Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson;Robert Pierpont Wilson
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I. Grecian Mythology.
Value of the Grecian Fables.--J. STUART BLACKIE. The Battle of the Giants.--HE'SIOD Hymn to Jupiter.--CLEAN'THES The god Apollo.--OV'ID. Fancies of the Greek Mind.--WORDSWORTH: LIDDELL: BLACKIE. The Poet's Lament.--SCHILLER. The Creation.--OVID. The Origin of Evil.--HESIOD. What Prome'theus Personified.--BLACKIE. The Punishment of Prometheus.--AES'CHYLUS: SHELLEY Deluge of Deuca'lion.--OVID. Moral Characteristics of the Gods, etc.--MAHAFFY: GLADSTONE: HOMER: AESCHYLUS: HESIOD. Oaths.--HOMER: AESCHYLUS: SOPH'OCLES: VIRGIL. The Future State.--HOMER. 1. Story of Tan'talus.--BLACKIE 2. The Descent of Or'pheus.--OVID: HOMER. 3. The Elys'ium.--HOMER: PINDAR. Hindu and Greek Skepticism.--(Cornhill Magazine). II. The Earnest Inhabitants of Greece. The Founding of Athens.--BLACKIE. III. The Heroic Age. Heroic Times foretold to Adam.--MILTON Twelve Labors of Hercules.--HOMER. Fable of Hercules and Antae'us.--COLLINS. The Argonautic Expedition.--PINDAR. Legend of Hy'las.--BAYARD TAYLOR. |
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