according to him, Prometheus himself is an immortal god, the friend of the human race, the giver of fire, the inventor of the useful arts, an omniscient seer, an heroic sufferer, who is overcome by the superior power of Zeus, but will not bend his inflexible mind. Although...
The Romans couldn’t wait to commit forgery and sign him up as Vulcan. If you wish to know more about his products please send for the catalogue. Hephaestus Facts and Figures Name: Hephaestus Pronunciation: Hee-FEST-us or Hee-FIST-us Alternative names: Hephaistos Gender: Male Type: God ...
while her unfinished twin stood stuck in her tracks. That forgery, that product of subterfuge, thus acquired the name of Mendacium [Pseudologos, Falsehood], and I readily agree with people who say that she has no feet: every once in a while something that is false can start off successful...
This collection contains 258 surviving poems (omitting one, an obvious later forgery), translated by Daryl Hine and Peter Whigham with Greek originals facing. The title is a pun on the one-time title of the work, the Musa Puerilis. Straton's anthology was a strong influence on the work o...
But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the...
The Epitaphs and Inscriptions are according to Diogenes Laertius, as are, unless stated otherwise, the Maxims and Dialogues. Modern criticism is fond of facts and approaches truth step by step as a man walking towards the horizon. Therefore it rejects as forgery, not only part of those maxims...
20 Thirty years on, and after hundreds of documentary and a handful of literary ostraca from the Eastern Desert were pub-lished, Bagnall realized that the piece was no forgery. Working together with Raffaella Cribiore, he concluded that the sherd likely originated in one of the military forts...
That forgery, that product of subterfuge, thus acquired the name of Mendacium [Pseudologos, Falsehood], and I readily agree with people who say that she has no feet: every once in a while something that is false can start off successfully, but with time Veritas (Truth) is sure to ...
That forgery, that product of subterfuge, thus acquired the name of Mendacium (Falsehood) [Pseudologos], and I readily agree with people who say that she has no feet: every once in a while something that is false can start off successfully, but with time Veritas (Truth) is sure to ...
Yetthe close correlation of architectural with political history is to be avoided; antibarbarian artistic themes on Greek public buildings need no special explanation at any time in the 5th century. Against all this there are a few ancient allegations that the peace was a later forgery, an ...