The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)

4

On the Titans, etc., Preller's Griech. Mythol. 1, 37.

5

On signification of Uranus, Cronus, Zeus, see Preller, 1, 37, 38, and Commentary, §§ 4, 24.

6

Roscher, Ausf. Lex., Article Giganten [J. Ilberg].

7

The name more probably signifies Brandisher [of the Lance].

8

Consequently the creation of these men could not be assigned to Prometheus, – unless they were made by him before the war of the Titans.

9

There is uncertainty as to the mythical period of these events. The order here given seems to me well grounded. Hes. Works and Days, 180; Theog. 790-910.

10

§§ 156, 161, 191 and Commentary, § 10.

11

From Herakles, a drama by George Cabot Lodge.

12

From Byron's Prometheus. See also his translation from the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus, and his Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte.

13

Prometheus, or The Poet's Forethought. See Commentary.

14

Compare Byron's political satire, The Age of Bronze.

15

Oracles, see §§ 24, 30, and Commentary.

16

Consult, in general, corresponding sections of the Commentary.

17

Symbolized on earth by Mount Olympus in Thessaly.

18

Cowper's translation.

19

See Commentary, § 23, for Gladstone's latest utterance on the number of the Olympians.

20

The names included in parentheses represent the Greek, the others being Roman equivalents, Latin names, or names common to both Greek and Roman usage.

21

See Commentary, § 34.

22

On the Latin name, see Commentary, § 24.

23

Iliad, I, 622-625, Earl of Derby's translation. See also the passage in Chapman's translation.

24

On the name Juno, see Commentary.

25

For the names Athene and Minerva, see Commentary.

26

See Commentary.

27

Iliad, 5, 590. See also 21, 395.

28

Iliad, 18, 395.

29

Iliad, 1, 390.

30

On the birth of Apollo, his adventures, names, festivals, oracles, and his place in literature and art, see Commentary. For other particulars, see sections on Myths of Apollo.

31

From Cynthia's Revels.

32

Iliad, 5, 370, etc.

33

A popular etymology.

34

For Venus in poetry and art, see Commentary.

35

From the Venus of Milo, by E. R. Sill, formerly professor of English Literature in the University of California.

36

The references are to the Berkeley Hills, the Bay of San Francisco, and the glimpses of the Pacific.

37

Lang, Odyssey, 24, 1; adapted.

38

Eros, by Edmund Gosse. For verses on the blindness of Cupid, see Lyly's Cupid and Campaspe in Commentary.

39

For description of their spinning, see translation of Catullus, LXIV, in § 191.

40

See Commentary.

41

For references to poetry and works of art, see corresponding sections in Commentary.

42

According to Thomas Moore's Song of a Hyperborean.

43

From Alexander's Feast.

44

For interpretation and illustration, see corresponding sections of Commentary.

45

Iliad, 22, 482; 9, 568; 20, 61.

46

Odyssey, 10, 508; 11, 20; 24, 1.

47

Sophocles, Œdipus Rex, 177.

48

Æneid, 6, 295.

49

From The Garden of Proserpine, by A. C. Swinburne.

50

Æneid, 6.

51

Odyssey, 4, 561.

52

Hes. Works and Days, 169.

53

From The Fortunate Islands, by Andrew Lang.

54

Iliad, 14, 231; 16, 672.

55

Odyssey, 24, 12; 19, 560. Æneid, 6, 893. Ovid, Metam. 11, 592.

56

For genealogical table, see Commentary.

57

For references to poetry and works of art, see corresponding sections of Commentary.

58

Iliad, 14, 303.

59

Iliad, 18, 30-50.

60

For genealogical table, see Commentary.

61

Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets.

62

Names of the corresponding Greek divinities are in parentheses.

63

For illustrative material, see Commentary.

64

Gellius, 5, 12. Ovid, Fasti, 1, 179. Macrobius, Sat. 1, 9-15.

65

From Macaulay's Prophecy of Capys.

66

Ovid, Metam. I, 700 et seq.

67

Ovid, Metam. 2, 410 et seq.

68

Translated by Andrew Lang: Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, London, 1880.

69

§ 70.

70

Ovid, Metam. 3, 260 et seq.

71

§§ 42, 110-113.

72

From E. R. Sill's Semele.

73

Commentary, §§ 118, 255.

74

Ovid, Metam. 7, 172 et seq.

75

Roscher, Ausf. Lex. Lfg. 3, 379 [Schirmer]. Originals in Pausanias, Apollodorus, and Hyginus.

76

From Tennyson's Amphion. See Horace, Ars Poet. 394.

77

Ovid, Metam. 8, 620-724.

78

From The Sons of Cydippe, by Edmund Gosse in his On Viol and Flute.

79

§ 27, and Commentary.

80

From Ovid.

81

From Spenser's Muiopotmos.

82

Ovid, Metam. 6, 1-145.

83

§ 200.

84

Iliad, 5, 850 et seq. (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). In accordance with the system of nomenclature adopted in this work, Latin equivalents are given, wherever possible, for Greek names.

85

Iliad, 21, 390 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation).

86

Ovid, Metam. 3, 1-137; 4, 563-614.

87

Iliad, 2, 1335.

88

Ovid, Metam. 6, 313-381.

89

§ 30.

90

Roscher, Ausf. Lex. Lfg. 2, 254, Article Aloadæ [Schultz].

91

Ovid, Metam. 10, 162-219.

92

Ovid, Metam. 2, 1-400.

93

§ 44.

94

Medio tutissimus ibis.– Ovid.

95

Hic situs est Phaëthon, currus auriga paterni,Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis.– Ovid.

96

Iliad, 1, 43-52 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation).

97

Ovid, Metam. 6, 165-312.

98

From W. S. Landor's Niobe.

99

See Commentary, §§ 64, 80.

100

Iliad, 18, 564 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation).

101

Cicero, Natura Deorum, 3, 22.

102

See Commentary.

103

From Browning's Balaustion's Adventure. The Greek form of the proper names has been retained.

104

Proserpine.

105

For the originals, see Iliad, 2, 715, and the Alcestis of Euripides.

106

Ovid, Metam. 11, 146-193.

107

§ 118.

108

§ 145.

109

Ovid, Metam. 1, 452-567.

110

From the Fable for Critics.

111

Iliad, 9, 561; Apollodorus, 1, 7, § 8.

112

Stephen Phillips, Marpessa.

113

Ovid, Metam. 4, 256-270.

114

§ 196.

115

§ 168.

116

Ovid, Metam. 5, 585-641.

117

Ovid, Metam. 3, 138-252.

118

Apollodorus, 1, 4, § 3.

119

Ovid, Fasti, 5, 537; Iliad, 18, 486, and 22, 29; Odyssey, 5, 121, 274.

120

The story is told by Hyginus in his Fables, and in his Poetical Astronomy.

121

Authorities are Pausanias, 5, 1, §§ 2-4; Ovid, Ars. Am. 3, 83; Tristia, 2, 299; Apollonius, and Apollodorus.

122

From the Endymion, Bk. 3.

123

§ 194.

124

Ovid, Metam. 10, 503-559, 708-739.

125

From an elegy intended to be sung at one of the spring celebrations in memory of Adonis. Translated from Bion by Andrew Lang. Cypris, Cytherea, and the Paphian refer to Venus. See Commentary. This elegy is also translated by Mrs. Browning and by Sir Edwin Arnold.

126

Apuleius, Metam. Golden Ass, 4, 28, etc.

127

William Morris, The Story of Cupid and Psyche, in The Earthly Paradise.

128

Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche.

129

The last three paragraphs are from Pater's version in Marius the Epicurean.

130

William Morris, The Earthly Paradise.

131

By T. K. Hervey.

132

Ovid, Metam. 10, 560-680.

133

From W. S. Landor's Hippomenes and Atalanta.

134

The poetical passages are from Marlowe's Hero and Leander, First Sestiad. Marlowe's narrative was completed by Chapman. See Musæus of Alexandria, De Amore Herois et Leandri; Virg. Georg. 3, 258; Ovid, Her. 18, 19; Stat. Theb. 6, 770.

135

Sonnet, On a Picture of Leander.

136

Ovid, Metam. 10, 243-297.

137

Andrew Lang, The New Pygmalion.

138

From William Morris, Pygmalion and the Image, in The Earthly Paradise.

139

Andrew Lang, The New Pygmalion, or The Statue's Choice. A witty and not unpoetic bit of burlesque.

140

Ovid, Metam. 4, 55-166.

141

§ 100, and Commentary.

142

Murray, Manual of Mythology, p. 87; Ovid, Metam. 10, 298-502.

143

See Index for sections.

144

Hymn to Mercury (Hermes).

145

§ 60.

146

Ovid, Metam. 3, 511-733.

147

Longfellow, Drinking Song.

148

From The Praise of Dionysus.

149

Ovid, Metam. 11, 85-145.

150

See § 85.

Fig. 88. Rape of Proserpina

151

Ovid, Metam. 5, 341-347.

152

Song of Proserpine, while gathering flowers on the plain of Enna.

153

Ovid, Metam. 5. 440, 642; Apollodorus, 1, 5, § 2; Hyginus, Fab. 147.

154

From Proserpine, stanzas written by Lake Pergusa; by George E. Woodberry (Century Magazine, July, 1909).

155

Ovid, Metam. 10, 1-77.

156

See Commentary

157

From W. S. Landor's Orpheus and Eurydice in Dry Sticks.

158

See Index.

159

§ 154.

160

Iliad, 5, 649; Apollodorus, 3, 12, § 7.

161

See Index.

162

Hyginus, Fab. 84, 253; Pindar, Olymp. 1, 114.

163

Ovid, Metam. 7, 394 et seq.

164

Ovid, Metam. 11, 583-748.

165

Homeric Hymn to Venus; Horace, Odes, 1, 22; 2, 16; Apollodorus, 3, 12, § 4.

166

Ovid, Metam. 13, 622, etc. Odyssey, 4, 188; 11, 522. Pindar, Pyth. 6, 30.

167

Pausanias, 1, 42, § 2.

168

Darwin, Botanic Garden.

169

His name is not derived from the Greek pān, all, but from the root pă, to feed, to pasture (i.e. the flocks and herds).

170

Milton, Hymn on the Nativity.

171

Translated by C. M. Gayley.

172

By Edmund Clarence Stedman.

173

From The Satyr, by Robert Buchanan.

174

Ovid, Metam. 3, 339-510.

175

Idyl VI (Lang's translation). For Moschus, see Commentary, § 298.

176

From The Naiad, by Robert Buchanan.

177

Ovid, Metam. 8, 738-884.

178

See note (Scholium) on the Argonautics of Apollonius, B 477. Keil's edition, p. 415, l. 32.

179

J. R. Lowell, Rhœcus. The student should read the whole poem.

180

Ovid, Metam. 14, 623-771.

181

Thomson, Seasons.

182

Cf. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 4. 33, 71; and Statius, Silvæ, 5. 3, 152.

183

Theocritus, Idyl VI. See Andrew Lang's translation.

184

Theocritus, Idyl XI (Lang's translation).

185

Ovid, Metam. 13, 750-867.

186

Ovid, Metam. 13, 898; 14, 74; Tibullus, 3, 4-89.

187

From Keats' Endymion.

188

§§ 50, 52, and Commentary.

189

See §§ 239, 250, Adventures of Ulysses and Æneas.

190

Apollodorus, 3, 15, § 8.

191

Ovid, Metam. 4, 432-542.

192

Cf. Odyssey, 4, 410; Ovid, Fasti, 1, 369; Virgil, Georgics, 4, 317.

193

Cf. § 147, Milton's Carpathian Wizard.

194

See Commentary.

195

Ovid, Metam. 9, 1-100.

196

§ 156.

197

See Commentary.

198

Milton, Comus, 859-889.

199

§ 21, and Commentary, § 57.

200

For references to genealogical tables, see Commentary, § 148.

201

Apollodorus, 2, 1, § 5, etc.; Pausanias; Ovid, Heroides, 14; Horace, Odes, 3; 11; 23.

202

Simonides of Ceos, also Apollodorus, Pausanias, and Hyginus (Fables).

203

Ovid, Metam. 4, 608-739; 5, 1-249.

204

For Gorgons and Grææ, see § 52.

205

William Morris, The Doom of King Acrisius, in The Earthly Paradise.

206

William Morris, The Doom of King Acrisius, in The Earthly Paradise.

207

From Shelley's lines On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery.

208

Milton, Il Penseroso, l. 19.

209

From Charles Kingsley's Andromeda.

210

Milman, Samor.

211

Milton, Comus.

212

Iliad, 6, 155-202; Apollodorus, 1, 9, § 3; Horace, Odes, 4; 11; 26.

213

See Commentary, §§ 103, 155.

214

Authorities are Homer, – Iliad and Odyssey; Theocritus 24; 25, etc.; Apollodorus, 2, 4, § 7, etc.; Sophocles, Women of Trachis; Euripides, Hercules Furens; Ovid, Metam. 9, 102-272; Seneca, – Hercules Furens and Œtæus; Hyginus, etc.

215

§ 172.

216

Atlas and the heavens, § 153.

217

§ 180.

218

§ 160.

219

§ 173.

220

Theocritus. Idyl XIII (Lang's translation).

221

Theocritus, Idyl X, 41, and the Scholia; Virgil, Bucol. 5; 8; 10; and Comments.

222

See the story of Daphne.

223

Theocritus, Idyl X (Lang's translation).

224

Thyrsis.

225

§ 119.

226

§ 83.

227

§ 15.

228

Milton.

229

See § 220. According to Sophocles, Philoctetes' father Pœas applied the torch.

230

See the spirited poems, Deïaneira and Herakles, in the classical, but too little read, Epic of Hades, by Lewis Morris.

231

Schiller's Ideal and Life. Translated by S. G. Bulfinch, brother of Thomas Bulfinch.

232

From Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira."

Fig. 130. The Building of the Argo

233

§ 144.

234

Apollodorus, 1, 9, § 1; Apollonius Rhodius, 1, 927.

235

Ovid, Metam. 6, 667; 7, 143. The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes.

236

See § 120.

237

See Table G, Commentary, § 103.

238

Dyer, The Fleece.

239

William Morris, Life and Death of Jason.

240

Ovid, Metam. 7, 143-293.

241

Ovid, Metam. 7, 297-353.

242

§ 176.

243

Macbeth, IV, i. Consult.

244

Ovid, Metam. 8, 260-546.

245

§ 170.

246

§ 180.

247

Chapter XXI.

248

From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

249

From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

250

From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

251

From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

252

Hyginus, Fab. 184; Apollodorus, 2, 8; Pausanias, 2, 18; 4, 3, etc.; Aristotle, Poetics, 14, 9.

253

Apollonius Rhodius, 4, 1629 (Broome's translation). See also Apollodorus, 1; 9, 26.

254

Hyginus, Fab. 80; Ovid, Fasti, 100. Theocritus, Idyl XXII, gives a different version.

255

Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, The Battle of Lake Regillus.

256

§ 143.

257

§ 177. Apollodorus, 3, 1, § 3; 15, § 8; Pausanias, 1, 27, § 9, etc.; Ovid, Metam. 7, 456.

258

Virgil, Æneid, 6, 14-36; Ovid, Metam. 8, 152-259; Hyginus, Fab. 40, 44.

259

Erasmus Darwin.

260

Ovid, Metam. 2, 555; Apollodorus, 3, 14, § 1; Pausanias; and Hyginus, Fab. 48.

261

Ovid, Metam. 2, 554; 6, 676; Homer, Iliad, 2, 547; Odyssey, 7, 81; Hyginus, Poet. Astr. 2, 13.

262

For Ruskin's interpretation, see Queen of the Air, § 38.

263

Hyginus, Fab. 45; Apollodorus, 3, 14, § 8; Ovid, Metam. 6, 412-676. See Commentary.

264

Ovid, Metam. 7, 350-424; Plutarch, Theseus.

265

§ 167.

266

Odyssey, 11, 321; Plutarch, Theseus; Catullus, LXIV.

267

Catullus, LXIV. From The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis. A Translation in Hexameters, by Charles Mills Gayley.

268

Catullus, LXIV (Charles Mills Gayley's translation).

269

Sophocles, Œdipus Rex, Œdipus Coloneus, Antigone; Euripides, Phœnissæ; Apollodorus, 3, 5, §§ 7, 8.

270

Sophocles, Œdipus, the King (E. H. Plumptre's translation).

271

Sophocles, Œdipus at Colonus, ll. 1600, etc. (E. H. Plumptre's translation).

272

Æschylus, Seven against Thebes; Euripides, Phœnissæ; Apollodorus, 3. 6 and 7; Hyginus, Fab. 69, 70; Pausanias, 8 and 9; Statius, Thebaid.

273

Sophocles, Antigone; Euripides, Suppliants.

274

Sophocles, Antigone, ll. 450-470 (E. H. Plumptre's translation).

275

Sophocles, Antigone, closing chorus.

276

Pausanias, 9, 9, §§ 2, 3; Herodotus, 5, 61; Apollodorus.