Demeter And Persephone : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE (CERES AND PROSERPINE) The name Demeter means not Earth-Mother, but Grain-Mother. So long as man was a hunter only, the Lady-of-the-Wild-Things and the Earth-Mother who, unbidden, sent up flowers in the spring and fruit...
The Mother Of The Gods : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], THE MOTHER OF THE GODS Crete has left us, not only the divine bull Poseidon, but also another figure, even more majestic, the Mother of the Gods, the Lady-of-the-Wild-Things. p. 59 The Mother of the Gods never made her way into Olympus...
The Gods Of Homer's Olympus : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], p. 6 THE GODS OF HOMER'S OLYMPUS WE have already said that Homer was not the starting-point for Greek religion, yet we begin with Homer. This for a double reason. First, the gods of Homer are fairly familiar to all, and it is well to beg...
Zeus : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], ZEUS (JOVE, JUPITER) As to the primary origin and significance of Zeus there is happily no doubt. He is the Indo-European sky-god in its two aspects; he is the god of the Bright Sky and the shining ether, and also of the Dark Sky, the god...
Artemis : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], p. 24 ARTEMIS (DIANA) Homer, in the "Odyssey", adds a fourth to the Graces, the Gift-Givers, Artemis. Penelope tells the story of the daughters of Pandareus: "Their father and their mother dear died by the gods' high doom, The maidens were...
Untitled : This short review of the Greek pantheon (alas, there is little about Rome), is part of a series of inexpensive adult education books published during the 1920s. The author, Jane Harrison, was one of the most prominent classicists of the era; so this is a bit like hiring a French chef to cook up...
Apollo : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], APOLLO (PHBUS) Apollo has in Olympus a position, a precedence, all his own. He is second only to Zeus. This is very clearly seen in the opening lines of the Homeric hymn: "Mindful, ever mindful, will I be of Apollo the Far-Darter. Before him...
Dionysos : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], DIONYSOS Dionysos had absorbed into his personality two non-Hellenic divinities--(1) a god of wine, orgy, and ecstasy from Thrace, (2) a Cretan mystery god, Zagreus, who is substantially one with the Egyptian god of immortality, Osiris...
Hermes : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], HERMES (MERCURY) If Apollo is, next after Zeus, greatest among the Olympians, Hermes is certainly least; he is the herald, the messenger, the servant in general. As messenger he appears in modern literature: "New lighted on a heaven-kissing...
Aphrodite : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], APHRODITE (VENUS) In marked contrast to Athena stands the next of our local Kors translated to Olympus, Aphrodite. Aphrodite is manifestly in Olympus an outsider. She belongs, as her titles tell, to the southern and eastern islands...
Introductory : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], p. 1 MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME INTRODUCTORY THE study of Greek mythology has long been subject to two serious disabilities. First, until about the turn of the present century, Greek mythology was always studied through a Roman or Alexandrine...
Bibliography : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], p. 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY TILE translations from Homer in this book are taken from the "Iliad" by Lang Leaf and Myers, and the translation of the "Odyssey" in verse by J. W. Mackail. The translations of the "Homeric Hymns" are by Andrew Lang, with...
Ares : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], p. 40 ARES (MARS) Ares, the war-god brother of Apollo, need not long detain us. He, too, is a northerner, but of Thrace, and, unlike Apollo, he is never really affiliated to Olympus. He is splendid and forceful, but never really respected...
Eros : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], EROS The early form of Eros is given us on Greek vases. Round the head of Aphrodite are clustered a number of little winged figures holding sprays of flowers; they are Erotes. At death there fluttered forth from a man's mouth a little winged...
Hera : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], HERA We pass to Hera, wife of Zeus. At first Hera seems all wife, the great typical bride, and the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera seems the prototype of human wedlock. So Homer, no doubt, intended us to think, but, if this is really...
Poseidon : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], POSEIDON (NEPTUNE) The figure of Poseidon must be studied in some detail, not because he is a god of special splendour or beauty--he is nowise the equal of either Athena or Apollo--but because his life-history is of special and absorbing...
Athena : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], ATHENA (MINERVA) Next after Zeus himself in Olympian precedence comes Athena, the Grey-Eyed, the gis-bearer. She is, in very special fashion, the daughter of Zeus; she is a motherless child, she sprang full-grown, full-armed, from the br...
Title Page : * "Myths of Greece and Rome", by Jane Harrison, [1928], THE LITTLE BOOKS OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME BY JANE HARRISON, LL.D., LITT.D. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE GERMAN ARCHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, SOMETIME FELLOW AND STAFF LECTURER OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK...
