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...-letter Hawaiian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s... ... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...

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...long survive his early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s... ...n pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! During...

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...s offer twice, with so much conviction. As far as I know, no expert in mythology, Greek or World literature can find someone else who has turned... ... Socrates. The Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Etruscans, were convinced that the Odyssey was not an adventure story but... ...t of the Odyssey was not yet available in the West. In addition, Christian mythology also deeply influenced Dante, which 36 was based on the ideol... ...e leaves only because he is forced to do so (see the Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology). After ten years of war and an uncountable number of casual... ...re with absolute liberty he mixed historical fact with imaginary ideas and mythology, so he could speak to us of his inner vision of life and of his... ...t of immortality that Calypso promises him, when everyone knows that Greek mythology is full of personages that aspire only to become immortal? 1...

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...herself by thinking it other than her own personal concoction at a different mythology the way Psalm 104 might have seemed original long after the Gre... ...ca in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whole day was filled with Etruscan art, a return to the Coliseum, another meandering around the anc... ...oney and things to flash at others how different would you be from any naked Etruscan savage apart from not being dead and living in America?" " I don... ...uded herself in a sense that she was free from the powers of men, sexuality, mythology, motherhood, and all human concern that gnawed into one's entra...

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...r than they were. They killed off the original inhabitants in their area; the Etruscans: because they were more affluent, they had better pottery, b... ...ural offshoot of Greece. The original Romans came from Greece. The original Etruscans living in Italy were crushed and sublimated into a sterile Gr... ...back home is blind to his true identity. The symbols of blindness in Greek Mythology have been screaming and shrieking to whoever wants to listen... ...ers. What culture has ever glorified its lower classes as America has into mythology and lies? Rome did. Like the famous, much-loved TV show: T... ...reams: the God known as Morpheus… ‘Morpheus was the god of dreams in Greek mythology. According to some ancient sources - such as the roman poet ... ...ian ideas and symbols and where they STOLE them from in Egyptian religion and mythology: you can find the ideas of Cain and able in Seth and Osiris. ... ...n brothers. You can find the two symbols of the early Christians in Egyptian mythology combined into one symbol: r1732 The Path of Splitness ...

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...es: the second, Cornelius Cossus, who slew 504 V olume One T olumnius the Etruscan: after them Marcellus, having killed Britomartus king of the Gauls... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ...nd twenty horse at most, (among whom there was not one Roman, but all were Etruscans, except forty Fregellans, of whose courage and fidelity he had on... ...d upon those who resisted. These were the forty Fregellans. For though the Etruscans fled in the very begin- ning of the fight, the Fregellans formed ... ...blast, as struck terror and amaze- ment into the hearts of the people. The Etruscan sages af- 746 V olume One firmed, that this prodigy betokened the... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan tomb, being paved and walled with heavy blocks of stone, and vault... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan remains, pre sided over by an ancient man who might have been an ... ...graves: so do its ancient influences outlive all other remnants of the old mythology and old butchery of Rome, in the nature of the fierce and cruel R... ...than lamely assort. It is stranger still, to see how many ruins of the old mythology: how many fragments of obsolete legend and observance: have been ...

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...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...rance-room, which, by the solidity of its construction, might have been an Etruscan 166 The Marble Fawn tomb, being paved and walled with heavy block... ...s finger on these forgot- ten edifices and tell us all about their origin. Etruscan princes may have dwelt in them. A thousand years, at all events, w... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...was a bracelet, evidently of great cost, being com- posed of seven ancient Etruscan gems, dug out of seven sep- ulchres, and each one of them the sign... ...ng the imaginary adventures and catastrophe of its former wearer. Thus the Etruscan brace- let became the connecting bond of a series of seven won- dr...

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...s,—at this bright sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at th... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ...

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...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ... it, for they stood for Night and Day,—both hung with gold; the bru- nette Etruscan, and the blonde Asiatic; and every Frenchman present was epigramiz...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ..., only a few arrow heads are turned up by the plough. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal. It ... ... days of the ancient festivals, games, and pro cessions of the Greeks and Etruscans, with a little incredu lity, or at least with little sympathy; b...

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...not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person is the suf... ... he resumed, “is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty and fifty thousan... ... the perfection of art at the time of the siege of T roy, proving that the Etruscans were T rojan refugees in Italy.” This was the President’s cumbrou... ...n these treasures. Still, they were surprised by the beauty of some of the Etruscan trinkets and the solid value of the snuff-boxes, and out of polite...

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...cp. “Works and Days,” l. 145 and note. (22) sc. Atlas, the Shu of Egyptian mythology: cp. note on line 177. (23) Oceanus is here regarded as a continu... ...f Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant work bearing his name is derived. (23) Pri... ...Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, “Georgics,” iv. 315 ff. (61) A writer on mythology of uncertain date. (62) In Epirus. The oracle was first consulted... ...ord with OMOS. L. and S. give = OMOIOS, ‘common to all’. (30) Probably not Etruscans, but the non-Hellenic peoples of Thrace and (according to Thucydi...

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...considering that the word religion is originally Roman, [probably from the Etruscan,] it seems probable that it presented the idea of religion under s... ...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere...

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...h gleeful reverence before the god Priapus, wrought in the fine clay of an Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed her chimera. The whims of Imperial ... ...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth...

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...t a county dinner-table by an allusion to Vernon “at work at home upon his Etruscans or his Dorians”; and he paused a moment to let the allusion sink,... ...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si...