History of Greece, Bindi 1

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John Murray, 1851
 

Efni

Ecstatic rites introduced from Asia 700500 B C
39
Orphic sect a variety of the Dionysiac mystics
45
Homeric Hymn to Dêmêtêr
55
Legends of Apollo
61
Foundation legends of the Delphian oracle
67
Pandora in the Theogony
72
Artemis
75
Hermês
81
Gods Heroes and men appear together in the mythes
87
Intersected by the mythical
93
Probable age of the poem
99
Man wretched but Zeus not to blame
106
Number of such genealogiespervading every fraction of Greeks
112
Danaos and the Danaïdes
119
Birth of Heraklês
126
CHAPTER V
132
General deluge Salvation of Deukaliôn and Py ha
134
Large extent of Dôris implied in this genealogy
140
His seven sons and five daughters
149
Second Æolid lineKrêtheus
155
Mêdea at Corinth
161
Bellerophôn
167
Traces of ancient human sacrifices
174
Overthrown by Hêraklês and the Thêbans
176
Emissaries of the lake Kôpaïs
182
CalycêElis and ÆtôliaEleian genealogy
188
Ætôlian genealogy
194
Relics of the boar long preserved at Tegea
201
TydeusOld age of Eneus
207
Kingly attributes of the family
213
Atreus Thyestês Chrysippus
219
Agamemnon and Menelaus
223
Agamemnon and Orestês transferred to Sparta
229
Great functions and power of the Dioskuri
235
Kallisto and Arkas
241
Koronis and Asklêpius
247
61
250
Eakusson of Zeus and Ægina
252
Neoptolemus
258
Attic legendsoriginally from different rootseach dême had
264
Daughters of PandiônProknê Philomêla Legend of Têreus
271
Voluntary selfsacrifice of the three daughters of Erechtheus
278
Plutarchhis way of handling the matter of legend
284
Their ubiquity
291
LaiusEdipusLegendary celebrity of Edipus and his family
361
70
368
Kreôn king of Thêbes forbids the burial of Polynikês and
375
Worship of Adrastus at Sikyônhow abrogated by Kleisthenês
382
Ilus founder of Ilium
388
Heroes from all parts of Greece combined under Agamemnôn
395
Epic chronologyhistoricised
402
Philoktêtês and Neoptolemus
408
Helen restored to Menelauslives in dignity at Spartapasses
414
Return of the Greeks from Troy
420
Memorials of them throughout the Grecian world
424
Ubiquity of Æneas
430
Historical Ilium
436
K2K1
438
The Romans treat Ilium with marked respect
442
The mythical faith not shaken by topographical impossibilities
448
Old date and long prevalence of the worship of Apollo Sminthius
455
State of mind out of which they arose
461
What we read as poetical fancies were to the Greeks serious
467
Stimulus which they afforded to the mythopoeic faculty
473
Poetsreceive their matter from the divine inspiration of
479
Gradual development of the scientific point of viewits opposition
485
Influence of the opening of Egypt to Grecian commerce B C 660
492
Opposition between scientific method and the religious feeling
499
Scission between the superior men and the multitudeimportant
506
Tendencies of Eschylus in regard to the old legends
514
Euripidêsaccused of vulgarising the mythical heroesand of
520
Hekatausthe mythes rationalised
525
His general faith in the mythical heroes and eponymsyet com
532
72
537
Upon the legend of Troy
539
73
547
Allegorical interpretation of the mythesmore and more esteemed
557
Divine legends allegorised Heroic legends historicised
568
Semihistorical interpretation
574
Matter of tradition uncertified from the beginning
580
Supposed ancient meaning is really a modern interpretation
588
He deals with the mythes as expressions of feeling and imagina
595
CHAPTER XVII
618
Alteration in the mythical genealogiesOdin and the other gods
624
Their analogy with the Homeric theology
631
Accepted as realities of the foretime
639
History of Englandhow conceived down to the seventeenth cen
644
Miltons way of dealing with the British fabulous history objec
650

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Common terms and phrases

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Síða 435 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Síða 648 - Roman, pitched there ;) yet those old and inborn names of successive kings, never any to have been real persons, or done in their lives at least some part of what so long hath been remembered, cannot be thought without too strict an incredulity.
Síða xii - I describe the earlier times by themselves, as conceived by the faith and feeling of the first Greeks, and known only through their legends, without presuming to measure how much or how little of historical matter these legends may contain. If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this — if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting his master-piece of...
Síða 582 - They have inquired and considered little, and do not always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false.
Síða 434 - Though literally believed , reverentially cherished , and numbered among the gigantic phenomena of the past by the Grecian public, it is in the eyes of modern inquiry essentially a legend , and nothing more.
Síða 651 - ... British fables. or else to give an account of them as mythes ; to recognize and respect their specific nature, and to abstain from confounding them with ordinary and certifiable history. There are good reasons for pursuing this second method, in reference to the * The italics here are Mr.
Síða 584 - ... notorious character is the source of a thousand fictions exemplifying his peculiarities. And if it be true, as I think present observation may show us, that such creative agencies are even now visible and effective, when the materials of genuine history are copious and critically studied — much more are we warranted in concluding that in ages destitute of records, strangers to historical testimony, and full of belief in divine inspiration both as to the future and as to the past, narratives...
Síða 647 - Caesar, we cannot so easily be discharged ; descents of ancestry long continued, laws and exploits not plainly seeming to be borrowed, or devised, which on the common belief have wrought no small impression ; defended by many, denied utterly by few.
Síða 583 - ... prevalent feeling stands in the place of certifying testimony, and causes men to hear them not merely with credence, but even with delight : to call them in question and require proof, is a task which cannot be undertaken without incurring obloquy. Of such tendencies in the human mind, abundant evidence is furnished by the innumerable religious legends which have acquired currency in various parts of the world...
Síða 446 - A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy and the Expedition of the Grecians, as described by Homer, shewing that no such Expedition was ever undertaken, and that no such City of Phrygia existed, oO, oJ (Eton 1796).

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