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...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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........................................................................................................38 -3- Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology Alcmæon (alk-mee ́-on)...........................................................................................................................38 Alcmene (alk-mee ́-ne)..............................................

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...cient concepts and deities in his works. I admittedly am no scholar of Greek mythology, but I am fascinated enough to be caught up in his brilliant pr... ...ed by Eros’s trusty bow, will hold me therefore dear to her heart.” In Greek mythology Eros is the God of Love. Eros according to legend was responsib... ...s of holiness admire her effulgence, her wonders are a portion of the world. Neptune and Juno awaits the twinkling spheres that turn the revolving ray...

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...rs and theologians prove their positions to us—without the hocus pocus and mythology that any educated mind would certainly reject. Our problem is th... ...their observations of the real world with the 106 parentally provided mythology of fairy tales and the community imposed basic assumptions— wheth... ...houlish crimes, then they were burned at the stake. Or some were given to Neptune to judge. They were tossed into the water, if they sunk and drowne... ...deas in the last 200 years is like criticizing Galileo for not discovering Neptune or Pasteur for not finding viruses. The important point is that we... ...their representatives, often find extra-marital flings as exciting. Hindu mythology has a number of stories telling us how the gods often indulged th...

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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ...he way most Gods have come to appear among men: thus, if in Pindar’s time “Neptune was seen once at the Nemean Games,” what was this Neptune too but a...

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...he meads, Great as the gods, the exalted chief was seen, His strength like Neptune, and like Mars his mien; 59 Jove o’er his eyes celestial glories sp... ... meads of Haliartus stray, Or Thespia sacred to the god of day: Onchestus, Neptune’s celebrated groves; Copæ, and Thisbe, famed for silver doves; For ... ...leet and camp, flanked with towers, and defended by a ditch and palisades. Neptune tes- tifies his jealousy at this work, but is pacified by a promise... ...and those of Hector, are excellently described. Juno endeavours to animate Neptune to the assistance of the Greeks, but in vain. The acts of Teucer, w... ...rnia’s soul; She shook her throne, that shook the starry pole: And thus to Neptune: “Thou, whose force can make The stedfast earth from her foundation... ...ce.”—Dryden’s Virgil, ii. 479. 485 Pope 205 The destinies ordain.—“In the mythology, also, of the Iliad, purely Pagan as it is, we discover one impor... ...his legend is one of the most pregnant and characteris- tic in the Grecian Mythology; it explains, according to the religious ideas familiar to the ol...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...rousing Parliament. Dr. Schlesien’s right: we go on believing that our God Neptune will do everything for us, and won’t see that Steam has paralyzed h... ...has despoiled him of the blessed Safety-Assurance he once had from his God Neptune against invaders, you will comprehend the state of Mr. Inchling’s m... ...in the audience. He passed under veil the Rev. Doctor’s acknowledgement of Neptune’s power, and the temporary collapse of Mr. Semhians. Proceeding at ... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ... ...ely addressing a farewell to his cricket- bat, before he whirls it away to Neptune—and the blue hand of his nation’s protecting God observed to seize ...

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...r to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an empire. Bu... ...at of the con- science. Now, for a rude and uncultivated people, the Pagan mythology might not be too gross to discharge the main functions of a usefu... ...our moral obligations, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people...

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...graves: so do its ancient influences outlive all other remnants of the old mythology and old butchery of Rome, in the nature of the fierce and cruel R... ...than lamely assort. It is stranger still, to see how many ruins of the old mythology: how many fragments of obsolete legend and observance: have been ... ...za of the Grand Duke, adorned with beauti ful statues and the Fountain of Neptune—rises the Palazzo V ecchio, with its enormous overhanging battlemen...

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...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny... ...ect into deep silence for the rest of his life, like the Quos ego of angry Neptune, sufficiently argues that the verses must have ploughed as deeply a...

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...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...gin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the base, appeared Neptune, with his floundering steeds, and Tritons blowing their horns about...

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...of Theseus, and a report was given out by Pittheus that he was begotten by Neptune; for the T roezenians pay Neptune the highest veneration. He is the... ...so, by his institution, they should celebrate the Isthmian to the honor of Neptune. For those that were there before observed, dedicated to Melicerta,... ...king that number to be proper to him, because he was reputed to be born of Neptune, because they sacrifice to Neptune on the eighth day of every month... ... chief magistrates consules, namely, coun- selors), or else the equestrian Neptune, for the altar is kept covered in the circus maximus at all other t... ...and tilling the earth, spread the story of the dispute between Minerva and Neptune for the sovereignty of Athens, in which Minerva, by producing to th... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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... and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may ... ...or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hun- dred thousand Patriotic Men; and...

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...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...gin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the base, appeared Neptune, with his floundering steeds, and Tritons blowing their horns about... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi...

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... Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology. Ovid ‘s a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon’s ... ...ory food; But who is their purveyor from above Heaven knows, it may be Neptune, Pan, or Jove. When Juan woke he found some good things ready, ...

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...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ..., Richie, an extraordinary deficiency of memory. She has had an ill- ness; Neptune speed her recovery! Now for a turn at our 215 George Meredith Germ... ...m capable of.’ ‘Dear Lady Field-Marshal,’ returned my father, ‘the sons of Neptune would be of poor account, if they could not fur- nish you cookery a...

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...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...l poetry—with the nod of the Olympian Jove, or the seven-league strides of Neptune? Flying Childers had the most prodigious stride of any horse on rec... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...iver” — he and one other — to day, before noon. And who was the other? Louis Neptune, who lives in the next house. Well, let us go over and see Louis ... ...let us go over and see Louis together. The same doggish reception, and Louis Neptune makes his appearance, — a small, wiry man, with puckered and wrin... ... knows why, to swim there! I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, —... ...ndeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always. But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who comma... ...banks carefully for muskrats as they came along. The last proved to be Louis Neptune and his companion, now, at last, on their way up to Chesuncook af... ...other. In the progress of degradation the distinction of races is soon lost. Neptune at first was only anxious to know what we “kill,” seeing some part... ...ve Oldtown.” A very intelligent Indian, whom we afterward met, son in law of Neptune, gave us also these other definitions: — Umbazookskus, Meadow Stre... ...n verse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological ...

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...s of the beginning, to a certainty. If it weren’t that she had the army of Neptune about her—’ ‘The worst is she may some day start awake to discover ... ... as to trace the lordliness of Bull to the pro- tecting smiles of the good Neptune, whose arms are about him to encourage the development of a wanton ... ...abject submission to it which we behold in his tidal bodies of supporters. Neptune has done something. One thinks he has done much, at a rumour of his... ...s no attack on his shores, there is no proof that they are invulner- able. Neptune is appealed to and replies by mouth of the latest passenger across ... ... restores his darling who is immediately as horny to argu- ment as before. Neptune shall have his share of the honours. Ideal of his country Bull has ... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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...uyre, daryng in the roote.” We read that Aristeus “obtained of Jupiter and Neptune, that the pestilential heat of the dog days, wherein was great mort... ...trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astraea, that the Virgin who was driven from earth... ... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and...

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... the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and i... ...mechan ics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is a ... ...rils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy... ...as a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fac... ...n man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it i... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England...

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...of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling an... ...r me chanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is ... ...strils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know,) it seems as if the earth had got a race now wort... ... has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what f... ...ty in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not dis tinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New Engla...

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... _240 Which from the inmost depths of its green glen Echoes the voice of Neptune,—and there stood On the same spot in green Onchestus then That same... ...now and do the right. Nor Saturn’s first-born daughter, Vesta chaste, Whom Neptune and Apollo wooed the last, _20 Such was the will o... ... _240 SILENUS: SILENUS: SILENUS: SILENUS: SILENUS: Cyclops, I swear by Neptune who begot thee, By mighty T riton and by Nereus old, Calypso and th... ...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this...

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...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ... be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theo- logically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but whic... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...olatry. What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove or to Neptune, or a mouse to Hecate; that I do not tremble before the Eumenides, ... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d...

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..., in his due time, of great exploits. As Homer says, that the child, which Neptune begot upon the nymph, was born a whole year after the conception, t... ...Aulus Gellius saith, lib. 3, this long time was suitable to the majesty of Neptune, that in it the child might receive his perfect form. For the like ... ...dgment, which ought to be by fire. Others again thought that the sea-gods, Neptune, Proteus, T riton, and the rest of them, did persecute them, for th... ...ple. Amongst the diggers, pioneers, and rampire-builders, I will do as did Neptune and Apollo at Troy under Laomedon, or as did Renault of Montauban i... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...er structure was the cot or cabin of Hyreus, or Oenopion, wherein Jupiter, Neptune, and Mercury were not ashamed, all three together, to harbour and s...

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...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...looked rolled over to you by the last wave on the shore, sparkling: he was Neptune’s own for humour. And when his present to the bride was opened, sur...