So she moved the heart of Eileithyia in her dear breast; and they went their way, like why wild-doves in their going. And as soon as Eileithyia the goddess of sore travail set foot on Delos, the pains of birth seized Leto, and she longed to bring forth; so she cast her arms ...
For when Dionysus and Silenus rode into battle upon their backs, the strange sound of their braying put the Giants into a rout. (Hyginus 2.23.)ASS OF SILENUS The donkey mount of the old rustic god Silenus. The beast once entered into a contest with Priapus over the size of their erect ...
Pic has sold to Australia / New Zealand (Transmission), Benelux (Imagine Film Distribution), Germany (Wild Bunch), Greece (Neo Films), Israel (Lev Cinema), Middle East (Front Row), Spain (SelectaVision), Switzerland (Praesens) and UK & Ireland (Studiocanal).Based on the life story of...
They are romantic, exotic locations based on real journeys and they introduce the reader to some eccentric and wild fellow travellers and to some hilarious and scary scenarios: dodging wild animals on safari, and one male ‘stalker’ in Mombasa, Kenya; dance torment in tropical Fiji; a supernat...
versions of the story: Lynx and Lambe. In other versions of the tale, the god of the wild had fallen in love with Echo, but she despised any man’s love yet had fell hopelessly in love with Narcissus. When he ignored her for his own image she withered away until only her voice ...
The whole city went wild with joy. Like one who has been a prisoner for many years, it flung off all restraint, and the people rose as a single man to test the truth of new liberty. The gates were thrown wide, and the Trojans–men, women, and children–thronged over the plain and...
Vocabulary of a wild dog: woof, arf, yelp, yip, growl, grunt Vocabulary of a domesticated dog: woof, arf, yelp, yip, sit!, fetch! Vocabulary of a pre-literate Greek: Greek-word, Greek-word, Greek-word, Greek-word, Greek-word, Greek-word Vocabulary of a literate Greek: Greek-word,...
In Greek mythology the Argus was a beast and son of Arestor with a hundred eyes of which he could only close two at a time. He was placed by Juno to guard Io, whom Jupiter had changed into a heifer. But Mercury, who was sent to carry her off, managed to surprise and kill Argus ...
diminutive from the same as qhra - thera 2339; a dangerous animal:--(venomous, wild) beast. 2343 qhsaurizwthesaurizothay-sow-rid'-zo from qhsauroV - thesauros 2344; to amass or reserve (literally or figuratively):--lay up (treasure), (keep) in store, (heap) treasure (together, up...
Then in wild gallop he starts to slay his aged father; but there came a phantom [Athena], as it seemed to us on-lookers, of Pallas, with plumed helm, brandishing a spear; and she hurled a rock against the breast of Heracles, which held him from his frenzied thirst for blood and pl...