They thought her the most beautiful creature in the world. […] He could make a pretty young girl love the most ill-looking, disagreeable man that can be imagined. […] The beautiful eyes of Venus were just fixed upon her with a most vengeful expression. […] She was perhaps some king’s daughter; the most beautiful woman at that time known. […] This Acteon was one of the most expert hunters in the world.

But the gods the Greeks loved most were the gods of the sky. […] In most of them he had to conquer some fierce beast. […] “Give it to me, and you shall have the most beautiful woman in the world. […] The most insolent of the suitors of Penelope, 240. […] The most famous is Polyphemus, 220.