Classical Mythology
DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS^289 But Agave was not in her right senses; her mouth foamed and her eyes rolled madly as the ...
290 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS HARRY PARTCH'S AMERICAN BACCHAE Harry Partch, the American composer, offers enlightening ins ...
DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS^291 In Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia, the daughters of Minyas refused to par- ticipate in Bac ...
292 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Maenad. Interior of an Attic kylix by the Brygos painter, ca. 480 B.C.; diameter llV 4 in. T ...
DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 293 or maenads, are the female devotees, mortal women who become possessed. In mythology they ...
294 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the Titans and destroyed them with his thunder and lightning; but from their ashes humankind ...
DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 295 Dionysus with Satyrs and Mae- nads. Athenian black-figure amphora, sixth century B.c.; he ...
(^296) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS mental elements in the nature of his character and worship: miracles, bestial transformat ...
DIONYSUS, PAN, ECHO, AND NARCISSUS 297 THE DIONYSIACA OF NONNUS Nonnus, a poet from Panopolis in Egypt, composed in the fifth ce ...
298 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Pan Pursuing a Goatherd. By the Pan painter, Attic red-figure krater, ca. 460 B.C.; height 1 ...
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 ...
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