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6. (1909) The myths of Greece and Rome

This version of the creation of the world, although but one of the many current with the Greeks and Romans, was the one most generally adopted. […] This version was far less popular with the Greeks, although it betrays still more plainly the common source whence all these myths are derived. […] These festivals were known as the Olympian Games; and the Greeks generally reckoned time by Olympiads, that is to say, by the space of time between the celebrations. […] Laomedon’s failure to pay his just debts was the primary cause of the enmity which Apollo and Neptune displayed towards the Trojans during their famous war with the Greeks. […] According to Roman traditions, it could only be entered at Avernus, but the Greeks asserted that there was another entrance near the Promontory of Tasnarum.

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