Manual of Mythology: Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian Mythology (Classic Reprint)

T HERE is a charm in the name of ancient Greece j there
is glory in every page of her history; there is ;t fascination
in the remains of her literature, and a sense of unapproachable
beauty in her \;orks of art; there is a spcll in
her climate still, and a strange attraction in her ruins. Ve
are familiar with the praises of her beautiful.islands; our poets
sing of her lovely genial sky. There is not in aU the bnd a
mountain, plain, or river, nor a fountain, grove, or wood, that
is not hallowed by some legend or poetic tale. The names of
her artists, Pheidius, Praxiteles, ApcHes, and Zeuxis; of her
pocts, Homer, Pindar, LEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; of her
philosophers, Socrates, 1'lato, Epicurus; the names of her statesmen
and orators, Pericles :lnd Dernosthencs; of her historians,
Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon ; of her mathematicians,
Archimedes and Euclid, are familiar to 1S as household words.
V e look uack over a period of more than t"."O thousan

Table of Contents

ODt:CTIO~; CREEK A!'D RO!lIA~ MY:rHOLOGYThe; Creation of the 'Vorld; Deities of the Highest Order; Inferior Deities; Demigods or Heroes; XORSE At-:D OLD GERMAN MYTHOLOGY; MYTHOLOGY AND RELJGIO~ OF THE HINDOOSThe; Vedic Gods ; The Brahmanic Gods ; ~IYTHOLOGY AND RELICIO~ OF EGYPT; IXD£x; PAG~; 22; 26; I29; 200; 328; 337; 341; 353

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