Classical Mythology
ATHENA 169 oning progress and the advanced enlightenment of civilization. As the agent of Zeus, Athena brings the Odyssey to a c ...
170 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and the friezes are in the British Museum in London and known as the Elgin mar- bles. There ...
CHAPTER 9 APHRODITE AND EROS As we have seen, Hesiod describes the birth of Aphrodite after the castration of Uranus and derives ...
(^172) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The Birth of Aphrodite. Ca. 460 B.C.: marble, height (at corner) 33 in. In this three-sid ...
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174 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The gamut of the conceptions of the goddess of love is reflected in sculpture as well as lit ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 175 The Godhead Fires. By Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898); oil in canvas, 1878, 39 X 30 in. This is the third ...
176 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS f cause they dared to deny her divinity; in her wrath, the goddess caused them to be the fir ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 177 The goddess is present at the marriage that she has made, and now when the crescent moon had become full ...
178 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the ritual of my grief performed. But your blood will be transformed into a flower. O Persep ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 179 youth. Obviously, we have here once again a rendition of a recurrent theme: the Great Mother and her love ...
180 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS of the secret and mystic rites that were also a part of his worship. Frazer pro- vides a com ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 181 Venus and Anchises. Fresco from the Galleria of the Farnese Palace, Rome, 1597-1600 by Annibale Carracci ...
182 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS beautiful arts to soft-skinned maidens in their homes by instilling the proper skill in each ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 183 tiful woods or inhabit this beautiful mountain, the streams of rivers, and the grassy meadows. I shall bu ...
(^184) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS erings, for it had already been made with soft blankets; on it lay the skins of bears and ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 185 taken his dear son. Indeed he mourned for him unceasingly each and every day, and Zeus took pity on the f ...
186 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS boy here to show you. Yet so that I may go over with you all that I intend, I shall come bac ...
APHRODITE AND EROS 187 honors, although he should have them most of all. For he is the most friendly to man of all the gods, his ...
188 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Apollo turned the face around and drew together the skin like a pouch with drawstrings on wh ...
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