Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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Author(s)Thomas Bulfinch
ISBN / ASIN1502933322
ISBN-139781502933324
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"[...] Pan.— Shepherd's Pipe.— Panic Terror.— Signification of the Name Pan.— Latin Divinities.— Wood Nymphs.— Water Nymphs.— Sea Nymphs. Pleasing Traits of Old Paganism.— Mrs. Browning's Poem.— Violation of Cere's Grove.— Erisichthon's Punishment.— Rhoecus.— Water Deities.— Neptune's Symbol of Power.— Latin Name for the Muses, and other Deities.— Personification of the Winds. The Harpies.— Worship of Fortuna Chapter XVI Transformation of Achelous.— Origin of the Cornucopia.— Ancient Meaning of fight of Achelous with Hercules.— Aesculapius.— The Cyclops. Antigone.— Expedition of the "Seven against Thebes."- - Antigone's Sisterly Devotion.— Antigone's Burial.— Penelope.- - Statue to Modesty.— Ulysses.— Penelope's suitors.— Penelope's Web [...]".










