The Classic Myths in English Literature Based Chiefly On Bulfinchs Age of Fab
The Classic Myths in English Literature Based Chiefly On Bulfinchs Age of Fab
Charles Mills Gayley
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S. Calverley's Death of Adonis (Theocritus); L. Morris' Adonis (Epic of Hades). In Art. The Dying Adonis, sculpture, M. Angelo; the Adonis of Thor- waldsen in the Glyptothek, Munich. 94. Textual. Psyche does not eat anything in Hades, because, by accepting the hospitality of Proserpina, she would become an inmate of her household. The scene with the lamp and knife probably indicates the infringement of some ancient matrimonial custom. Erebus : the land of darkness, Hades. For Zephyr, Acheron, C...erberus, Charon, etc. , see Index. Interpretative. The fable of Cupid and Psyche is usually regarded as | allegorical. The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of the immortality of the soul so striking and beautiful as that of the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate productions of 452 CLASSIC MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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