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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... XVI. COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY. Phcedros. Dost thou see that very tall plane-tree % Sokrates. Certainly I do. Phcedros. There is shade there, and the wind is not too strong, and there is grass to sit, or, if we like, to lie down. Sokrates. Lead on then! Phcedros. Tell me, Sokrates, --is it not from some place here they say that Boreas carried away Oreithyia from the Ilissos % Sokrates. So they say. Phcedros. Should it not be from this spot? for the waters seem so lovely, and pure, and transparent, and as if made for girls to play on the bank. Sokrates. No; it is two or three stadia further down, .where you cross over to the Temple of Agra, --and there you find, somewhere, an altar of Boreas. Phcedros. I was not aware of this. But tell me, by Zeus, O Sokrates, --doest thou believe this my the to be true % Sokrates. Well, if I did not believe it, like the wise people, I should not be so very far wrong; and I might set up an ingenious theory and say that a gust of Boreas, the Noithwind, carried her down from the rocks in the neighbourhood, while she was VOL. II. B playing with her friend Pharmakeia; and that, having died in this manner, she was reported to have been carried off from thence by Boreas, or from the Ares peak, --for there goes also this story, that she was carried off from that, and not from this spot. As to myself, Phsedros, I think these explanations, on the whole, very pleasant; but they require a man of strong mind and hard work, and a man who, after all, is not much to be envied, if it were only for this, that when he has set right this one fable, he is bound to do the same for the form of the Hippokentaurs, and again for that of the Chimsera. And then a host of such beings rushes in, --Gorgons and Pegasos', and masses of other hopeless beings, and



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235693465
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235693465
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr

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