The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in ArtHarper & Brothers, 1881 - 311 páginas |
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The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art ... Otto Seemann Visualização completa - 1877 |
The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art Otto Seemann Visualização completa - 1882 |
The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art Otto Seemann Visualização completa - 1882 |
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Página 271 - Ethiopia to devastate the land of Thebes. Seated on a rock close to the town, she put to every one that passed by the celebrated riddle — What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three in the evening?
Página 280 - Achilleus (Achilles), the greatest and bravest hero of the Trojan war. A later tradition asserts that Thetis left her husband soon after the birth of Achilles, because he had disturbed her when she was about to render her child immortal in the fire, just as Demeter intended to do to the child of Celeiis ; but this story is unknown to Homer. According to a still later legend, she plunged her son into the Styx, and thereby rendered him invulnerable in every part except the heel by which she held him....
Página 228 - Hera obtained for the latter the sovereignty over all the descendants of Perseus. At a later period Heracles was said to have become insane, in consequence of the summons of Eurystheus to do his bidding. The following is an account of the labours of Heracles : — 1. The Fight with the Nemean Lion. — The district of Nemea and Cleonse was inhabited by a monstrous lion, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, whose skin bade defiance to every weapon. Heracles, after using his arrows and club against...