Classical Mythology

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 299 f The Homeric Hymn to Pan (19) presents a memorable account of his birth and his revels; ...

300 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Echo and Narcissus, by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665); oil on canvas, ca. 1630, 29V 4 X 39V2 in ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 301 she might have been able to catch the nymphs lying on the mountain with her Jove, Echo kn ...

302 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS He fell in love with a hope insubstantial, believing what was only an image to be real and c ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 303 will bring an end to my misery. I only wish that he whom I cherish could live a longer ti ...

304 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS will not have come to know himself." We should not be surprised that Ovid is so profound. Na ...

DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 305 The epithet eiraphiotes is of uncertain derivation. It may mean "insewn," but it may ins ...

306 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS This is Dry ope; Ovid (Metamorphoses 9. 325 ff.) has a different version. The Greek word pa ...

CHAPTER 14 DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES THE MYTH OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE There are two Homeric Hymns to Demeter. Numbe ...

308 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Demeter. Marble, second half of the fourth century B.C.; height 58 in.This is the cult-statu ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 309 distressed. But the peaks of the mountains and the depths of the sea echoed with her im ...

(^310) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Thus Hecate spoke, and the daughter of Rhea of the beautiful hair did not answer but swif ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 311 Thus they spoke. And she, the queenly goddess, answered with these words: "Dear childre ...

(^312) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Soon they arrived at the house of Celeus, a man cherished by Zeus, and passed through the ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 313 ished before his time, for he was like the gods to look upon. And she would have made h ...

314 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS HADES AND PERSEPHONE AND HER EATING OF THE POMEGRANATE When they had finished and ceased fro ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 315 with a gentle and loving heart in your breast. Be not distraught. I among the immortals ...

(^316) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Thus he spoke. And wise Persephone was delighted and jumped up quickly in her joy. But he ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 317 the mighty lord, the host of many, leaped up and carried me away in his golden chariot ...

318 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS beside Zeus, who delights in the thunder, august and holy goddesses. Greatly happy is the on ...