By Robert Graves
Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a latest audience.
He demonstrates with a blinding reveal of correct wisdom that Greek mythology is 'no extra mysterious in content material than are smooth election cartoons'.
All the scattered components of every delusion are assembled right into a harmonious narrative, and plenty of versions are recorded that can aid to figure out its ritual or historic which means. complete indexes and references to the classical assets make the e-book as important to the coed because the common reader. And a whole observation on every one delusion translates the classical model within the gentle of up to date archaeological and anthropological wisdom.
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10 f. According to others, however, it was Tantalus who stole the golden mastiff, and Pandareus to whom he entrusted it and who, on denying that he had ever received it was destroyed, together with his wife, by the angry gods, or turned into stone. But Pandareus’s orphaned daughters Merope and Cleothera, whom some call Cameiro and Clytië were reared by Aphrodite on curds, honey, and sweet wine. Hera endowed them with beauty and more than human wisdom; Artemis made them grow tall and strong; Athene instructed them in every known handicraft.
Pelops’s mother Euryanassa, meanwhile, made the most diligent search for him, not knowing about his ascension to Olympus; she learned from the scullions that he had been boiled and served to the gods, who seemed to have eaten every last shred of his flesh. 15 k. Tantalu’s ugly son Broteas carved the oldest image of the Mother of the Gods, which still stands on the Coddinian Crag, to the north of Mount Sipylus. He was a famous hunter, but refused to honour Artemis, who drove him mad; crying aloud that no flame could burn him, he threw himself upon a lighted pyre and let the flames consume him.
156; Apollodorus: ii. 6. 3. 3. Hyginus: Fabula 124; Servius on Virgil’s Aeneid vi. 603; Diodorus Siculus: iv. 74; Tzetzes: On Lycophron 355. 4. 4. 5. Lactantius: Stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses vi. 6; Servius on Virgil’s Aeneid viii. 130. 6. Hyginus: Fabula 82; Pindar: Olympian Odes i. 38 and 60; Servius on Virgil’s Aeneid vi. 603 ff; Lactantius: loc. ; Servius on Virgil’s Georgics iii. 7; Tzetzes: On Lycophron 152. 7. Hyginus: Fabula 83; Tzetzes: loc. ; Ovid: Metamorphoses vi. 406. 8. Diodorus Siculus: iv.