Classical Mythology
MYTHS OF LOCAL HEROES AND HEROINES^619 Pyramus and Thisbe, by Hans Wechtlin (ca. 1480-ca. 1526). Chiaroscuro woodcut, ca. 1515; ...
620 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS PYRAMUS AND THISBE Ovid's setting for the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is Babylon. Perha ...
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C HAPTER 26 ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA The fundamental differences between Greek and Roman mythology account for the dominant infl ...
624 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY and Propertius (to name the three most important poets in this respect) and in the prose write ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 625 ALPES MONTHS Map 26.1. Roman Italy and Sicily gustus with great ceremony, for example, to mark the ...
(^626) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY In later times, "Janus" was used not only as the name of a deity but also as a common noun ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 627 Mars is particularly associated with two animals, the wolf and the wood- pecker. A she-wolf suckled ...
628 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. Marble panel relief from the attic of the west side of the Arch of ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 629 archaic figure-eight shape; since it was a talisman of Roman power, Numa had eleven others made exa ...
630 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY in the English word "mint," for Juno's temple on the Arx was next to the Ro- man Mint, which w ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 631 The second Roman king, Numa, was said to have founded the cult of Vesta. The myths of Vesta are few ...
(^632) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY from Hercules and had hidden them in his cave on the Aventine Hill. Here is the climax of t ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA^633 obscure Italian deity Lua. In the cult of Ops, her partner was Consus, an Italian harvest deity, wh ...
634 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY painting with this title, now in Dresden. In this work Poussin has gathered six of the young m ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 635 famous festival of the Lupercalia, which took place in February. The Arcadian king Evander was said ...
636 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY In about 55 B.C. Lucretius began his poem with an eloquent invocation to Venus as the creative ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 637 on the distant grass, yet she still was sleeping soundly. He rejoiced; and lifting her dress from h ...
(^638) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY cated to the Camenae, water-nymphs of great antiquity but unknown origin. Later they were i ...
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