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

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

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Ovid, Metam. 6, 165-312.

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From W. S. Landor's Niobe.

99

See Commentary, §§ 64, 80.

100

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

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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.

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Ovid, Metam. 11, 146-193.

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§ 118.

108

§ 145.

109

Ovid, Metam. 1, 452-567.

110

From the Fable for Critics.

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

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Stephen Phillips, Marpessa.

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Ovid, Metam. 4, 256-270.

114

§ 196.

115

§ 168.

116

Ovid, Metam. 5, 585-641.

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Ovid, Metam. 3, 138-252.

118

Apollodorus, 1, 4, § 3.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche.

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

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William Morris, The Earthly Paradise.

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By T. K. Hervey.

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Ovid, Metam. 10, 560-680.

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

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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.

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Sonnet, On a Picture of Leander.

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Ovid, Metam. 10, 243-297.

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Andrew Lang, The New Pygmalion.

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

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

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Ovid, Metam. 4, 55-166.

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§ 100, and Commentary.

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

143

See Index for sections.

144

Hymn to Mercury (Hermes).

145

§ 60.

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Ovid, Metam. 3, 511-733.

147

Longfellow, Drinking Song.

148

From The Praise of Dionysus.

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Ovid, Metam. 11, 85-145.

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See § 85.

Fig. 88. Rape of Proserpina

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Ovid, Metam. 5, 341-347.

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

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

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

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Ovid, Metam. 10, 1-77.

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See Commentary

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

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See Index.

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§ 154.

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

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See Index.

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

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Ovid, Metam. 7, 394 et seq.

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Ovid, Metam. 11, 583-748.

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

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

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Pausanias, 1, 42, § 2.

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Darwin, Botanic Garden.

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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).

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Milton, Hymn on the Nativity.

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Translated by C. M. Gayley.

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By Edmund Clarence Stedman.

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From The Satyr, by Robert Buchanan.

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Ovid, Metam. 3, 339-510.

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

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From The Naiad, by Robert Buchanan.

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Ovid, Metam. 8, 738-884.

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

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

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Ovid, Metam. 14, 623-771.

181

Thomson, Seasons.

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

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

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Theocritus, Idyl XI (Lang's translation).

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Ovid, Metam. 13, 750-867.

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

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From Keats' Endymion.

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§§ 50, 52, and Commentary.

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

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Apollodorus, 3, 15, § 8.

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Ovid, Metam. 4, 432-542.

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

193

Cf. § 147, Milton's Carpathian Wizard.

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See Commentary.

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Ovid, Metam. 9, 1-100.

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§ 156.

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See Commentary.

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Milton, Comus, 859-889.

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§ 21, and Commentary, § 57.

200

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

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

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

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

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For Gorgons and Grææ, see § 52.

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

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

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

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Milton, Il Penseroso, l. 19.

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From Charles Kingsley's Andromeda.

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Milman, Samor.

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Milton, Comus.

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

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See Commentary, §§ 103, 155.

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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.

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§ 172.

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Atlas and the heavens, § 153.

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§ 180.

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§ 160.

219

§ 173.

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Theocritus. Idyl XIII (Lang's translation).

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

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See the story of Daphne.

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Theocritus, Idyl X (Lang's translation).

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Thyrsis.

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§ 119.

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§ 83.

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§ 15.

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Milton.

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

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

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

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From Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira."

Fig. 130. The Building of the Argo

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§ 144.

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

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

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See § 120.

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See Table G, Commentary, § 103.

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Dyer, The Fleece.

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William Morris, Life and Death of Jason.

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Ovid, Metam. 7, 143-293.

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Ovid, Metam. 7, 297-353.

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§ 176.

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Macbeth, IV, i. Consult.

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Ovid, Metam. 8, 260-546.

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§ 170.

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§ 180.

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Chapter XXI.

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From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

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From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

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From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

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From Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

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

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

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

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

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§ 143.

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

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

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Erasmus Darwin.

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

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

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

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

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

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§ 167.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sophocles, Antigone; Euripides, Suppliants.

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

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Sophocles, Antigone, closing chorus.

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

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Ovid, Metam. 11, 221-265; Catullus, LXIV; Hyginus, Fab. 14; Apollonius Rhodius. Argon. 1, 558; Valerius Flaccus, Argon.; Statius, Achilleid.

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

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Empedocles on Etna.

Fig. 150. Helen Persuaded

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From Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women.

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From Tennyson's Œnone.

282

Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia among the Tauri.

283

From Tennyson's Dream of Fair Women.

284

Gladstone's Translations from the Iliad.

285

Iliad, 2 (Pope's translation).

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Iliad, 3 (Pope's translation).

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Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus.

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Iliad, 3 (Pope's translation).

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Iliad, 6, 390 et seq. (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation).

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Iliad, 6, 470-490 (Pope's translation).

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Iliad, 6 (Pope's translation).

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Iliad, 9.

293

Iliad, 11.

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Iliad, 13.

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Iliad, 14, 400-440.

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Iliad, 14, 150-350.

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Iliad, 15.

298

Iliad, 11.

299

Iliad, 16.

300

Iliad, 17.

301

Cowper's translation. The lines are often quoted.

302

Iliad, 18.

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Iliad, 19.

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Iliad, 20.

305

Iliad, 21.

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Iliad, 22, 350.

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Iliad, 23.

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Iliad, 24, 15.

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Iliad, 24, 330-804.

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Iliad, 24, 804 (Pope's translation).

AMAZON

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§ 128.

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Pausanias, 5, 11, § 2; and Sophocles, Philoctetes, 445.

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Virgil, Æneid, 6, 57.

314

Statius, Achilleid, 1, 269.

315

Sophocles, Ajax.

316

See Commentary.

317

Servius Honoratus, Commentary on Æneid (3, 402). According to Sophocles (Philoctetes), the wound was occasioned by the bite of a serpent that guarded the shrine of the nymph Chryse, on an islet of the same name near Lemnos.

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Virgil, Æneid, 2.

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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.– Æneid. 2, 49.

320

Byron, Childe Harold.

321

Hecuba's exclamation, "Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require," has become proverbial.

Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istisTempus eget.– Æneid, 2, 521.

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Euripides, – Troades, Hecuba, Andromache.

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According to Euripides (Helen), and Stesichorus, it was a semblance of Helen that Paris won; the real Helen went to Egypt.

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Dyer, The Fleece.

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Milton, Comus.

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Æschylus, Agamemnon.

327

Æschylus, Choëphori; Sophocles, Electra; Euripides, – Electra, Orestes.

328

Æschylus, Eumenides.

329

Euripides, Iphigenia among the Tauri.

330

Sonnet by Andrew Lang.

331

For the authorship of the Odyssey, see § 298 (3); and for translations, see corresponding section of the Commentary.

332

Odyssey, 9.

333

§ 141.

334

Odyssey, 10.

335

From Austin Dobson's Prayer of the Swine to Circe.

336

Odyssey, 10; adapted from Butcher and Lang's translation. So the following from Odyssey, 11.

337

Odyssey, 12.

338

Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim.

339

Odyssey, 1, 10.

340

Odyssey, 5, 64 (Cowper's translation).

341

Odyssey, 6.

342

Odyssey, 7.

343

Andrew Lang, A Song of Phæacia.

344

Odyssey, 8.

345

Odyssey, 13.

346

Stephen Phillips, Ulysses.

347

Odyssey, 14.

348

Odyssey, 15.

349

Odyssey 16, 212 (Cowper's translation).

350

Odyssey, 17, 290 (Cowper's translation).

351

Odyssey, 19.

352

Odyssey, 21.

353

Odyssey, 22.

354

From Tennyson's To Virgil.

355

For Virgil, see § 299; for translations of his Æneid, see corresponding section in Commentary.

356

Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.– Æneid, 3, 658.

357

Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?– Æneid, 1, 11.

358

Haud ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.– Æneid, 1, 630.

359

Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur.– Æneid, 1, 574.

360

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.– Æneid, 6, 95.

361

Facilis descensus Averno;Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis;Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,Hoc opus, hic labor est.– Æneid, 6, 126-129.

362

The poet here inserts a famous line which is thought to imitate in its sound the galloping of horses: Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum. – Æneid, 8, 596.

363

Sternitur infelix alieno volnere, caelumqueAspicit, et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos.– Æneid 10, 781.

NIKE OF BRESCIA

364

For Records of Norse Mythology, see § 300, and Commentary, §§ 268, 282, and 300.

365

Gray's ode, The Fatal Sisters, is founded on this superstition.

366

From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.

367

From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.

368

From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.

369

For the Sagas, see § 300; and for translations, etc., see § 282 of the Commentary.

370

The extracts in verse are from William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung.

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