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Edward Sylvester Ellis

1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    she was changed into a reed,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    one of the names of Venus, given to her by Spartan women.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    son of Apollo and Cyrene, was the god of trees; he also taught mankind the use of honey, and how to get oil from olives.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    For this act the dolphin was raised to heaven as a constellation.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    He then threw himself into the sea, and one of the dolphins took him up and carried him to Taenarus, near Corinth.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Once when traveling from Lesbos his companions robbed him, and proposed to throw him into the sea.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    was a famous lyric poet of Methymna, in the Island of Lesbos, where he gained great riches by his art.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    This name was given to the fifty heroes who sailed to Colchis in the ship Argo, under the command of Jason, to fetch the Golden Fleece.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    She was as virtuous as she was beautiful.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    turned by Diana into a rivulet which ran underground
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