he fairest of the goddesses. She was supposed to have sprung from the sea one day, in a cloud of spray, and all the beings

sea one day, in a cloud of spray, and all the beings who dwelt in the sea , the sea nymphs and the sea gods and Neptune hims

ay, in a cloud of spray, and all the beings who dwelt in the sea, the sea nymphs and the sea gods and Neptune himself, rose

pray, and all the beings who dwelt in the sea, the sea nymphs and the sea gods and Neptune himself, rose with songs of glad

rother, was the ruler of all the waters of the earth. The gods of the sea , and the mermaids and the river gods as well, wer

er son far greater than human beings. She went to Neptune, god of the sea , and told him her troubles. She asked him to gran

es, they seem to sink lower and lower, and at last to vanish into the sea . That is what Juno meant by speaking of the stars

smile on the flower,     And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea . And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles

larch has hung all his tassels forth; The fisher is out on the sunny sea , And the reindeer bounds o’er the pastures free,

. On that sad day, Ceres began a long, long wandering. Over land and sea she journeyed, bearing in her right hand the torc

till, in a short time, the whole earth was out of sight under a vast sea , and all the wicked people were drowned. Then Jup

ring.     Everything that heard him play,     Even the billows of the sea ,     Hung their heads, and then lay by.     In sw

us and his mother into a boat, and set them adrift on the great, wide sea . They floated about for many days, and Danaë held

. ——— Lullaby Sweet and low, sweet and low,     Wind of the western sea Low, low, breathe and blow,     Wind of the weste

f the western sea Low, low, breathe and blow,     Wind of the western sea . Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying

d he escaped with the head of snaky-locked Medusa. Back over land and sea he flew, and he had many strange adventures by th

f her beauty, and one day boasted that she was fairer than any of the sea nymphs. Now the sea nymphs were very fair indeed,

e day boasted that she was fairer than any of the sea nymphs. Now the sea nymphs were very fair indeed, and it angered them

to have had very cruel ways of showing their anger. The nymphs sent a sea serpent to the island where Cassiopeia lived, and

opeia. If she will give up her daughter Andromeda to the serpent, the sea nymphs will be satisfied, and the sea serpent sha

r Andromeda to the serpent, the sea nymphs will be satisfied, and the sea serpent shall trouble you no longer.” Great was t

ruel message, that Andromeda must be given as a peace offering to the sea serpent. But the oracle repeated only the same he

ved Perseus from the moment she saw his crooked sword flash above the sea serpent’s head, and so she gladly consented to be

her reason why she loved Perseus, who had saved her not only from the sea serpent, but from the man whom she dreaded quite

had traveled a great distance, when at last he came to a city by the sea . There he saw the king’s daughter, and grew to lo

ld him to take it to his master Hercules, in that far-off city by the sea , and to say that she sent him her love and asked

ow his innocence, Hercules seized him, and flung him far out into the sea . The gods took pity on him, and, as he was fallin

a man in form; and the rock still stands far out in the middle of the sea . As for Hercules, when he found that he could not

il were walking together at the side of some cliffs that overhung the sea . The boy, not noticing his uncle’s gloomy face, w

us grasped his arm and pushed him over the edge of the cliff into the sea below. Perdix would surely have been drowned, had

the sky where many birds were flying to and fro, and then down at the sea which was covered with sail boats, when suddenly

they must be gods flying near to earth, and fell on their knees. Over sea and land they went, swiftly and steadily, the fat

time after that, the place was known as the island of Icarus, and the sea in which the boy was drowned was called the Icari

How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Skimming about on the breezy sea . Cresting the billows like silvery foam, Then whe

gladdened some fairy region old! On the mountain tops, on the billowy sea , On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleas

p the idea of going so far away. She warned him of the terrors of the sea , and the dangers of the storm-beaten waves. But a

well. She had been standing there some time, when she saw, far out at sea , something white tossed about by the waves. Neare

she mounted a little rising knoll near the shore, and sprang into the sea . But she was not drowned. The gods so pitied the

kingfishers, as they are sometimes called, which live forever on the sea . The sailors say that, even in the stormiest seas

re far beyond the reach of the astonished people below. Over land and sea flew the golden ram faster and faster every momen

izzy flight, that she dropped from the ram’s back, fell into a narrow sea over which they were passing, and was drowned. Si

which they were passing, and was drowned. Since that day this narrow sea has been called the Hellespont. Phryxus, however,

. The -golden ram, worn out with the long, hard journey over land and sea , soon died; and Phryxus hung its fleece on a tree

er, that almost before he knew what he was doing, he plunged into the sea . Neptune, the god of the ocean, saw all that was

his ocean palace, changed him from a poor fisherman into a god of the sea . Glaucus now lived entirely in the water that ver

a full net and a happy heart. So years passed, until one day, as the sea god was floating on the top of the waves, he saw

She climbed to the top and then turned to give a parting look at the sea , which she loved very much; but she did not notic

from view. Glaucus sighed and slowly swam back to his home under the sea . The next day he came again to the spot, and as b

ore, the nymph, whose name was Scylla, was walking by the side of the sea . Again he followed her, watching her until she di

stepped nearer to the water and said, “Pray, what are you, a man or a sea monster?” Then Glaucus related his whole story, a

of the hill, and threw herself headlong into the foaming waves of the sea . She was changed to a rock, but ever after, that

the sea. She was changed to a rock, but ever after, that part of the sea was dangerous to sail through, and many people wh

ds in the blue Mediterranean, and is shunned by all who sail upon the sea . ——— The Sea Hath Its Pearls The sea hath its p

unned by all who sail upon the sea. ——— The Sea Hath Its Pearls The sea hath its pearls,     The heaven hath its stars; B

s; But my heart, my heart,     My heart hath its love. Great are the sea and the heaven,     Yet greater is my heart; And

tle, youthful maiden,     Come unto my great heart; My heart, and the sea , and the heaven     Are melting away with love!

s about the lovers. In the cave of a mountain which overhung the blue sea , there lived one of these Cyclops whose name was

noise on his hundred-reeded pipe. And as he sat there, he watched the sea nymphs sporting in the water. They would rise on

ise on the crests of the waves, looking almost like white foam on the sea . Sometimes they combed out their yellow hair, whi

ght on the clear, sparkling water. The fairest and whitest of all the sea nymphs was Galatea. To the rough old Polyphemus s

voice, the mountains shook and the waves trembled, and the frightened sea nymphs hid themselves in their green caves. And t

on the mountain summit. “O Galatea, lift your fair face from the blue sea . Come, do not scorn the gifts I offer. See, too,

all things, likewise has but one eye. “My father rules over the blue sea in which you sport. Listen to my prayer, for I wi

away to join her lover by the banks of a stream that flowed into the sea . But Polyphemus,, when he found that the lovely G

earer and clearer, until at last, pure as crystal, it sprang into the sea and joined Galatea in her cave under the waters;

n her cave under the waters; and there the gentle youth and the white sea nymph lived as happily as though the poor, ugly,

ght fancy that they, too, had caught sight of Proteus rising from the sea , and had heard “Old Triton blow his wreathéd hor

irst, when all things lay in a great confused mass, — “Ere earth and sea , and covering heavens, were known, The face of na

usedly roll’d.” Ovid ( Elton’s tr.). The Earth did not exist. Land, sea , and air were mixed up together; so that the eart

and air were mixed up together; so that the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, nor the air transparent. “No sun

d her horns of light; No earth, self-poised, on liquid ether hung; No sea its world-enclasping waters flung; Earth was half

g; No sea its world-enclasping waters flung; Earth was half air, half sea , an embryo heap; Nor earth was fix’d, nor fluid w

g springtide. Their homes were said to be “inaccessible by land or by sea .” They were “ exempt from disease, old age, and d

that it would be no small undertaking to rule well heaven, earth, and sea , and resolved to divide the power with his brothe

lege of drawing his own share. Neptune thus obtained control over the sea and all the rivers, and immediately expressed his

er the rain clouds over the earth. Neptune let loose the waves of the sea , bidding them rise, overflow, and deluge the land

wished, the bull had risen to his feet, and galloped off towards the sea with his fair burden on his back. Instead of turn

d apparition, while at the same time a mighty commotion over land and sea proclaimed the advent of a great divinity. The go

floating island of Delos, raised in her behalf from the depths of the sea . The rocking motion, however, proving disagreeabl

en he left his palace in the morning until he came to the far western sea in the evening, she followed his course with lovi

ing spring. “Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea ,     Hung their heads, and then lay by.” Shakesp

sicians from all points of the compass, he resolved to return home by sea . Unfortunately for him, the vessel upon which he

he last time. The pirates consented. His clear notes floated over the sea , and allured a school of dolphins, which came and

kswoman, bade her shoot at a dark speck rising and falling far out at sea . Diana seized her bow, feathered her arrow, and s

specting that the dark head of Orion, who was refreshing himself by a sea bath, was given her as a target. When she discove

ddess of moisture: others report that she sprang from the foam of the sea .                                     “Look, look

soft and deep as the blue heaven is high. The Beautiful is born; and sea and earth May well revere the hour of that myster

ht her with the utmost care. Then, her education being completed, the sea nymphs judged it time to introduce her to the oth

and, with that purpose in view, carried her up to the surface of the sea , — where Tritons, Oceanides, and Nereides all cro

n the temple, ministering to the goddess, or in a lonely tower by the sea , where she dwelt alone with her aged nurse. “Hon

stess to Queen Venus in that place; And at her father’s tower, by the sea set — Herself a Queen of Love, though maiden yet 

isit in her lonely tower.     “‘Sweet! for thy love,’ he cried, ‘the sea I’d cleave, Though foam were fire, and waves with

r not billows if they bear to thee; Nor tremble at the hissing of the sea .” Edwin Arnold. At last his prayers overcame th

our to light a torch and hold it aloft to guide him safely across the sea . Then only he departed. Venus. Capitol, Rome.

ander came as surely as the night, And when the morning woke upon the sea , It saw him not, for back at home was he.” Leigh

who did not come; and, when the first sunbeams shone over the tossing sea , she cast an anxious glance over the waters to Ab

ted from Leander. To hasten their meeting, she threw herself into the sea , and perished in the waves, close by his side. Th

business there, for had she not bidden them all lie still on the blue sea until she awoke? Her suspicions being aroused by

m one country to another, forded streams, and Anally plunged into the sea , since called Ionian. After swimming across it, s

king and the founder of Memphis. “In coming time that hollow of the sea Shall bear the name Ionian, and present A monumen

made his appearance, the Titan Oceanus had wielded the sceptre of the sea ; and regretfully he now resigned it to his youthf

and Hesione Neptune, the personification as well as the god of the sea , was of an exceedingly encroaching disposition. D

Adam, Louvre. From a photograph by Levy et ses fils. As god of the sea , Neptune did not generally remain in Olympus, but

and when some drops of blood fell from her severed head into the salt sea foam, he produced from them the graceful winged s

nd Nereus, — the personification of the calm and sunlit aspect of the sea . Her name was Amphitrite, or Salacia. At first sh

many thanks for his timely aid. All the Nereides, Tritons, and lesser sea divinities formed a part of Neptune and Amphitrit

always attended Neptune when it was safe to leave his great herds of sea calves to bask on the sunny shores. “In ages pas

k on the sunny shores. “In ages past old Proteus, with his droves Of sea calves sought the mountains and the groves.” Cow

is aid. “Hail, Neptune, greatest of the gods! Thou ruler of the salt sea floods; Thou with the deep and dark-green hair, T

s, Plunging and tumbling, fast and free, All reckless follow o’er the sea .” Arion. Many large temples were dedicated excl

e musical and poetical contests.                 “King of the stormy sea ! Brother of Jove, and co-inheritor Of elements! E

ows; and, to escape his murderous fury, Ino plunged headlong into the sea with her second child in her arms. The gods, in p

sufferings, changed her into the goddess Leucothea and her son into a sea deity by the name of Palæmon. When still but a yo

g to sell him as a slave in Egypt. They were already quite far out at sea when the god awoke, and gazed around him in mute

ars could no longer propel it onward, they saw a vine grow out of the sea , and twine its branches and tendrils with lightni

s, that they lost all presence of mind, and jumped overboard into the sea , where they were drowned and changed into dolphin

ody was even now being cast up on the smooth, sandy beach by the salt sea waves. With a wild cry of terror and grief, Halcy

great a task for poor Halcyone, who immediately cast herself into the sea , to perish beside him. Touched by grief so real a

ountain-high, lash them to foam, tear the sails of all the vessels at sea , break their masts, uproot the trees, tear the ro

tion that he saved Hesione, Laomedon’s daughter, from the jaws of the sea monster who was about to devour her, as he had de

m about the golden apples, was told to consult old Nereus, god of the sea , who would probably be able to give him some info

y the foot, and flung him from the heights of Mount Œta down into the sea , where he perished. “And Lichas from the top of

eir sister’s death. Perseus then swiftly winged his way over land and sea , carefully holding his ghastly trophy behind him;

death of many an adventurous explorer. The drops which fell into the sea were utilised by Neptune, who created from them t

of her mother, Cassiopeia, who claimed she was fairer than any of the sea nymphs, she had been exposed there as prey for a

of the sea nymphs, she had been exposed there as prey for a terrible sea monster sent to devastate the homes along the coa

ly raise his foot, kick him over the side, and hurl him down into the sea below, where a huge tortoise was ever waiting wit

e light feathers, sank down faster and faster, until he fell into the sea , where he was drowned, and which, in memory of hi

he giant such a blow, that he lost his balance and fell into the deep sea , where he was drowned, and where thermal springs

ncluded that his son was dead, and in his grief cast himself into the sea , since known as the Ægean, where he perished. “A

’ height, All bath’d in tears, directs his eager sight; O’er the wide sea , distended by the gale, He spies, with dread amaz

rously slew him by hurling him from the top of a steep cliff into the sea . As usual, when too late the Athenians repented o

t by Neptune to transport them to Colchis. The ram flew over land and sea ; but Helle, frightened at the sight of the waves

e golden fleece, and tumbled off the ram’s back into a portion of the sea since known as the Hellespont, “Where beauteous

r for evil left them, and they were chained fast to the bottom of the sea , near the mouth of the Bosphorus, where they rema

ake Regillus. Their name was also given to meteors, sometimes seen at sea , which attach themselves like balls of fire to th

ful winged steed, born from the blood which fell into the foam of the sea from Medusa’s severed head. This horse, as white

ients’ belief, every mountain, valley, plain, lake, river, grove, and sea was provided with some lesser deity, whose specia

s fruit to ripen in the autumn sunshine. The lesser divinities of the sea were almost as numerous as those of the land, and

d Neptune’s regal train. The Story of Glaucus One of the lesser sea gods, Glaucus, was once a poor fisherman, who ear

uliar grass, and immediately felt an insane desire to plunge into the sea , —  a desire which soon became so intense that he

ound himself perfectly at home, he began to explore the depths of the sea . “‘I plung’d for life or death. To interknit One

upiter, father of the gods, once fell deeply in love with a beautiful sea nymph named Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Do

of the waiting vessels, and wafted them swiftly and steadily over the sea to the Trojan shores, where an army stood ready t

r side to assist him in his office, two huge serpents came out of the sea , coiled themselves around him and his sons, and c

gly giant in whose cave they were waiting, had once seen the charming sea nymph Galatea riding in her pearl-shell chariot d

ill.” Theocritus ( Hunt’s tr.). To induce Galatea to leave the salt sea waves and linger by his side on the white sandy b

n exhaustless stream of limpid water, which ever hastened down to the sea to join Galatea. Ulysses and Polyphemus Uly

hich tore the ships from their anchors and soon drove them far out to sea . After untold suffering, the Greeks landed again

This self-same Scylla, once a lovely maiden, had won the heart of the sea god Glaucus, but coquettishly tormented him until

ave, with a white thunderbolt, Their galley in the midst of the black sea !” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). This promise he immedi

and waves, was washed ashore on the Island of Ogygia, where the fair sea nymph Calypso had taken up her abode. Ulysses

en palm, and made The ship a rock, fast rooted in the bed Of the deep sea .” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). The Return of Ulyss

call         To raise or lay the foam, A race I hate now ploughs the sea , Transporting Troy to Italy         And home gods

ant flee, And tell him, not to him but me The imperial trident of the sea         Fell by the lot’s award.’” Virgil ( Coni

o the banquet-hall, where they recounted their adventures by land and sea , while partaking of the viands and wines set befo

he hard lot which compelled them to encounter again the perils of the sea . Their discontent ultimately reached such a pitch

it is no great effort in us to fancy the waterspout a huge giant or a sea monster, and to depict, in what we call appropria

de the myths of the sky, the sun, dawn, daylight, night, moon, earth, sea , clouds, fire, wind, and finally those of the und

g. In the Athenian solar myth, Theseus is the sun, born of Ægeus (the sea , derived from aisso, “to move quickly like the wa

ds his eventful career by being hurled headlong from a cliff into the sea , —  an emblem of the sun, which often seems to pl

m of the condensation of vapour, falls from her exalted seat into the sea , where she is lost. The ship Argo “is a symbol of

to his weapon and to Pegasus (the clouds), born from the mist of the sea , beneath whose hoofs fresh fountains were wont to

der and lightning of a summer storm. Sea Myths The myths of the sea comprise, of course, Oceanus and Neptune (the ear

golden or white-maned steeds. Nereus, another personification of the sea , whose name is derived from nao (“to flow”), is q

d Pegasus, but as “in primitive Aryan lore, the sky itself was a blue sea , and the clouds were ships sailing over it,” so C

King of Thebes, 62, 63 Am-phi-tri′te. Same as Salacia, queen of the sea ; wife of Neptune, 130, 131, 133; train of, 132; s

the offspring of Neptune and Ceres, 129. 2. Musician; thrown into the sea by pirates, saved by a dolphin, 63, 64 Ar-is-tæ′

ain by Medea, 239 significance, 356 Glau′cus. Fisherman changed to a sea god, 269, 270; lover of Scylla, 314 Golden Age.

t to visit her, 89-94 He-si′o-ne. Daughter of Laomedon; rescued from sea monster by Hercules, 126-128, 195, 275 Hes-pe′ri

icance, 352, 357, 359, 360 Leu-co′the-a. Same as Ino, Athamas’ wife; sea goddess, 151; Ulysses rescued by, 317 Li′ber. Sa

, 232; significance, 356, 362 Nep′tune. Same as Poseidon, god of the sea , 126-135; son of Cronus, 10, 11; kingdom given to

oris, 82, 129, 130, 132, 269; significance, 362 Ne′re-us. God of the sea ; the personification of its pleasant aspect, 130,

s golden plague, 154 Pa-læ′mon. Son of Athamas and Ino; changed into sea god, 151 Pal-a-me′des. Messenger sent to summon

es to war against Troy, 277, 278 Pal-i-xu′rus. Æneas’ pilot; lost at sea off Cape Misenum, 332, 333 Pal-la′di-um. Statue

by Hector, 288-292; significance, 359 Peg′a-sus. Steed born from the sea foam and the blood of Medusa, 130, 213; Belleroph

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

sea when first created, 3, 4 Po-sei′don. Same as Neptune, god of the sea and of horse trainers, 126 Po′thos. God of the a

First Greek who landed on Trojan coast, 281, 282 Pro′teus. Inferior sea divinity; shepherd of the deep, 132, 133; Menelau

39; Protesilaus, king of, 281 The′tis. 1. Mother of Achilles, 278; a sea nymph, 8. 2. One of the Titanides, 6, 8; marriage

soles the world for the absence of her brother. Neptune reigns in the sea , surrounded by the Naiades, who dance to the joyo

ng the Giants and the Furies, rendering fruitful also the foam of the sea , of which was born Venus Aphrodite. Insérer image

harp. In later times he is represented with a scythe. “Unfathomable sea ! whose waves are years;     Ocean of Time, whose

terrible in storm,     Who shall put forth on thee,     Unfathomable sea ?” Shelley. With his scythe and with his wings,

on, and with precipitate steps retired towards the shore, crossed the sea with Europa on him, and arrived safe in Crete. He

er sister, disdaining the embraces of the God, threw herself into the sea , and was changed into the isle which bears the na

rofusely gifted from the almighty hand, With power extensive o’er the sea and land; And great the honour, she, by Jove’s hi

o bear the horror of the sight, the robbers threw themselves into the sea , and Bacchus turned them into Dolphins, then seiz

e than one. Of these, however, the Venus sprung from the froth of the sea “Where the moist Zephyrs to the favoured shore,

t mythologists, as well as painters, make mention. She arose from the sea near the island of Cyprus,     “Cytherea! whom t

ter Olympus, where she was represented by Phidias, as rising from the sea , and crowned by the goddess of Persuasion. ———— 

g away to his young spirit’s night, Sinking bewildered mid the dreary sea : ’Tis young Leander toiling to his death; Nigh sw

sion to the many artifices practised in love; and also goddess of the sea , because born in the bosom of the waters; “Behol

from Cythera came; Whence, beauteous crown’d, she safely cross’d the sea , And call’d, O Cyprus, Cypria from thee; Nor less

go Among the gods above, or men below.” Hesiod. As rising from the sea , the name of Anadyomine is applied to her, and re

mnos, the Ægean isle.” Milton. He was educated by the nymphs of the sea , and trained in his ‌youth in the art of working

mother Venus; and as his influence was extended over the heavens, the sea and the earth, and even the empire of the dead, h

Neptune, ———— “The God whose potent hand Shakes the tumultuous sea , and solid land: The Ocean Lord, o’er Helicon who

to Saturn, the portion of the kingdom allotted to him was that of the sea . This, however, did not seem equivalent to the em

on, his territories were soon afterwards laid waste by the god of the sea , and his subjects visited with a pestilence sent

hmus to Neptune, and the promontory to Apollo. Neptune, as god of the sea , was entitled to more power than any of the other

could also cause earthquakes at pleasure, and raise islands from the sea by a blow of his trident. ———————— “King of the

from the sea by a blow of his trident. ———————— “King of the stormy sea ! Brother of Jove, and co-inheritor Of elements Et

rself a vow of perpetual celibacy; and had by him, Triton, one of the sea deities. To the story of Neptune, may be attached

se, an animal so beneficial for the use of mankind. As monarch of the sea , he is supposed to have had possession of the dee

ich gleam unrecked of, and in vain; Keep, keep thy riches, melancholy sea .                                We ask not such f

hings from thee!                                Restore the dead thou sea !” Hemans. Pluto. The name of Pluto, as go

he circling floods refreshment craves, And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves; When to the water he his lip applies, B

implored as its deities. They had altars chiefly on the coast of the sea , where the piety of mankind made offerings of mil

il, and honey, and often of the flesh of goats. When they were on the sea shore, they generally resided in grottos and cave

larch has hung all his tassels forth, The fisher is out in the stormy sea , And the rein-deer bounds o’er the pastures free,

eanus and Thetis. Oceanus, one of the most powerful deities of the sea , was, according to Homer, the parent of all the g

ld man, with a long, flowing beard, and sitting upon the waves of the sea . He often holds a pike in his hand, whilst ships

pike in his hand, whilst ships under sail appear at a distance, or a sea monster stands near him. ‌ Oceanus presided over

a monster stands near him. ‌ Oceanus presided over every part of the sea , and even the rivers were subjected to his power.

A glorious sisterhood of goddess birth.” Hesiod. Thetis, one of the sea deities, was daughter of Nereus and Doris and is

the god. When Achilles was killed by Paris, Thetis issued out of the sea with the Nereids to mourn his death, and after sh

Neptune and Amphitrite, and was reckoned of much importance among the sea deities, being able to raise or to calm storms at

erally represented with a shell in his hand. “Old Triton blowing his sea horn.” Wordsworth. His body above the waist, is

re feet of a horse. He usually precedes the chariot of the god of the sea , sounding his shell, and is resembled, in this, b

ure, from that God, because he had tended for him the monsters of the sea . “The shepherd of the seas, a prophet, and a god

to his downy breast.” Darwin. He usually resided on the Carpathian sea , and like the rest of the sea gods, reposed upon

. He usually resided on the Carpathian sea, and like the rest of the sea gods, reposed upon the shore, where those resorte

wall; Ino fled with Melicerta in her arms, and threw herself into the sea from a high rock, and was changed into a sea deit

d threw herself into the sea from a high rock, and was changed into a sea deity, by Neptune, who had compassion on her misf

grass, and tasting it, was seized with a sudden desire to live in the sea . Upon this, he leapt into the water, and was made

o live in the sea. Upon this, he leapt into the water, and was made a sea deity by Oceanus, at the request of the marine go

le progeny of twelve, so swift, that they ran or rather flew over the sea without wetting a foot. The Athenians dedicated a

vows.” West Wind.     “I’ve rolled o’er the regions     Of earth and sea , And laughed at the legions     That trembled at

fiend-like glee, Earth’s palaces levelled,     Wrecks dashed o’er the sea .” Chorus. “We are free, we are free, in our realm

ing on the morrow his body upon the shore, she threw herself into the sea . The Gods, touched by her fidelity, changed her a

serene while they build and sit on their nests in the surface of the sea .                           “O, poor Alcyone! Wha

‌ In despair at the uselessness of their search, they retired to the sea shore, where, in the midst of desolate rocks, the

m Hercules, was slain by him, and became one of the divinities of the sea . Scylla, daughter of Hecate and of Phorcys, was a

ful nymph, greatly beloved by Glaucus, also one of the deities of the sea . Scylla scorned his addresses, and the God, to re

morphose so alarmed her, that she threw herself into that part of the sea which separates the coast of Italy and Sicily, wh

armony profound,     Of woods with all their leaves. A murmur of the sea ,     A laughing tone of streams; Long may her soj

———— “All bountiful, who roams Earth, and the expanded surface of the sea ; And him that meets him on his way, whose hands H

g over their heads, and immediately the tempest was appeased, and the sea became calm. They were invited to a marriage feas

purchase of his toil, Proud of his royal bride, the richer spoil, To sea both prize and patroness he bore, And lands trium

ll cry aloud, forbidding me To touch her soil, to pass its waves, the sea , And every fountain whence the rivers flow. Thus

t him in his pursuits. The hero seized Nereus while he slept, and the sea god, unable to escape from his grasp, answered al

82 He delivered Hesione, a daughter of Laomedon, King of Troy, from a sea monster, to whom the Trojans yearly presented a m

opposing towers the splendid scene, And pours from urns immense, the sea between. Loud o’er her whirling flood Charybdis r

its dreadful power, he seized the messenger, and hurled him into the sea with fearful violence. Insérer image anonyme_heat

us was no sooner born, than Acresius caused him to be thrown into the sea , with his mother, Danae. The hopes of the father

us Nereids, and Jove’s high degree, And that devouring monster of the sea , That, ready with his jaws wide gaping stood, To

nce of Polydectes; Dictys, who had preserved her and Perseus from the sea , had attempted to defend her from her enemy, and

ty of the barbarous act of throwing his daughter and her son into the sea . This unfortunate murder preyed upon the spirit o

by Hercules. Methinks (So perfect is the Phidian stone) his sire, The sea god Neptune, hath in anger stopped The current of

usual journey for travellers to his father’s court, at Athens, was by sea , but Theseus determined to signalise himself by e

a black sail upon his son’s ship, despairingly threw himself into the sea . “On a high rock that beetles o’er the flood, Wi

the gift of woman’s beauty. What marvel that the earth, the sky, the sea , Were filled with all those fine imaginings That

from the highest heaven of happy love! But evening crimsoned the blue sea , a sound Of music and of mirth, came on the wind,

touching tenderness, ‘Eurydice! Eurydice!’ until it reached the Ægean sea . The inhabitants of Dian asserted that his tomb w

er would have claimed the reward of his infamy, he threw him into the sea , under pretext of punishing his negligence. Insér

2_img238a During the sacrifice, two enormous serpents issued from the sea , and attacked Laocoon’s two sons, who stood next

ned in it, all the winds escaped, and a furious tempest convulsed the sea . The vessels were thrown upon the coast of the Le

. Two Greeks were devoured by them. In alarm the vessels again put to sea , and they landed in an isle where abode Circe, a

, and then would call Upon the murdered Acis. He the while Ran to the sea , but oft on summer nights Noises were heard, and

was blazing high, Though rising gale and breaking foam, And shrieking sea birds warned him home; And clouds aloft, and tide

morning came, and —————— “They parted, but they met again — The blue sea rolled between them — but in vain! Leander had no

her mind, of some vague, uncertain dread, as she wandered down to the sea shore. “Her heart sick with its terror, and her

ted; and in a fit of insupportable madness she threw herself into the sea .     “From Leucadia’s promontory Flung herself h

od of war. The former was fabled, like Venus, to have arisen from the sea when agitated by the gods. The poetry of the East

d the statue of the god, which the emperor threw in the depths of the sea . The sacrifices to these deities were sometimes v

vereign of nature, and of the Sun and Moon, and king of the earth and sea ; while on others, they pay deep reverence to monk

flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea , and all the rivers on earth, received their wate

people of Hellas, (Greece.) Their country was inaccessible by land or sea . They lived exempt from disease or old age, from

anean. Their imagination meantime peopled the western portion of this sea with giants, monsters, and enchantresses; while t

the chariots of the gods through the air, or along the surface of the sea . He was able to bestow on his workmanship self-mo

Jupiter and Dione. Others say that Venus sprang from the foam of the sea . The zephyr wafted her along the waves to the Isl

wn way of telling the story, which is as follows: — Before earth, and sea , and heaven were created, all things wore one asp

dead weight, in which, however, slumbered the seeds of things. Earth, sea , ad air were all mixed up together; so the earth

a, ad air were all mixed up together; so the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, and the air was not transparent. G

ast interposed, and put an end to this discord, separating earth from sea , and heaven from both. The fiery part, being the

ing cleared, the stars began to appear, fishes took possession of the sea , birds of the air, and four-footed beasts of the

s overwhelmed, and its turrets lay hid beneath the waves. Now all was sea , sea without shore. Here and there an individual

rwhelmed, and its turrets lay hid beneath the waves. Now all was sea, sea without shore. Here and there an individual remai

down into a garden. Where the graceful lambs played but now, unwieldy sea calves gambol. The wolf swims among the sheep, th

shell, and sound a retreat to the waters. The waters obeyed, and the sea returned to its shores, and the rivers to their c

ed over the whole world from its pursuit. She swam through the Ionian sea , which derived its name from her, then roamed ove

here, Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea , that it might be a secure resting-place for his

ssed the material; 4 for upon the walls Vulcan had represented earth, sea , and skies, with their inhabitants. In the sea we

had represented earth, sea, and skies, with their inhabitants. In the sea were the nymphs, some sporting in the waves, some

yself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me. The last part of the road d

, “look round the world and choose whatever you will of what earth or sea contains most precious — ask it and fear no refus

al; and as a ship without ballast is tossed hither and thither on the sea , so the chariot, without its accustomed weight, w

. Where he used to discharge his waters through seven mouths into the sea , there seven dry channels alone remained. The ear

into Tartarus, and frightened the king of shadows and his queen. The sea shrank up. Where before was water, it became a dr

f they be destroyed. Atlas faints, and scarce holds up his burden. If sea , earth, and heaven perish, we fall into ancient C

fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea , came up again in Sicily. Hence the story ran tha

river, ran Through caverns measureless to man,     Down to a sunless sea .” In one of Moore’s juvenile poems he thus allud

hey obtained the consent of Oceanus and Tethys, the sovereigns of the sea , that all that was mortal in him should be washed

the sight of him, and ran till she had gained a cliff overlooking the sea . Here she stopped and turned round to see whether

a. Here she stopped and turned round to see whether it was a god or a sea animal, and observed with wonder his shape and co

porting himself against a rock, said, “Maiden, I am no monster, nor a sea animal, but a god; and neither Proteus nor Triton

nor Triton ranks higher than I. Once I was a mortal, and followed the sea for a living; but now I belong wholly to it.” The

lla used to resort, in the heat of the day, to breathe the air of the sea , and to bathe in its waters. Here the goddess pou

m to pass a thousand years in decrepitude and pain. He returns to the sea , and there finds the body of Scylla, whom the god

r with him, but he could not bear to expose her to the dangers of the sea . He answered, therefore, consoling her as well as

. When half or less of their course was passed, as night drew on, the sea began to whiten with swelling waves, and the east

shing of the waves, mingle with the roar of the thunder. The swelling sea seems lifted up to the heavens, to scatter its fo

falls in torrents, as if the skies were coming down to unite with the sea . When the lightning ceases for a moment, the nigh

ms, as many as the harvest bears stalks, or the forest leaves, or the sea shore sand grains. As soon as the goddess entered

ive and struggle to endure, I should be more cruel to myself than the sea has been to me. But I will not struggle, I will n

were broken with tears and sobs. It was now morning. She went to the sea shore, and sought the spot where she last saw him

ry object, and strives to recall every incident, looking out over the sea , she descries an indistinct object floating in th

t out from the shore a mole, constructed to break the assaults of the sea , and stem its violent ingress. She leaped upon th

in winter time, Halcyone broods over her nest, which floats upon the sea . Then the way is safe to seamen. Æolus guards the

. Æolus guards the winds and keeps them from disturbing the deep. The sea is given up, for the time, to his grandchildren.

— “O magic sleep! O comfortable bird That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hushed and smooth.” Ch

us woman,” he exclaimed; “disgrace of our time! May neither earth nor sea yield thee a resting-place! Surely, my Crete, whe

oy the company of his mistress. But one night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowne

his death, and in her despair cast herself down from a tower into the sea and perished.   The story of Leander’s swimming t

with august gravity, sitting in the midst. Neptune, the ruler of the sea , holds his trident, and appears to have just smit

uropa ventured to mount his back, whereupon Jupiter advanced into the sea and swam with her to Crete. You would have though

the Gorgons and Grææ were only personifications of the terrors of the sea , the former denoting the strong billows of the wi

d the mother and child to be shut up in a chest and set adrift on the sea . The chest floated towards Seriphus, where it was

ing with him the head of the Gorgon, flew far and wide, over land and sea . As night came on, he reached the western limit o

and Asia, the girl, whose name was Helle, fell from his back into the sea , which from her was called the Hellespont, — now

now rowed along the shore till they arrived at the eastern end of the sea , and landed at the kingdom of Colchis. Jason made

les went in quest of the lad, and while he was absent the Argo put to sea and left him. Moore, in one of his songs, makes a

, she caused the lad to be killed and his limbs to be strewn over the sea . Æetes on reaching the place found these sorrowfu

d Lichas, who had brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea . He wrenched off the garment, but it stuck to his

nestly to take the shorter and safer way to his father’s country — by sea ; but the youth, feeling in himself the spirit and

s on itself, and flows now onward, now backward, in its course to the sea . Dædalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, but

to make his escape from his prison, but could not leave the island by sea , as the king kept strict watch on all the vessels

ail without being carefully searched. “Minos may control the land and sea ,” said Dædalus, “but not the regions of the air.

ttered cries to his father it was submerged in the blue waters of the sea , which thenceforth was called by his name. His fa

apt scholar and gave striking evidences of ingenuity. Walking on the sea shore he picked up the spine of a fish. Imitating

that he had just become aware of their treachery, looked out over the sea and said in a voice of weeping, ‘Sailors, these a

but the crew laughed at both of us, and sped the vessel fast over the sea . All at once — strange as it may seem, it is true

 strange as it may seem, it is true, — the vessel stopped, in the mid sea , as fast as if it was fixed on the ground. The me

found he had no arms, and curving his mutilated body, jumped into the sea . What had been his legs became the two ends of a

y. The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed th

hat would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea , And hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.” S

ent’s delay he would have food set before him, of whatever kind earth sea , or air produces; and complained of hunger even w

for him. The more he ate the more he craved. His hunger was like the sea , which receives all the rivers, yet is never fill

d. She scorned to be the slave of a purchaser and as she stood by the sea side raised her hands in prayer to Neptune. He he

ses had brazen hoofs and golden manes. They drew his chariot over the sea , which became smooth before him, while the monste

h her little son Melicertes in her arms, sprang from a cliff into the sea . The gods, out of compassion, made her a goddess

into the sea. The gods, out of compassion, made her a goddess of the sea , under the name of Leucothea, and him a god, unde

ressed him: “There is an old prophet named Proteus, who dwells in the sea and is a favorite of Neptune, whose herd of sea-c

the gods, and how merry will we be at the festal board!” The wind and sea continued propitious. Not a cloud dimmed the firm

ourself to die on this spot; but if otherwise, cast yourself into the sea .” “Will nothing satisfy you but my life?” said he

trode forward to the vessel’s side and looked down into the deep blue sea . Addressing his lyre, he sang, “Companion of my v

o throws himself upon your mercy!” So saying, he sprang into the deep sea . The waves covered him, and the seamen held on th

ye friendly squadrons,” he exclaimed, “my companions from across the sea . I take your company for a good omen. We come fro

bric would give way. The murmur of voices sounds like the roar of the sea , while the circles widening in their ascent rise

the sorrow in every breast. As wave follows wave over the face of the sea , so ran from mouth to mouth the words, “Of Ibycus

ed by order of her father, Acrisius, in a chest and set adrift on the sea . The chest floated towards the island of Seriphus

affection she threw herself from the promontory of Leucadia into the sea , under a superstition that those who should take

er. His father gave him the power of wading through the depths of the sea , or, as others say, of walking on its surface. Or

g made Orion drunk, deprived him of his sight and cast him out on the sea shore. The blinded hero followed the sound of a C

d her, but to no purpose. One day, observing Orion wading through the sea with his head just above the water, Apollo pointe

sister and maintained that she could not hit that black thing on the sea . The archer-goddess discharged a shaft with fatal

er beat The forehead of the bull; but he Reeled as of yore beside the sea , When blinded by Œnopion     He sought the blacks

nd no escape from the passion of the Cyclops but in the depths of the sea ;” and tears stopped her utterance, which when the

lay tranquilly in his cave. “There is a cliff which projects into the sea , which washes it on either side. Thither one day

d-for wind was given; I then revolved     The oracle, upon the silent sea ; And if no worthier led the way, resolved     Tha

urred which left no room to doubt. There appeared, advancing over the sea , two immense serpents. They came upon the land, a

ey were overtaken by a storm which drove them for nine days along the sea till they reached the country of the Lotus-eaters

happy mariners were irresistibly impelled to cast themselves into the sea to their destruction. Circe directed Ulysses to f

cords firmly to the mast. As they approached the Sirens’ island, the sea was calm, and over the waters came the notes of m

f escape could be found, the two friends leaped from a cliff into the sea , and swam to a vessel which lay becalmed off shor

d, till Jupiter fastened it by adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea . Apollo and Diana were born there, and the island

ards them, and his immense height enabled him to advance far into the sea , so that the Trojans, in terror, took to their oa

shoulders under others, set them afloat again. The Trojans, when the sea became calm, sought the nearest shore, which was

to victory, and that their destined leader must come from across the sea . They have offered the crown to me, but I am too

th invisible beings, and supposed that every object, from the sun and sea to the smallest fountain and rivulet, was under t

form he assumed to support the earth when the gods were churning the sea for the beverage of immortality, Amrita. We may o

y after the gods had created the world they walked by the side of the sea , pleased with their new work, but found that it w

I should never have believed it. For one end of that horn reached the sea , which thou wast not aware of, but when thou come

of, but when thou comest to the shore thou wilt perceive how much the sea has sunk by thy draughts. Thou didst perform a fe

neral of Baldur. The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea shore where stood Baldur’s ship Hringham, which p

iverse. The earth itself will be frightened and begin to tremble, the sea leave its basin, the heavens tear asunder, and me

l now break his bands, the Midgard serpent rise out of her bed in the sea , and Loki, released from his bonds, will join the

Almighty) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea . The new earth filled with abundant supplies will

eland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea , a wild land of barrenness and lava, swallowed ma

y, where cattle can subsist, and men by means of them and of what the sea yields; and it seems they were poetic men these,

r thoughts. Much would be lost had Iceland not been burst up from the sea , not been discovered by the Northmen!” Chapt

bjects of Nature, — the sun, the moon, the heavens, the winds, or the sea . The fables first related about each deity repres

presents; such as the rising and setting of the sun, the tides of the sea , and so on. “II. It has an ethical character, and

reathing of the divine spirit of wisdom. Poseidon*1 is physically the sea ; morally, the supreme power of passion. “III. It

flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea , and all the rivers on earth, received their wate

e people of Hellas, Greece. Their country was inaccessible by land or sea . They lived exempt from disease or old age, from

Mediterranean. Their imagination peopled the western portion of this sea with giants, monsters, and enchantresses; while t

children. Gæa then brought forth Uranus* (the heavens), Pontus* (the sea ), and Oure* (the mountains). The Race of Uranus.

reus*, Thaumas*, Phorcys*, Ceto*, and Eurybia*. Nereus represents the sea in its quiet state. Thaumas represents the majest

nts the sea in its quiet state. Thaumas represents the majesty of the sea . He is the father of Iris* (the rainbow) and of t

l Gorgons* and Grææ* proceeded, typify the dangers and terrors of the sea . The Titans and their Offspring. Oceanus*

igantes* (Giants) and Meliæ* (Melian Nymphs). From what fell into the sea sprung Aphrodite* (Venus). Uranus cursed Chronos,

the curve in order to cool his burning forehead in the waters of the sea , he is followed closely by his sister Selene, who

pose. The name Endymion denotes the sudden plunge of the sun into the sea . Endymion represents the tired sun hurrying to hi

isguised god bounded away with his lovely burden, and swam across the sea with her to the island of Crete. Europa was the m

u, Varuna*. Poseidon was a son of Chronos and Rhea. He was god of the sea , as having under his control the forces that affe

his residence on Olympus, Poseidon had a splendid palace beneath the sea at Ægæ*, in Eubœa, where he kept his horses with

thquakes at his pleasure, and to raise islands from the bottom of the sea with a blow of his trident. Mariners always invok

The gall of victims was also offered. The bodies were thrown into the sea . The wife of Poseidon was Amphitrite*. Their chil

conspiracy to dethrone Zeus, he was deprived of his dominion over the sea for one year. It was during this time that, in co

en Poseidon and other deities merely signify the encroachments of the sea upon the land. The Romans invested Neptune with a

of war, in full armor, sprung forth, while a great commotion both on sea and land announced the event to the world. She is

count, he was born lame, and his mother cast him from heaven into the sea . The Oceanides Eurynome* and Thetis* tended him f

rynome* and Thetis* tended him for nine years in a deep grotto of the sea , in return for which he made them many ornaments.

account was replaced by another, that she was born of the foam of the sea , and first touched land on the island of Cyprus,

lion; terror seized the offenders, who leaped from the ship into the sea , where they were changed into dolphins. A fine re

e vaporlike exhalations which, in warm climates, are emitted from the sea , more especially at sunset. They were represented

accorded to them. Nereus*. Nereus* was a personification of the sea in its quiet, placid moods. He was represented as

own as “The Old Man of the Sea.” His office was to tend the seals, or sea calves. He had the power of foretelling future ev

grass. No sooner was this done, than he precipitated himself into the sea . Oceanus and Tethys cleansed him from all his hum

haumas*, Phorcys*, and Ceto*. Thaumas* typified the wonders of the sea . He and Electra* (whose name signifies the sparkl

horcys* and Ceto*, the brother and sister of Thaumas, personified the sea in its terrible aspect. They were the parents of

, Melicertes*, to the verge of a rock, from which she sprung into the sea . The gods made them deities of the sea, Ino under

from which she sprung into the sea. The gods made them deities of the sea , Ino under the name of Leucothea* and Melicertes

he enclosed both mother and child in a chest, which he cast into the sea . It was cared for by Zeus, who caused it to float

aiden fastened with chains to a rock, and a monster rising out of the sea ready to devour her, while her parents stood on t

entreaties of his people, and she was chained to a rock close to the sea . The parents of Andromeda, having been witnesses

gy better than the Corinthians, who daily saw the sun rise out of the sea . The fall of Bellerophon is the rapid descent of

s to capture the Cretan bull. Poseidon once sent up a bull out of the sea for Minos*, king of Crete, to sacrifice, but Mino

he bearer of the robe, and dashed him in pieces against a rock of the sea . Convinced that death was inevitable, he proceede

o compelled travelers to wash his feet, and then kicked them into the sea . Theseus overcame him and threw his body over the

sails, and, thinking his son had perished, he threw himself into the sea and was drowned. The sea was named for him Ægean.

son had perished, he threw himself into the sea and was drowned. The sea was named for him Ægean. Theseus succeeded his fa

t strict watch on all the vessels, they could not leave the island by sea ; so Dædalus made wings of feathers fastened toget

y, and charged him to keep at a moderate height. Icarus fell into the sea , which was named for him Icarium* Mare, but Dædal

she directed them to flee to Colchis. On the way, Helle fell into the sea and was drowned; so the sea was called for her He

Colchis. On the way, Helle fell into the sea and was drowned; so the sea was called for her Hellespont (Helle’s Sea). Phry

two immense rocks called the Symplegades*, which floated about in the sea , and constantly met and separated, crushing every

Jason and Medea hastened on board the Argo, which immediately put to sea . Æetes soon discovered the flight of his daughter

bsyrtus*, whom she had taken with her, and scattered his limbs in the sea . Her father stopped to collect the remains of his

d his two sons were destroyed by two serpents that came up out of the sea , the Trojans regarded this as a punishment sent b

, he encountered a violent north-east wind, which drove him along the sea till he reached the land of the Lotus-eaters*, we

ck to his ship. Having rejoined his companions, they once more put to sea and returned to Ææa, where they spent one day wit

eus alone was saved. Clinging to a mast, he floated about in the open sea for nine days. He once more escaped from Charybdi

destroyed. He floated about for two days and nights, but at last the sea goddess, Leucothea*, aided him, and he was cast a

bride, the Twilight (Penelope), in the sky when he sinks beneath the sea to journey in silence and darkness to the scene o

Polyphemus, Ulysses encounters the one-eyed monster, the child of the sea (Poseidon), and the storm-cloud (Thoösa). The sha

or Neptune, personified the forces which affect the movements of the sea . Pallas Athene, or Minerva, personified mind work

seed concealed in the earth. Poseidon, or Neptune, presided over the sea in its relation to storms and earthquakes, in its

ees began to bud and sprout. The three gods walked by the side of the sea , admiring their new creation, but seeing that it

eland, — burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea , a wild land of barrenness and lava, swallowed ma

ry where cattle can subsist, and men by means of them and of what the sea yields; and it seems they were poetic men these,

r thoughts. Much would be lost had Iceland not been burst up from the sea , not been discovered by the Northmen!” The Dr

rope, which caused him to be accounted, in aftertimes, the God of the sea . Shem had the rest of Asia, where the worship of

s there, that he gave name to the chain of mountains extending to the sea ; which appellation they still retain; and the oce

as display’d on high, (The work of Vulcan) a fictitious sky. A waving sea the inferior earth embrac’d, And Gods and Goddess

herself upon the promontory Circeum. She fell in love with Glaucus, a sea god, who, preferring a sea nymph, called Scylla,

Circeum. She fell in love with Glaucus, a sea god, who, preferring a sea nymph, called Scylla, Circe transformed her into

, preferring a sea nymph, called Scylla, Circe transformed her into a sea monster, by poisoning the water, in which she was

secured the island from being inundated, and rooted it firmly in the sea . Therein were born Apollo and Diana, her twin chi

fled with the Israelites, from the Egyptian bondage, beyond the same sea . The numerous army of Bacchus, composed of men an

d? She is represented by the poets as springing from the froth of the sea . A sea-shell gliding smoothly on the surface of t

ame in Bœotia. Marina and Aphrodita, as produced from the foam of the sea ; and Paphia, from Paphos. She had likewise the ap

as an old man sitting upon the waves, holding a pike, and near him a sea monster of indescribable form. Who was Neptune

his hand the trident which commanded the waves. Around him played the sea nymphs, and the Tritons sounding their trumpet of

rens, Proteus, &c.] Who were the Tritons? They were imaginary sea animals, the upper part of whose bodies was suppo

Neptune, who was entrusted with the care of his flocks, consisting of sea calves and other marine animals. He is represente

umnus, Saron, Egeon, Ino, and Palemon? They were mortals changed into sea Gods, by some extraordinary influence. Egeon is s

uence. Egeon is spoken of, as a formidable giant, who issued from the sea , to assist the Titans against Jupiter, but being

ousy of Neptune’s wife Amphitrite, was changed by her into a dreadful sea monster. She is represented as having six necks,

e waters bubbling o’er the fiery blaze. When in her gulfs the rushing sea subsides, She drams the ocean with refulgent tide

oracle of Delphi) driven on shore by the tide, threw herself into the sea . The Gods, pitying their unhappy fate, changed th

circling floods, refreshment craves, And pines with thirst, amidst a sea of waves. When to the water, he his lip applies,

elivered Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, from a horrible sea monster, to which she was exposed. At last, he bu

army of monkeys, by whose agility lie raised a bridge of rocks on the sea ; a portion of which, the Hindûs assert to be yet

of Isis. When Osīris was the fertilizing Nile, Typhon was the sterile sea which swallows up the river. Hence, the sea was h

e, Typhon was the sterile sea which swallows up the river. Hence, the sea was held in abomination by the Egyptians. When Os

from the heavens; the tottering mountains will crumble to pieces; the sea will rush upon the land; the great serpent, advan

shield before the sun, to prevent the hills from being burnt, and the sea from being evaporated by excessive heat. He, who

rk Maim’d his brute image; head and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man, And downward fish; yet had h

n with the sun; Pachamama, or the Earth; and Mamacocha, or the mother sea . They did not practise the sanguinary rites of th

he week named, and what is said of his palace? Who was the god of the sea in the Scandinavian Mythology? Who was Irminsul?

, a name of the moon 141 Chǎrōn, the ferry-man of hell 93 Chǎrbdĭs, a sea monster 80 Chĭmærǎ, a monster destroyed by Beller

ir and earth 90 Edda, a sacred book of the Scandinavians 207 Egēōn, a sea god 79 Egĭpāns, rural divinities 88 Egĭs, the shi

an invocation to the sun 140 Genii, domestic divinities 92 Glaūcŭs, a sea god 79 Glaukōpis, a name of Minerva 53 Gnomes, in

f Mars 57 Grand Lama 126 H Hades, a name of Pluto 99 Hālcy̌ons, sea birds 81 Hǎmǎdradēs, wood nymphs 82 Harpies, Aēll

pagodas 146 Indĭgĕtes, local deities 5 Indra, a Hindû god 134 Ino, a sea god 79 Irĭs, the attendant of Jupiter 25 Irminsūl

eptune, god of the ocean 74 Nepthys, the wife of Typhon 158 Nērĕĭdĕs, sea nymphs 73 Nēreūs, the son of Oceanus 73 Niflheim,

name of Bacchus 47 Nȳsæ, the nurses of Bacchus 47 O Ocĕănĭdes, sea nymphs 73 Ocĕănus, the son of Ceelus and Terra 73

Peruvian deity 221 Pæān, a name of Apollo 37 Paganism 125 Palemon, a sea god 79 Pales, the goddess of shepherds 87 Palilia

ās, a king of the Lapithae 106 Phœbŭs, a name of Apollo 37 Phōrcŭs, a sea god 77 Picūmnus, a rural divinity 88 Pĭĕrĭdĕs, a

he goddess of orchards 86 Pŏpŭlōnĭă, a rural divinity 87 Pōrtūmnŭs, a sea god 79 Poseidon, a name of Neptune 74 Prĭāpŭs, th

s of Mars 57 Sanscrit, the sacred language of the Hindûs 149 Saron, a sea god 79 Sāturn 6 Saturnāliă, a festival in honour

133 Satyrs, rural divinities 88 Scandinavian mythology 188 Scylla, a sea monster 80 Scythian mythology 188 Sĕgēstă, the pr

fernal regions 133 Silēnus, the chief of the Satyrs 91 Sirens, female sea monsters 78 Sīsy̌phŭs, an infernal criminal 106 S

on from “Pegasus in Pound.” The Gods. Far away across the sea from us lies the pleasant land of Greece. It is a

autiful country, full of wooded hills and green valleys; and the blue sea comes far inland, up the valleys between the hill

s were singing, where the grass and the trees were green and the blue sea was breaking in long waves at the foot of the pro

ting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea ,         Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sw

not tell him. They advised him to seek out Nereus, the old man of the sea , for he could surely tell where the gardens were.

of ever finding him, when, one day, as the hero was walking along the sea beach, he came upon him whom he sought. There, as

loose, and in a twinkling the god had disappeared in the depth of the sea . The search for Atlas was long and hard, and Herc

, told him where Atlas could be found. Far to the west, over land and sea , Hercules had now to travel, but at last, in the

s Daughter. “I’ve been, oh, sweet daughter,    To fountain and sea , To seek in their water    Some bright gem for th

n her golden hair that Dictys thought she must be some goddess of the sea , although there was near her a small boat in whic

hey told him. “Go on,” they said, “three days to the west, across the sea . There you will find the home of the Gorgons.” Th

and covered her face with her hands. Perseus turned and looked out to sea . There, coming toward them through the waves, was

im with its great jaws and struck at him with its tail and limbs. The sea was beaten into foam and spray by its struggles.

out. His grandfather and those of the court would have had him go by sea , for the way to Athens by land was full of danger

eir splendid temples. The summer’s sultry heat is gone,    The fresh sea breeze is blowing; ’Tis the feast of Pyanepsion,

owy far away;    And still from morn till eve I’ve scanned That weary sea from strand to strand,    To mark his sail agains

hore. There he gathered sailors, and, getting aboard ship, put out to sea . Three days they sped over the waves, but on the

os, and in the darkness went aboard ship. As they were putting out to sea , the aged sea-god Nereus came up from the deep an

o not dare.” But one day the watchman spied a mighty fleet far out at sea , and raised a cry that spread throughout the city

eks drew up their ships upon the beach and lived in them there by the sea . Many a battle was fought and many a town was tak

ector and his followers. All seemed lost, for the Greeks had only the sea behind them and could not even escape without the

e thought it ought to be burned; others would have pushed it into the sea ; still others advised that it be pulled to pieces

here was no more talk of burning the horse, or of casting it into the sea . All agreed that it must be taken into the city a

city was fast asleep, he went up on the wall where it overlooked the sea . Before long he saw far out on the water a flamin

eir wrath had triumphed. Cassandra. Troy-town before it bad the sea ;    Behind, Mount Ida green and fair. Cassandra l

plea,    And gladly heard — but in it all Heard only “Come beyond the sea ! Come, come, my bride, to dwell with me. Immortal

came near the shore, they saw the huge entrance of a cave beside the sea . They landed, and with twelve picked men Ulysses

ir wind. First, they sailed by the Sirens, who sit at the edge of the sea and sing sweetly to passing voyagers; but whoever

ut every day he went down to the shore and sat looking out across the sea and thinking of Ithaca. At last, after seven year

ght him provisions for the voyage. Then, drawing the raft down to the sea , he pushed off, and started at last on his way ho

g to each other half in fear, Shrill music reach’d them on the middle sea . “Whither away, whither away, whither away? fly n

nd, Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore Most weary seem’d the sea , weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of bar

brothers became gods and were the protectors of travelers by land and sea . They sometimes appeared in battles. Ceph΄alus.

cys; sisters of the Gorgons, 131; three old crones, divinities of the sea ; they had but one eye and one tooth, which they u

f Nereus; sea-nymphs, 87,168. Ne΄reus (ne΄ruse). “The old man of the sea ,” 87; father of Thetis, the mother of Achilles.

seus (per΄suse). Son of Danaë. As an infant, was cast adrift upon the sea with his mother in a small boat; rescued by Dicty

-deities seem to be all expressive of the qualities and powers of the sea . Nereus is the Flower (from νάω) ; Tritôn the Wea

ω), the sailor or swimmer ; Glaucos plainly denotes the colour of the sea  ; Palæmôn was probably in its origin Halæmôn, and

regarded them as sent forth by a god who ruled the heavens ; when the sea rose in mountains and lashed the shore or tossed

shore or tossed the bark, the commotion was referred to a god of the sea  ; the regular courses, the rising and the setting

horses or other animals of celestial breed conveyed them over earth, sea , and air ; their clothing and arms were usually o

un each day. When, therefore, we shall in future speak of gods of the sea , the sun, the moon, we would not be understood to

personifications of these objects. In truth, a personification of the sea or sun is not a very intelligible expression. We

n of battle ; springs, daughters of the earth ; mist, daughter of the sea  ; tears, daughters of the eye ; and dreams, daugh

ank of a lake or river may have been called its son29 ; one coming by sea have been styled a son of the sea ; and when the

en called its son29 ; one coming by sea have been styled a son of the sea  ; and when the metaphor came to be understood lit

the Taphians (a people who inhabited some small islands in the Ionian sea ) perhaps form an exception. We read in the Odysse

oreans, from which the river Ister flowed, was inaccessible either by sea or land. Apollo was their tutelar deity, to whom

the earth, and Hesiod120 describes the extremities of heaven, earth, sea (πόυτος), and Tartaros as meeting, it would seem

dar131 and Æschylus132 the Ocean had increased to the dimensions of a sea , and Herodotus133 derides those who still regarde

Erinnyes, the Giants, and the Melian nymphs : from what fell into the sea sprang Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.

aking sought him, and would have flung him from the sky down into the sea , but that he took refuge with Night, ‘the subduer

describes the Sun as loosing his steeds on the margin of the western sea , where the Nereïdes and Seasons take off their ha

ed by Zeus, who allowed her to exercise extensive power over land and sea , and to share in all the honours enjoyed by the c

d fallen to him by lot on the dethronement of his father Kronos ; the sea was the realm of his brother Poseidôn ; the under

through the yielding air, or skim with them along the surface of the sea without wetting the axle. They were only used on

Leto, flying the love of Zeus, flung herself from heaven down to the sea and became the isle afterwards named Delos396. Mo

and lightning. Danae and her babe were abandoned to the waves of the sea . We shall presently show that the name Zeus signi

ῶν. Neptunus. This son of Kronos and Rhea became the ruler of the sea . His queen was Amphitrite, one of the daughters o

ld lay any stress on his testimony in these matters. Had a god of the sea been worshiped in Egypt, beyond question the hist

horse is the principal means of transport by land, as the ship is by sea  ; the one name might therefore be metaphorically

to mount the swift-coursed ships, which are For men the horses of the sea , and pass O'er the great deep ; in Plautus439 on

the sea-god being regarded as the author of ships, the horses of the sea , and thence by an easy transition of the real ani

his residence on Olympos, Poseidôn had a splendid palace beneath the sea at Ægæ452. Homer gives a noble description of his

inal god of water in general, of springs and rivers as well as of the sea . The legends respecting him (his amour with Demet

had raised a storm, which drove his son Heracles out of his course at sea , he tied her hands together and suspended her wit

of paternity, gave a mortal progeny to Ares. As a person who came by sea was figuratively called a son of Poseidôn, so a v

, as he stood on the lofty area of the temple, cast his eyes over the sea , and beheld far south of the Peloponnese a Cretan

the Peloponnese a Cretan ship sailing for Pylos. He plunged into the sea , and in the form of a porpoise sprang on board th

f the loves of Phœbos ; he carried her in his golden chariot over the sea to Libya, where she bore him a son named Aristæos

lloweth aloud Unto the bowstring’s twang ; the earth itself And fishy sea then shudder : but she still A brave heart bearin

ngth, being nearly overtaken by him, she sprang from a cliff into the sea , where she was saved in the nets (δίκτυα) of some

gle his waters with hers. She fled on under the earth and through the sea , till she rose in the isle of Ortygia at Syracuse

there707. This island was described by Homer as lying in the western sea , the scene of all wonders, and was probably as im

as her mother. Hesiod740 says she sprang from the foam (ἀϕρὸς) of the sea , into which the mutilated part of Uranos had been

oist-blowing west-wind wafted her in soft foam along the waves of the sea , and that the gold-filleted Seasons received her

his fate, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea , supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ;

female beauty and attraction. She appears sometimes rising out of the sea and wringing her locks ; sometimes drawn in a con

omerid788 Olympos shook at the divine birth, the earth resounded, the sea was moved, and Helios checked his steeds in their

So long as the goddess beheld the earth and starry heaven, the fishy sea and beams of the sun, so long she hoped to see he

bes of the gods ; and the tops of the mountains and the depths of the sea resounded with her divine voice. At length her mo

llingly the coursers flew. Quickly the long road they have gone ; not sea Nor streams of water, nor the grassy dales, Nor h

f harmony, but at that of the Muses the heaven itself, the stars, the sea , and rivers stood motionless, and Helicôn swelled

ing Lycurgos ; and Dionysos in affright plunged into the waves of the sea , and Thetis received him in her bosom terrified, 

zed the captain, and the terrified crew to escape him leaped into the sea and became dolphins. The pilot alone remained on

tal, but was now allotted the honour of the gods in the depths of the sea .’ And again ; Odysseus beholds in the realms of H

s, or materials for building them, who had no ports, and who held the sea in abhorrence1100 — who civilised the mast-eating

of the country, that he was obliged to take refuge with Thetis in the sea  ; but he avenged himself by driving Lycurgos mad,

the Delta, he was told by the oracle of Buto that brazen men from the sea would be his avengers. Shortly afterwards some Ca

easing description of the spring, and inviting the mariners to put to sea . The Priaps are enumerated by Moschus1218 among t

reïdes1251. Νηρηΐδϵς. Nereïdes. The Nereïdes, or nymphs of the sea , were fifty in number ; but the mythologists do n

the Nereïdes are significatory of the qualities and phænomena of the sea . Φόρкυς, Φόρкος. Phorcus. Phorcys is calle

a son of Poseidôn and Amphitrite, who, ‘keeping to the bottom of the sea , dwelt with his mother and royal father in a gold

nias1256 tells us that the women of Tanagra in Bœotia, going into the sea to purify themselves for the orgies of Bacchos, w

hat Tritôn used to carry off the cattle which were driven down to the sea , and to seize all small vessels ; till the Tanagr

mpanions in them ; and when Proteus at noon should come up out of the sea and go to sleep amidst his herds, to seize and ho

Glaucos, as is evident from his name, was an original god of the sea , probably only another form of Poseidôn, whose so

was seen among the waves, and his body appeared covered with muscles, sea weed and stones. He was heard evermore to lament

caught and thrown on the grass to bite it, and then to jump into the sea , his curiosity excited him to taste it also ; imm

eered the Argo, and that during the voyage Zeus made him a god of the sea . Glaucos, we are told1274, seeing Ariadne in Naxo

h her little son Melicertes in her arms, sprang from a cliff into the sea . The gods out of compassion made her a goddess of

ff into the sea. The gods out of compassion made her a goddess of the sea under the name of Leucothea, and him a god under

Gorgons and two Grææ are only personifications of the terrors of the sea , the former denoting the large strong billows of

Odyssey may have chosen to regard all westwards of Greece as one wide sea , in which he was at liberty to place what isles h

ent north-east wind (βορέης), which drove him for nine days along the sea , till he reached the country of the Lotus-eaters.

der their bellies, and so escaped. Odysseus, when a little way out at sea called out his real name, and the Cyclôps hurled

the Sirens. These were two maidens1376 who sat in a mead close to the sea , and with their melodious voices so charmed those

agic-speech) ; and it was feigned that they threw themselves into the sea with vexation at the escape of Odysseus1379. But

us end their enchantment, and cause them to fling themselves into the sea , where they were changed into rocks1380. It was a

s and catches the porpoises, sea-dogs, and other large animals of the sea which swim by, and out of every ship that passes

sles and coasts ; and he thus brought his hero into all parts of that sea , and informed his auditors of all its wonders. A

r they are very dear to the Immortals. We dwell apart in the wavefull sea , the last ; nor does any other mortal mingle with

the Cyclopes on the coast of Libya, Scheria most probably lay in the sea somewhere to the north of it. The truth is, the P

ye hills Wood-hung ; for I have now gone o’er the whole Flood of the sea , and all the winding track Of continents. But may

the wise or deepthinking (ὀλoόϕρων), ‘who knows all the depths of the sea , and keeps the long pillars which hold heaven and

las we may view a personification of “navigation, the conquest of the sea by human skill, trade, and mercantile profit1459.

ed a lofty mountain to make his observations he fell from it into the sea , and both sea and mountain were named from him146

ntain to make his observations he fell from it into the sea, and both sea and mountain were named from him1461. His support

. But Heracles coming thither opened a passage for the Eagle into the sea , and thus freed the captive monarch1470. The name

and the Peloponnese was overflowed. Deucaliôn was carried along this sea in his ark for nine days and nights until he reac

an industrious and civilised people from the rapacity of invaders by sea or by land. The evidence in effect of sacerdotal

is that Pelias, being about to offer a sacrifice on the shore of the sea to his sire Poseidôn, invited all his subjects. I

of the gods, advised Peleus to aspire to the bed of the nymph of the sea , and instructed him how to win her. He therefore

wife on finding his lifeless body on the strand cast herself into the sea . The gods out of compassion changed them both int

eggs, and during seven more she feeds her young on the surface of the sea , which then is calm and free from storm, and thes

gn settlement a place situated in a rich fertile valley away from the sea , and only adapted for agriculture, without mines,

os seem all to refer to the element of water. Ino is a goddess of the sea , Agaue and Autonoe occur in the list of the Nereï

he was to be her spouse, and to carry her in his golden car over the sea to the rich garden of Zeus, where Libya would joy

she had obtained from Hermes, which carried them through the air over sea and land. They proceeded safely till they came to

he air over sea and land. They proceeded safely till they came to the sea between Sigeion and the Chersonese, into which He

sprang with her child from the cliff of Moluris near Corinth into the sea . The gods took pity on her and made her a sea-god

ially that possessed by the Minyans, carried on an active commerce by sea at a period long anterior to history. The Phlegya

dôn when Minôs had vowed to sacrifice whatever should appear from the sea . Struck with the beauty and size of the animal, M

some volunteers, and having overcome the grooms, led the mares to the sea . The Bistonians pursued with arms. Heracles, leav

ster. He therefore exposed her, fastened to a rock which overhung the sea . Heracles, having seen the maiden, offered to del

named Eumolpos ; to conceal her weakness she threw the babe into the sea to the protection of his father. Poseidôn took hi

hed the borders of Megara, he came to the narrow path overhanging the sea , where the robber Scirôn — from whom the pass der

ration, Scirôn would give him a kick, which tumbled him down into the sea , where a huge tortoise always lay ready to devour

conquest. Whence they came is uncertain ; but the name of the Ionian sea would seem to place their original abode on the n

s evidently belongs, the latter being regarded more as the god of the sea and of navigation, corresponding with the more ac

nt, he determined to fly from Crete ; but being unable to get away by sea , he resolved to attempt flight through the air. H

oo near the sun, its heat melted the wax, and the youth fell into the sea and was drowned. Dædalos arrived in safety in Sic

r his son, and the resemblance between it and the name of the Icarian sea probably gave occasion to the legend of the fligh

are between Hellas and the Peloponnese ; and as it had a port on each sea , the wares of the East and the West usually passe

pected, the principal object of worship at Corinth was the god of the sea . Poseidôn and Helios, said the legend, once conte

The wanderings of Io were gradually extended. The name of the Ionian sea caused her to be made to ramble along its shore ;

ver made, — in which he embarked with his daughters and fled over the sea . He first landed on the isle of Rhodes, where he

called Nauplios. He attained a great age, and passed his time on the sea lamenting the fate of those who were lost in it.

tions. Inclosing her and her child in a coffer, he cast them into the sea to the mercy of the winds and waves1935. The coff

nd the killing of the Gorgon Medusa1961, and that the exposure in the sea , the two immortal Gorgons, Andromeda, and so fort

of the healing powers of the wonderful child was quickly spread over sea and land1973. The Messenians asserted that Asclep

he god declared then who he was, and enjoining secrecy dived into the sea . Tyro conceived from the divine embrace two sons,

hero2025. The mythic family of the Neleids seem all to relate to the sea and water. At the head of the genealogy is Æolos

cave.’ Endymiôn is perhaps the setting sun who goes into (ἐνδύϵι) the sea , or possibly in the Lelegian mythe the cavern whe

twins as the symbols of foreign trade, they being the children of the sea , or of Bringer (῎Ακτωρ from ἄγω) and Comer, (Ϻολι

dead of the night, says Pindar, Pelops went down to the margin of the sea , and invoked the god who rules it. Suddenly Posei

ding Poseidôn assembled the Nereïdes, and raised on the strand of the sea a bridal-chamber of the waves, which arched in br

rtunity as they were driving along a cliff to throw Myrtilos into the sea , where he was drowned. Others say, that Hippodame

other, Atreus offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving on the shore of the sea  ; but while he was engaged in it, he was fallen o

was a beautiful youth, who pastured his flocks near the shore of the sea . Argyra, one of the sean-ymphs, beheld and loved

mediately made off with his lovely burden, ran along the waves of the sea , and stopped not till he arrived at Crete, not fa

o Poseidôn, he besought him to send him a bull from the bottom of the sea , promising to sacrifice whatever should appear. P

in, and he thus died2099. The bull which Poseidôn had sent out of the sea being of large size and of a brilliant white hue,

or driving steers ; and perhaps the legend of Europa passing over the sea on a bull is an ancient expression of this idea.

s children, might seem to indicate a Cretan worship of the god of the sea . Αἰακὸς καὶ Тελαμών. Æacus et Telamon. Th

and his father gave him the power of wading through the depths of the sea , or, as others say, of walking on its surface2123

to no purpose. At length, observing one day Oriôn wading through the sea with his head just above the waters, he pointed i

sister, and maintained that she could not hit that black thing on the sea . The archer-goddess discharged a shaft : the wave

icating his discovery to mankind, till being chased with him into the sea by Lycurgos, Zeus in compassion raised them to th

ed and expanded in the usual manner. For as the stars rise out of the sea , as it were, nothing was more obvious than to mak

elæno, whom the legend unites to Poseidôn, are plainly related to the sea . Among the Hyades we find Dione, the ancient godd

 ; and both proceeded in quest of the youth. Meantime the Argo put to sea , and left them behind. Polyphemos settled in Mysi

ed on the Argo, and all escaped but Butes, who flung himself into the sea to swim to the Flowery Isle. Aphrodite to save hi

stand on the rocks called the Melantian Neeks, shot an arrow into the sea  : the arrow flashed a vivid light, and they behel

is respecting him be correct), in order to augment the marvels of the sea , which he made the scene of his hero's wanderings

m the opposite end of which another stream flowed into the Tyrrhenian sea  ; he was followed by Apollonius and by another po

aid that the Erinnys would never quit him except in a place which the sea had disclosed posterior to his parricide2186. He

dra announce in vain the woes that are to follow ; the vessel puts to sea , and Alexandros arrives at Lacedæmôn, where he is

to stay to bury him. Having performed the due rites, he again put to sea  ; but as he approached Cape Maleia, Zeus sent for

e on shore. On the third day, the weather clearing, they put again to sea , and had a prosperous voyage till they were doubl

ers Nereus Nefluus (νη ρϵȋν), and understands by it the bottom of the sea . Others derive it from νάω, to flow. The Nereïdes

Catull. lxiv. 242. Others said he flung himself from a rock into the sea , which was named from him. Nicocrates (ap. Sch. A

ia mentioned by Menelaos (Od. iv. 84.) in the Mediterranean, to which sea the Nereïdes were confined. 1940. The scene was

2065. Hygin. ut supra. 2066. Tzetz. ut supra. 2067. The Myrtoan sea was said to derive its name from him. Euripides (

was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of Triton, a sea god. “His weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amp

Lesbos his companions robbed him, and proposed to throw him into the sea . He entreated the seamen to let him play upon his

the dolphins flocked round the vessel. He then threw himself into the sea , and one of the dolphins took him up and carried

risius and Eurydice. She had a son by Jupiter, who was drifted out to sea in a boat, but was saved by Polydectes and educat

several tribes of water nymphs. Do′to [Doto]. One of the Nereids or sea nymphs. Dra′co [Draco]. One of Actæon’s hounds.

e angel of death to the favored people of God. Galatæ′a [Galatæa]. A sea nymph. Polyphemus, one of the Cyclops, loved her,

of the Pleiades, was a daughter of Æolus. Halcy′ons [Halcyons] were sea birds, supposed to be the Greek kingfishers. They

ade their nests on the waves, and during the period of incubation the sea was always calm. Hence the modern term Halcyon Da

this flower by Apollo. See Clytie. Hel′le [Helle] was drowned in the sea , into which she fell from off the back of the gol

r Ino. The episode gave the name of the Hellespont to the part of the sea where Helle was drowned, and it is now called the

owned; when Hero saw the fate of her lover she threw herself into the sea and was also drowned. Heroes, see Valhalla. Hes

, caused the wings to drop off, and he fell into the Ægean or Icarian sea and was drowned. Ichnoba′te [Ichnobate]. One of

coth′ea [Leucothea]. The name of Ino after she was transformed into a sea nymph. Leva′na [Levana]. The deity who presided

, meaning sea-foam, from her having been formed from the froth of the sea . See Aphrodite. Marriage, see Cama, Hymen, Juno,

f Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses. Nep′tune [Neptune], god of the sea , was a son of Saturn and Cybele, and brother to J

led with Jupiter because he did not consider that the dominion of the sea was equal to Jupiter’s empire of heaven and earth

d of the ocean; and the two functions of the god are portrayed in the sea horses with which his chariot is drawn, the fore-

idents in the right hand or garlands of flowers. Nere′us [Nereus]. A sea deity, husband of Doris. He had the gift of proph

Some of them presided over springs, fountains, wells, woods, and the sea . They are spoken of as land-nymphs or Naiads, and

Thoosa and Neptune, or Poseidon, as the Greeks called the god of the sea . He captured Ulysses and twelve of his companions

harbors. Posei′don [Poseidon]. The Greek name of Neptune, god of the sea . Prac′riti [Pracriti]. The Hindoo goddess of nat

kingdom, which ended in Jupiter having heaven and earth, Neptune the sea , and Pluto the infernal regions. Saturna′lia [Sa

any as six sailors from a vessel, and carry them to the bottom of the sea . An alternative danger with the whirlpool, Charyb

the circling flood refreshment craves And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.”         “... And of itself the water

, and mother of love. She is said to have sprung from the foam of the sea , and was immediately carried to the abode of the

jurisdiction of heaven and earth; gave Neptune the sovereignty of the sea ; and appointed Pluto to the empire of hell. The g

on him that threw; Some from the main to pluck whole islands try; The sea boils round with flames shot thick from sky.” Co

ed around the ship; the pirates, struck with madness, leaped into the sea , and were changed into dolphins. Bacchus once mor

ruel persecution raised against him, retired to the shores of the Red sea : to deliver the Hebrews from the persecutions of

Hebrews from the persecutions of the Egyptians, Moses crossed the Red sea . The army of Bacchus, composed of a large number

of Jupiter and Dione; by others to have sprung from the froth of the sea , borne in a sea-shell, and smoothly wafted by Zep

st, daughter of Heaven and Light; the second, born of the foam of the sea , and mother to Cupid; the third, daughter of Jupi

n Bœotia were consecrated to her; Marina, because she was born of the sea ; Aphrodite or Anadyomne, because she rose from th

ikewise a cornucopia, to express the riches which the commerce of the sea produces. The statue of Venus, made by Phidias, w

rnate return of winter and summer. Venus. “Heav’n gave her life, the sea a cradle gave, And earth’s wide regions her with

n. “The froth, born Venus, ravishing to sight, Rose from the ample sea to upper light, And on her head the flowers of su

cate, near Nisapolis, a high place from which persons leaped into the sea to find a remedy for love. This place was, theref

of Phaon, she ran to the promontory, threw herself headlong into the sea , and perished. The river Selemus was also reputed

nations, but the worship of water was general. The Egyptians held the sea in horror, because it represented to them the tre

dding to it the charms and graces of their fictions. Hence sprang the sea deities whose number surpassed those of heaven an

t of mythology. Chapter I. Oceanus, Nereus. Oceanus, a powerful sea deity, was the son of Cœlus and Terra. He was con

protection. The sailors usually offered a lamb or young pig, when the sea was calm, and a black bull, when it was agitated.

as an old man, with a long flowing beard, sitting on the waves of the sea , and holding a pike in his hand. Nereus, son to O

and Cybele. He received as his portion of dominion, the empire of the sea . He engaged the gods to dethrone his brother Jupi

He could cause earthquakes, and raise islands from the bottom of the sea at his will. He was most venerated by the Libyans

te was called Salacia, because the salt water is in the bottom of the sea , and Venilia, because the sea ebbs and flows by t

the salt water is in the bottom of the sea, and Venilia, because the sea ebbs and flows by turns. Neptune is represented w

wim, and go smooth against the curling surge.” “———— He smooth’d the sea , Dispell’d the darkness, and restor’d the day. Hi

High on the waves his azure car he guides, Its axle, thunder, and the sea subside; And the smooth ocean rolls her silent ti

His finny coursers, and in triumph rides, The waves unruffle, and the sea subsides.” “Him and his martial train the Triton

Amphitrite is quite a poetical personage. Her name signifies that the sea surrounds the land. By Neptune the ancients under

une placed in the rank of immortals, and considered as the god of the sea , was undoubtedly a prince, hero, or captain who,

uested the gods to grant them wings to look after her about the great sea , and obtained them. The jealous Juno inspired the

he overcome the Sirens. On this they precipitated themselves into the sea , and were changed into stones. Scylla was the dau

er ceased barking: for which metamorphosis she threw herself into the sea , and was turned into a rock. Charybdis is said to

had emptied out his nets, after which they instantly leaped into the sea . He wished to try its effects upon himself; and a

mself; and as soon as he had touched it, he instantly leaped into the sea , and became a sea-dog. . Portumnus, so called by

ith her son Melicerta. Both precipitately ran away, and fell into the sea , and became sea-deities. The name of Ino was chan

fond of hunting. In pursuing a stag, he leaped accidentally into the sea , where, exhausted with heat and fatigue, he peris

usted with heat and fatigue, he perished. His body was cast up by the sea near the wood sacred to Diana, in the Phœban swam

n that, for fourteen days, from the 13th to the 28th of December, the sea remains calm and appears to respect those birds.

eyx. In the midst of her despair, she threw herself headlong into the sea . The gods, moved with compassion, changed them bo

the nymphs of Bacchus called? Whom had Diana for her attendants? What sea nymphs attended upon Tethys? Who was Echo? Why di

time, their power was extended to streets, ways, the country, and the sea . When they have the care of cities, they are deno

country, Rustici; of roads, Vales; of cross roads, Compitales; of the sea , Marini; of small dishes, Patellarii, and so fort

wore by the Styx, they were to touch the earth with one hand, and the sea with the other. The Phlegethon was likewise a mar

ised to Neptune the first object that should be brought to him by the sea . At that moment he saw a bull of extreme elegance

molate him, but kept him as the ornament of his flock. The god of the sea became enraged, and avenged himself upon Minos by

the circling floods, refreshment craves, And pines with thirst amid a sea of waves When to the water he his lip applies, Ba

s daughter and the infant to be shut up in a chest, and cast into the sea . The chest was blown to the island Seriphos, wher

eupon, believing his son to be dead, he precipitated himself into the sea , which was afterwards called the Ægean, or Black

himself into the sea, which was afterwards called the Ægean, or Black sea , from his name and destiny. — See Fig. 71. Fig.

f the sun melted the wax on the wings of Icarus, and he fell into the sea , which is thence called the Icarian sea. Ariadne

Icarus, and he fell into the sea, which is thence called the Icarian sea . Ariadne was daughter to Minos. She gave Theseus

ighted in precipitating passengers, for whom he laid snares, into the sea . Theseus is said to have descended, in company wi

us prince threw him unawares from a high rock, and he perished in the sea . He had a temple at Athens, one of the richest an

opposing towers the splendid scene., And pours from urns immense the sea between; Loud o’er her whirling flood Charybdis r

of Athamas, flying from the anger of his step-mother Ino, crossed the sea , with his sister Helle, on the back of this ram;

e was seized with such giddiness, that she fell into that part of the sea , which, from her, was called Hellespont. When Phr

f Anaces, or Benefactors. They also rendered themselves formidable at sea , and cleared the Archipelago of the Corsairs who

t the dolphins flocked round the vessel. Upon this he leaped into the sea , and one of the dolphins took him up, and carried

as the son of Peleus, king of Thessaly, by Thetis, the goddess of the sea . His mother dipped him in the river Styx, and the

circular motion. Solid matter fell down, and formed the earth and the sea , whence sprang animals and fishes; almost in the

sh, and the voice and speech of a man. He issued out of the Erythrean sea , and appeared near Babylon. He remained in the da

to polish them, and elevate their morals. At sunset he retired to the sea , and spent the night in the waters. He is said to

awoke intelligent beings, which began to move on the earth and in the sea . The father of mankind was called Protogone, and

n doors, in the construction of which Nebuchadnezzar had employed the sea of brass, and the other utensils of the same meta

will be let loose, and devour the sun. The serpent was cast into the sea , where he will remain until conquered by the god

cred tradition. In the dawn of time, says the poet, there was neither sea , river, nor refreshing zephyr. Neither heaven abo

, and out of him fabricated the globe. With his blood they formed the sea and the rivers; the earth, with his flesh; large

separate us from Asia; others, more bold, attempted the perils of the sea . History informs us that the Phœnicians and Carth

that resemblance of worship among people so widely separated, both by sea and land. This view clearly explains the parallel

ian says, the inhabitant of the continent, and he who dwells near the sea ; and if you even proceed to the utmost shores of

ve birth; Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea , Wandering in many a coral grove, Fair Nine, fors

nds in symbols of the moon, of the swift-winged wind, of the ravening sea . In our metonymies we use the sign for the thing

e of magnificent objects of nature — mountains, the sky, the sun, the sea — is universal. It springs from the fact that sav

ose flight is higher than that of nature. On the contrary, since sun, sea , and winds move, the savage invests them with fre

e parts and passions of persons like themselves. “The sky, sun, wind, sea , earth, mountains, trees, regarded as persons, ar

branches. The root, in physical existence, sun, or sky, or cloud, or sea then the personal incarnation of that, becoming a

said to have thrown herself from the promontory of Leucadia into the sea , under a superstition that those who should take

music and song were of such sweetness as to charm the monsters of the sea ; and that when thrown overboard on one occasion b

ined by order of her father Acrisius in a chest and set adrift on the sea . The myth of her son, Perseus, will be found in a

lls us that River Ocean, a deep and mighty flood, encircling land and sea like a serpent with its tail in its mouth, was th

ht forth next the mountains and fertile fields, the stony plains, the sea , and the plants and animals that possess them. §

, were also three in number. In them, probably, the Greeks imaged the sea with its multitudinous waves, its roar, and its b

ck of the earthquake. Provided with such artillery, shaking earth and sea , Jupiter issued to the onslaught. With the gleam

. He delegated to his brother Neptune (or Posidon) the kingdom of the sea and of all the waters; to his brother Pluto (or H

n grew out of trees and stones, or were produced by the rivers or the sea . Some said that men and gods were both derived fr

s and pious demeanor of this pair, caused the waters to recede, — the sea to return to its shores, and the rivers to their

r), properly a divinity of earth, and Neptune (Posidon), ruler of the sea . § 33. Jupiter 71 (Zeus). — The Greek name signi

y Oceanus and Tethys, in their dwelling in the remote west beyond the sea . Without the knowledge of her parents, she was we

ival, Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea , that it might be a secure resting-place for his

estic brutes. She ruled marsh and mountain; her gleaming arrows smote sea as well as land. Springs and woodland brooks she

iter and Dione82; but Hesiod says that she arose from the foam of the sea at the time of the wounding of Uranus, and theref

iadne, Psyche, Procris, Pasiphaë, and Phædra. Her power extended over sea as well as land; and her temples rose from many a

ime, was the furtherer of lawful industry and of commerce by land and sea . The gravest function of the Messenger was to con

flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest. The sea , and all the rivers on earth, received their wate

g blasts of the north wind. Their country was inaccessible by land or sea . They lived exempt from disease or old age, from

n rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea . Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change o

The Gods of the Waters.105 § 52. There were two dynasties of the sea . The Older, which flourished during the rule of C

another dweller in the glimmering caves of Ocean was Pontus (the deep sea , or the water-way), who became, by Mother Earth,

Mother Earth, father of Nereus. This Nereus, a genial old man of the sea , was distinguished for his prophetic gifts, his k

r of Jove, and thus united the Older and the Younger dynasties of the sea . Fig. 29. Nereid on a sea-monster. [Wall paint

phitrite were the founders. Neptune’s palace was in the depths of the sea , near Ægæ in Euboea; but he made his home on Olym

s were brazen-hoofed and golden-maned. They drew his chariot over the sea , which became smooth before him, while dolphins a

itions, a son of Neptune. Like Nereus, he was a little old man of the sea . He possessed the prophetic gift and the power of

and Ceto, — children of Pontus, — who rejoiced in the horrors of the sea : — (a) The Grææ, three hoary witches, with one ey

The Gorgons, whose glance was icy death. (c) The Sirens, muses of the sea and of death, who by their sweet singing enticed

ulders the vault of heaven. He was once regarded as a divinity of the sea , but later as a mountain. He was the son of Iapet

nd Juno. The daughters of Atlas were not themselves divinities of the sea . (6) The Water-nymphs. — Beside the Oceanids and

ture that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that

hat would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.108

ecincts, Lares of the fields, Lares of the highways, and Lares of the sea . To the Penates, to the domestic Lares (whose ima

She sent a gadfly to torment Io, who, in her flight, swam through the sea , named after her, Ionian. Afterward, roaming over

e a dolphin, faring with unwetted hooves over the wide waves. And the sea , as he came, grew smooth, and the sea-monsters ga

n rejoiced, and rising from the deeps, he tumbled on the swell of the sea . The Nereïds arose out of the salt water, and all

. And himself, the thunderous shaker of the world, appeared above the sea , and made smooth the wave, and guided his brother

fare on thy feet through the path of the sea-beasts, nor fearest the sea ? The sea is a path meet for swift ships that trav

thy feet through the path of the sea-beasts, nor fearest the sea? The sea is a path meet for swift ships that traverse the

hee that has compelled me to measure out so great a space of the salt sea , in a bull’s shape. So Crete shall presently rece

with august gravity, sitting in the midst. Neptune, the ruler of the sea , held his trident, and appeared to have just smit

r who had so despitefully used him, he fashioned in the depths of the sea a throne of cunning device, which he sent to his

yself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me. The last part of the road d

al; and as a ship without ballast is tossed hither and thither on the sea , the chariot, without its accustomed weight, was

. Where he used to discharge his waters through seven mouths into the sea , seven dry channels alone remained. The earth cra

into Tartarus, and frightened the king of shadows and his queen. The sea shrank up. Even Nereus and his wife Doris, with t

purpose. One day, therefore, observing Orion as he waded through the sea , with his head, just above the water, Apollo poin

easts of prey.173 Keats, whose Endymion journeys on a mission under sea , thus describes a meeting of the goddess and her

n!” § 95. The loves of the devotees of Venus are as the sands of the sea for number. Below are given the fortunes of a few

ts which I wear.’ … Then she told him of the turret by the murmuring sea where all day long she tended Venus’ swans and sp

at he might enjoy her company. But one night a tempest arose, and the sea was rough; his strength failed, and he was drowne

became aware of his death, and in her despair cast herself into the, sea and perished. A picture of the drowning Leander i

away to his young spirit’s night, Sinking bewilder’d ’mid the dreary sea . ’Tis young Leander toiling to his death. Nigh sw

hey might sell the lad into slavery. Soon the god looked out over the sea , and said in a voice of weeping, “Sailors, these

t the crew laughed at both of them, and sped the vessel fast over the sea . All at once it stopped, in mid sea, as fast as i

and sped the vessel fast over the sea. All at once it stopped, in mid sea , as fast as if it were fixed on the ground. The m

t waters and of fresh. The myths that turn on his life as lord of the sea illustrate his defiant invasions of lands belongi

odamia. He was so injudicious, however, as to throw Myrtilus into the sea ; and from that treachery sprang the misfortunes o

ood-men found And bore her gently on a sylvan bier, To lie beside the sea , — with many an uncouth tear. § 113. The son of

aughter of the god of winds, she knew how dreadful a thing a storm at sea was), Ceÿx set sail. He was shipwrecked and drown

deity. The imagination of the Greeks peopled the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed th

s, and I Can his wine-skin steal, I drink — and feel The grass roll — sea high; Then with shouts and yells, Down mossy dell

f the Waters. These gods may be roughly classed as dwellers in the sea , and dwellers in the streams. § 126. Galatea. — O

th a curry-comb, mowed his beard with a sickle, and, looking into the sea when it was calm, soliloquized, “Beautiful seems

seems my beard, beautiful my one eye, — as I count beauty, — and the sea reflects the gleam of my teeth whiter than the Pa

scher 9: 1587.] § 127. Glaucus and Scylla. 243 — Another deity of the sea was Glaucus, the son of that Sisyphus who was pun

became guardian of fishes and divers, and of those who go down to the sea in ships. Later, being infatuated of the fair vir

housand years in decrepitude and pain. Consequently, returning to the sea , he there discovers the body of Scylla, whom the

sprang, with her child Melicertes in her arms, from a cliff into the sea . The gods, out of compassion, made her a goddess

into the sea. The gods, out of compassion, made her a goddess of the sea , under the name of Leucothea, and her son a god u

eresting adventure brought him into contact with another deity of the sea . His bees having perished, Aristæus resorted for

theinformed him that an aged prophet named Proteus, who dwelt in the sea , and pastured the sea-calves of Neptune, could ex

ered mother and child to be boxed up in a chest and set adrift on the sea . The two unfortunates were, however, rescued at S

ing with him the head of the Gorgon, flew far and wide, over land and sea . As night came on, he reached the western limit o

d Lichas, who had brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea ; then tried to wrench off the garment, but it stu

t divides Europe and Asia, the girl Helle fell from his back into the sea , which from her was afterward called the Hellespo

hen rowed along the shore till they arrived at the eastern end of the sea , and so landed in the kingdom of Colchis. Fig.

enings of his wings. Off they came; and down the lad dropped into the sea , which after him is named Icarian. Fig. 88. Dæ

rnestly to take the shorter and safer way to his father’s country, by sea ; but the youth, feeling in himself the spirit and

o on cargo of corpses undead should be wafted‌ 333 Over the ravening sea to the pitiless monster of Creta, — Leaving the c

Oh! what lioness whelped thee? Oh! what desolate cavern? What was the sea that spawned, that spat from its churning abysses

an isle remote of the ocean! No, no way of escape, where the circling sea without shore is, — No, no counsel of flight, no

wished-for wind was given; I then revolved The oracle upon the silent sea ; And if no worthier led the way, resolved That of

curred which left no room to doubt. There appeared advancing over the sea two immense serpents. They came upon the land, an

g free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea . Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal

eard them, so that mariners were impelled to cast themselves into the sea to their destruction. Circe directed Ulysses to f

nd Ulysses. [Gem: Millin.] As they approached the Sirens’ island, the sea was calm, and over the waters came the notes of m

n shore, and when Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name; For always roaming with a hu

ards them, and his immense height enabled him to advance far into the sea , so that the Trojans, in terror, took to their oa

shoulders under others, set them afloat again. The Trojans, when the sea became calm, sought the nearest shore, — the coas

to victory, and that their destined leader must come from across the sea . They have offered the crown to me, but I am too

r, or Asa-folk) had created the world, they walked by the side of the sea , pleased with their new work, but found that it w

I should never have believed it. For one end of that horn reached the sea , which thou wast not aware of, but when thou come

of, but when thou comest to the shore thou wilt perceive how much the sea has sunk by thy draughts. Thou didst perform a fe

ed night came on. But the blind Höder, leaving the gods, went by the sea to Fensalir, the house of Frigga, mother of the g

e universe. The earth itself will be afraid and begin to tremble, the sea leave its basin, the heavens tear asunder; men wi

l now break his bands, the Midgard serpent rise out of his bed in the sea , and Loki, released from his bonds, will join the

Almighty) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea . The new earth, filled with abundant supplies, wi

shoulder, whose mighty ashen beam Burnt bright with the flame of the sea , and the blended silver’s gleam. And such was the

his hall and brought ruin on the Budlung folk. Then leaping into the sea she was borne with Swanhild, her daughter by Sigu

t lights of heaven; Creüs and Eurybië, mighty powers, probably of the sea ; Ophion, the mighty serpent, and Eurynome, the fa

” etc.; Keats. Hyperion. In Art. — Helios (Hyperion) rising from the sea : sculpture of eastern pediment of the frieze of t

usic, and the art which he had sedulously cultivated, into the stormy sea of politics and war. Perhaps the severity of his

t Eryx), Pandemos (goddess of vulgar love), Pelagia (Aphrodite of the sea ), Urania (Aphrodite of ideal love), Anadyomene (r

e Don, in Scythia. Caïcus: a river of Greater Mysia, flowing into the sea at Lesbos. Xanthus and Mæander: rivers of Phrygia

fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea , came up again in Sicily. Hence the story ran tha

cred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea .” In one of Moore’s juvenile poems he alludes to

Interpretative. — Glaucus is explained by some as the calm gleaming sea ; by others, as the angry sea that reflects the lo

s explained by some as the calm gleaming sea; by others, as the angry sea that reflects the lowering heavens (see Roscher,

ith the Chimæra we have a repetition of the combat of Perseus and the sea monster. Bellerophon is a heavenly knight-errant

d sunset (?): Helle being the glimmering twilight that sinks into the sea ; Phrixus, the radiant sunlight; the Voyage of the

f escape could be found, the two friends leaped from a cliff into the sea , and swam to a vessel which lay becalmed off shor

′sios: an epithet applied to Hymen because he brought safely over the sea to their home a shipload of kidnapped Athenian ma

ength fearlessly mounted on his back. He immediately plunged into the sea , and carried her to the unknown shores of Europe,

the story of Europa probably founded? Ans. It is probable that some sea captain, or pirate, was attracted by the beauty o

was the goddess of love and beauty. She sprang from the froth of the sea ; for this reason the Greeks called her Aphrodite

Venus represented? Ans. Sometimes as a young virgin rising from the sea , or riding on the waves in a shell, while Cupids,

shelter to her rival, but the island of Delos formerly floated in the sea , and was at that time hidden under the waters. Ne

ne, pitying the forlorn state of Latona, caused it to emerge from the sea , when it became fixed and immovable for her use.

yclops, directed by the sound of their voices, hurled a rock into the sea , by which their vessel was almost swamped. Warned

arned by this danger, they rowed silently until they reached the open sea . Some writers have imagined that the Cyclops were

the story of Triptolemus. Ans. When Ceres was seeking Proserpine by sea and land, she was kindly entertained by Celeus, k

e his current with hers, but Diana opened for her a passage under the sea , and she rose in the island of Ortygia, in Sicily

e was the son of Saturn and Ops, and was worshipped as the god of the sea , and the father of rivers and fountains. Ques. H

that of a fish. Whenever Neptune’s chariot moved upon the waters, the sea grew calm, and tempests were appeased. Ques. Wha

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

ts; and after they had lulled them into a trance, drowned them in the sea . Ques. What was there remarkable in the songs of

knew that their hour had come, and flung themselves headlong into the sea , where they were transformed into rocks. Ques. W

o much grieved by this transformation, that she cast herself into the sea , where she was changed into a rock, made famous b

shing him against a wall, but Ino escaped, and threw herself into the sea with Melicertes in her arms. At the intercession

who had brought him the garment, by the foot, and hurled him into the sea . He then fled in his agony to the summit of Mount

r Helle, to escape from their step-mother Ino, attempted to cross the sea on this ram. Helle became terrified, and was drow

m this that his son was dead. In his despair he cast himself into the sea , which was called Ægean [Æ′gean] from his name. T

. If he cared not for this, he must immediately cast himself into the sea . Arion chose the latter alternative, but begged t

Then, commending himself to the friendly Nereides, he sprang into the sea . The waves closed above him, and the ship held on

and purple, and holding his lyre as when he had cast himself into the sea . Overcome with terror, the guilty men confessed t

enclosed Danaë and her infant son in a coffer, which he cast into the sea . The coffer was carried by the waves to the islan

d, they mounted boldly in the air, and directed their flight over the sea . Icarus disregarded his father’s instructions, an

is wings. He could no longer sustain himself, and was drowned in that sea which is called Icarian, from his name. Dædalus a

e towards her by the waves. In her despair, she cast herself into the sea , but the gods took pity on the faithful pair, and

d them into halcyons. According to the poets, it was decreed that the sea should remain calm while these birds built their

awk, swooped down upon her from the sky. Scylla cast herself into the sea , and was transformed at the same moment into a la

some time in travelling. He made several voyages in the company of a sea captain named Mentes; but at length his sight bec

y from the fatal island. The vengeance of the god pursued them on the sea , and a terrible storm arose, in which all perishe

which he would have perished had he not been aided by a compassionate sea nymph; Minerva, also, smoothed the billows before

if they would not eat, they might drink, and had them thrown into the sea . It is believed that the terrible defeat the Roma

. They were instituted in honor of Melicertes, who was changed into a sea deity. After falling into neglect, these games we

in the mountains of Libanus, from which the river Adonis flows to the sea . The Assyrian women mourned for him in the autumn

mer’s day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea , supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.”

d of the Assyrians, half man, half fish, who was said to dwell in the sea , from which he came at stated times, to instruct

ees began to bud and sprout. The three gods walked by the side of the sea , admiring their new creation, but seeing that it

heavens, will fall unceasingly on the earth; tempests will sweep the sea , and the sun will impart neither heat nor gladnes

discord will convulse the universe. The solid earth will tremble, the sea will leave its bed, and the heavens will be rent

Fenris will now break his bands; the Midgard serpent rise out of the sea , and Loki, released from his chains, will join th

g torches, and mingling their wild chants with the voices of wind and sea . Some of these sorceresses were obliged to assist

off, around the sacred isle of Sena, are scattered rocks on which the sea breaks with an unceasing moan. Thither assemble,

also adored good men as divine beings. The sun, moon, and stars, the sea , the rivers, and the elements were worshipped, in

e Marine, and the Infernal Gods. The gods of heaven, of earth, of the sea , and of hell. The principal of the celestial gods

ew himself slowly to the shore of the Mediterranean, plunged into the sea and swam off with his lovely burden to Crete. Cre

dered him invisible; a trident for Neptune, which shook both land and sea ; and a dog of brass for Jupiter. He also construc

: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep. When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his c

embossed upon it the head of Medusa. Medusa was one of the Gorgons, a sea nymph — she offended Minerva, and the goddess tra

Cupid. The froth-born Venus, ravishing to sight, Rose from the ample sea to upper light. And on her head the flower of sum

auty The poets represented her as having- sprung from the foam of the sea . She first appeared upon the surface of the waves

were the appellations of Venus? In what verses is her rising from the sea described? Where, and how was Venus worshipped? W

of her desolate condition, raised the island of Delos from the Egean sea , and gave it to Latona. In Delos, Apollo and Dian

s. The heathens deified the ocean, and believed that not only the sea itself, but every fountain and river had its pecu

es with the tail of a fish. They are sometimes pictured riding in the sea upon Tritons, and sometimes upon seahorses. How

y being the centre of the Greek commerce, derived its wealth from the sea , and therefore held. Neptune in more grateful est

us, and Triton, were sons of Neptune. ——— The Tritons were imaginary sea animals, the upper part of whose bodies was suppo

r with the gods, by the sound of his instrument. ——— The Sirens were sea nymphs of rare beauty, who dwelt upon the coast o

s return from consulting the Oracle of Delphi, threw herself into the sea . The gods, pitying the unhappy fate of Ceyx and H

with the remains of others of the same family. When a man perished at sea , or in an unknown spot, his friends would erect s

circling floods, refreshment craves, And pines with thirst, amidst a sea of waves. When to the water, he his lip applies,

ercules delivered Hesione, daughter of Laomedon. King of Troy, from a sea monster, which would have devoured her. It is rel

h opposing towers the splendid scene; And pours from urns immense the sea between.     Loud o’er her whirling flood Charybd

e voyage of Jason was from Aulis in Thessaly to Colchis on the Euxine sea , and he was accompanied by many young and adventu

stopping at some islands of the Egean, and sundry ports of the Euxine sea , Jason arrived at the capital of Colchis, and dem

rs will surprise you, and you will be cut off by their cruel hands; a sea voyage is safe and short, and you will soon reach

passenger, who could not escape, afterwards precipitated him into the sea . The third, Procrustes, in the wantonness of his

xpected Theseus, Ægeus used to go to a promontory that overlooked the sea , to watch his approach: at length the vessel appe

ppened to his son, and, in his despair, precipitated himself into the sea . From this circumstance it is said that the Archi

s, a river of Thrace. The floating head was carried down to the Egean sea , the lips uttering the sad sound, Eurydice! Euryd

was playing on his lyre when his murderers precipitated him into the sea , and so charmed were the dolphins that they gathe

ok their flight towards Italy. Icarus mounted too high, fell into the sea , and was drowned, but his father was more fortuna

he river Simois and Scamander, at the distance of four miles from the sea shore. Near to Troy was a range of mountains call

s relates to Telemachus, that his vessels were tossed about the Egean sea for eight long years, sometimes on the coast of C

shore for provisions, and others were engaged in fishing, one of the sea nymphs, Eidothea, the daughter of Proteus, appear

, who shook the rock with his trident, and precipitated Ajax into the sea , where he was drowned. By Neptune rescued from M

k Maimed his brute image; head and hands lopped off. Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man, And downward fish; yet had h

The Peruvians are said to have worshipped the sun, moon, and the sea , under different names. They did not practice the

om Massilia (Marseilles) in Gaul, to the eastern limits of the Euxine sea , all along the European and Asiatic coasts of the

racle informed them that she must be carried to a promontory near the  sea , and there left till her destined husband should

oodness to go along with me to a high promontory, which overlooks the sea ; there we shall find the beautiful princess Psych

neath a huge rock, and gazing pensively upon the dashing waves of the sea . Somnus carried in his hand a leaden sceptre whic

iver-god saw, and pursued me. Diana opened a passage for me under the sea , when I fled from him, and emerged here in Sicily

Sicily. This fountain bears my name; it flows beneath the bed of the sea , from Elis to this valley.2 I mourn for my guardi

. Our little Itys is too young to be exposed to the rude gales of the sea ; and if we should leave him with his nurse, we sh

inquired for her. “She died on the passage, and we threw her into the sea ,” answered the lying Tereus. Philomela remained a

etty story of Mercury. One morning, very early, he was walking on the sea shore, and he saw the shell of a dead tortoise, w

his pursuit to the verge of a precipice, from which she fell into the sea . Venus pitied poor Ino and her child, and she bes

inflexible, he suddenly caused the vessel to stop in the midst of the sea , where she became immoveable as a rock, and her s

sailors, struck with shame and terror, at the sight, plunged into the sea , and were changed to dolphins. Bacchus spared the

her too. The tower in which Danæ was confined, stood on a rock on the sea coast, and her father ordered that she and her in

upon the billows with her child. But Neptune, who was the god of the sea , had compassion on them, and the winds wafted the

æ, “you see before you all the vessel in which I have encountered the sea . My cruel father, the king of Argos, in displeasu

where she was expecting, in unspeakable anguish, to be devoured by a sea monster. Andromeda’s mother was a vain, silly wom

t she was handsomer than Juno or the Nereides. Neptune, as god of the sea , had a great regard for the Nereides. They were f

branches of trees; some were drowned and others starved, and a great sea monster came up and devoured many. Cepheus, in th

e returned home, you must chain her to a rock which projects into the sea , not far from your palace; and that monster which

this sad condition? Andromeda then related how she was exposed to the sea monster, to appease the angry Neptune. Perseus he

a. Perseus, with all speed, then flew to Andromeda, and presently the sea was tossed into foaming billows by the monster, w

avens. His car was drawn by two fiery horses. When the sun set in the sea , the pagans who worshipped Apollo, said his cours

sing through the Vale of Tempe, and pouring its waters into the Egean sea . On the transformation of Daphne to a laurel, all

rebo e della Notte(a). Gli danno la figura di fanciullo, che coricato sea dormendo in profonda grotta, posta nel cavo d’un