Selections from the Poems of Ovid, Chiefly the MetamorphosesGinn and Heath, 1877 |
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... first is what is techni- cally called Theogony , " the generation of the gods , " and was put in the shape best known to us by Hesiod , some time before 500 B.C. It began , there is no reason to doubt , with rude personi- fications of ...
... first is what is techni- cally called Theogony , " the generation of the gods , " and was put in the shape best known to us by Hesiod , some time before 500 B.C. It began , there is no reason to doubt , with rude personi- fications of ...
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... first lines of Book I. ) . It professes simply to tell those stories which have in them this element of the marvellous , — the transformations , particularly , of men into plants or animals . But as nearly all myths introduce some such ...
... first lines of Book I. ) . It professes simply to tell those stories which have in them this element of the marvellous , — the transformations , particularly , of men into plants or animals . But as nearly all myths introduce some such ...
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... first creation of plants and animals , or other striking phenomena of the natural world , — a clear water - spring in a little island ( Arethusa ) , a mountain ridge of peculiar shape ( Atlas ) , a bird of plaintive note ( Philomela ) ...
... first creation of plants and animals , or other striking phenomena of the natural world , — a clear water - spring in a little island ( Arethusa ) , a mountain ridge of peculiar shape ( Atlas ) , a bird of plaintive note ( Philomela ) ...
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... first , is terrified by a lion and so escapes . Pyramus , soon arriving , finds tracks of the beast and the torn mantle of Thisbe ; and con- ceiving that she is slain , stabs himself with his sword , his blood reddening the fruit of the ...
... first , is terrified by a lion and so escapes . Pyramus , soon arriving , finds tracks of the beast and the torn mantle of Thisbe ; and con- ceiving that she is slain , stabs himself with his sword , his blood reddening the fruit of the ...
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... first to Megara ; where Scylla , daughter of the king Nisus , out of love for Minos cuts the purple lock on which her father's kingdom and life depend . Disdained by Minos , she is changed to a sea - mew , and Nisus to an osprey ( VIII ...
... first to Megara ; where Scylla , daughter of the king Nisus , out of love for Minos cuts the purple lock on which her father's kingdom and life depend . Disdained by Minos , she is changed to a sea - mew , and Nisus to an osprey ( VIII ...
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