Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . r, shedid not rest until Troy stood in flames, and Priamsrace was destroyed, because Paris had denied her, aswell as Juno, the prize of beauty, awarding it to thesofter charms of Yenus. Minerva, even as goddess of Wisdom, is generallyrepresented in full panoply; a helmet covers her head,in her right hand she holds a spear, and in her left theformidable ^gis, or shield, with the head of Medusa»An owl, the bird sacred to her, is commonly seen hover-ing over her hehnet, or placed near her. In the grace-ful and majestic countenance of the august god
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . r, shedid not rest until Troy stood in flames, and Priamsrace was destroyed, because Paris had denied her, aswell as Juno, the prize of beauty, awarding it to thesofter charms of Yenus. Minerva, even as goddess of Wisdom, is generallyrepresented in full panoply; a helmet covers her head,in her right hand she holds a spear, and in her left theformidable ^gis, or shield, with the head of Medusa»An owl, the bird sacred to her, is commonly seen hover-ing over her hehnet, or placed near her. In the grace-ful and majestic countenance of the august goddess ofWisdom, shines forth the inward spirit, genius, andnobility. * The Sat3rr Marsyas, a celebrated musician in Phrygia, is said tohave challenged Apollo to a trial of skill iii music, in which he was van-quishe<l, and flayed alive by the god of the golden harp. Marsyas waschan<Ted into a river, which, under the same name, discharges its watersinto the Meander. Herod. VII. 2Ö. Diod. Sic. IH. Ovid. Fast, VL6%. Metam. VL 382. Poife /cP. ///^^//^^ ^ //^/tAr/ryy THE Ni: MORITZ MYTHOLOGY. 79 BIARS, ARES. Even to the dreadful and terrible, even to destructivewarj the imagination of the ancients ascribed personali-ty. Thus they tempered the idea of the wild and im-petuous power, that rages Uke a tempest through thehosts engaged in bloody strife, that breaks helmets,dashes weapons to pieces, and crushes chariots, thatthrows alike to the ground the valiant and the faint-hearted in the wliirUng storm of the battle, triumphingover its wasting destruction. The human form, intow^hich this terrible appearance was disguised by imagi-nation, and associated with the assembly of the immor-tals, presented, moreover, to the wanior a lofty pattern,the majesty of which he partly appropriated to himselfby bold and valorous deeds. That again the human form of Mara is dissolved, fromtime to time, into the idea of the fighting army itself,lies in the nature of poetical representation. Thus,wh
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