Roman Life in Latin Prose And Verse; Illustrative Readings From Latin Literature
Roman Life in Latin Prose And Verse; Illustrative Readings From Latin Literature
Peck, Harry Thurston, 1856-1914
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Their altar was the hearth of the house, on which were sculptured the figures of the two Penates with that of the Lar. 75. Ithaca. Now Thiaki, a small rocky island in the Ionian Sea, famed as the birthplace of Ulysses. Ulixi. The name of the great Greek hero of the Trojan War, Odysseus, appears in Latin in the forms Ulysses, Ulyxes, and Ulixes. Cyclopia. " Round-eyed." In works of art, the Cyclopes are represented as giants with one eye in the forehead. They were the sons of Uranus and Gaea, an...d were cast into Tartarus by their father. After assisting Cronus to the sovereignty of the gods, they were put again into prison by him, and at last freed by Zeus, for whom they forged the lightning. The Cyclopes were later imagined as assistants of Vulcan, and placed in Sicily under Aetna. Polyphemus was said to be the son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Later legends make him the unsuccessful lover of the nymph Galatea, for which story see Gay's Acis and Galatea; Proctor's Death of Acts; Robert Buchanan's Polypheme's Passion; and Austin Dobson's Tale of Polypheme.
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