly drawn, and the juice of water hemlock. These and other substances had been boiled in a brazen helmet. Wh

stantly killed his infant son, Learchus. Ino, in her terror, with her other son, Milecerta, in her arras, fled from his pursu

state in Greece. Athamas went mad. His insanity was such as afflicts other men; but the people of that age did not consider

ple in useful arts — in cultivating the grape, in making wine, and in other rural occupations, and many persons travelled wit

he was a man who taught the ignorant to cultivate the grape, and some other arts, and after he was dead, he was worshipped as

atthew. Mother. I will tell you how the people of Florence, and some other Italian cities, observe the Epiphany. The lower c

r again, for all their goodness; and hoped, she said, that one day or other she should be able to repay them. ——— Perseus gre

her serious, respectful worship; and if persons in her temple, or any other , behaved improperly, the ancients called it profa

promised her before they knew Perseus. Phineus, saying nothing to any other person, advanced to Perseus. “Stranger!” uttered

nine sisters, who dwelt in the pleasant valley of Tempe, though, like other goddesses, they could go wherever they liked, wer

ou know that multitudes of mortals, when they would compose songs and other verses, pray to us to assist them. We sometimes t

is hand, and sometimes surrounded by the Muses on Mount Parnassus. At other times, with a bow and arrow, and a quiver at his

sent time. Ann. What were the Pythian games? Mother. They were like other games held in Greece. These games which we are ta

yche, now that he was the god who disposed men and women to love each other . In that story he was described as a young man, a

drawing from his quiver two arrows, he pointed one with gold, and the other with lead. The person struck by the golden-tipped

more worthy on account of our good fortune, or more estimable because other persons who are related to us, are, or have been

, Months, Years, and Ages, standing at respective distances from each other , was seated the son of Latona. Apollo perceived t

on of Io has vaunted that he is the offspring of a god, while I am no other than a child of mortality. Condescend, divine Apo

a, taking the young Apollo in one hand, and leading his sister by the other , fled into Lydia. “‘When Latona and her children

thus coarsely accosted her: ‘Why come you hither, woman; is there no other water in the world that you must come to drink of

nd as they watched the sunsets and the rising of the moon and all the other beautiful things that nature showed them, they we

orning till night, and the flowers bloomed from one year’s end to the other . Sometimes the mighty rulers of the sun and the m

he gods, and that they would be punished by sickness or death or some other evil; but if they did what was right, the mighty

, which was always with her. Besides Jupiter and Juno there were many other gods and goddesses; and as you are going to read

Cupid was always young and rosy and dimpled; he never grew up as the other god children did. Neptune, who was Jupiter’s brot

drew rein, and stepping down, parted the bushes to see who was on the other side. There he saw Proserpine standing in the cen

there was a time when she danced and sang in the green woods with the other nymphs. She had one great fault, however, — she w

g so empty and deserted, so he called home the south wind and set the other winds free. The north wind and the east wind and

ever was pierced by one of these at once fell deeply in love. But the other arrows were blunt and made of dull lead, and, str

tle god, and he cried in a passion, “Though your arrow may pierce all other things, my arrow can wound you.” Then he flew off

wild animals; for, since he could not have Eurydice, he cared for no other companions. But the birds and the wild beasts and

ff, wreathed with serpents, on which he leaned as he spoke. It was no other than the swift-footed god Mercury, but this Perse

in using that single eye; so that while one of them had the eye, the other two could see nothing at all; and while they were

t, blind. But such an eye as that one was! — worth much more than any other six eyes put together. With it the sisters could

hen began a dreadful hubbub, each one of the three insisting that the other had taken the eye, and I do not know how it all w

rseus knew that he owed his success to the help which Mercury and the other gods had given him, and he never forgot the debt

o was dead, the people of Egypt still came and laid their flowers and other gifts at the foot of the statue of Isis, to show

f the high mountain overlooking Thebes, and placed it there among the other rocks. And to this day, you can see the woman of

is a story in itself. There were monsters and dragons and giants and other horrible creatures to be killed, and fleet horses

gave the signal for the start, and the two mighty ones fell upon each other . Very soon everybody could see that Hercules was

ten thought of his early adventures, until at last the longing to see other lands and to do other great deeds became too stro

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

round about; And hark! at the top of this leafy hall, How, one to the other in love they call: “Come up, come up!” they seem

throne of Athens. And that was the reason why no one asked after the other young prince. While Athens was almost beside itse

pass through a large city, in order to reach the bay that lay on the other side of it; but, when he came to the gates, he fo

ooking at the lock of purple hair. When he had reached the bay at the other end of the town, he ordered his men to seize the

the walls of the tower from which she had first seen King Minos. The other birds of the air seemed to shun her, as though th

ten one end of it to the entrance gate, and to keep tight hold of the other with his left hand. If, then, he should kill the

we live, and let us die together, that neither may live to mourn the other .” “Your wish shall be granted,” said Jupiter in a

es intertwining as though they were whispering loving secrets to each other . Thus the good people had their wish, both dying

u the sad story of Ceyx and Halcyone, a king and queen who loved each other very dearly. After they had lived together happil

ing’s home. Before the doors there grew strange plants, — poppies and other herbs that send mortals to sleep. In the center o

ght, and was out of breath when he landed his companion safely on the other shore. But what was Jason’s surprise to see, in p

name very much like that? Perhaps they have something to do with each other . Let us read the story and see. Hyacinthus was a

t is why Apollo loved him so much; or perhaps he reminded him of that other boy who had died long before; or perhaps it was j

ular discs about twelve inches across; they were made of iron or some other heavy substance. The players hurled their discs i

minute she must ‘step down from her pedestal and move about like any other woman. As Pygmalion looked at the finished work,

f love, would take pity on him; and since he could never care for any other woman, that she who could work such wonders would

land shade; there will I bring you chestnuts and the fruit of all the other trees. “See how great is my wealth, — all these c

s whereby he will be enabled to follow intelligently the allusions to other myths which meet him at every turn, and to know s

and no room remained for conjecture. It was not so, however, with the other nations. The Greeks and Romans, for instance, lac

d incessantly, neither party wishing to submit to the dominion of the other , but at the end of that time the rebellious Titan

ost of their gigantic strength and stature, hurled huge rocks at each other , and piled mountain upon mountain to reach the ab

d man and longed to bestow upon him some great power, unshared by any other creature of earth, which would raise him far abov

d by any other creature of earth, which would raise him far above all other living beings, and bring him nearer to the perfec

heart beat so fast and loud, that it seemed for a moment to drown all other sounds. Should she open the box? Just then a fami

it pleaded. Pandora. Harry Bates. The tearful couple viewed each other inquiringly, and listened again. Once more they h

lew out of the open window, to perform the same gentle office for the other victims, and to cheer their downcast spirits. Thu

many centuries, therefore, Hope continued to be revered, although the other divinities had ceased to be worshipped. According

herefore rejected the plan as impracticable, and bade the gods devise other means of destruction. After much delay and discus

supplanted his father and began to rule over all. In common with all other Greek and Roman divinities, Jupiter, though immor

e thunderbolts or sceptre in one hand, and a statue of Victory in the other . The world is his footstool; and the eagle, emble

sh to pour out the nectar, in which the gods were wont to pledge each other .             “Hebe, honoured of them all, Minist

them all, Ministered nectar, and from cups of gold They pledged each other .” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). Jupiter. Capitol,

Although married to Juno, Jupiter often indulged in love affairs with other goddesses, and even with mortal maidens. The anci

ere at Mycenæ, Sparta, Argos, Rome, and Heræum. She had also numerous other sanctuaries scattered throughout the ancient worl

m, and delivered them from misfortunes too numerous to mention. Among other deeds done for men was the slaying of the monster

cions, and that his heart was all her own. There are, of course, many other versions of these self-same myths; but one and al

t danger of such an undertaking, earnestly begging him to select some other , less fatal boon. “Choose out a gift from seas,

ed treading an airy measure. Erato, who preferred lyric poetry to all other styles of composition, was pictured with a lyre;

eing completed, the sea nymphs judged it time to introduce her to the other gods, and, with that purpose in view, carried her

nursed with tender solicitude, this second-born child did not grow as other children do, but remained a small, rosy, chubby c

and remain with her. He laughingly escaped, and continued to join the other hunters in his favourite sport. But, alas, one da

arents having quarrelled, they were forbidden to see or speak to each other . This decree wrung their tender hearts; and their

overed in the party wall, through which the lovers could peep at each other , converse, and even, it is said, exchange a kiss

ondemned her to haunt rocks and solitary places, and, as a warning to other impulsive maidens, to repeat the last sounds whic

missing, gave Apollo the lyre he had just fashioned. This, like most other myths, admits of a natural explanation. Apollo (t

eating it; but the explanation failed to satisfy Juno, who, seeing no other living creature near, suspected that her spouse h

ith strife and bloodshed, this god preferred the din of battle to all other music, and found no occupation so congenial as th

poised spear in one muscular hand, and a finely wrought shield in the other , showing him ever ready to cope with a foe. His a

me of their enemies should succeed in stealing it, they caused eleven other shields to be made, so exactly like the heaven-se

y represented as a short, muscular man, with one leg shorter than the other , a workman’s cap on his curly locks, a short uppe

f one of his stupendous labours, heard the proclamation, and, with no other weapon than the oaken club he generally carried,

is name to all his male descendants. Idas and Marpessa Like all other gods, Neptune took a lively interest in men’s aff

ought the mountains and the groves.” Cowper. In common with all the other gods, Proteus enjoyed the gift of prophecy, and h

l deeds, irreverence to age, inhospitality, murder, perjury, and some other minor crimes. They secured the punishment of thos

pillars blaze.” Ovid ( Croxall’s tr.). The sight of these and many other wonders, wrought by a mere touch, filled his hear

ced to relinquish his prize. He therefore decided to have recourse to other means, and, seizing his terrible two-pronged fork

she fain would have done, and vanished, to continue her wanderings in other lands. She finally returned to Italy; and, while

alled Hecate), who held a pomegranate in one hand, and a torch in the other . Proserpina, like Adonis, was the personification

holding a lighted torch or lamp in one hand and a votive bowl in the other  — were carried through the main streets of the ci

tues he is represented with one whitehaired and bearded face, and the other quite youthful in appearance, while others repres

ides over the year, he holds the number 300 in one hand and 65 in the other . He was also supposed to watch over peace and war

ls. Two gates led out of the valley of sleep, — one of ivory, and the other of horn. The Dreams which passed through the glit

and with wings. Morpheus held a vase in one hand, and poppies in the other , which he gently shook to induce a state of drows

eads; but he had no sooner done so, than, to his dismay, he saw seven other heads suddenly spring from the bleeding stump. To

to his assistance, and proposed to carry the fair young bride to the other shore in complete safety, if she would but consen

is bow and arrows aloft in one hand, and breasting the waves with the other . Now, the Centaur Nessus did not often have the g

alone, tore up the huge oaks by their roots, flung them one upon the other until he had raised a mighty pile, upon which he

had two beds of very different dimensions, — one unusually short, the other unusually long. If the unfortunate traveller were

e one end of the twine to the entrance of the labyrinth, and keep the other in his hand as a clue to find the way out again s

re face to face, the two chiefs, seized with a sudden liking for each other , simultaneously cast down their weapons, and, fal

ar the mouth of the Bosphorus, where they remained immovable like any other rocks. The Argonauts, after other adventures far

re they remained immovable like any other rocks. The Argonauts, after other adventures far too numerous to recount in detail,

               “They, like swift dogs, Ranging in fierceness, on each other turn’d Tumultuous battle. On their mother earth B

neventfully for Jason and Medea; but at last their affection for each other cooled, and Jason fell in love with Glauce, or Cr

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

Hunt was headed by Meleager and Atalanta, who were very fond of each other , and who boldly led the rest in pursuit of the bo

in pursuit of the boar. From one end of the Calydonian forest to the other the boar fled, closely pursued by the hunt, and w

skill and of her spoil, had returned to her father’s court, where no other heir having appeared, she was joyfully received,

d their lifeless heads were exposed on the racing ground to deter all other suitors. Undaunted by these ghastly trophies, Hip

snowy chargers. “So like they were, no mortal         Might one from other know: White as snow their armour was:         The

s his Father This affray attracted the attention of the master and other servants. They immediately attacked the murderer,

alt to an arrogant old man, and he therefore composedly inquired what other calamity had befallen them. The Sphinx With

Thou seest me banish’d from my native land, Unjustly banish’d, for no other crime But that I strove to keep the throne of The

o no sooner found themselves face to face, than they rushed upon each other with such animosity that both fell. By order of J

ded, for, when both brothers fell, the two armies flew to attack each other ; and such was their courage that many fell, and o

ery sorry to see Bellerophon safe and sound, and tried to devise some other plan to get rid of him. He therefore sent him to

eds in the river.” E. B. Browning. The Romans also worshipped three other divinities of nature entirely unknown to the Gree

er parents’ attention to the extraordinary likeness Paris bore to her other brothers; and then, breaking out into a prophetic

n, were offered up in sacrifice to appease the everlasting gods. Many other propitiatory methods were tried; but as they all

so by the gods, who mingled in the ranks and even fought against each other , until recalled by Jupiter, and forbidden to figh

lades, became his inseparable friend. In fact, their devotion to each other was so great that it has become proverbial in eve

and execrations. These soon, however, attracted the attention of the other Cyclopes, who thronged without the cave, clamouri

eserving one for his own use, and watched them pass out one after the other undetected. Then, clinging to the wool of the lar

dst not fear To eat the strangers sheltered by thy roof, Jove and the other gods avenge them thus! …………………………………………… Cyclops,

of which, led by Eurylochus, set out to explore the island, while the other , headed by Ulysses, remained to guard the ships.

o avoid one, it was almost impossible not to fall an easy prey to the other . Charybdis’ den lay under a rock crowned with a s

arch of the father whom he could not believe to be dead. Mentor, none other than Minerva in disguise, guided the young man to

the port. Minerva now permitted the father and son to recognise each other , in spite of their twenty years’ separation, and

y granted. The vessels, tossed hither and thither, lost sight of each other . Some were stranded, some sank, and still the tem

centre, and either by migration, or by slave or wife stealing, or by other natural or accidental methods, may have “wandered

y in form and manufacture, so the myths of all nations “resemble each other , because they were formed to meet the same needs,

ied to the one God, and was therefore “retained by the Greeks and all other kindred people to express all they felt toward Go

nd” (Delos), whence he daily starts on his westward journey. Like all other solar heroes, Apollo is beautiful and golden-hair

emon of drought, darkness, or illness (Python), which in some form or other inevitably appears in every solar myth. In the st

tears, which turns into hard ice on the mountain summit. According to other authorities, she was a personification of winter,

ear that Jove himself would prove a rival, and, swan-like, or in some other as picturesque a form, win her he sought for his

foundation of Olympus. Surrounding the throne of their sovereign, the other divinities quaff nectar, from a cup presented the

to be what none would imagine or relate, they must be calculated for other uses. What has a great weight with me is, that ma

t to be invented by those who have related them, Homer, Hesiod , and other writers; for were they the fictions of that age a

. At Delphi and at Athens the priestesses were not virgins, as at the other temples, but widows who were past the time of mar

Madness will touch my brain; I cannot, will not yield. Grant me some other death: poison or steel, Or aught that sends me su

ntiope, Alcmena, Danae, Leda, Semele, Europa, Calista, and a crowd of other goddesses and mortals. The principal names given

s chin covered with a majestic beard. In one hand the sceptre, in the other a thunderbolt. The virtues are at his side: at hi

presented crowned with wheat, holding a torch in one hand, and in the other an ear of corn; sometimes she carries a sceptre,

as moderns.         “Giver of glowing light!     Though but a God of other days,             The kings and sages,           

Pæans in honour of Apollo, or observe any of the solemnities usual at other sacrifices. —— “Pitying the sad death Of Hyacint

nce, splendour, and magnificence, of the temple of Delphi. There were other temples of Apollo more celebrated, such as that a

Mount Palatine. Delian feasts were those which the Athenian, and the other Greek states celebrated every four years at Delos

s, the same day that Alexander the Great was born. This madman had no other end, than to render his name for ever notorious,

ired with divine fury, armed with thyrsuses, and bearing cymbals, and other musical instruments. The leader was drawn in a ch

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

nerally imaged with her son Cupid, in a chariot drawn by doves, or at other times by swans or sparrows. The surnames of the g

ild enjoyment, and the curved lines of her fine limbs, flow into each other with a never ending sinuosity of sweetness. Her f

formed, holding a hammer in his hand, ready to strike; while with the other , he turns a thunderbolt on his anvil, for which a

eems, however, to have been retained there more for ridicule than any other purpose; and was indeed the great butt of Olympus

l.         “They sin who tell us Love can die;         With life all other passions fly,         All others are but vanity;

t, naked, armed with a bow and quiver full of arrows. On gems and all other pieces of antiquity, he is represented as amusing

hey mourned one,     Faded and fair like them. “I turned to tales of other days,     They spoke of breath and bloom: And pro

e plume nodding in the air. In one hand she holds a spear, and in the other , a shield, with the dying head of Medusa upon it.

re vipers, and they curl and flow,     And their long tangles in each other lock: And with unending involutions show,     The

divided into troops, and armed with sticks and stones, attacked each other with fury. Those who were overcome in this combat

the feet, and the grace of the attitude, are what may be seen in many other statues belonging to that astonishing era which p

and earth, which Jupiter had claimed; he therefore conspired with the other gods to dethrone his brother. The conspiracy was

eptune, as god of the sea, was entitled to more power than any of the other deities, except Jupiter. Not only the oceans, riv

of the earth, and the Libyans in particular, venerated him above all other Gods. ——— “Great Neptune! I would be Advanced to

in the skins of beasts, carried him to Heaven, where Jupiter and the other Gods, entertained themselves with the oddity of h

n rock to Jupiter, the God Terminus refused to give place, though the other gods resigned theirs with cheerfulness, and the o

of flowers and fruit, holding a bough in one hand, and apples in the other . Vertumnus is represented under the figure of a y

, the very air Breatheth of beauty, banishing despair.” Francis. At other times, she is represented surrounded by the flowe

two children under her arms, one of which is dark like night, and the other light like day. “Night, when like perfumes that

ep! One, pale as yonder waning moon,     With lips of lurid blue; The other rosy as the morn     When throned in ocean’s wave

space Of earth, and broad expanse of ocean waves, Placid to man. The other has a heart Of iron; yea, the heart within his br

supposed to have ‌arisen from the ancient custom among the Romans and other nations, of burying their dead within their house

sophers maintained, that every man had two of these, the one bad, the other good. They had the power of changing themselves i

dress, a cap adorned with small bells, a mask in one hand, and on the other a bauble, the symbol of folly. He was constantly

earance of a beautiful youth, holding a torch in his hand, and in the other a purple garment, with his head ornamented by a c

countenance, holding a pair of scales in one hand, and a sword in the other . Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img

uced two eggs, from one of which came Pollux and Helena, and from the other , Castor and Clytemnestra. Insérer image anonyme_h

are of a man who should appear at Iolchos with one foot bare, and the other shod, the appearance of Jason, who as we have see

nted, the hero threw a stone amongst them, and they fell one upon the other till they were entirely destroyed. He lulled to s

by some it is stated, she was re-united to Jason; while according to other authorities, Jason lived a melancholy and unhappy

ant thy pity, I have slain my sons. Theseus. Thee, for thy grace, in other ills I mourn! Hercules. Whom hast thou known inv

With heads still spouting from the sword I slew. These and a thousand other toils endured, To the dark regions of the dead I

d I go to Argos? How, since I fly my country, should I seek Refuge in other states, malignant eyes Would scowl on me when kno

seized the apples which Atlas had thrown on the ground. According to other accounts, Hercules gathered them without the assi

assembled his forces to meet him, the two foes as they gazed on each other , were seized with a sudden and mutual friendship,

aunted step: He, with a terrible accent, cried, “Make way.” I, on the other hand, exclaimed with rage, Returned his menace, a

in one hand, and a vessel containing the blood of a sacrifice in the other . With a prophetic voice he exclaimed: — “Lo! the

s: One to the woodland’s shady covert hies, Around the smoky roof the other flies; Whose feathers yet the marks of murder sta

o command them all to retire to their separate homes. Ulysses and the other generals interfered; and at last Agamemnon was pe

and the cap was worn by those who were to be soon liberated, while at other times she appears in a chariot. She is, however,

happily, and having entreated Jupiter that neither might outlive the other , they both died on the same day, and their bodies

s person and endeavoured to render himself as agreeable, by these and other means, to his nymph as possible. ‌ Galatea treat

ht wanderings, Delicious were the kind, the gentle things Each to the other breathed; a starry sky, Music and flowers, this i

Osiris of Egypt wears. Two additional symbols, the one Egyptian, the other not, but equally intelligible, namely the lotus a

its; and the number of victims should be five and twenty: unlike most other lands, who in the same circumstances are too eage

supernatural beings, which correspond with the inferior divinities of other Mythologies, from one of whom, sprang the three p

en love, or grief, linked with their bloom, Seem beautiful beyond all other ones. The marble pillars are laid in the dust, Th

the material on the subject. The poetry selected for this, as for the other books of the series, is suitable to the prose. As

e could make a whole army of brave men run helter-skelter without any other cause. Truly, a wild being was Pan; but when. Cer

the evil season a name, and have called it Winter; but Pluto and the other dwellers in the underworld think it the best of a

out, nor could the torches by any effort be made to burn well. “Bring other torches,” cried Orpheus, for the guests were dism

cried Orpheus, for the guests were dismayed at the evil omen. But the other torches burned no better. The guests talked in wh

th his three terrible heads, across Styx in Charon’s boat, and up the other shore to the foot of the road leading to the worl

occupants, but at that moment the children awoke. Iphicles, like any other baby, was terribly frightened and began to cry wi

red. Linus, son of the god Apollo, taught him his letters, and he had other teachers such as mortals seldom have. He learned

she saw Hercules, came running toward him, as if she were afraid the other would reach him first. “Hercules,” she said, “I s

ercules, “the path of Happiness is as if strewn with roses.” Then the other goddess drew near. She was taller than Happiness,

le club. After he had killed the lion, Hercules had to perform eleven other mighty labors for Eurystheus. These twelve tasks

nd told him he must die. Then Admetus knew that the stranger was none other than the god Death, and he felt that his day of d

s would not stay to take part in the festival of thanksgiving. He had other labors to perform, and went on his way to master

day.” When he heard this, Helios was sorry he had promised. “Ask some other proof,” he urged. “No one, even of the other gods

had promised. “Ask some other proof,” he urged. “No one, even of the other gods, dares to drive the chariot of the sun — no,

ead. Then Jupiter seized a thunderbolt and spoke to Helios and to the other gods of Olympus. “I must act,” he said, “even tho

ee where the wretch is.” Then they all began to talk and rage at each other ; and as one was passing the eye to another, Perse

that shone like gold. These two were crouched upon the floor, but the other Gorgon, Medusa, was walking to and fro, moaning i

antle was the work of a second. Then he started for the door, but the other Gorgons sprang up with a shriek. “He has come!” t

magic arts, called in a whirlwind, and in a moment was gone. In many other lands she did evil after that, but the people of

ous are wisdom and courage!” thought Paris. “Yes, they are beyond all other gifts of gods or men.” But before he could utter

d tall and queenly as Venus herself, and Paris knew that she and none other was the most beautiful woman in the world. That n

r and Pollux.5 So like they were, no mortal    Might one from other know; White as snow their armor was,    Their ste

ing place. There were Ulysses, Menelaus, Diomed, Pyrrhus, and all the other chosen warriors. Silently they descended, and wer

em beneath the rowers’ benches and set sail in haste, lest any of the other men should taste the magic plant. After that, the

The monster awoke roaring with pain, and called for his friends, the other Cyclops. They soon came. “Ho, Polyphemus. What is

est To little harps of gold; and while they mused, Whispering to each other half in fear, Shrill music reach’d them on the mi

e it limber, but even then he could not bend it, nor could any of the other suitors. “Let me take the bow,” said Ulysses. “Be

w that there must have been a period when everything was void, or, in other words, when there was nothing. In the awful grand

barbarous nations of to-day. What is virtue with one is vice with the other , as beauty and ugliness of form or feature, being

y stick is in one hand, and a staff entwined with a serpent is in the other , while a dog lies at his feet. “Thou that dost Æ

]). “A god half a dog, a dog half a man.” Called Barker by Virgil and other poets. Aon′ides [Aonides], a name of the Muses,

beard, crowned with laurel, and having in one hand a bow, and in the other a lyre. The favorite residence of Apollo was on M

he is represented as holding a horn of plenty in one hand, and in the other a scepter, from which fruit is sprouting forth.

a chariot drawn by lions. In one hand she holds a scepter, and in the other a key. On her head is a castelated crown, to deno

e two of these genii accompanying him; one brought him happiness, the other misery. Gen′itor [Genitor]. A Lycian name of Jup

n Fleece, The, was a ram’s hide, sometimes described as white, and at other times as purple and golden. It was given to Phryx

his lips (expressive of a command to preserve silence), while in the other hand he holds a cornucopia, signifying early vege

besides, he assisted the gods in their wars with the giants. Several other wonderful feats are mentioned under other heading

rs with the giants. Several other wonderful feats are mentioned under other headings, as Antæus, Cacus, etc. His death was br

[Horus]. The name of two deities, one Sol, the Egyptian day god; the other , the son of Osiris and Isis. See Harpocrates. Ho

s and Penates. Lam′pos [Lampos]. One of Aurora’s chariot horses, the other being Phaeton. Laoc′oon [Laocoon]. One of the pr

nd Pena′tes [Lares and Penates] were sons of Mercury and Lara, or, as other mythologists say, of Jupiter and Lamida. They bel

image of Folly in one hand, and raising a mask from his face with the other . He is also described as the god of mirth or laug

as supposed surrounded the earth, and into which the sun and moon and other heavenly bodies sank every day. Ocrid′ion [Ocrid

feet high, where the gods were supposed to reside. There were several other smaller mountains of the same name. “High heaven

ace.” Byron. “Thy stumbling founder’d jade can trot as high As any other Pegasus can fly.” Earl of Dorset. “To turn and

o, there is no doubt he was worshiped by the Egyptians, Persians, and other nations long before the Apollo of the Greeks was

e was a son of Ægeus, king of Athens. He rid Attica of Procrustes and other evil-doers, slew the Minotaur, conquered the Amaz

rying a club in one hand and a rope or noose to bind offenders in the other . Ve′dius [Ve′dius]. The same as Vejovis. Vejo′v