Classical Mythology

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 ...

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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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MYTHS OF CREATION 71 for power against his ruthless father. The Jungian archetype of the holy mar- riage that is enacted three t ...

72 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS that he got married. After all, misanthrope that he is, Hesiod still recommends a good marria ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 73 ing a branch, to me they gave a staff of laurel, a wondrous thing, and into me they breathed a divine voice ...

74 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS him as he dispenses justice with fair impartiality; and soon speaking with con- fidence and k ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 75 See the bibliography for Iconography and Religion, p. 34. This matriarchal concept belongs to both the mat ...

CHAPTER 4 ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS THE TITANOMACHY: ZEUS DEFEATS HIS FATHER, CRONUS When Zeus had grown to m ...

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78 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and the bolts with flashes and thunder flew in succession from his stout hand with a dense wh ...