Classical Mythology
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 489 Odysseus was keeping for himself, opened it, and all the winds rushed out and blew the ships bac ...
(^490) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS They found Circe with various animals around her, and they themselves (ex- cept for ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 491 a slave to a poor man on earth than be king over all the souls of the dead." Ajax would not answ ...
(^492) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS while he had himself bound to the ship's mast so that he could not yield to the irre ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY^493 The king of the Phaeacians was Alcinoiis, and his daughter was Nausi- caa. The day after Odysseu ...
494 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Return of Odysseus, by Pintoricchio (Bernardo Betti, 1454-1513). Fresco transferred ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 495 even so without effort did he string the great bow, did Odysseus. He took it in his right hand a ...
496 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Penelope at Her Loom and The Washing of Odysseus' Feet. Attic red-figure cup, ca. 440 B ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 497 the man who is the "man of many twists and turns" (polytropos, an epithet given him in the first ...
498 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS pears inevitable that she must choose one of them, she devises the test of the bow. Fin ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 499 suitor. We wonder how Odysseus feels about Penelope's avowed affection for her geese and marvel ...
500 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Euryclea to move the bed, which Odysseus himself had made, out of the mar- riage-chambe ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 501 he escaped evil death. He told how he came to the island Ogygia and the nymph Calypso, who kept ...
502 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Thus she spoke, and patient godlike Odysseus was glad, rejoicing in his own fa- therlan ...
THE RETURNS AND THE ODYSSEY 503 all obstacles on his journey to punish the wicked and regain his wife, his son, and his kingdom. ...
504 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS NOTES The summary is ascribed to the fifth century A.D. scholar Proclus, who names Agi ...
C HAPTER 21 PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS HERA AND PHORONEUS Argos was connected in history and in legend with Corinth and Th ...
(^506) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Tiryns, had no sons and only one daughter, Danaƫ; an oracle foretold that her son wo ...
PERSEUS AND THE LEGENDS OF ARGOS 507 Danaƫ and the Chest. Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 470 B.C.: height 16 in. The infant Pers ...
Inachus UT. o 00 bya r Aegyptuj I 49 sons r~ 1 lo m. Zeus 1 Epaphus Belus 1 1 5 Danaus 1 Lynceus m i Proetus . Hypermnestra^1 1 ...
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