Classical Mythology
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 49 Robert Payne, The Gold of Troy (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1959); Lynn and Gray Po ...
50 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Translated from the Russian by Christina Sever and Mila Bonnichsen (New York: Harry N. Abrams ...
CHAPTER 3 MYTHS OF CREATION There were many myths about creation among the Greeks and Romans, and these myths have many parallel ...
52 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the blessed gods who exist forever, but always to sing of them themselves, the Muses, both fi ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 53 Another myth of creation is found in Birds, a comedy by the playwright Aristophanes (fifth century B.c.). F ...
54 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS end product may be. Both the poetic and the real worlds of Hesiod and Ovid are poles apart. T ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 55 wonder to primitive agricultural peoples. The rain of Uranus might, for exam- ple, be imagined as his seed ...
56 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Oceanus m. Tethys Coeus m. Phoebe I I Leto m. Zeus Achelous Oceanids • I I Apollo Artemis Hyp ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 57 Selene, and Eos. Helius, like his father, is a sun-god. Duplication of divinities is common in the early sc ...
58 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS can,^13 of gold, silver, and jewels that reflect the brilliant light of the god. The chariot ...
MYTHS OF CREATION^59 Selene's continual absence from her duties in the heavens, or it may be the ful- fillment of Selene's own w ...
60 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Aurora, artist unknown. Watercolor and gold paper collage on silk, ca. 1820; I4V2 x 14V4 in. ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 61 simply and effectively told in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5. 218-238), which is translated in its entir ...
62 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 63 love, lay on Ge, spreading himself over her completely. And his son from his ambush reached out with his le ...
64 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Greek literature, they were humanized and refined by the Greeks and trans- formed by their ge ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 65 after he is deposed by Zeus, he retires to some distant realm, sometimes desig- nated as the Islands of the ...
66 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS tifies this dual aspect of the religion of classical Greece in the contrast between the Olymp ...
MYTHS OF CREATION 67 Gigantomachy. Detail from the north frieze of the Treasury of the Siphnians at Delphi, ca. 525 B.C.; marble ...
68 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Zeus Attacks Typhoeus. Apulian red-figure oinochoe by the Arpi painter, late fourth cen- tury ...
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