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| Norse | The Poetic Edda | INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES / PRONOUNCING INDEX OF PROPER NAMES / PRONOUNCING INDEX; lines 22700-23006 | low | The index specifies relationships/roles in brief entries, including: 'Rind, mother of Vali'; 'Rn, wife of gir'; 'Sig-yn, wife of Loki'; 'Skirn-ir, Freyrs servant'; and 'Rosk-va, sister of Thjalfi'. | record |
| Norse | The Poetic Edda | RIGSTHULA / THE SONG OF RIG / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 8480-8601 | low | Notes argue there is little to favor Rig = Heimdall beyond vague passages (Voluspo, Grimnismol, Hyndluljoth), while features in Rigsthula (aged and wise; references to runes) fit Othin; concludes Rig is probably Othin, not Heimdall. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1239-1316 | medium | Polites, one of Priam's children, flees wounded through the palace while Pyrrhus pursues him with a spear, and he dies before his parents in blood. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1239-1316 | high | The narrator sees the daughter of Tyndarus crouching silently in Vesta's fane, fearing Trojan and Greek vengeance, and his spirit burns with rage to avenge Troy before he advances against her. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1318-1408 | high | Aeneas' mother tells him to care for Anchises, Creüsa, and Ascanius, says gods in anger overturn Troy, removes the cloud from his sight, and names Neptune, Juno, Pallas, and the lord aiding the Greeks. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE / BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY; lines 1410-1496 | medium | As fire advances, Aeneas plans the escape: Anchises is to be carried, Iülus and Creüsa will accompany him, the household will gather at Ceres’ mound near an aged cypress, Anchises will carry the sacred objects, and Aeneas must wash in a living stream before touching them. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1764-1832 | medium | Andromache pours libation in a grove by the waters of a feigned Simoïs, calls Hector's ghost to an empty named tomb with two altars, sees Aeneas, becomes terror-stricken, faints, and asks whether he is truly alive and where Hector is. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2125-2220 | medium | Juno sees Dido caught in the toils and accosts Venus, saying that Venus and her boy have won fame if two gods have vanquished one woman by treachery. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2222-2307 | high | The sky thickens; rain and hail come down; Trojans and Tyrians scatter; streams pour from hills. Dido and Aeneas enter the same cavern, Earth and Juno give a sign, fires flash, and Nymphs cry from the mountain-top. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2309-2389 | medium | Jupiter hears, looks on the city and lovers, and orders Mercury to tell Aeneas to stop lingering in Carthage and sail toward his destined Italian, Lavinian, and Roman future, including Ascanius’s inheritance. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2391-2467 | medium | Dido looks at Aeneas silently, then says no goddess was his mother nor Dardanus his founder, but rough Caucasus bore him and Hyrcanian tigresses nursed him. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 2749-2841 | high | At dawn Aeneas gathers the Dardanian people, names the yearly completion since Anchises' remains were buried, calls for sacrifice and prayers for winds, says Acestes gives oxen for each ship, and ordains contests in ships, running, archery, and boxing. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 317-400 | high | Jupiter looks down from the height of heaven over the sea, lands, shores, and Libya; Venus, with tearful eyes, addresses him in sorrow. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END / BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET; lines 3315-3403 | high | Aeneas debates remaining in Sicily or going to Italy; Nautes, taught by Pallas, advises following fate, entrusting weary people to Acestes, and founding a city called Acesta. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3562-3611 | high | Aeneas asks the Sibyl to let him go to his beloved father, teach the way, and open the consecrated portals; he recalls carrying Anchises from flames and weapons and over the seas, and appeals to the Sibyl's power from Hecate. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3613-3702 | medium | Twin doves descend, Aeneas recognizes them as his mother's birds, asks them to guide him, follows them to Avernus, sees the gold-shining bough on a tree, breaks it off, and takes it to the Sibyl. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 402-491 | high | Venus meets Aeneas in the forest disguised as a maiden huntress, compared to a Spartan maiden or Harpalyce of Thrace, and asks whether the men have seen a similarly equipped sister. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 4135-4222 | high | Romulus is identified as seed of Mavors and marked with twin plumes; Rome is foretold to fill earth with empire and heaven with pride, and is compared to the turret-crowned Lady of Berecyntus. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4448-4521 | high | Ilioneus tells Latinus the Trojans came by purpose rather than storm or error, are outcasts from a former great realm, descend from Jove, and were sent by Aeneas. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4774-4860 | high | Aventinus is introduced as the son of Hercules and Rhea the priestess, born by stealth; he bears the Hydra serpent device on his shield, displays a chariot and horses, and wears the lion skin identified as Hercules' garb. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4862-4943 | high | Caeculus, founder of Praeneste, is believed to have been born of Vulcan among herds and found beside the hearth; a rustic battalion from several places attends him. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4862-4943 | medium | Messapus, horse-tamer and seed of Neptune, whom steel or fire could not strike down, calls peoples to arms; their march is likened to singing swans and a cloud of birds. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD / BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY; lines 4862-4943 | medium | Oebalus is said to have been borne by the nymph Sebethis to Telon, aged ruler of Capreae, and to hold wide sway over Sarrastian and neighboring peoples. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 493-570 | high | Venus departs as her divine nature becomes visible; Aeneas recognizes her as his mother and reproaches her for appearing in feigned likeness and denying direct contact and true speech. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5238-5331 | high | Venus, disturbed by Laurentines' threats, addresses Vulcan in her golden bridal chamber, explains that Aeneas has reached Rutulian borders by Jove's command, and asks for armour from his divine craft. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5403-5477 | high | A flash, peal, and repeated crashes come from heaven; armor gleams through a cloud. Aeneas says the omen summons him and fulfills his goddess mother's promise of armor from Vulcan. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5518-5602 | high | Venus draws near through the clouds bearing gifts, sees her son apart by a cold river, and says the presents of her husband’s promised craftsmanship are complete for his coming battle. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK SEVENTH / THE LANDING IN LATIUM, AND THE ROLL OF THE ARMIES OF ITALY / BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER; lines 5603-5617 | medium | "These things he admires on the shield of Vulcan, his mother's gift"; he lifts the shield bearing "the destined glories of his children." | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 5620-5714 | high | The Mother of the gods recalls that her beloved pine forest and grove on Phrygian Ida were given to Aeneas for his fleet, and she asks Jove that their mountain birth protect them from voyaging and storm. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 572-657 | high | Achates addresses Aeneas as goddess-born, says the fleet and companions are restored, and refers to Aeneas' mother's words. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 6150-6229 | medium | Apollo looks down from heaven, praises Iülus as child of gods and future parent of gods, assumes the form of aged Butes, tells Ascanius to leave war alone, vanishes, and is recognized by the Dardanians. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP / BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH; lines 6315-6410 | high | Venus says she does not insist on empire, asks Jupiter by the ruins of Troy to grant Ascanius safe retreat and life, and says she could shelter Aeneas in her own places away from arms. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 659-739 | high | Dido is astonished and asks whether he is the Aeneas whom Venus bore to Anchises by the Simoïs. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP / BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH; lines 6694-6752 | high | "Each hath his own appointed day; short and irrecoverable is the span of life for all" | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP / BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH; lines 7020-7079 | medium | “Am I, thy father, saved by these wounds of thine, and living by thy death?” | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | PREFACE / THE AENEID / BOOK FIRST / THE COMING OF AENEAS TO CARTHAGE; lines 741-795 | high | Love obeys his mother, lays aside his wings, walks with Iülus' tread; Venus lulls Ascanius and carries him to the Idalian groves. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK TENTH / THE BATTLE ON THE BEACH / BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA; lines 7534-7584 | medium | Fearing to swim with the infant, Metabus ties Camilla, wrapped in cork-tree bark, to a hard oak spear and balances her on it. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA / BOOK TWELFTH / THE SLAYING OF TURNUS; lines 7844-7942 | medium | Turnus is not bent by Latinus' words; he asks to purchase honour with death and says Aeneas' goddess mother will not hide him in cloud or phantom. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA / BOOK TWELFTH / THE SLAYING OF TURNUS; lines 8180-8225 | high | Venus, moved by her son's pain, plucks dittamy from Cretan Ida, carries it in a dim halo, steeps it in river-water, and adds ambrosial juice and scented balm. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK ELEVENTH / THE COUNCIL OF THE LATINS, AND THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CAMILLA / BOOK TWELFTH / THE SLAYING OF TURNUS; lines 8275-8349 | high | Aeneas' beautiful mother inspires him to advance on the city walls, direct his columns against the town, and dismay the Latins with swift disaster. | record |
| Roman | The Aeneid of Virgil | BOOK FOURTH / BOOK FIFTH / BOOK SIXTH / BOOK EIGHTH; lines 8749-8782 | medium | Book Eight line 383 note: '_Arma rogo. Genetrix nato te filia Nerei_'; commentary explains the punctuation and glosses it as a mother seeking service for her son from the daughter of Nereus. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1811-1905 | high | The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XIX. / THE SECRET OF LIFE. / CHAPTER XX. / MOUNTAIN TREES.; lines 8394-8532 | medium | Tzŭ Sang Hu recounts Lin Hui fleeing Kuo, casting aside valuable regalia and carrying his child; Lin Hui says the regalia involved money, while the child was from God. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XV. THE HUNT OF SLIEVE CUILINN / BOOK FIVE: OISIN'S CHILDREN / BOOK SIX: DIARMUID. / CHAPTER I. BIRTH OF DIARMUID; lines 10465-10539 | medium | Diarmuid is named as son of Bonn, son of Duibhne, and Crochnuit; Bonn is banished when Diarmuid is born, and Angus Og takes the child to rear at Brugh na Boinne. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1089-1182 | medium | A Druid foretells that Balor will die by his own grandson. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. THE HOUSE OF THE QUICKEN TREES / BOOK SEVEN: DIARMUID AND GRANIA. / CHAPTER I. THE FLIGHT FROM TEAMHAIR / CHAPTER II. THE PURSUIT; lines 11557-11655 | medium | Angus Og learns at Brugh na Boinne of Diarmuid's danger, comes unseen, speaks kindly, offers concealment under his cloak, and Diarmuid asks him to take Grania while he stays. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH; lines 1267-1358 | medium | Balor asks who the young man is; Ceithlenn says she knows him as the son of their daughter and says it was foretold that from his coming into Ireland the Fomor would never have power there again. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER V. THE QUARREL / CHAPTER VI. THE WANDERERS / CHAPTER VII. FIGHTING AND PEACE / CHAPTER VIII. THE BOAR OF BEINN GULBAIN; lines 12985-13086 | medium | Angus says he had watched and protected Diarmuid every night since bringing him to Brugh na Boinne as a nine-month-old until the previous night; he says Diarmuid's blood has been shed by the Boar, calls Finn's action treachery, and orders the body taken to the Brugh, promising either to bring Diarmuid back to life or put life into him so he can speak daily. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN; lines 1361-1459 | medium | Lugh meets Cian, Cu, and Ceithen, who offer to keep off a hundred enemies each; Lugh asks instead that they gather the Riders of the Sidhe to him. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES / BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN; lines 1461-1563 | high | After the battle Lugh asks whether his father was seen, vows not to eat or drink until he learns how his father died, and travels with the Riders of the Sidhe to the place where Cian had taken pig shape. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S LAMENTS / NOTES / I. THE APOLOGY / II. THE AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE STORIES OF THE FIANNA; lines 15434-15521 | medium | Some storytellers "made the mother of Lugh of the Long Hand the grandmother of Finn" and gave Finn "a shield soaked with the blood of Balor." | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | WITH A PREFACE BY W.B. YEATS / DEDICATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK / AUGUSTA GREGORY. / PREFACE; lines 193-263 | high | The gods come to Cuchulain as gods to a mortal, although he is the son of one of the greatest gods. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2511-2568 | medium | Lugh's mother Ethlinn comes to Teamhair after the battle and is given in marriage to Tadg; their children are Muirne, mother of Finn, and Tuiren, mother of Bran. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH / CHAPTER IV. THE HIDDEN HOUSE OF LUGH; lines 2571-2647 | medium | Lugh was seen again at the time of Cuchulain's birth and later watched over Cuchulain during a three-day sleep in the War for the Bull of Cuailgne. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN / BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG / CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA; lines 3051-3156 | medium | The Dagda does not take revenge for losing the Brugh. Later Corrgenn visits with his wife, suspects wrongdoing with Aedh, a son of the Dagda, and kills Aedh before the Dagda. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG / CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA / CHAPTER III. ANGUS OG; lines 3158-3248 | medium | The Dagda brings builders Garbhan and Imheall to build a rath around his son's grave; Garbhan shapes stones, Imheall sets them and closes the top with a slab; the Hill of Aileac is named for sighs, stone, and the Dagda's bloody tears for his son. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5034-5139 | high | Aobh bears Fionnuala and Aodh, then Fiachra and Conn, and dies at the birth of the second pair; Lir is nearly overcome with grief except for his love of the children. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5141-5243 | medium | Lir, sorrowful, travels toward Loch Dairbhreach; Fionnuala sees the horses approaching and identifies the party as Lir and his household. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | PART TWO: THE FIANNA. / BOOK ONE: FINN, SON OF CUMHAL. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF FINN / CHAPTER II. FINN'S HOUSEHOLD; lines 5998-6089 | low | The Fianna welcome him, name him the Little Nut, praise his speech, memory, and music, and some say he is a son of Lugh Lamh-Fada. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Gods and Fighting Men | PART ONE: THE GODS. / BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE TUATHA DE DANAAN. / CHAPTER I. THE FIGHT WITH THE FIRBOLGS / CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF BRES; lines 966-1069 | high | Elathan appears as a yellow-haired young man with gold-sewn clothes and five gold neck-rings; Eri loves him, weeps when he leaves, and receives a ring to give only to the man it fits. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 1364-1444 | high | The Incas are described as “children of the Sun,” and an Inca near death says, “My father calls me to come and rest with him.” | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3031-3110 | medium | Japanese Mikados are described as transferring supreme power to infant children; a Mikado abdicates to a three-year-old son, a usurper seizes sovereignty, and Yoritomo restores the Mikado's nominal power while retaining actual power and founding the Tycoon line. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5008-5083 | high | The king's son is described as the best representative of the king's divine character and therefore the most appropriate person to die for the king and people; this is linked to Semitic Western Asia and the Sacaean festival. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7047-7107 | medium | In the Cretan myth, Dionysus is the bastard son of Jupiter/Zeus, represented as a Cretan king, who transfers the throne and sceptre to Dionysus and entrusts him to guards. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 7815-7896 | medium | The passage describes a Breton mother-sheaf, made from the last sheaf with a small corn-doll inside, as representing both the Corn-mother and the unborn Corn-daughter. | record |
| Comparative | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 5381-5418 | high | In a Sicilian story, a seer foretells that a king's daughter will conceive by the Sun; the king encloses her in a windowless tower, but she makes a hole with a bone and a sunbeam enters and impregnates her. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | A. H. LEAHY / IN TWO VOLUMES / VOL. I / PREFACE; lines 503-580 | medium | The remaining romances are said to show beauty; Fraech has a demi-god hero, substantial fairy involvement, human interest, an involved plot, brilliant descriptions, the Connaught palace description, and the parentage of three fairy harpers. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | A. H. LEAHY / IN TWO VOLUMES / VOL. I / PREFACE; lines 503-580 | medium | The remaining romances are said to show beauty; Fraech has a demi-god hero, substantial fairy involvement, human interest, an involved plot, brilliant descriptions, the Connaught palace description, and the parentage of three fairy harpers. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | INTRODUCTION / PERSONS IN THE STORY / MORTALS / IMMORTALS; lines 8793-8824 | medium | Froech or Fraech is identified as the son of a Connaught man and a fairy mother. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | MORTALS / IMMORTALS / TAIN BO FRAICH / THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH; lines 8991-9179 | medium | The three strains are named as Sorrow-strain, Joy-strain, and Sleep-strain, the Chants of Uaithne or Child-birth. Boand from the fairies is their mother, and the Harp of the Dagda is identified as their father or source in the birth narrative. | record |
| Celtic Irish | Heroic Romances of Ireland | THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH / TAIN BO FRAICH / Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 9726-9866 | medium | Fraech is introduced as son of Idath of Connaught and Befind from the Side, sister to Boand; he is the most beautiful hero of Eriu and Alba, but not long-lived. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 2169-2282 | medium | The first, fourth, and seventh days are holy; the seventh is linked to Leto bearing Apollo. The eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth are good for work, and the twelfth is linked to spider spinning, gathering, and loom work. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS / THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS / THE ASTRONOMY; lines 2338-2416 | high | The Astronomy, attributed to Hesiod, calls the Pleiades Peleiades; a scholion lists the Pleiades, says Atlas begot them, and says Maia bore Hermes in the mountains of Cyllene. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2463-2554 | high | Mnemosyne bears nine daughters to Zeus after nine nights; they sing laws and immortal ways near Olympus, and Zeus reigns after overcoming Cronos, holding lightning and distributing honors. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2556-2655 | high | Heaven hides each child in a secret place of Earth and prevents them from coming into the light; Earth groans and makes a great sickle from grey flint. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2657-2736 | high | Night bears many personified powers, including the Hesperides who guard golden apples and fruit-bearing trees beyond Ocean, and the Destinies/Fates who allot good and evil at birth and punish transgressions. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2738-2827 | high | Typhaon is joined to Echidna, who bears Orthus, Cerberus, Hydra, Chimaera, Sphinx, and the Nemean lion; the monsters are described with attributes including Cerberus's fifty heads and Chimaera's fire-breathing composite body. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2738-2827 | medium | Tethys bears to Ocean many named rivers and a company of daughters; Zeus appoints the daughters to keep youths with Apollo and the Rivers, and three thousand daughters of Ocean serve earth and deep waters. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2738-2827 | medium | Theia and Hyperion produce Helius, Selene, and Eos; Eurybia and Crius produce Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses; Eos and Astraeus produce winds, Eosphorus, and stars. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2829-2912 | high | Rhea bears Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, the Earth-Shaker, and Zeus to Cronos; Cronos swallows his children because Earth and Heaven told him he would be overcome by his son. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 2914-3010 | medium | Heracles kills the eagle and releases Prometheus; the passage says this occurs with Zeus’ will and increases Heracles’ glory. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3012-3099 | medium | Obriareus, Cottus, and Gyes are bound in cruel bonds by their father and made to dwell beneath the earth at its borders in grief. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3101-3196 | high | The home of Night stands there; the son of Iapetus upholds heaven; Night and Day meet at the bronze threshold and alternate, so the house never holds both at once. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3198-3291 | high | Zeus makes wise Metis his first wife; before she gives birth to Athena, Zeus deceives her and places her in his belly to prevent another from holding royal sway and so she may devise good and evil for him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3198-3291 | high | Zeus makes wise Metis his first wife; before she gives birth to Athena, Zeus deceives her and places her in his belly to prevent another from holding royal sway and so she may devise good and evil for him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3198-3291 | high | Demeter bears Persephone to Zeus; Aidoneus carries Persephone off from her mother, and Zeus gives her to him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3293-3404 | high | Zeus gives birth from his own head to Tritogeneia/Athena; Hera, angry and quarrelling with Zeus, bears Hephaestus without union with him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3406-3419 | high | Circe, daughter of Helius, loves Odysseus and bears Agrius, Latinus, and Telegonus; Telegonus is brought forth by the will of golden Aphrodite. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY; lines 3406-3419 | medium | Circe, daughter of Helius, loves Odysseus and bears Agrius, Latinus, and Telegonus; Telegonus is brought forth by the will of golden Aphrodite. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3421-3527 | high | Pandora, daughter of Deucalion, is joined with Zeus and bears Graecus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3529-3639 | high | Europa crosses the briny water to Crete, beguiled by Zeus; Zeus secretly snatches her, gives her a golden necklace made by Hephaestus, mates with her, departs, and she bears Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3529-3639 | medium | Zeus gives honors to Europa's sons; Sarpedon rules Lycia with Zeus' sceptre, is granted life over three generations, receives a star-sign from heaven, leads Lycians to Troy, and fights alongside Hector. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3641-3768 | medium | Phineus is reported as the son of Phoenix, Agenor's son, and Cassiopea. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3895-4021 | high | Arsinoe is said to bear Asclepius and Eriopis to Apollo; quoted phrases include “leader of men” and “blameless and strong” for Asclepius. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745; lines 4040-4156 | high | The gods are divided; Zeus plans storm and an end to mortal men, declares he will destroy demi-gods, separate gods from mortals, and place toil and sorrow on those born of immortals and mankind. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745; lines 4158-4264 | medium | Zeus angrily strikes with a thunderbolt; Apollo would have been cast into Tartarus, but Leto interceded, and he became bondman to a mortal. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745; lines 4266-4319 | high | After a lacuna, a woman is said to be subject in love to the dark-clouded son of Cronos and to bear famous Heracles. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES; lines 4322-4408 | high | Zeus forms a plan to beget a defender of gods and men, rises from Olympus by night, goes to Typhaonium, and sits on the highest peak of Phicium planning. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES; lines 4410-4510 | medium | Heracles’ shield is described as glittering with precious materials; at its center is Fear in adamant with fiery eyes, and Strife hovers above, while enemies’ souls go to Hades. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701 / II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES; lines 4607-4704 | high | The shield is wondrous even for Zeus; Hephaestus made and fitted it by Zeus' will. Heracles wields it and mounts his chariot while Iolaus guides the car. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES / THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX / THE GREAT EOIAE; lines 4786-4884 | high | Argos, son of Zeus, is said to be father of Epidaurus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. 1745 / THE SHIELD OF HERACLES / THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX / THE GREAT EOIAE; lines 4786-4884 | medium | Alcmene says Zeus begot Heracles to be most toilful and most excellent; the Fates also made him so. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX / THE GREAT EOIAE / THE MELAMPODIA / AEGIMIUS; lines 4977-5022 | high | Thetis threw her children by Peleus into a cauldron of water to learn where they were mortal; many perished before Peleus stopped her from throwing Achilles in. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT EOIAE / THE MELAMPODIA / AEGIMIUS / FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION; lines 5025-5104 | high | Urania bears Linus, a lovely son; singers and harpers bewail and call on Linus at feasts and dances. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT EOIAE / THE MELAMPODIA / AEGIMIUS / FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION; lines 5025-5104 | medium | From the daughters of Hecaterus were born divine mountain Nymphs, Satyrs, and divine Curetes, who are sportive dancers. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE MELAMPODIA / AEGIMIUS / FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION / DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS; lines 5107-5140 | medium | Scholiast on Pindar: the speaker and Homer sing new hymns at Delos to Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, born to Leto. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION / DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501; lines 5143-5175 | high | Some say Dionysus was born at Dracanum, Icarus, Naxos, near Alpheus, or Thebes; Semele is said to have borne him to Zeus, but the hymn says these location claims lie. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5177-5263 | high | While Persephone still sees earth, heaven, sea, and sun she hopes to see her mother; her voice rings through mountains and sea, and her mother hears. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 531-624 | high | The Theogony traces divine families from the beginning; Chaos, Earth, and Eros are introduced; Earth produces Heaven and bears the Titans, Cyclopes, and hundred-handed giants. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 531-624 | high | The Titans revolt under Cronos at Earth's instigation; Heaven and Earth are separated; Cronos reigns, swallows his children, and is later overcome by Zeus, who was saved by Rhea; the universe is divided. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5349-5443 | high | Metaneira greets the stranger as noble and asks her to nurse the child given by the gods in her old age, promising a great reward for his upbringing. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5445-5542 | high | Iris gives Zeus's summons; other gods offer gifts, but Demeter refuses to return to Olympus or let fruit grow until she sees her daughter. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5544-5635 | high | Demeter and Persephone embrace; Demeter asks whether Persephone tasted food below and explains that if she did, she must dwell beneath the earth for a third part of each year and return above when spring flowers bloom. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5637-5648 | high | "queen of the land of sweet Eleusis and sea-girt Paros and rocky Antron, lady, giver of good gifts, bringer of seasons, queen Deo" and "your daughter all beauteous Persephone" | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO; lines 5651-5739 | high | Leto is praised for bearing Apollo and Artemis; Artemis is linked with Ortygia, Apollo with rocky Delos near Cynthian hill, a palm-tree, and the streams of Inopus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO; lines 5741-5808 | high | Leto does not nurse Apollo; Themis gives him nectar and ambrosia, after which he cannot be held by cords or bands and declares that the lyre and curved bow are dear to him and that he will declare Zeus' will to humans. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO; lines 5810-5905 | high | Apollo goes to rocky Pytho playing a lyre, then swiftly reaches Olympus and Zeus's house; the gods, Muses, dancing deities, Artemis, Ares, and the Slayer of Argus participate in music, dance, or sport, while Zeus and Leto rejoice at Apollo. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO; lines 5907-6001 | high | Near a sweet-flowing spring, Apollo kills a great she-dragon with his bow; she is described as a plague to men and sheep and as the fosterer of Typhaon from Hera. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO; lines 5907-6001 | medium | Hera prays to Earth, Heaven, and the Titans while striking the ground; Earth moves; Hera later bears Typhaon and gives him to the dragoness; Apollo shoots the dragoness, who dies in blood. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6148-6247 | high | Hermes is invoked as son of Zeus and Maia, messenger of the immortals; Maia lives in a deep, shady cave where Zeus visits her secretly at night while Hera sleeps. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 626-712 | high | The Eoiae title is explained through a formula asking the Muses to sing of tribes of women with whom the Sons of Heaven were joined in love, with heroines introduced by a recurring formula. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6343-6445 | medium | Apollo hears the old man's report, sees a long-winged bird, interprets it as an omen that the thief is the child of Zeus, and hurries to Pylos seeking his oxen. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | II. TO DEMETER / III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES; lines 6447-6544 | medium | Hermes and Apollo dispute over the cattle, come to Olympus, and stand before Zeus while the immortal gods gather and judgement is set. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES / V. TO APHRODITE; lines 6801-6888 | high | Aphrodite tells Anchises to take courage, promises no harm from the gods, says he is dear to them, and foretells a son named Aeneas who will reign among the Trojans with descendants after him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | III. TO DELIAN APOLLO / TO PYTHIAN APOLLO / IV. TO HERMES / V. TO APHRODITE; lines 6890-6966 | high | The goddess says she will have shame among the gods because she formerly used jibes and wiles to make immortals mate with mortal women, but now has conceived a child by a mortal man. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XI. TO ATHENA / XII. TO HERA / XIII. TO DEMETER / XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS; lines 7106-7130 | high | Hera is sung as golden-throned, daughter of Rhea, queen of the immortals, sister and wife of loud-thundering Zeus, and honored throughout high Olympus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XII. TO HERA / XIII. TO DEMETER / XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS / XV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED; lines 7133-7143 | high | "I will sing of Heracles, the son of Zeus and much the mightiest of men on earth." | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 714-814 | medium | The Titanomachy is said to begin with a theogony telling of the union of Heaven and Earth and their offspring, the Cyclopes and Hundred-handed Giants; the passage says its later course is unknown but may have resembled the Titan War in Hesiod’s Theogony. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS / XV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED / XVI. TO ASCLEPIUS / XVII. TO THE DIOSCURI; lines 7146-7162 | high | The hymn begins with Asclepius, son of Apollo and healer of sicknesses; Coronis, daughter of King Phlegyas, bore him in the Dotian plain, and he is called a joy to men and soother of cruel pangs. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED / XVI. TO ASCLEPIUS / XVII. TO THE DIOSCURI / XVIII. TO HERMES; lines 7165-7180 | high | Hermes is said to have been born of Maia, daughter of Atlas, and Zeus. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XVI. TO ASCLEPIUS / XVII. TO THE DIOSCURI / XVIII. TO HERMES / XIX. TO PAN; lines 7183-7226 | high | The Muse is asked to tell of Pan, son of Hermes, goat-footed and horned; he wanders with nymphs across wooded glades, cliffs, snowy crests, mountain peaks, streams, crags, and hunting grounds. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXIII. TO THE SON OF CRONOS, MOST HIGH / XXIV. TO HESTIA / XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO / XXVI. TO DIONYSUS; lines 7290-7305 | high | The hymn begins to sing of ivy-crowned Dionysus, son of Zeus and Semele; Nymphs receive him from his father, foster him in Nysa, and he grows in a sweet-smelling cave by the father's will. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXIV. TO HESTIA / XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO / XXVI. TO DIONYSUS / XXVII. TO ARTEMIS; lines 7308-7327 | high | At Delphi, Artemis hangs up her bow and arrows, leads the dances, and the Muses and Graces sing that Leto bore children supreme among immortals. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO / XXVI. TO DIONYSUS / XXVII. TO ARTEMIS / XXVIII. TO ATHENA; lines 7330-7346 | high | “From his awful head wise Zeus himself bare her arrayed in warlike arms of flashing gold, and awe seized all the gods as they gazed.” | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO / XXVI. TO DIONYSUS / XXVII. TO ARTEMIS / XXVIII. TO ATHENA; lines 7330-7346 | medium | The bright Son of Hyperion stops his horses until Athena strips the heavenly armour from her shoulders, and Zeus is glad. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXVI. TO DIONYSUS / XXVII. TO ARTEMIS / XXVIII. TO ATHENA / XXIX. TO HESTIA; lines 7349-7365 | low | Hermes is invoked with titles including son of Zeus and Maia, messenger, bearer of the golden rod, and giver of good; Hermes and Hestia are asked to dwell in the house and aid wisdom and strength. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXVIII. TO ATHENA / XXIX. TO HESTIA / XXX. TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL / XXXI. TO HELIOS; lines 7390-7410 | high | The speaker asks Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, to sing of glowing Helios, whom Euryphaessa bore to the Son of Earth and starry Heaven. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXIX. TO HESTIA / XXX. TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL / XXXI. TO HELIOS / XXXII. TO SELENE; lines 7413-7433 | high | The Son of Cronos was joined with Selene in love; she conceived and bore Pandia, described as exceedingly lovely among the deathless gods. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXX. TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL / XXXI. TO HELIOS / XXXII. TO SELENE / XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI; lines 7436-7453 | high | “Bright-eyed Muses, tell of the Tyndaridae, the Sons of Zeus,” including Castor and Polydeuces, children of Leda. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXXI. TO HELIOS / XXXII. TO SELENE / XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI / HOMERS EPIGRAMS2601; lines 7456-7569 | medium | The speaker says Zeus gave him a harsh fate from birth; recalls Phriconian builders of Aeolian Smyrna and daughters of Zeus; says the men scorned the divine voice and song; and resolves to leave Cyme for another country. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI / HOMERS EPIGRAMS2601 / FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE / THE WAR OF THE TITANS; lines 7586-7621 | high | The Epic Cycle begins with the union of Heaven and Earth, producing three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI / HOMERS EPIGRAMS2601 / FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE / THE WAR OF THE TITANS; lines 7586-7621 | high | The writer of the War of the Titans says Heaven was the son of Aether. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE STORY OF OEDIPUS / THE THEBAID / THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA; lines 7817-7923 | medium | Nemesis bears Helen after Zeus joins with her by violence; she flees Zeus over land and dark water, taking fish and other creature forms to escape him. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE THEBAID / THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA / THE AETHIOPIS; lines 7926-7961 | high | In battle Antilochus is slain by Memnon and Memnon by Achilles; Eos obtains immortality from Zeus and gives it to her son. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 816-912 | medium | The Telegony is summarized as telling of Odysseus' adventures in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, his return to Ithaca, his death at the hands of Telegonus his son by Circe, and a double marriage: Telemachus with Circe and Telegonus with Penelope. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST; lines 8642-8754 | medium | The men of Smyrna say Homer was son of the River Meles and the nymph Cretheis, first called Melesigenes and later Homer after becoming blind. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST; lines 8642-8754 | medium | A genealogy runs from Apollo and Aethusa through Linus, Orpheus, and later descendants to Hesiod and Homer, making them kin in this account. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 914-1008 | high | The Delian hymn describes Leto in travail seeking a place to bear Apollo; Apollo is born in Delos and at once claims the lyre, the bow, and prophecy. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9645-9787 | high | Dionysus, after untimely birth from Semele, is sewn into Zeus' thigh. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9789-9933 | high | Cronos swallowed each child at birth and was later forced to disgorge them; Hestia was first swallowed and last disgorged, making her first and latest born. The note compares Hesiod, Theogony 495-497. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9789-9933 | medium | Aphrodite claims Anchises’ race is almost divine, as shown by Ganymedes and Tithonus, to lessen her disgrace. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST / ENDNOTES; lines 9789-9933 | high | Adrastus’ horse is the offspring of Poseidon and Demeter, who changed herself into a mare to escape Poseidon. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XII. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL.; lines 12166-12292 | high | Hector and his troops try to force the ramparts; Sarpedon appears, inspired by Jove, bearing a large shield and javelins and leading the Lycians. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE THIRD BATTLE, AND THE ACTS OF AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XII. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL.; lines 12294-12397 | high | Teucer shoots and Ajax throws at Sarpedon; Jove is present to shield his offspring and avert his fate; Sarpedon returns to encourage his troops. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 12814-12921 | medium | Merion snatches a spear and follows to war; the leaders of the Cretan train are compared to Mars, the wide destroyer, accompanied by Terror, his beloved son. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 12923-13064 | high | Idomeneus boasts over Alcathous, says three Trojan ghosts answer one Greek, challenges Deiphobus, and claims descent from Jove through Minos and Deucalion as ruler of Crete. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 13066-13161 | high | Idomeneus calls Antilochus, Deipyrus, Merion, and Aphareus to aid him, saying Aeneas is sprung from a god, youthful, and bold, while he is old in arms. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.; lines 14216-14272 | medium | The narrator invokes the daughters of Jove, the all-beholding and all-recording nine on Olympus, asking which Greek hero first bloodied the field when Neptune made Ilion yield. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 14275-14412 | medium | Jupiter foretells Greece driven to Achilles' fleet, Patroclus sent, Sarpedon slain, Achilles rising, Hector dying, Pallas assisting, and Ilion burning. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 14414-14560 | high | Juno addresses the powers above, says it is madness to contest with Jove, urges submission, and points to Ascalaphus, Mars's slain offspring. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15508-15644 | high | Menestheus is introduced first and described as of celestial birth, connected with divine Sperchius and a mortal mother, though fame calls him Borus' son. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15781-15909 | high | Jove watches the combat, foresees Sarpedon's death, calls him his godlike son, and asks whether to snatch him from fate or yield him to death on the field. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15911-16050 | high | "Assents to fate" and the heavens distill "A shower of blood" over the field. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 16052-16199 | high | The opposing armies close with shouts around the slain; Jove pours pernicious night over the armies around his son. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS.THE ACTS OF MENELAUS. / BOOK XVIII. / ARGUMENT. / THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.; lines 17412-17542 | high | In the deep sea with Nereus and the watery train, Thetis hears Achilles's cries and the Nereids weep with her. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS.THE ACTS OF MENELAUS. / BOOK XVIII. / ARGUMENT. / THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.; lines 17544-17691 | high | Thetis tells Achilles he cannot go naked to battle because the Trojans hold his radiant arms; she promises to meet him at dawn with Vulcanian arms, the labor of a god. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS.THE ACTS OF MENELAUS. / BOOK XVIII. / ARGUMENT. / THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.; lines 17834-17979 | high | Vulcan says Thetis has an honored name because when his proud mother hurled him from the sky, Thetis and Eurynome received and comforted him. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SEVENTH BATTLE, FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS.THE ACTS OF MENELAUS. / BOOK XVIII. / ARGUMENT. / THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN.; lines 17981-18123 | high | Thetis replies mournfully, says she alone among the watery race was forced into a man's embrace, bore a godlike hero, raised him like a plant, sent him to Troy, and knows he will not return. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN. / BOOK XIX. / ARGUMENT. / THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 18220-18337 | high | "The immortal arms the goddess-mother bears / Swift to her son" | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN. / BOOK XIX. / ARGUMENT. / THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 18339-18476 | medium | Agamemnon recounts that Jove boasted of a coming child by Alcmena who would rule; Saturnia secured an oath, hastened Sthenelus's seven-month child into birth, and delayed Alcmena's labor. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 18903-19042 | high | Apollo tells Aeneas to implore divine aid, compares Aeneas' descent from Venus and Jove with Achilles' sea-linked ancestry, and urges him to lift his weapon. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK XX. / ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES.; lines 19044-19173 | high | Aeneas says both heroes descend from illustrious fathers and are goddess-born, half human and half divine; one offspring of Thetis or Venus will die. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES. / BOOK XXI. / ARGUMENT.; lines 19554-19691 | high | Achilles rejects talk of life or ransom, says Patroclus' death means those who meet him die, and says his own fate is certain despite divine birth. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES. / BOOK XXI. / ARGUMENT.; lines 19819-19969 | medium | Juno commands Vulcan to rise against the flood, assemble fires and winds, burn the red torrent with corpses and arms, drink the flood, devour trees, and scorch the banks. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE OF THE GODS, AND THE ACTS OF ACHILLES. / BOOK XXI. / ARGUMENT.; lines 19971-20111 | medium | Diana, weeping, grasps Jove's knees; Jove asks what heavenly hand caused his daughter's woe, and she names his spouse. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22139-22276 | medium | Juno replies that Hector is mortal, while Achilles is born of the goddess Thetis and Peleus; she recalls the divine attendance at their nuptials. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22278-22424 | medium | Thetis sits sorrowfully among the blue-haired sisters of the sea and weeps over her godlike son's approaching doom. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22426-22569 | medium | Priam says the command is from heaven, that he saw and heard a present goddess, and that he accepts death if the gods doom him in the enemy camp, desiring a final embrace of Hector. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / BOOK XXIV. / ARGUMENT. / THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.; lines 22857-22974 | medium | Achilles replies that he intends to yield Hector; he says his goddess-mother came from Jove and that Priam’s arrival was aided by a god. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23328-23452 | medium | The note reports an ancient belief in the great age of trees near places consecrated by gods and great men, citing Socrates' plane tree and the Delos tree where Latona gave birth to Apollo. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23698-23815 | medium | Thetis, daughter of Nereus and Doris, was courted by Neptune and Jupiter; because her son would surpass his father, she was wed to mortal Peleus; she shapeshifted to elude him, tested children by fire, and made Achilles invulnerable by Styx water except at the heel. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24168-24311 | medium | Asklepius is discussed as either originally a god or a man later deified; the Asklepiads are medical families near his temples who worship him and recognize him as their progenitor. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24313-24477 | high | Hercules is identified as Amphitryon's son, born to Jove by Alcmena, Amphitryon's wife. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER / THE ILIAD. / BOOK I. / THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 2472-2614 | high | Nestor urges Agamemnon not to seize the slave awarded by common suffrage and urges Achilles not to treat the prince with pride; he praises Achilles' strength and goddess-birth and Agamemnon's sovereignty. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24896-25075 | high | A note describes Minos as son of Jupiter and of the daughter of Phoenix, later named Europa, and also reports a later genealogy in which he is adopted son of Asterius. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER / THE ILIAD. / BOOK I. / THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 2616-2756 | high | The goddess-mother hears; the waves divide; she rises like a mist, sees Achilles mourning, and asks him to share the cause of his grief. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER / THE ILIAD. / BOOK I. / THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 2758-2898 | high | After twelve days the gods are summoned to Olympus; Jove ascends first; Thetis rises from the flood, approaches the divine seats, and supplicates Jove by touching his beard and knees. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER / THE ILIAD. / BOOK I. / THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 2900-2969 | high | The queen is silenced; Vulcan sees his mother menaced and the gods in awe, then urges Juno to comply with Jove lest he shake the divine dwellings, launch lightning, and dethrone the gods. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3631-3768 | high | The Orchomenian force from Aspledon is ruled by brothers Ilmen and Ascalaphus, sons of Astyoch and Mars, and travels in thirty sable vessels. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3631-3768 | high | Menestheus leads fifty Athenian ships; the passage recounts Erechtheus, born from a furrow, nurtured by the blue-eyed maid, placed by Pallas in her fane, and honored with sacrifice and slain oxen. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 3770-3911 | medium | Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, leads nine ships from Rhodes; after killing Licymnius he leaves home, wanders by sea with exiles, reaches Rhodes, divides his people into three tribes, rules peacefully, and prospers through Jove. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE CONTENTION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON. / BOOK II. / ARGUMENT. / THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.; lines 4060-4164 | high | Divine neas leads the Dardan race, is Anchises' son by Venus' embrace, and was born in Ida's secret grove. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE. / BOOK V. / ARGUMENT. / THE ACTS OF DIOMED.; lines 5814-5955 | low | Sthenelus warns Diomed that two mighty chiefs are coming: the heir of Lycaon and great Aeneas, sprung from divine race; he urges Diomed to mount his chariot and save his life. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE. / BOOK V. / ARGUMENT. / THE ACTS OF DIOMED.; lines 5957-6098 | high | Venus remembers Anchises, guards her offspring with a mother's care, shields him with her arms and veil, and carries him through horses and arrows from the fight. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE. / BOOK V. / ARGUMENT. / THE ACTS OF DIOMED.; lines 6101-6232 | high | Venus’s wounded palm is treated with ichor wiped away and balm applied; Pallas and Juno smile; Pallas mocks the cause of the wound; Jove tells Venus that charms, not arms, are her proper sphere. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE. / BOOK V. / ARGUMENT. / THE ACTS OF DIOMED.; lines 6373-6515 | high | Tlepolemus, offspring of Alcides, meets Sarpedon, son of Jove, both armed for combat. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE BREACH OF THE TRUCE, AND THE FIRST BATTLE. / BOOK V. / ARGUMENT. / THE ACTS OF DIOMED.; lines 6651-6788 | high | Mars reaches the bright divine abodes, sits beneath Jove, shows his celestial blood, and complains that Minerva prompted Diomed to wound Venus first and Mars next. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 6791-6915 | medium | Euryalus kills two young twin sons of Bucolion and a naiad; their parentage in secret woods is recounted, and the victor strips their shining arms. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 7062-7192 | high | Bellerophon has two sons and a daughter; the daughter bears Sarpedon to Jove. Later he wanders the Aleian field, loses his daughter and eldest son, and Hippolochus survives and instructs the speaker to pursue ancestral renown. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS. / BOOK IX. / ARGUMENT. / THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.; lines 9283-9389 | low | Ulysses fears fate will fulfill Hector's rage and pleads for Achilles to return, save the Greeks, rise to conquer, and remember Peleus's parting counsel. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS. / BOOK IX. / ARGUMENT. / THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.; lines 9391-9475 | low | The goddess-born addresses Ulysses, says his purpose remains, rejects new treaties, and says he detests one who thinks one thing and tells another 'as the gates of hell.' | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE DISTRESS OF THE GREEKS. / BOOK IX. / ARGUMENT. / THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.; lines 9477-9612 | medium | Achilles says Thetis disclosed two fates: staying before Troy gives a short life and deathless renown; returning gives long-extended days without immortal praise. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 2528-2630 | low | A celebrated name-giver names her Princess Moonlight because her body gives off soft bright light and she might have been a daughter of the Moon God. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 2952-3060 | medium | Princess Moonlight says she came from the moon, will be fetched on the fifteenth day of August, has parents there, and has forgotten them and the moon-world during her earthly life. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD / THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; lines 4105-4215 | medium | The Happy Hunter identifies himself as Hohodemi; Princess Tayotama says he is the grandson of Amaterasu and identifies herself and Tamayori as daughters of Ryn Jin. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD / THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA / THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR / THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER; lines 4217-4334 | medium | Ryn Jin welcomes the Happy Hunter at the Sea Palace, seats him in the guest room's uppermost seat, and identifies himself as the Dragon King of the Sea. | record |
| Japanese | Japanese Fairy Tales | THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE; lines 6128-6233 | medium | Yamato Take returns to the temples of Ise; his aunt, the shrine priestess, welcomes him, hears his account, praises him, and gives thanks to the ancestral Sun Goddess Amaterasu for his preservation. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1130-1317 | high | The passage says nights, Moon, and Sun come or shine singly, and likewise Wainamoinen, the renowned wise enchanter, is born from everlasting Ether and Ether's daughter. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16009-16141 | medium | The Ahti-eagle reaches his mother’s cottage troubled and sorrowful; his mother meets him and asks if he was worsted or injured at the Pohyola banquet. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16516-16685 | medium | The maidens weep and ask why he leaves; he answers that he does not leave from lack of pleasure or women, but from longing for homeland, mother’s cabins, Northland berries, Kalew, and childhood companions. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 18547-18733 | medium | Kullervo addresses Ukko as his father and maker, says sunlight and moonlight will not shine on him, and says he does not know his father or mother. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22078-22273 | medium | Wainamoinen says only God can banish nations, invokes Ukko to guard crops and drive away Frost-fiend and Otso, denies Louhi can hide moonlight or sunshine, and redirects her threats toward Pohyola. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 24923-25115 | high | Mariatta asks the guiding star of Northland where her holy child is hidden; the star refuses to tell and says the child created it and set it to shine in darkness. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | BOOK II / EPILOGUE / THE END / GLOSSARY; lines 25478-25534 | medium | The glossary identifies sky, dyeing, love, vein, wizard, serpent-mother, and south-wind figures, including Suoyatar as mother of the serpent. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 680-769 | high | The chief heroes Wainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen are considered by Finns proper as descendants of Ilmatar, impregnated by winds when air, light, and water alone existed; Esthonians regard them as sons of the Great Spirit before earth's creation. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7655-7840 | medium | Lemminkainen's aged mother anxiously wonders why her son has delayed and imagines several possible places or dangers, including distant lands, seas, and battle. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 8034-8210 | medium | The mother refuses to cast the dead into the waters, rakes the Tuonela river and Manala pools and caverns, finds body fragments, and reassembles Lemminkainen's flesh, bones, vessels, and veins. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 14518-14658 | medium | The passage rejects the idea that God has a son and praises him as God, the One, the Almighty. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 19103-19221 | medium | The claim 'God hath a son' is rejected; whatever is in the heavens and earth belongs to God and obeys Him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 23061-23195 | medium | The People of the Book are warned not to overstep; Jesus son of Mary is described as Messiah, apostle, Word conveyed into Mary, and Spirit from God; “Three” and divine sonship are rejected; God is one and owns heavens and earth. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25973-26089 | medium | Jews and Christians say they are sons of God and his beloved; the reply asks why God chastises them for sins and says they are created humans subject to pardon or chastisement, with all things returning to God. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 5185-5401 | medium | The passage asks whether God has daughters, whether angels are female, rejects 'God hath begotten,' and denies claims making God kin with the Djinn; it also mentions burning in Hell. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7396-7552 | medium | Jesus is named as son of Mary; God is said not to beget a son; God's decree is expressed as saying "Be"; God is declared Lord to be worshipped. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7554-7691 | medium | The claim that the God of Mercy has offspring is called monstrous; heavens, earth, and mountains nearly rupture because a son is ascribed to him, though it does not befit him to beget a son. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8518-8693 | medium | The passage rejects the idea that the God of Mercy has a son, praises God as Lord of the heavens, earth, and Throne, states that He knows the Hour and is the final return point, and comments on intercession. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER III. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD; lines 13465-13556 | medium | Recipients of scripture are told not to exceed bounds; Jesus son of Mary is called God's apostle, Word conveyed into Mary, and spirit from God; the formula of three Gods is rejected; God is one and has no son. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 15208-15287 | medium | Some set up genii as partners with God and attribute sons and daughters to him; the passage says God created them, made heaven and earth, has no consort, and created all things. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER IX.; lines 17960-18035 | medium | The passage says Jews call Ezra the son of God and Christians call Christ the Son of God, rejects these statements, and says priests, monks, and Christ are taken as lords besides God despite the command to worship one God only. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XIX. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 24216-24303 | high | The claim that the Merciful has begotten issue is condemned; the heavens nearly tear, the earth cleaves, and mountains fall because children are attributed to the Merciful. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, Y. S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31302-31400 | high | The passage asks whether God has begotten issue or chosen daughters over sons, asks for proof, and says they make him kin to the genii. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XLII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XLIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 33035-33129 | medium | The passage says that if the Merciful had a son the speaker would worship him, then declares the Lord of heaven, earth, and the throne far from that claim. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | ENTITLED, ABU LAHEB; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER CXII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39382-39445 | medium | "God is one GOD; the eternal GOD: be begetteth not, neither is he begotten: and there is not any one like unto him." | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 9551-9615 | medium | The passage rejects the claim that God has begotten children, states that all in heaven and earth belongs to God, and says that when God decrees a thing he says “Be” and it is. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH VERSE / THE EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA / BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA; lines 121-264 | high | Introductory prose identifies Pandu and Dhrita-rashtra, the Pandava brothers, Duryodhan, Karna, the divine fathers of major heroes, and the Arjun-Karna rivalry, explicitly compared to Achilles and Hector. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH VERSE / THE EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA / BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA; lines 121-264 | high | Introductory prose identifies Pandu and Dhrita-rashtra, the Pandava brothers, Duryodhan, Karna, the divine fathers of major heroes, and the Arjun-Karna rivalry, explicitly compared to Achilles and Hector. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK II / SWAYAMVARA / BOOK III / RAJASUYA; lines 1249-1393 | high | Narad, the deva-rishi, observes the rite; heavenly wisdom lights his inner eye, and he sees the gathered monarchs as gods incarnate and Krishna as the Highest of the High. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH VERSE / THE EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA / BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA; lines 266-412 | high | "Bid him come, the gallant Arjun! pious prince and warrior skilled, / Arjun, born of mighty INDRA, and with VISHNU'S prowess filled." | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH VERSE / THE EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA / BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA; lines 414-566 | medium | “Rain-god INDRA over Arjun watched with father's partial love, / Sun-god SURYA over Karna shed his light from far above.” | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK VII / UDYOGA / BOOK VIII / BHISHMA-BADHA; lines 4649-4677 | high | Bhishma says, “Karna, thou art Pritha's son”; Pritha bore him unwedded, and “the Sun inspired thy birth.” | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | CONDENSED INTO ENGLISH VERSE / THE EPIC OF ANCIENT INDIA / BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA; lines 568-599 | medium | Bhima is told that his lineage and that of his four brothers is known, and that gods inspired their birth. | record |
| Hindu | Maha-bharata | BOOK X / KARNA-BADHA / BOOK XI / SRADDHA; lines 6265-6356 | high | Pritha reveals that Karna, slain by Arjun and formerly thought to be Radha's son, was her eldest son; she says the Sun inspired his birth and he shone with Surya's lustre. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 7474-7564 | medium | The interlocutors describe humans as estranged from paradise and creation as the household or children of the Lord, whom God can feed by mercy and rain. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE SEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11676-11770 | medium | The footnote says Ægeus hid his sword and shoes under a large stone, instructing that his son retrieve them when strong enough; the sword likely enabled recognition of Theseus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1193-1221 | high | Footnote 41 identifies Nereus as an ancient deity of the sea and as son of Oceanus and Tethys. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12067-12161 | high | Aeacus prays to Jupiter, invokes Jupiter's union with Aegina and his own divine parentage, and asks for his people back or death with them. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1564-1619 | high | Themis is said to have preceded Apollo in giving oracular responses at Delphi; she is daughter of Cœlus and Terra and first taught humans to ask the gods for what was lawful and right. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1901-1990 | medium | She looks to the waters of Peneus and prays: “Give me, my father, thy aid,” then asks Earth to swallow or change the form by which she has pleased too much. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2098-2203 | medium | Inachus alone is absent, hidden in his deepest cavern, increasing his waters with tears and mourning Io as lost, unsure if she lives or is among the shades. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2299-2386 | medium | Inachus laments that the cow is his daughter, that she can only sigh and low, that hoped-for marriage and grandchildren are lost, and that as a god he cannot end grief by death. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2496-2600 | high | Phaëton tells Clymene of Epaphus’s reproach and asks her, if he is divinely born, to give proof and a token of his real father. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2496-2600 | medium | Epaphus is believed born from Jove and has temples joined to his parent’s; Phaëton, sprung from the Sun, is his equal in age and spirit, and Epaphus challenges Phaëton’s paternity. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 250-281 | high | Epaphus challenges Phaëton's claim that Phœbus is his father; Phaëton asks to guide the Sun's chariot for a day; the earth burns, Æthiopians are darkened by heat, Jupiter strikes him, and his sisters and Cyenus are transformed while lamenting. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 250-281 | medium | Jupiter visits earth to repair fire damage, sees Calisto, assumes Diana's form and debauches her; Juno changes Calisto into a bear; Arcas is about to shoot her, and Jupiter places both among the constellations. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2615-2682 | high | The fable summary says Phaethon, insulted by Epaphus, seeks proof from Apollo; Apollo swears by Styx to grant any request; Phaethon asks to guide the chariot, fails, and endangers the world with consumption. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2684-2758 | high | The father says the desire is unsafe, too great for Phaëton’s strength and youth, not proper to mortals, and beyond even other gods; only he can stand on the fire-bearing axle-tree, and even Jupiter cannot guide the chariot. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND.; lines 2760-2842 | high | The father consecrates the son's face against flame, places rays on his hair, and instructs him to control the horses, keep to the middle track, and avoid burning heaven or earth by driving too high or too low. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3174-3264 | medium | The explanation reports variants naming Phœbus and Clymene or Rhoda as parents, and gives a genealogy through Cecrops, Cephalus, and Tithonus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3266-3355 | high | Phaëton’s father appears in squalid garb and without his usual comeliness, as during an eclipse; he abhors light, himself, and the day, and gives himself to grief and resentment. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SECOND. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3458-3554 | medium | Arcas, about fifteen years old, hunts with nets in the Erymanthian forests, meets Calisto without recognizing her, and would have pierced her breast with a spear. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI.; lines 354-376 | medium | Pandion dies of grief; Erectheus succeeds him; Erectheus' daughter Orithyia is ravished by Boreas and becomes mother of Calais and Zethes, who are among the Argonauts. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3677-3764 | high | When the funeral pile is prepared, Apollo performs obsequies, does not allow his offspring to sink into the ashes, snatches the child from the flames and from the mother's womb, and carries him to the cave of two-formed Chiron. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5030-5135 | high | The unborn Bacchus is taken from Semele's womb, inserted into Jupiter's thigh to complete gestation, privately nursed by Ino, and later concealed by Nyseian Nymphs in caves and fed milk. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5796-5867 | medium | Herodotus and Plutarch are said to identify the oldest Bacchus as Egyptian Osiris; his worship passed to Greece and was altered by Orpheus; the thigh-birth story is explained through μηρὸς meaning either thigh or hollow of a mountain, linked to Mount Nysa. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTH.; lines 6132-6209 | medium | Some thought the Hieropolis temple was built by Semiramis and consecrated to her own mother, Derceto; Atergatis is named as another name of the goddess. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6544-6633 | medium | The Curetes are said to have sprung from rain, or from Uranus and Tita, and to have guarded infant Jupiter before being slain for concealing Epaphus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6544-6633 | high | Hermaphroditus is born to Mercury and the Cytherean goddess, nursed by Naiads in Ida’s caves, and leaves Ida at fifteen to wander among unknown places and rivers. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6711-6749 | medium | Hermaphroditus is explained as the great-grandson of Atlas: Atlas fathered Maia, Maia was the mother of Mercury, and Mercury begot Hermaphroditus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6933-7031 | medium | Venus pities her guiltless granddaughter and asks Neptune, god of the waters, to take compassion on her kin in the Ionian sea and add them to his deities; she invokes her own sea-foam origin. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7033-7078 | medium | Bacchus was the foster-child of Ino, who was sister of his mother Semele; Ovid retells the story of Ino and Melicerta in the Fasti. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7178-7243 | high | Bacchus is honored as a god; Acrisius denies the divine descent of Bacchus and Perseus but later regrets it. Perseus flies with the Gorgon's head, whose bloody drops fall on Libyan sands and generate serpents. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7245-7295 | medium | Perseus tells Atlas that Jupiter is the author of his descent, that his exploits are worthy of admiration, and that he asks for hospitality and rest. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7395-7479 | medium | Perseus binds on his wings, carries his crooked weapon, flies through the air, sees Ethiopia and Cepheus’s lands, and the text says Ammon ordered innocent Andromeda punished for her mother’s tongue. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | INTRODUCTION. / THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK THE FIRST. / EXPLANATION.; lines 785-869 | medium | The winds are called brothers and identified, from Hesiod, as sons of Astreus and Aurora. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8229-8324 | high | Venus/Erycina sees Pluto, embraces Cupid, and urges him to shoot Pluto; she argues that Love should extend to Tartarus and that Ceres's daughter should be joined to her uncle rather than remain virgin. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8420-8517 | medium | Henna/Enna is described as the navel of Sicily and a major cult-place of Ceres; Proserpine is said by many authors to have been carried away by Pluto nearby, with other locations also reported; Cicero describes the sacred landscape, cavern, chariot abduction, descent into earth, lake, and yearly festival. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8531-8624 | high | The act is attributed to Aidoneus/Pluto by order; abductors hide in caverns of Mount Ætna, later treated as an outlet of Hell; Ceres searches in Greece and Eleusis, complains to Jupiter, and is granted occasional visits from her daughter. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8718-8819 | medium | Ceres is resolved to fetch away her daughter, but the Fates do not allow it because the damsel has broken her fast. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH.; lines 9306-9426 | medium | Antiope, daughter of Nycteus, was seduced by Jupiter as a Satyr and bore Zethus and Amphion. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH.; lines 9428-9441 | medium | Footnote 28 states that by Phillyra, Saturn was the father of the Centaur Chiron. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9538-9591 | high | The fable summary states that Theban matrons process in honor of Latona; Niobe claims superiority and shows contempt; Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children to avenge their mother; Niobe is changed into a statue. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9593-9653 | high | Latona, indignant on the highest top of Mount Cynthus, tells her two children that Niobe has questioned whether she is a goddess, threatened her altars, insulted her children, and called her childless. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9818-9899 | medium | Latona, fatigued from carrying two children and parched with thirst, seeks water at a pond; countrymen prevent her from drinking and muddy the water; she punishes them by transforming them into frogs. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9901-9983 | high | The guide identifies the altar as Latona’s, recounting Juno’s banishment, Delos receiving Latona, and the birth of twins beside a palm and the tree of Pallas. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SIXTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9901-9983 | medium | The guide identifies the altar as Latona’s, recounting Juno’s banishment, Delos receiving Latona, and the birth of twins beside a palm and the tree of Pallas. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10032-10109 | medium | The Cyclops are described as lawless, pastoral, cave-dwelling, monstrous one-eyed beings, considered original inhabitants of Sicily by Thucydides and said to be offspring of Neptune because their origin was unknown or sea-borne. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10788-10883 | medium | The speaker points toward an island, addresses Aeneas as righteous Trojan and son of a goddess, and warns him to avoid Circe's shores. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11409-11506 | medium | The fable heading summarizes that Turnus burns Aeneas’ fleet, Cybele transforms the ships into sea nymphs, Ardea burns and produces a bird, and Venus obtains from Jupiter that her son be received among the gods. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11508-11560 | high | Venus petitions her father to grant godhead to Aeneas, born of her blood, and recalls that Aeneas has once seen the unsightly realms and crossed the Stygian streams. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 11563-11661 | high | The note reports that some ancient authors said Aeneas died in battle with Mezentius after marrying Lavinia, his body was not found, and his goddess mother was said to translate him to heaven as Jupiter Indiges. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12667-12779 | medium | Ortygia or Delos floated until Jupiter made it fast as a resting-place for pregnant Latona; the Symplegades or Cyanean Islands were also said to have floated. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13517-13608 | medium | The fable summary says Julius Caesar is assassinated and changed into a star; the narrative says Caesar becomes a deity in his city, a new planet and star, and praises him as father of Augustus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13610-13702 | high | Jove says the one for whom Cytherea is anxious has completed his earthly years and will be caused by her and his son to reach heaven as a deity and receive temple worship. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 13739-13798 | medium | The Romans traced their origin to Aeneas and liked the idea of Venus helping her posterity and securing Caesar's apotheosis. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | OF THE / PRINCIPAL TRANSFORMATIONS MENTIONED IN / THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK VIII.; lines 234-271 | low | Achelous tells of the transformations of Proteus and Metra and of Metra supporting her father Erisicthon, who was afflicted with violent hunger. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2393-2473 | high | Hercules cuts Oeta’s trees, raises a pyre, orders the son of Poeas to take the bow, quiver, and arrows, has flames set under the pile, and lies on the wood with the Nemean lion skin and his club. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2475-2572 | high | “whatever was liable to be destroyed by flame, Mulciber consumed; and the figure of Hercules remained, not to be recognized” and he retained “only the traces of immortal Jupiter.” | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2575-2662 | medium | Juno, seeking revenge on Alcmena for her affair with Jupiter, asks Ilithyia not to help with Hercules’ birth; Lucina sits on an altar at Alcmena’s gate and magically increases pain and impedes delivery. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2664-2745 | high | Alcmena addresses the hour of birth, invokes Ilithyïa, and says Hercules was in her womb, destined for many toils, with Jupiter identifiable as father. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2748-2841 | high | Hercules is born during the war; a story says Jupiter took Amphitryon’s form to deceive Alcmena and was the infant’s father. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 2748-2841 | high | The passage offers rationalizing explanations for the divine paternity story, cites Seneca, says Jupiter lengthened the night to three or nine nights, and notes a twin-birth variant with Iphiclus son of Amphitryon and Hercules son of Jupiter. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE NINTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3008-3100 | high | Hercules is presented as a hero whose noble qualities are divine in origin, son of the king of the Gods by a mortal mother, with a twin brother born from a mortal sire. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK X. / BOOK XI. / BOOK XII. / BOOK XIII.; lines 357-370 | high | The Gods deplore Hecuba’s misfortunes; Aurora grieves for her son Memnon, from whose ashes the Memnonides birds arise. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3576-3652 | medium | Miletus is said by some writers to be son of Apollo and Deione, with Thia as another named mother, and is identified as founder of Miletus in Caria. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4104-4203 | medium | Because Orpheus excelled in poetry and music, he was said to be the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5476-5534 | medium | Hyginus says Neptune was father of Megareus or Macareus; Neptune was father of Onchestius; Hippomenes was fourth from Neptune; Onchestius founded a Boeotian city in Neptune’s honor; Pausanias says Megareus aided Nisus against Minos and was slain. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE ELEVENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6004-6101 | medium | Silenus is said to have tended infant Bacchus’s education; some authors make him a favorite of the gods, a philosopher, and a skillful commander, while Lucian combines aged drunken traits with generalship. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK XIII. / BOOK XIV. / BOOK XV. / BOOK THE EIGHTH.; lines 602-632 | low | “Pasiphaë, who was the mother of the Minotaur.” | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6256-6345 | high | The summary states that Proteus foretells Thetis will have a son stronger than his father; Jupiter, in love with Thetis, yields her to Peleus; Thetis changes shapes until Peleus holds her fast, marries her, and she bears Achilles. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6347-6418 | high | Thetis enters her resting place from the sea; Peleus seizes her, she changes shape, is held fast, returns to the form of Thetis, and by her Peleus becomes father of Achilles. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6347-6418 | high | Chione, Daedalion's beautiful daughter, is seen by Phoebus and the son of Maia, both of whom desire her; the son of Maia uses a sleep-causing wand, and Phoebus later comes disguised as an old woman at night. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6594-6687 | medium | The Chione explanation says Autolycus was cunning and addicted to theft and so styled son of Mercury, while Philammon loved music and was said to be fathered by Apollo; Pausanias gives a different parentage for Autolycus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 6689-6760 | medium | Ceyx is moved by Halcyone but refuses to abandon the voyage or let her share the danger; he swears by the fire of his sire that he will return before the moon has twice completed its orb, if fate allows. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7011-7106 | medium | Aeolus is described as grandson of Hippotas through Sergesta, who bore him to Jupiter; Ovid says he was Halcyone's father, while Lucian gives a different descent. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH.; lines 7423-7527 | medium | Cygnus tells Achilles that wounds are warded off from him, not by helmet or shield, but because he is born of one who rules Nereus, Nereus's daughter, and the whole ocean. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8260-8334 | medium | The god who commands the sea with his trident laments, with fatherly affection, his son changed into a bird and pursues wrath against Achilles. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8398-8452 | medium | Neleus is described as son of Neptune, who assumed the form of the river Enipeus to deceive Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8455-8538 | high | Ajax claims noble birth as son of Telamon; Telamon took Troy with Hercules and sailed to Colchis; Aeacus, Telamon's father, gives laws to the silent shades where Sisyphus is pressed by a heavy stone. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8540-8622 | medium | Ulysses says descent and ancestors are scarcely one's own, notes Ajax's claim to Jove and his own descent from Jupiter and Mercury, and argues that personal merit rather than consanguinity should decide the spoils. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8624-8692 | high | Thetis conceals Achilles by dress; the speaker mixes arms among women's trinkets, Achilles brandishes shield and spear, and the speaker says Troy is reserved to fall through him and demands the arms by which Achilles was found. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH.; lines 8965-9091 | high | Anticlea, mother of Ulysses, is daughter of Autolycus; Mercury is father of Autolycus by Chione. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9323-9399 | high | Aurora cannot endure seeing Memnon's limbs on the closing flames and falls with loose hair and tears at Jove's knees. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9446-9543 | high | Many ancient writers say Memnon was son of Tithonus and Aurora or Eos and came to assist Troy with ten thousand Persians and ten thousand Ethiopians; later explanations identify him with eastern or Egyptian figures. | record |
| Sufi | Mystics and Saints of Islam | APPENDIX II / APPENDIX III / APPENDIX IV / CHRIST IN MODAMMEDAN TRADITION.; lines 5829-5934 | high | Isaiah is cited as announcing a branch from I'shai’s root, a flower with the Spirit of God, and a virgin bearing a son. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10012-10108 | high | Polyphemus, son of Poseidon and owner of the cave, returns with wood and sheep and closes the entrance with a rock too heavy for a hundred men. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1081-1171 | medium | Europa is mother of Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus; Minos becomes king of Crete and later a judge of the lower world with his brothers. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11638-11773 | high | Cronus swallowing his children is explained by the note as poetic expression of the idea that time destroys all things. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11638-11773 | medium | In one version, Hera throws Hephaestus from her lap; he falls into the sea, is saved by Thetis and Eurynome, and spends nine years in an ocean cavern making ornaments. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1173-1257 | high | Alcmene is betrothed to Amphitryon; Zeus assumes Amphitryon's form during his absence; Heracles is named as son of Alcmene and Zeus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11775-11823 | high | The sons of Poseidon are described as forceful and turbulent, like the sea over which Poseidon presides; they are called fitting representatives of their progenitor. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY. / PRONOUNCING INDEX. / A COMPLETE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH. / NOTES; lines 11775-11823 | medium | Romulus was deified by the Romans after death and worshipped as Quirinus, an appellation shared with his father Mars. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES. / JUPITER. / HERA (JUNO).; lines 1296-1386 | medium | Hera raises a storm to drive Heracles off course; Zeus hangs her in the clouds by a golden chain with anvils on her feet; Hephaestus tries to release her and is thrown from heaven, breaking his leg. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | JUPITER. / HERA (JUNO). / JUNO. / PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA).; lines 1430-1518 | high | Athene is introduced as goddess of Wisdom and Armed Resistance; she issues from Zeus's head fully armed, and Olympus, earth, sea, and Helios respond to her advent. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | JUPITER. / HERA (JUNO). / JUNO. / PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA).; lines 1430-1518 | high | Athene is introduced as goddess of Wisdom and Armed Resistance; she issues from Zeus's head fully armed, and Olympus, earth, sea, and Helios respond to her advent. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1634-1698 | high | Demeter, from Ge-meter, is identified as earth-mother, daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and goddess of vegetation, agriculture, field-fruits, plenty, and productiveness. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1700-1774 | high | Demeter, wife of Zeus, is mother of Persephone and is deeply attached to her. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1776-1867 | high | Celeus builds Demeter's temple; Demeter grieves, the earth becomes barren, Zeus sends Iris and others, and Demeter refuses grain until her daughter is restored. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THEMIS. / VESTA. / CERES. / APHRODITE (VENUS).; lines 1878-1983 | high | Aphrodite is mother of Eros and Aeneas; when Aeneas is wounded, she helps him and is wounded while trying to save him. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CERES. / APHRODITE (VENUS). / VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL).; lines 1985-2069 | high | Helios, son of Hyperion and Theia, rises in the east preceded by Eos, drives a gold fiery chariot with fire-breathing steeds, descends toward the sea, is followed by Selene, and rests on a couch prepared by sea-nymphs. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CERES. / APHRODITE (VENUS). / VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL).; lines 2071-2157 | high | Phaethon, son of Helios and Clymene, is favored by Aphrodite; Epaphus challenges his claim that Helios is his father. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | APHRODITE (VENUS). / VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA).; lines 2159-2198 | high | Eos first marries the Titan Astraeus; their children are Heosphorus or Hesperus, the evening star, and the winds. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2200-2277 | high | Apollo is son of Zeus and Leto, born beneath a palm at Mount Cynthus on Delos; earth smiles, Delos flowers, swans gather, and nymphs sing. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2279-2363 | medium | After taking his place among the immortals, Apollo descends to earth to interpret his father's will and travels through many countries seeking an oracle site. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2441-2527 | high | Apollo destroys the Cyclops who forged the fatal thunderbolts; Zeus, after Leto's intercession, mitigates punishment to loss of power and dignity and nine years' servitude as Admetus' shepherd. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2529-2596 | high | Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, boasts of seven sons and seven daughters, ridicules Leto’s worship, and asks Thebans to honor her instead. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | HECATE. / SELENE (LUNA). / ARTEMIS (DIANA). / ARCADIAN ARTEMIS.; lines 2782-2879 | high | Arcadian Artemis is identified as daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin-sister of Apollo. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | CONTENTS. / MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. / PART I.--MYTHS. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 305-397 | high | The gods have higher mental qualities but human passions, punish evil-doers and impious mortals, visit mankind, unite with mortals, produce heroes or demi-gods, and remain immortal though not invulnerable. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | BRAURONIAN ARTEMIS. / SELENE-ARTEMIS. / DIANA. / HEPHAESTUS (VULCAN).; lines 3109-3194 | high | Hephaestus is introduced as son of Zeus and Hera, god of beneficial fire, workmanship, mechanical arts, and hearth; he is deformed and lame after Zeus hurls him from heaven to Lemnos, where the Lemnians receive him and he later teaches metalwork and useful arts. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | POSEIDON (NEPTUNE). / NEPTUNE. / SEA DIVINITIES. / OCEANUS.; lines 3400-3425 | medium | Oceanus was son of Uranus and Gaea. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NEPTUNE. / SEA DIVINITIES. / OCEANUS. / NEREUS.; lines 3427-3436 | medium | Nereus dwells beneath the waves in a beautiful grotto-palace with Doris and their fifty daughters, the Nereides. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SEA DIVINITIES. / OCEANUS. / NEREUS. / PROTEUS.; lines 3438-3467 | medium | Proteus, known as the Old Man of the Sea, is a son of Poseidon, has prophetic power, and resists being consulted as a seer. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NEREUS. / PROTEUS. / GLAUCUS. / THETIS.; lines 3489-3545 | high | Thetis is silver-footed and fair-haired, daughter of Nereus or Poseidon; Zeus and Poseidon seek alliance with her but withdraw because her son is foretold to surpass his father; she becomes wife of Peleus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NEREUS. / PROTEUS. / GLAUCUS. / THETIS.; lines 3489-3545 | medium | Thetis retains influence over the lord of heaven and uses it in favor of Achilles during the Trojan War. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THETIS. / LEUCOTHEA. / THE SIRENS. / ARES (MARS).; lines 3568-3630 | medium | Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera and the god of war, delighting in strife, battlefield havoc, slaughter, and extermination. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | LEUCOTHEA. / THE SIRENS. / ARES (MARS). / MARS.; lines 3632-3714 | high | Early Italian tribes regarded the deity as spring and agricultural; Romans made him a chief war god, protector, and father of Romulus and Remus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE SIRENS. / ARES (MARS). / MARS. / NIKE (VICTORIA).; lines 3716-3733 | medium | Nike/Victoria is identified as the goddess of victory and daughter of the Titan Pallas and Styx, nymph of the lower-world river. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY). / MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS).; lines 3954-4041 | high | Dionysus is son of Zeus and Semele; Zeus snatches him from the flames that kill Semele; Hermes carries him to Ino; Hera's vengeance makes him unsafe; nymphs of Mount Nysa and Silenus care for him. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY). / MERCURY. / DIONYSUS (BACCHUS).; lines 4043-4125 | high | Dionysus descends to the realm of shades to find his mother and brings her to Olympus, where as Thyone she joins the immortal gods. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PART I.--MYTHS. / INTRODUCTION. / ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.--FIRST DYNASTY. / URANUS AND GAEA. (COELUS AND TERRA.); lines 436-525 | high | Oceanus is the first-born child of Uranus and Gaea, described as the ever-flowing ocean stream encircling the earth and produced by the combined influence of heaven and earth. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | BACCHUS OR LIBER. / AIDES (PLUTO). / PLUTO. / PLUTUS.; lines 4365-4377 | high | Plutus is described as son of Demeter and the mortal Iasion, and as god of wealth. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NEMESIS. / NYX (NOX). / THANATOS (MORS) AND HYPNUS (SOMNUS). / MORPHEUS.; lines 4603-4614 | high | “Morpheus, the son of Hypnus, was the god of Dreams.” | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | EROS (CUPID, AMOR) AND PSYCHE. / HYMEN. / IRIS (THE RAINBOW). / HEBE (JUVENTAS).; lines 5009-5031 | high | Hebe is daughter of Zeus and Hera and is represented as cup-bearer to the gods despite her distinguished rank. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | HEBE (JUVENTAS). / JUVENTAS. / GANYMEDES. / THE MUSES.; lines 5052-5157 | high | The Muses are introduced as nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; their functions begin with music, song, and dance and later include arts and sciences such as poetry and astronomy. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE MUSES. / PEGASUS. / THE HESPERIDES. / CHARITES (GRATIAE) GRACES.; lines 5205-5246 | medium | The Graces are described as three lovely sisters named Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia, daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, or in later accounts of Dionysus and Aphrodite; they personify gentle refining attributes. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PART I.--MYTHS. / INTRODUCTION. / ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.--FIRST DYNASTY. / URANUS AND GAEA. (COELUS AND TERRA.); lines 527-547 | high | Uranus, described as the chaste light of heaven, abhors his crude and turbulent Giant offspring and fears their power may harm him. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | DRYADES, OR TREE NYMPHS. / NYMPHS OF THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS. / NAPAEAE AND OREADES. / THE WINDS.; lines 5469-5497 | medium | Boreas and Oreithyia are parents of Zetes and Calais, later famous in the Argonaut expedition. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.--FIRST DYNASTY. / URANUS AND GAEA. (COELUS AND TERRA.) / SECOND DYNASTY. / CRONUS (SATURN).; lines 549-631 | high | Cronus fears his children may rise against his authority and swallows each child as soon as it is born. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.--FIRST DYNASTY. / URANUS AND GAEA. (COELUS AND TERRA.) / SECOND DYNASTY. / CRONUS (SATURN).; lines 549-631 | medium | Cronus fears his children may rise against his authority and swallows each child as soon as it is born. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.--FIRST DYNASTY. / URANUS AND GAEA. (COELUS AND TERRA.) / SECOND DYNASTY. / CRONUS (SATURN).; lines 549-631 | high | War begins between Cronus and Zeus; Zeus's forces stand on Mount Olympus, while Cronus and his brother-Titans occupy Mount Othrys. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | NYMPHS OF THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS. / NAPAEAE AND OREADES. / THE WINDS. / PAN (FAUNUS).; lines 5499-5583 | high | Pan is called the son of Hermes and a wood nymph and is born with horns and goat-like features; his mother flees at his appearance. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | PAN (FAUNUS). / FAUNUS. / THE SATYRS. / PRIAPUS.; lines 5635-5659 | medium | Priapus is named as son of Dionysus and Aphrodite and described as god of fruitfulness and protector of flocks, bees, vines, and garden produce. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | FAUNUS. / THE SATYRS. / PRIAPUS. / ASCLEPIAS (AESCULAPIUS).; lines 5661-5710 | high | Asclepias is named as god of healing, son of Apollo and Coronis, and pupil of Chiron, who especially taught him the properties of herbs. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | LIBITINA. / LAVERNA. / COMUS. / THE CAMENAE.; lines 5955-5976 | medium | The Camenae were prophetic nymphs venerated by ancient Italians; they were four in number, with Carmenta and Egeria the best known. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6633-6734 | high | Perseus is introduced as son of Zeus and Danae; an oracle warns Acrisius about Danae's son, Acrisius confines her in a brass tower, and Zeus descends as a shower of gold. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6736-6832 | high | Ion is introduced as the son of Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, and the sun-god Phoebus-Apollo, with the union unknown to Creusa's father. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6736-6832 | medium | Ion is introduced as the son of Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, and the sun-god Phoebus-Apollo, with the union unknown to Creusa's father. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6834-6902 | medium | Apollo's intervention brings the Delphic priestess, who explains the relationship between Ion and Creusa and produces infant charms and a wicker basket. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE ARGONAUTS. / STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. / PELOPS. / HERACLES (HERCULES).; lines 7587-7685 | high | Heracles is introduced as the renowned hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene, great-grandson of Perseus, and born at Thebes in Amphitryon's palace. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 900-984 | high | Zeus is introduced as presiding deity of the universe, ruler of heaven and earth, and father of gods and men. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9224-9321 | high | Paris arrives in Greece and sees Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus; her former suitors had sworn to defend the successful husband in future feuds connected with the marriage. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9323-9415 | high | Achilles is son of Peleus and Thetis; Thetis dips him in the Styx, leaving only his right heel vulnerable, and later hides him on Scyros after a prophecy about his fate. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9514-9591 | high | Achilles prays at the sea-shore; Thetis emerges from the waves and promises to ask Zeus to avenge him by giving victory to the Trojans. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9593-9685 | high | Memnon, the Aethiopian son of Eos and Tithonus, arrives as a Trojan ally with reinforcements and is described as an equal opponent to Achilles because he too is son of a goddess and has armor made by Hephaestus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9687-9774 | high | Thetis and Eos hasten to Olympus to intercede for their sons; Zeus refuses to oppose the Moirae, weighs the heroes' fates in golden scales, and Memnon's fate sinks, portending death. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 986-1079 | high | Metis is an Oceanid, personification of prudence and wisdom, administers the potion that makes Cronus yield his children, prophesies a child will surpass Zeus, and is swallowed by Zeus. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | THE EPIGONI. / ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY.; lines 9869-9911 | high | Aeneas, son of Aphrodite, escapes with his son and father Anchises, carries Anchises on his shoulders, goes to Mount Ida and then Italy, and becomes ancestor-hero of the Romans. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | medium | Vidar rushes to avenge his sire, sets his reserved shoe on Fenris's lower jaw, seizes the upper jaw, and tears the monster apart. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12542-12649 | high | Odin and Jupiter are described as majestic, middle-aged, divine progenitors of royal races; oaths are sworn by Odin's spear and Jupiter's footstool; both have many names. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12874-12978 | medium | Hermod resembles Mercury as swift messenger, rides Sleipnir, bears Gambantein, and consults Norns and Rossthiof about Vali; a Greek Thetis prophecy is compared. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12874-12978 | medium | Odin's courtship of Rinda is compared with Jupiter's wooing of Danae; Rinda and Danae are earth-symbols; Perseus and Vali are avenger sons. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1440-1580 | low | Odin disguises himself as a Wanderer named Gangrad; he and Vafthrudnir exchange questions about cosmic and divine matters, and Vafthrudnir recognizes Odin when asked what Allfather whispered to Balder on the funeral pyre. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1582-1707 | medium | Odin watches King Hrauding's sons Geirrod and Agnar; a storm drives their fishing boat to an island where Odin and Frigga, disguised as an old couple, shelter them through winter. Odin favors Geirrod and teaches arms; Frigga favors Agnar. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1709-1827 | high | Odin is treated as heaven and spouse of earth figures: Jörd bears Thor, Frigga bears Balder, Hermod, and perhaps Tyr, and Rinda bears Vali. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 2461-2608 | high | Thor's variant parentage is given; he shows great size and strength soon after birth; after dangerous rages he is sent to Vingnir and Hlora, who raise and control him. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 2611-2730 | medium | Thor's wives and children are named; Magni and Modi will survive Thor and the twilight of the gods and rule the new world. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR; lines 3050-3168 | high | Magni, Thor's very young son, lifts the giant's foot from Thor; the gods read this as proof that descendants will surpass and survive them. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER III: FRIGGA / CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI; lines 3819-3966 | medium | Bragi, child of Odin and Gunlod, is born in the cave; dwarfs give him a magical golden harp and send him out on a vessel; after showing no signs of life, he sits up and sings the song of life while his song reaches heaven and Hel’s realm. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN / CHAPTER IX: FREY; lines 4487-4607 | high | Frey is introduced as son of Niörd and Nerthus or Skadi, born in Vana-heim, welcomed in Asgard as hostage with his father, and given Alf-heim by the Æsir as a tooth-gift. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER X: FREYA / CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL; lines 5627-5758 | high | Riger leaves Asgard, reaches a poor seashore hut, is hosted by Ai and Edda for three days, teaches them, and after his departure Edda bears Thrall. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD; lines 5761-5893 | medium | Hermod sees a great stream of blood, a beautiful woman, and a little boy who grows rapidly to full size while brandishing bow and arrows. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XI: ULLER / CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD; lines 5761-5893 | high | Hermod sees a great stream of blood, a beautiful woman, and a little boy who grows rapidly to full size while brandishing bow and arrows. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XII: FORSETI / CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR; lines 5896-6019 | high | Wyrd adds 'With joy once more won' and explains that time changes all things, but if the father falls in the last battle, Vidar will avenge him and rule a regenerated world after conquering his enemies. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 594-736 | medium | Night has children through Naglfari, Annar, and Dellinger; Dag is born radiant and given a chariot drawn by Skin-faxi, whose mane lights the world. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XIII: HEIMDALL / CHAPTER XIV: HERMOD / CHAPTER XV: VIDAR / CHAPTER XVI: VALI; lines 6022-6149 | high | Knowing from Rossthiof’s prophecy that Rinda alone can bear the avenger of his murdered son, Odin returns as a smith named Rosterus, makes silver and gold ornaments, seeks Rinda, and is again dismissed and struck. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6660-6800 | medium | Hel is daughter of Loki and Angurboda; she is born in a dark cave in Jötun-heim with Iörmungandr and Fenris, and the three are treated as emblems of pain, sin, and death. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6955-7082 | medium | Ægir and Ran have nine daughters, the Waves or billow-maidens, described with alluring human features and colored veils. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7325-7472 | high | Odin and Frigga are uneasy, admit forebodings, and come to believe Balder's life is threatened, so they act to avert danger. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7475-7592 | high | Odin asks who will avenge the murdered god; the passage says revenge is a sacred duty. The Vala says Rinda will bear Odin a son, Vali, who will not wash or comb until he avenges Balder upon Hodur. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7594-7696 | medium | Odin gives his magic ring Draupnir as an offering on Balder's pyre and is observed whispering into his dead son's ear. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL / L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER; lines 7824-7975 | high | Odin's union with Rinda produces Vali, destined to avenge Balder; on the day of his birth Vali enters Asgard and kills Hodur with an arrow, so Hodur atones with his blood. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 9196-9315 | high | Sigi, son of Odin, kills a man from jealousy after the man had slain more game during a hunt; Sigi is driven from his land and declared an outlaw. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV; lines 10351-10444 | medium | Achilles’ mother comes from the sea with immortal nymphs, causing fear among the Achaeans until Nestor explains who has arrived. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I / BOOK II; lines 1038-1133 | medium | Minerva takes Telemachus's shape, summons crewmen to meet at the ship by sundown, and asks Noemon son of Phronius for a ship, which he gives readily. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11059-11172 | high | Polyphemus is described as a son of Neptune and therefore half brother to Nausithous, half uncle to King Alcinous, and half great uncle to Nausicaa. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK I / BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS.; lines 1136-1230 | high | Minerva tells Telemachus not to be shy, because he has taken the voyage to learn where his father is buried and how he came to his end, and tells him to ask Nestor for the truth. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VI / THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS.; lines 2992-3088 | high | Minerva points out the house, tells Ulysses to seek Arete, recounts the descent of Alcinous and Arete from Neptune, describes Arete's exceptional honor, and says her goodwill may enable Ulysses' return home. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION / HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I; lines 390-492 | medium | Minerva proposes sending Mercury to Ogygia to announce the decision to Calypso, while she goes to Ithaca to strengthen Telemachus, confront the suitors, and send him to Sparta and Pylos for news of Ulysses. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII / BOOK IX; lines 4170-4268 | high | Polyphemus says, “Neptune and I are father and son,” and says Neptune may heal him if he wills. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4969-5068 | high | Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus and wife of Cretheus, loves the river Enipeus; Neptune disguises himself as her lover, meets her at the river mouth beneath a great blue wave, reveals himself, foretells twins, and orders secrecy. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE. / BOOK XI / THE VISIT TO THE DEAD.88; lines 4969-5068 | high | Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus and wife of Cretheus, loves the river Enipeus; Neptune disguises himself as her lover, meets her at the river mouth beneath a great blue wave, reveals himself, foretells twins, and orders secrecy. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | HENRY FESTING JONES. / THE ODYSSEY / BOOK I / BOOK II; lines 762-849 | low | Minerva gives Telemachus divine comeliness; people marvel, and he takes his father’s seat while the oldest councillors make way. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9599-9707 | medium | Amphinomus attacks Ulysses at the door, and Telemachus strikes him from behind with a spear before returning to his father's side. | record |
| Sufi | The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | THE DIVINE ABSORPTION / LOVE MORE THAN SORROW AND JOY / SEPARATION / A MOTHER WHOSE CHILDREN WERE IN THE BELOVED'S KEEPING; lines 2218-2232 | medium | A woman bore many children in succession, but none lived beyond three or four months. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The City Decorated. / Canto IX. The Plot. / Canto XV. The Preparations. / Canto XVIII. The Sentence.; lines 12983-13145 | medium | Kausalya laments Rama’s birth as the cause of her grief, describes neglect and scorn from rivals and Kaikeyi’s circle, fears Rama’s banishment, and says his face was her comfort. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures.; lines 14936-15107 | medium | Sumantra enters the palace and sees the king weeping, sighing, and overcome with grief for Rama, like the sun in shade, fire under ashes, or a dried pool. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures.; lines 15109-15265 | medium | Ráma urges the king not to weep, says the wood has deer and birds, states that a father is a god and that he honors his father as a god, and says the fourteen years will pass. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20622-20786 | medium | Bharat tells an ancient legend: Surabhi, the God-loved cow, saw two of her dear children straining at a plough, faint with pain and outworn from morning to noon. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXII. Dasaratha Consoled. / Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII. The Envoys.; lines 20788-20845 | medium | Indra is named; Surabhí replies that he and the divine lords are not at fault, then mourns two children born from her body who toil in stubborn soil, suffer under the sun, and are goaded by a cruel hind. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XC. The Hermitage. / Canto XCVIII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned.; lines 23974-24121 | medium | Rama says a worthy man should not commit sin to gain lordship; he finds no fault in Bharata, tells him not to blame Kaikeyi, and teaches obedience to lord, sire, and mother. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24571-24710 | medium | Bharata honors his deceased father yet says Dasharatha acted against duty under haste, Kaikeyi’s wrath, and dread. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24713-24863 | medium | “A son is born his sire to free / From Put’s infernal pains”; Rāma connects this doctrine with Gayā and rites for ancestral shades. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIII. The Funeral Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat.; lines 25181-25308 | medium | Vaśishṭha teaches that father, mother, and holy guide deserve honor; he urges Ráma to heed his mother, Bharat’s request, and the path of virtue. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25311-25474 | medium | Sages marvel at the brothers, praise their virtue, and advise Bharat to take Ráma’s righteous counsel for their father’s sake. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25476-25637 | low | The hermit praises Bharat’s just thoughts, calls him a pursuer of right, and says his blessed father lives again in a noble son like virtue in human form. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens. / Canto CIX. The Praises Of Truth. / Canto CXI. Counsel To Bharat. / Canto CXII. The Sandals.; lines 25997-26140 | medium | Janak embraces the found infant as his daughter, and a sky voice says the child is justly to be styled his own. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto X. Rishyasring Invited. / Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.; lines 2783-2944 | medium | Gods and other heavenly beings gather for their shares; Rishyaśring says Daśaratha has slain the votive steed to gain a son and asks the gods to grant four sons of high renown. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto V. Sarabhanga. / Canto VIII. The Hermitage. / Canto XI. Agastya. / Canto XII. The Heavenly Bow.; lines 28111-28286 | high | “The first-born Fathers, one by one, / Great Lords of Life, whence all in earth / And all in heaven derive their birth.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto X. Rishyasring Invited. / Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.; lines 2946-3017 | high | The gods say Daśaratha has slain the sacrificial steed, longs for sons, has three queens, and ask the deity to be born as his seed, divided into four. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished. / Canto XV. The Nectar.; lines 3020-3153 | high | Vishṇu promises the gods, seeks a place of birth, divides his being into four, chooses Daśaratha as sire, and then departs for earth. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished. / Canto XV. The Nectar.; lines 3155-3293 | high | After the mighty Sire's command, gods, sages, heavenly minstrels, fauns, snakes, bards, spirits, and serpents beget countless brave sons in sylvan forms. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished. / Canto XV. The Nectar. / Canto XIX. The Birth Of The Princes.; lines 3650-3817 | medium | The king welcomes the sage, comparing his arrival to amrit, rain, a son to an heirless man, and other blessings; he says he grants the sage’s wish and calls him his deity. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LI. The Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved. / Canto LXX. Kabandha. / BOOK IV.; lines 37784-37809 | medium | Lakshman honors the speaker’s words and says the Vanar chief, son of the wind-ruling god, has declared that Sugriva will be assisted in his need. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | BOOK IV. / Canto V. The League. / Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi.; lines 38645-38760 | medium | Himálaya tells the demon that Báli, son of the god who rules the skies and ruler of Kishkindhá, can oppose his might in equal battle, 'as Namuehi and Indra met.' | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge.; lines 40397-40571 | low | Tárá brushes battle dust from Báli’s hair, tells Angad to look at his father, says Báli is borne to Yáma’s halls, and instructs the child to salute the king. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XV. The Nectar. / Canto XIX. The Birth Of The Princes. / Canto XXIV. The Spells. / Canto XXV. The Hermitage Of Love.; lines 4218-4397 | high | Rama asks how a spirit can have such strength; Viśvámitra explains that childless Suketu practiced austerities and Brahmá granted him Táḍaká, beautiful and endowed with the power of a thousand elephants, but no son. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit. / Canto LXIV. The Sea. / Canto LXV. The Council.; lines 44554-44719 | high | On a mountain crest the Wind-God approaches Anjaná and promises that the child he gives her will be strong, brave, wise, tireless, and able to spring like his sire. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIII. The Colloquy. / Canto XLI. The Ruin Of The Grove. / Canto XLII. The Giants Roused. / Canto XLIII. The Ruin Of The Temple.; lines 47228-47324 | medium | The Wind-God’s son scales a temple standing amid the ruined wood, high as Meru, and shouts that he is the slave of Kośal’s king. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLIII. The Ruin Of The Temple. / Canto XLV. The Seven Defeated. / Canto XLVI. The Captains. / Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha.; lines 47615-47734 | medium | Hanuman reports Sugriva’s greeting and names himself Hanuman, son of the God of Wind. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLVI. The Captains. / Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha. / Canto LIII. The Punishment. / Canto LVI. Mount Arishta.; lines 47912-48013 | medium | The Vanar host hears his triumphant shout; Jambavan tells them to rejoice because the Wind-God’s son returns with full success. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXI. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXII. Ocean Threatened. / Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXVIII. The Chieftains.; lines 50650-50821 | high | Śuka addresses Rávaṇ and describes Vánar chiefs from Kishkindhá as huge, tree- and mountain-like, loyal to Sugríva, of divine and Gandharva seed, and able to take forms suited to their needs. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms. / Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage. / Canto XXXIII. The Sone. / Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta.; lines 5162-5318 | medium | Kuśa, Brahmā’s son, appears and says: “Thou shalt, my child, obtain a son ... Through him for ever, Gádhi named, / Shalt thou in all the worlds be famed.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms. / Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage. / Canto XXXIII. The Sone. / Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta.; lines 5320-5394 | high | Himālaya, lord of mountains, and Menā, offspring of Meru’s will, are named as parents of two daughters: elder Gaṅgā and younger Umā. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage. / Canto XXXIII. The Sone. / Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar.; lines 5397-5489 | medium | Sagar, a pious childless king of Ayodhya, has two queens: Kesini of Vidarbha and Sumati, daughter of Arishtanemi. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CIX. The Battle. / Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu.; lines 56095-56231 | medium | “I deem myself a mortal man. / Of old Ikshváku’s line, I spring / From Daśaratha Kośal’s king.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXIV. Vibhishan Consecrated. / Canto CXVI. The Meeting. / Canto CXIX. Glory To Vishnu. / Canto CXXI. Dasaratha.; lines 56234-56393 | medium | Maheśvar says Ráma should have sons with Sítá, perform the horse offering, give gifts, ascend to the gods’ home, and salute his father, who comes from the immortals’ dwelling. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXVI. Bharat Consoled. / Canto CXXIX. The Meeting With Bharat. / Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX.; lines 57183-57268 | high | The gods ask Vishṇu, for the good of the universe, to become Daśaratha’s son by dividing himself into four parts in the wombs of the king’s three consorts and to conquer Rávaṇa, who is invulnerable to gods. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta. / Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil.; lines 5735-5905 | medium | Brahmá praises Bhagírath, grants the prayer, says Gangá flows in heaven and is daughter of the Lord of Snow, and instructs him to win Śiva, who alone can hold the torrent of her descent. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto CXXX. The Consecration. / APPENDIX. / CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL.; lines 57379-57463 | high | Vishnu appears radiant after being contemplated by Brahma; the gods ask him to support them by becoming Dasaratha's son and dividing into four parts in the wombs of the king's consorts. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | APPENDIX. / CAREY AND MARSHMAN. / SCHLEGEL. / GORRESIO.; lines 57501-57580 | high | The gods describe the childless king Dasaratha, his penance and ashvamedha for sons, and ask Vishnu to be born as his son in four portions through his three wives. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | HIPPOLYTE FAUCHE. / ADDITIONAL NOTES. / H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.; lines 59057-59142 | medium | Uma or Parvati is identified as daughter of Himalaya and Mena and heroine of Kalidasa’s Kumara-Sambhava. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 62216-62330 | medium | Manu is described as a legislator and saint, son or personification of Brahma, creator of the world, and progenitor of mankind. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar. / Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit.; lines 6291-6393 | high | Diti mourns her slain sons and asks Kaśyap for a son whose arm may destroy Indra. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 63301-63465 | medium | Śatrughna’s name is explained, and the four princes are linked to four-armed images of Viṣṇu as portions of that god’s substance. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth. / Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit. / Canto XLVII. Sumati.; lines 6396-6572 | high | Diti asks Indra that the blighted bud cleft into seven become seven fair spirits, Maruts or gods of storms, assigned to heavenly regions and the lower air. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426.; lines 64183-64293 | high | Hanuman, Sugriva’s chief general, is identified as son of the God of Wind. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64572-64708 | medium | Rohiṇī is the ninth Nakshatra, personified as Daksha’s daughter and the favorite wife of the Moon; Aldebaran is named as its principal star. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 64572-64708 | high | “Váyu or the Wind was the father of Hanumán.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit. / Canto XLVII. Sumati. / Canto L. Janak.; lines 6824-6999 | medium | The passage names a lineage: the Lord of Life gives birth to Kuśa; Kuśa’s son is Kuśanábha; Gádhi is born as heir; Viśvámitra is Gádhi’s heir and ruler. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LVIII. Trisanku Cursed. / Canto LIX. The Sons Of Vasishtha. / Canto LXI. Sunahsepha. / Canto LXVII. The Breaking Of The Bow.; lines 8636-8713 | low | Ráma and Lakshmaṇ, led by Viśvámitra, greet their father by embracing his feet; Janak attends to his daughters’ needs and orders the rite to proceed before resting. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 10724-10811 | low | Socrates says, 'Sons of an illustrious father,' and quotes: 'Sons of Ariston... divine offspring of an illustrious hero.' | record |
| Greek | The Republic | THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 11286-11457 | high | The passage names Hesiod's stories of Uranus, Cronus, and the suffering Cronus's son inflicted on him, and says such stories should be silenced or restricted to a chosen few in a mystery with an extraordinary victim rather than a common Eleusinian pig. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 12131-12273 | medium | The speaker rejects allegations that Achilles challenged a river-god, offered dedicated hair to dead Patroclus, dragged Hector around Patroclus' tomb, and slaughtered captives at the pyre; Achilles is described as Cheiron's pupil, son of a goddess and Peleus, and descended from Zeus. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 13084-13196 | high | Tragedians and Pindar are reported as saying Asclepius was son of Apollo, accepted a bribe to heal a rich dying man, and was struck by lightning; Socrates rejects believing both divine sonship and avarice. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1336-1415 | high | Homer and Hesiod are criticized for improper divine stories about Uranus and Saturn, Zeus, Hephaestus, divine strife, and family violence; such stories may have mystical interpretation but youth cannot understand allegory. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1417-1481 | low | The passage lists humorous but serious examples: Glaucon's disappointment at the 'city of pigs,' the guardian illustrated by the dog, an almost unprocurable victim for impure mysteries, and the behavior of Zeus to his father and Hephaestus to his mother. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 1543-1614 | medium | The amatory exploits of Peirithous and Theseus are called unworthy; the passage says either such sons of gods were not sons of gods or were not as poets imagined, and that gods are not authors of evil. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V. / BOOK VI.; lines 18438-18615 | medium | Glaucon urges Socrates not to turn away from the goal; Socrates says they should not now ask the actual nature of the good, but he may speak of its child, while Glaucon says the account of the parent can remain owed. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4687-4772 | medium | The father is identified as the demus; the parent learns it has nurtured a monster, and the son is said to disarm and beat his father, becoming a parricide and unnatural son. | record |
| Greek | The Republic | The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6746-6822 | low | The passage says modern readers recoil from the ideal, values regard for the weakest human beings as a noble result of Christianity, affirms the individual’s value in the sight of God, and cites Christ’s parable about angels beholding the Father in heaven. | record |
| Sufi | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox | The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 712-872 | medium | Mother Earth speaks from a book no man wrote, saying humans knead and mould while she is the plastic side of life; the passage instructs that a child be moulded free from fear, strong, true, fit for birth, and divine. | record |
| Greek | Symposium | Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1355-1438 | high | Pausanias says Love is inseparable from Aphrodite; there are two Aphrodites and therefore two Loves: heavenly Aphrodite, daughter of Uranus with no mother, and common Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus and Dione. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | XVIII / HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN. / HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON / HERE NOW COMETH THE HEAD-PLACE OF FERCHU; lines 11171-11287 | medium | A note states that Cuchulain was partly of divine birth, son of Lugh lamh-fhada on one side, and also had a mortal father, Sualtaim or Sualtach, on the earthly side. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 16114-16323 | high | Cuchulain is described as the usual name of the hero Setanta, son of the god Lug and Dechtire, and foster-son of Sualtaim. | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM / XXVII / XXVIII; lines 16524-16752 | high | "Lug: the divine father of Cuchulain" | record |
| Celtic Irish | The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge | THE SLAYING OF ORLAM / THE PROPOSALS / THE DEATH OF FORGEMEN / THE GREAT ROUT ON THE PLAIN OF MURTHEMNE FOLLOWETH HERE BELOW; lines 8159-8281 | high | The visitor says, "Thy father from Faery am I, even Lug son of Ethliu," tells Cuchulain to sleep three days and nights, promises to oppose the hosts, cleans his wounds, sings him to sleep, and recites the Spell-chant of Lug. | record |
| Persian | Persian Literature, Volume 1 | Zal, the son of Sam; exposure on Alberz, Simurgh fosterage, and return | high | Sam leaves the mocked child on Alberz, but the Simurgh pities him on the rock and carries him to its own habitation. | record |