The Classic Myths in English Literature And in Art Based Originally On Bulfinch
The Classic Myths in English Literature And in Art Based Originally On Bulfinch
Charles Mills Gayley
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There were, according to Mr. Gladstone {N'o. Am. Rev. April, 1892), about twenty Olympian deities r^ (i) The five really great gods, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon- Apollo, and Athene; (2) Hephaestus, Ares, Hermes, Iris, Leto, Artemis, Themis, Aphrodite, Dione, Paeeon (or Paeon), and Hebe, — also usually present among the assembled immortals ; (3) Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, and Thetis, whose claims are more or less obscured. According to the same authority, the Distinctive Qualities of the Homeric Go...ds were as follows : (i) they were immortal: (2) they were incorporated in human form; (3) they enjoyed power far exceeding that possessed by mortals ; (4) they were, however (with the possible exception of Athene, who is never ignorant, never deceived, never baffled), all liable to certain limitations of energy and knowledge ; (5) they were subject also to corporeal wants and to human affections. The Olympian Religion, as a whole, was more careful of nations, states, public affairs, than of indi- viduals and individual character; and in this respect, according to Mr.
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