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... divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and planted the branches destined to flourish through the ages . His verses display or betray acquaintance with many ' other stories ' of public notoriety besides those ...
... divine ' was already a full - leaved tree when he plucked from it and planted the branches destined to flourish through the ages . His verses display or betray acquaintance with many ' other stories ' of public notoriety besides those ...
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... divine ambrosia all his limbs Anointing , cloth'd him in immortal robes ; To two swift bearers gave him then in charge , To Sleep and Death , twin brothers ; in their arms They bore him safe to Lycia's wide - spread plains . ' The ...
... divine ambrosia all his limbs Anointing , cloth'd him in immortal robes ; To two swift bearers gave him then in charge , To Sleep and Death , twin brothers ; in their arms They bore him safe to Lycia's wide - spread plains . ' The ...
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... divine personage in the pseudo - Homeric Hymns . No moon - goddess is recognised in the Iliad or Odyssey . Nor does the orbed ruler of ambrosial night , ' regarded as a mere light - giver or time - measurer , receive all the attention ...
... divine personage in the pseudo - Homeric Hymns . No moon - goddess is recognised in the Iliad or Odyssey . Nor does the orbed ruler of ambrosial night , ' regarded as a mere light - giver or time - measurer , receive all the attention ...
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... divine how the association came to be established . For , about 2000 B.C. , when the Euphratean constella- tions assumed their definitive forms , the belt of Orion began to be visible before dawn in the month . of June , called Tammuz ...
... divine how the association came to be established . For , about 2000 B.C. , when the Euphratean constella- tions assumed their definitive forms , the belt of Orion began to be visible before dawn in the month . of June , called Tammuz ...
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... divine companion- ship in the eagle by calling it the winged dog of Zeus . ' Clytemnestra , in her hypocritical protesta- tions before the elders of Argos , could find no more striking image of fidelity than that of a house - dog left ...
... divine companion- ship in the eagle by calling it the winged dog of Zeus . ' Clytemnestra , in her hypocritical protesta- tions before the elders of Argos , could find no more striking image of fidelity than that of a house - dog left ...
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¹ Iliad Abth accordingly Achæan Achilles acquaintance Agamemnon Alcinous amber ancient ANDREW LANG animal antiquity Aphrodite archæological armour Aryans Asia Minor asphodel beasts birds Boötes bronze brought Buchholz Cabinet Edition canine century B.C. chalkos chariot Cheap Edition cloth colour connexion copper Crown 8vo cyanus Diomed divine early Egypt Egyptian Epics equine ESSAYS Eumæus gold golden Greece Greek hand Hayman's Hector Hehn Hellespont Hephæstus hero Herodotus Hesiod Hissarlik HISTORY Homeric poems horses human Hyades Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Illustrations iron Ithaca ivory kind king less lion Lord Maps Menelaus ment metal Mycenæ Mycenæan mythology nature Odyssean Odyssey Olympus origin Patroclus Pausanias Peloponnesus Phoenician plant poet Popular Poseidon prehistoric primitive Realien scarcely scene Schliemann Schuchhardt and Sellers shield silver spear species Stallybrass stars steeds story tion tradition trans Translated tree Troad Trojan Troy verses vols wild wine Woodcuts Zeus
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