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Search - In The Morning Of The World - Some Of The Greek Myths

In The Morning Of The World - Some Of The Greek Myths
Author: Janette Sebring Lowrey

IN THE MORNING OF THE WORLD. Contents PREFACE Xi THE WORLD OF THE MYTHS XV THE HORN OF AMALTHEA 1 TO OLYMPUS 8 MAN AND THE OLYMPIANS 18 THE FIRE-BRINGER 25 PANDORA 31 PROMETHEUS BOUND 39 APOLLO IN DELOS 49 THE NIGHTMARE AND HIS BROTHER 53 THE POET 62 THE ORACLE AT DELPHI 66 THE PHYSICIAN 80 YOUNG HERMES 84 THE MUSICIAN 101 THE WISE COURAGEOUS ON... more »E 105 vii viii CONTENTS THE FIRST MASON 112 FOR THE FAIREST 114 THE ARTIST 122 A GODDESS LOST 125 ENBYMION 136 PSYCHE 143 List of Illustrations ZEUS STRODE, HURLING THUNDERBOLTS 15 LOOK DOWN UPON EARTH, i HAVE MADE MAN FOR YOU 23 HE BEGAN TO PULL AND TUG AT THE CHAINS 47 THE GIANTS BURIED THEIR SWORDS IN EACH OTHER 59 THE SAILORS, THEIR FACES DARK WITH FEAR, LOOKED AT THE YOUTH 77 CHIRON TAUGHT ASCLEPIUS ALL THE ARTS OF HEALING 81 THE LITTLE BOY HAD SPRUNG TO THE TOP OF ONE OF THE VINEYARD POSTS 91 PARIS READ UPON IT THE INSCRIPTION, For the Fairest 119 ENDYMION HEARD PAN S REEDY MUSIC 141 CERBERUS LET PSYCHE PASS THROUGH UNHARMED 163 Preface In the morning of the world When earth was nigher heaven than now. Robert Browning Pippa Passes ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS GIVEN ME IN MY childhood was a collection of stories from the Greek mythology. It was a small, unpretentious volume with no illustrations, bound in plain green cloth, and it was so beloved and the children of the family spent so many hours in the perusal and reperusal of it that it finally fell to pieces. There was not a shred of it left for our high school days. By that time, however, it had not only afforded us untold pleasure, but had bestowed upon us a certain practical advantage as well never after ward were we at a loss for information concerning the characteristics and functions of the gods of Ancient Greece. They had become our cherished acquaintances, and we greeted them almost as familiars when they ap peared, however briefly or allusively, in the chapters of our later reading. Many stirring and tragic events have taken place since the days when that little book disappeared, page by loosened page, into the spacious, unrecoverable past. From a somewhat obvious point of view it would seem xii PREFACE that the one-time possession of so small and fanciful a collection of tales could have but little real significance today. And yet there come times even now when once again I feel the light pressure of its worn covers against my hand and see, rising from its pages, a succession of noble figures moving in a noble world, bathed in their own calm, golden radiance. They are old friends, those figures, and their appearance, momentary and evasive as it is, brings with it reassurance. Time moves slowly after all, and what is beautiful will never die. The very name of that little book is lost to me. I can not give it to other children of this new and later age. I could not remake it any more than I could reassume the eager, unburdened spirit that absorbed its wonders. But, remembering it, I have made this a small book, not an anthology, and one that tells stories of the Olympian gods. The pattern of this book, if it can be said to have one, is based rather broadly upon the association of two ideas Prometheus and Psyche, the flame and the spirit, the dream and its fulfillment. Otherwise it is a book of beginnings. There are stories of the birth and infancy of several of the gods, stories of the establishment of shrines, allegories of the struggle of man with the ele ments, the stories of Pandcxra, Persephone, and the giants, all of which are, in their several ways, begin nings. There are, besides, the five brief stories of leg endary, gifted human beings, the physician, the poet, the mason, the musician, and the artist, in order to illustrate the idea in terms of its results to man...

ISBN-13: 9781406716771
ISBN-10: 1406716774
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Lowe Press
Book Type: Paperback
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