...All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite! Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus ...

...sed, and his hands scratched, he inflicted upon himself the further punishment of tearing out his hair by handfuls, as an offering to that goddess of ... ...orse torments than those of seclusion and separation? Did this brutal, blasphem- ing, drunken bully take revenge on his daughter, like the ruthless fa...

... stay puzzling. She knew the Latin — that is, ‘the Lord’s prayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances he... ... 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 ... ...to boast, Though I acquired — but I pass over that, As well as all the Greek I since have lost: I say that there ‘s the place — but ‘Verbum ... ...e and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And... ... It is as well to think so, now and then; ‘T was an old custom of the Greek and Roman, And may become of great advantage when Folks are d... ...hat Turkish trade, By which, no doubt, a good deal may be made. He was a Greek, and on his isle had built (One of the wild and smaller Cyclade...

...ut the ingenious author of the Spectator was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guard... ... light in which they have not hitherto been seen. This word critic is of Greek derivation, and signifies judg ment. Hence I presume some persons wh... ...n a very proper light by the ingenious Abbe Bannier, in his preface to his Mythology, a work great erudition and of equal judgment. “It will be easy,”... ... is of no manner of use to them. A writer who intermixes great quantity of Greek and Latin with his works, deals by the ladies and fine gentlemen in t... ... thy philo sophic, thy poetic, and thy historical treasures, whether with Greek or Roman characters thou hast chosen to inscribe the ponderous chests... ...ader. In this the antients had a great advantage over the moderns. Their mythology, which was at that time more firmly be lieved by the vulgar than... ...y reason, and the sublimest of all wisdom appeared to me, as it did to the Greeks of old, to be foolishness. God hath, however, been so gracious to sh...

...uggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefig- ured ... ...roduced the Egyptian priests to give verisi- militude to his story. To the Greek such a tale, like that of the earth-born men, would have seemed perfe... ...orn men, would have seemed perfectly accor- dant with the character of his mythology, and not more marvellous than the wonders of the East narrated by... ...owers first of all, giving to Athens the precedence; the various tribes of Greeks and barbarians who took part in the war will be dealt with as they s... ...l speak to you of their adversaries, but first I ought to explain that the Greek names were given to Solon in an Egyptian form, and he enquired their ... ...en, as in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason as- signed for the Greek names occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that the armed s... ...where, ingeniously gives the impression that he is telling the truth which mythology had corrupted. The world, like a child, has readily, and for the ...

...s relating to agriculture and the gentler ways of life, agree in Latin and Greek, while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase... ... for all objects pertaining to war or the chase are utterly alien from the Greek.” Thus the apple-tree may be considered a symbol of peace no less tha... ...ts root in many languages sig- nifies fruit in general. maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an apple, also the fruit of other trees, also a sheep and any ... ...ally riches in general. The apple-tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human p... ...employed to pluck it.** *A German historical critic of ancient life. **The Greek myths especially referred to are The Choice of Paris and The Apples o... ...ipt says, “The mo appelen the *Jotunheim (Ye(r)t’-un-hime) in Scandinavian mythology was the home of the Jotun or Giants. Loki was a descendant of the...

...accept any of the six forms of government which prevail in the world. To the Greek, nomos was a sacred word, but the political idealism of Plato soars... ...d of the master is clearly visible in the myth. First in the connection with mythology;—he 27 Plato wins a kind of verisimilitude for this as for his... ...osophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his use of mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all ... ...othing truer;’ or , as in the Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology ,’ which was introduced in order to teach certain lessons; or ,... ... or man, is above the law , and is a law to himself and to others. Among the Greeks as among the Jews, law was a sacred name, the gift of God, the bon... ... of allowing ourselves to be deluded by a figure of speech. The ideal of the Greek state found an expression in the deifica- tion of law: the ancient ... ...class easily acquire them. Hence the phenomenon so often observed in the old Greek revolutions, and not without parallel in modern times, that the lea... ...Ath- ens which he had known. It may however be doubted how far , either in a Greek or modern state, such a limitation is practicable or desirable; for...

...aracter varies in different dialogues. Like my 8 Sophist – Plato thology , Greek philosophy has a tendency to per sonify ideas. And the Sophist is... ... art,’ with out any bad meaning attaching to it (Symp.; Meno). In the later Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became almost indistinguishable... ...eacher . Philosophy had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline of Greek thought there was no original voice lifted up ‘which reached to a t... ...d the Sophists are regarded as a separate class in all of them. And in later Greek literature, the distinction is quite marked between the succession ... ...et down to their credit, that Plato nowhere attributes to them that peculiar Greek sympathy with youth, which he ascribes to Parmenides, and which was... ... vation. He lived before the days of Comparative Philology or of Comparative Mythology and Re ligion, which would have opened a new world to him. He ...

... 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... ...did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amused myself with fancying that it... ...would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunc... ...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 ...

... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ... ...ontent to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you must pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn’s translation, your grav- ity will be continually upset,... ...an attain neither to Christian confidence, nor to the spirit of the bright Greek saying, that whom the gods 141 Familiar Studies of Men & Books love ...

...ndred and forty five bands were in the mountains. Serbian and Bulgarian comitadjis, Greek andartes, Albanians and Vlachs... all waging a terrorist w... ...l aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity an... ...ed. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey (to prevent Bulgaria from joi... ...rom joining its Greek enemy) encouraged King Ferdinand to help the Serbs fight the Greeks. Thus, the Balkanian kaleidoscope of loyalties, alliances... ...s. He was shot to death by the Turks in Banitsa, then a Bulgarian village, today, a Greek one. It was in a spring day in May 1903. The death of th... ...n institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. Hitler was this religion's ascetic saint. He monastic... ...n institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion's ascetic saint. He monas... ...ill revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail - the narcissist is injured. Narcissistic injury ...