1 Almost everybody was awake, and a good many 1. It was already evening when, near the Echinades Islands, the wind dropped, and the ship drifted near Paxi. He said that once upon a time, in making a voyage to Italy, he embarked on a ship carrying freight and many passengers.

The father of Aemilianus the orator, to whom some of you have listened, was Epitherses, who lived in our town and was my teacher in grammar. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking) As for death among such beings, I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. 4 1 9 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. WHEN Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu (Mor. Dionysus and Ariadne accompanied by satyrs. Dionysus in a ship with bow shaped like an ass's head.

Hermes bringing new-born Dionysus to nymphs. Maenads dancing at the festival of Dionysus. Maenads ladling out wine before Dionysus column. Maenads in ecstasy before Dionysus column.Ģ. Dionysus and ApolloĢ37 Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead.ġ. The Son of Zeus and Semele The Myths of His Epiphany The God Who Comes The Symbol of the Mask Pandemonium and Silence The World Bewitched The Somber Madness Modern Theories The Mad God The Vine Dionysus Revealed in Vegetative Nature Dionysus and the Element of Moisture Diony sus and the Women Ariadneġ7. h.s.e.Ĭopyright © 1965 by Indiana University Press Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-11792 Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬontents by Robert B. Walterus Otto summarum artium liberalium litterarum studiis utriusque linguae perfecte eruditus, musarum semper amator, v. Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND LONDONĭ.M.S. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. Detail from a wine cup attributed to Pheidippos (ca. Translated with an Introduction by ROBERT B.

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