The Quarterly Review, Volumes 266-267William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1936 |
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... modern Greek mythology according to Hesiodic conception . She is no longer the Gorgon , but the Gorgons . These deities , however , have only a remote resemblance to the snake - haired goddess of Homeric and Attic conception . They ...
... modern Greek mythology according to Hesiodic conception . She is no longer the Gorgon , but the Gorgons . These deities , however , have only a remote resemblance to the snake - haired goddess of Homeric and Attic conception . They ...
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... modern traveller , Mr O'Connor Scott , in his delightful book on the Ægean Islands , says that at Naxos legends abound of the infant Dionysos , of the nymphs who brought him up , and of Theseus , who abandoned or was forced to surrender ...
... modern traveller , Mr O'Connor Scott , in his delightful book on the Ægean Islands , says that at Naxos legends abound of the infant Dionysos , of the nymphs who brought him up , and of Theseus , who abandoned or was forced to surrender ...
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... modern Greek . His ' smatter- ing of modern Greek , ' as the Poet himself says , did not , however , prevent his committing a serious mistake in the famous refrain of his madrigal to the Maid of Athens : ' Zoè mou sàs agapo . ' The ...
... modern Greek . His ' smatter- ing of modern Greek , ' as the Poet himself says , did not , however , prevent his committing a serious mistake in the famous refrain of his madrigal to the Maid of Athens : ' Zoè mou sàs agapo . ' The ...
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