The world: historical and actual . Greek and Roman Names—The Origin op Classic Myths—Jupiter and Celestial Herediti-War in Heaven—Division of the Spoils—The Amours op the Gods—The Chief Divin-ities AND THEIR ALLOTMENTS—MlNOR DUTIES—OLYMPUS—TlIE MYTH AND DETAILS OF CRE-ATION and the Fall of Man—Classic Story of the Deluge—Phaeton and his Presump-tion—Deification of Love—Pegasus and Poetet—Centaurs and Other Monsters—TheRiddle of the Sphinx—Orpheus and Eurydice—Ignorance, Credulity and Skepticism. ?*—§**f*^s. N nothing else are Greek and Roman annals andideas so similar as in my-thology. Nearly
The world: historical and actual . Greek and Roman Names—The Origin op Classic Myths—Jupiter and Celestial Herediti-War in Heaven—Division of the Spoils—The Amours op the Gods—The Chief Divin-ities AND THEIR ALLOTMENTS—MlNOR DUTIES—OLYMPUS—TlIE MYTH AND DETAILS OF CRE-ATION and the Fall of Man—Classic Story of the Deluge—Phaeton and his Presump-tion—Deification of Love—Pegasus and Poetet—Centaurs and Other Monsters—TheRiddle of the Sphinx—Orpheus and Eurydice—Ignorance, Credulity and Skepticism. ?*—§**f*^s. N nothing else are Greek and Roman annals andideas so similar as in my-thology. Nearly all thedeities of Roman idolatry. as known tous throughLatin liter-ature, weretransferredfrom Ath-ens to Romewith hardlyany otherchange than that of names. Cro-nos was called Saturn ; Zeus, Jupiter or Jove ; Poseidon, Neptune; Ares, Mars; Hephses- tos, Vulcan; Hermes, Mercury; Hera, Juno; Athena, Minerva; Artemis, Diana; Aphrodite, Ve nus; Hestia, Vesta; Demeter, Ceres; Dionysius,Bacchus ; Phoebus, Apollo ; Letus, Latona. TheRoman names are commonly used and will be em-ployed usually in this chapter. It has been said that with Homer and Hesiod thef irmation of the mythswas finished, and thatwith the drama andphilosophy, desintegra-tion and unbelief be-gan, the personalitiesvanishing into the thinair of symbols of has been claimed bysome that the oldmyths were born of nat-ural phenomena, anddesigned to teach les-sons in natural again insist thatmoral ideas underliethe stories
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