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Identifier: grecianromanmyth00dwi (find matches)
Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and fates of mortals. Butin the productions of Fancy, she does not bind herself to a certain andfixed series of beings, therefore we sometimes find the same deity underdifferent forms. For the ideas of divine, supernatural power alwaysexisted ; but in the course of time, they became so blended with storiesof human life, that in the magic mirror of the dark ages of antiquity,almost all divine images are repeated as in a magnifying reflector ; inthis contexture of several fables, the imagination found more amplescope; a circumstance by which the poets of all ages did not fail toprofit. Henceforth the history of the gods is mingled with that of men.The wars among the former having ceased, there is now nothing worthytheir attention but the lives and fates of mortals, with which theyseem to trifle ; arbitrarily exalting the one, and depressing the other,yet at the same time assisting heroes of eminent virtue and valor, andraising them to immortality. PART SECOND. MODERN, SUPERIOR DEITIES.
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JUPITER. MODERN, SUPERIOR DEITIES ZEUS AND HERA; JUPITER AND JUNO. Hesiod, in his Theogonia, invokes the Muses who inhabit the heav-enly mansions, and whose knowledge of generation and birth he hadformerly sung. Tell, ye celestial powers, continues the poet, how first the godsand world were made ; the rivers, and the boundless sea with its ragingsurge. Also, the bright, shining stars, and wide stretched heavenabove, and all the gods that sprang from them, givers of good things ? The Muses answer, First of all existed Chaos; next in order thebroad-bosomed Earth ; then Love appeared, the most beautiful of im-mortals. From Chaos, sprang Erebus and dusky Night, and fromNight and Erebus, came Ether and smiling Day. But first the Earth produced the starry Heavens, commensurateto herself; and the barren Sea, without mutual love. Then, conjoinedwith Uranos, she produced the tremendous Titans ; after whom, Time,crooked in counsel, was produced, the youngest, and most dreadful ofher children. T

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