Tales of Ancient GreeceLongmans, Green, 1868 - 461 pàgines |
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Achaians Achilleus Akrisios Argos Arîon arms Athênê bade battle beautiful Bellerophôn beneath bright cave chariot chieftains child clouds Croesus Danaê Daphnê dark daughter death deeds Dêmêtêr Deukalion Dionysos doom dwell earth Edipus Endymiôn Enônê Eôs Eurydikê Eurylochos Eurystheus eyes face fair father fear feast fell gently golden Greek grief Hades hand hastened heard heart heaven Hektor Hêlios Hellê Herakles Hêrê Hermes Homer Iliad Ilion Ithaka Ixion Kadmos Kalypso Kephalos king Kirkê knew Kreon lady land legend looked maiden Max Müller Medeia Medusa Meleagros mighty morning mortal mother myth mythical night Note Odysseus Olympus Orpheus Penelopê Persephonê Perseus Phoebus Apollo Phrixos Polyphemos Priam Prokris rest Sarpêdon ship slain slay sleep sorrow spake spear stood strife tale Telemachos tell Thebes thee Theseus things thou hast thought toil told undying gods voice wandered waters words wrath Zeus
Passatges populars
Pàgina 411 - HIC SITUS EST PHAETHON, CURRUS AURIGA PATERNI QUEM SI NON TENUIT MAGNIS TAMEN EXCIDIT AUSIS.
Pàgina 422 - The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray Good minds and open actions take new might, Until diminished by the reign of night.
Pàgina xxxv - the mothers weave for their bright son,' — the clouds which rise from the waters and surround the sun like a dark raiment. Herakles tries to tear it off; his fierce splendour breaks through the thickening gloom, but fiery mists embrace him, and are mingled with the parting rays of the sun, and the dying hero is seen through the scattered clouds of the sky, tearing his own body to pieces, till at last his bright form is consumed in a general conflagration...
Pàgina 345 - Greece returned home, weary-hearted, into the Christian Empire from which they had fled, fully contented with the permission which the Khozroo had obtained for them from Justinian, to hold their peace, and die among decent people.
Pàgina 69 - GEORGE W. COX (rewritten). DECEIVED by the evil advice of Ate, the mischief-maker of the gods, Jupiter said to Juno his queen, "This day a child shall be born of the race of Perseus, who shall be the mightiest of all on earth." He meant his son Hercules ; but Juno had a crafty trick in her mind to lay a heavy curse on that son, whom naturally she hated for his being such. She asked Jupiter if what he had just said should surely be so, and he gave the nod which meant the vow that could not be recalled...
Pàgina 30 - Demeter, and everyone loved them both ; for Demeter was good and kind to all, and no one could be more gentle and merry than Persephone. She and her companions were gathering flowers from the field, to make crowns for their long flowing hair. They had...
Pàgina 97 - HEROES. in his gleaming eye, and idle by his side lay the unerring spear with which he smites all who deal falsely and speak lies. There beside him sat Artemis, his sister, whose days were spent in chasing the beasts of the earth and in sporting with the nymphs on the reedy banks of Eurotas. There by the side of Zeus sat Hermes ever bright and youthful, the spokesman of the gods, with staff in hand to do the will of the great father. There sat Hephaistos the lord of fire, and Hestia who guards the...
Pàgina 37 - ... and the lilies which bowed their heads over the calm water. There he lay all through the still and happy night; and there he lay when the sun rose up from the sea, and mounted up with his fiery horses into the sky. There was a charm now on this beautiful valley, which made the breeze more gentle and the lake more still than ever. The green dragon-flies came floating lazily in the air near Endymion, but he never opened his eyes; and the swans looked up from the lake, to see if he was coming to...
Pàgina viii - ... before the dawn of history. Yet that state of things was as real as the time in which we live. They who spoke the language of these early tales were men and women with joys and sorrows and interests here and hereafter not unlike our own.
Pàgina 433 - Arbhu, which, though it is best known as the name of the three Eibhus, was used in the Veda as an epithet of Indra, and a name of the sun. The old story then, was this : ' Eurydike is bitten by a serpent (ie by the night), she dies, and descends into the lower regions. Orpheus follows her, and obtains from the gods that his wife should follow him if he promised not to look back.