Arcadia Arcady : region of ancient Greece in Peloponnesus Mountains.
... art more visible than when he handles the miraculous, particularly in the story of Nala and Damayanti. As Sri Aurobindo says: In such surroundings wonders might seem natural and deities as in Arcadia might peep from under every tree. Nala's messengers to Damayanti are a troop of golden winged swans that speak with a human voice; he is intercepted on his way by gods who make him their envoy to ...
... thatbesets all literary revivals" and "any self-conscious bookish- ness proves particularly deadly" when the half-conscious dream-levels have to find utterance. "In Tasso, or Spenser, or . Sidney's Arcadia there is a sickly taint of the factitious, of pastiche.... Even Ariosto, who shields himself behind a mocker's grin, with his interminable necromancers and magic steeds gives too much the impression ...
... cup, where he kills the lion of Nemea. Page 118 Hermes: Son of Zeus and Maia, daughter of the titan Atlas; Hermes was born in the depth of a cave on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. He had many functions: protector of the home, god of the travellers; he was also charged with conducting the souls of the dead to the underworld. In Homer, Hermes appears as the messenger of Zeus ...
... gathered, brakes where some Python from the underworld came out to bask or listened to the voices of Kinnaries on the mountaintops. In such surroundings wonders might seem natural and deities as in Arcadia might peep from under every tree. Nala's messengers to Damayanti are a troop of golden-winged swans that speak with a human voice; he is intercepted on his way by gods who make him their envoy to a ...
... and his father's. Journey through all wide Greece, seek her prytanies, schools and palaestras, Traverse Ocean's rocks and the cities that dream on his margin, Phocian dales, Aetolia's cliffs and Arcady's pastures, Never a second man wilt thou find, but alone Diomedes. Pyrrhus, follow his counsels always losing thy father, If in this battle I fall and Fate has denied to me Troya. Pyrrhus, be like ...
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