... Both of her beauty and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles when he impregns the clouds That shed May showers. Here the reference is to Greek mythology and the analogy between Jupiter and Adam is a happy one. Again, from Sri Aurobindo as a contrast referring to the same theme of love: As if a whole rich world suddenly possessed, Wedded... To Palès, or Pomona, thus adorned, Likest she seemed — Pomona when she fled Vertumnus — or to Ceres in her prime Yet virgin of Prosperina from Jove. This reference to Greek mythology and its deities in relation to Eve at once gives another colour and heightens her personality and she sheds some of that ethical sheath in which Milton had originally enwrapped her. Before ...
... Hera: Consort and sister of Zeus and queen of the heavens; identified with the Roman Juno. In Ilion she is a sublime figure devoid of the passions of jealousy and vanity attributed to her in Greek mythology. Her will is one with that of her spouse, and therefore she works for the destruction of Troy. Ares and Hephaestus are her sons. Heracles: Hercules (his Latin name), the mightiest... In the same fashion, he also helped the old king and his herald get away from the ships, in the dead of night to bring back to Troy the dead body of the king's son Hector. Hydra: In Greek mythology, a poisonous water-snake with many heads, which multiplied when they were cut off. It was killed by Heracles, with the help of lolaus, as one of his twelve labors. Ida: A mountain in ...
... that stones have a spark of consciousness in them which can respond to an external force: In cities cut like gems of conscious stone. 17 We are reminded of a story from Greek mythology in which Apollo plays on his lyre and his divine music creates the city of Troy. It is, therefore, that architecture that is sometimes called "frozen music". If rhythm can create a city, however... her personality will serve only this purpose. Although amethyst has not enjoyed the same prominence as diamond or even sapphire, yet it seems to have a powerful identity of its own. In Greek mythology an amethyst is said to absorb all the good forces vibrating in the atmosphere. Also it is said that wine drunk out of an amethyst cup never makes the person intoxicated. In Milton's Paradise ...
... them to virtue and honour, that he seemed to be such as the best and happiest of men would be."57 Notes and References Plato, The Seventh Letter. Silenus - In Greek mythology, Silenus was considered to be the tutor and faithful companion of the wine-god Dionysus'. He was bald, and fat with thick lips and a squat nose, and had the legs of a human and when intoxicated... Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of traditional Attic tragedy by showing strong women characters and intelligent slaves, and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology. His plays seem modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries, focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown to Greek audiences. Perhaps one of his ...
... his philosophy is that the strong must rule over the weak. 5. Prometheus is a Titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from heaven for mankind and as a punishment was chained to a rock. Daily an eagle devoured his liver, which was made whole again at night. 6. Atlas is a Titan of Greek mythology who supported the heavens on his shoulders; by extension, an "Atlas" is anyone bearing a great ...
... stressed becomes the grotesque, which has its value in Art: tragedy heavily stressed becomes melodrama, which has no value anywhere. One step beyond the sublime & you are in the grotesque. The Greek mythology was evolved by poets and sculptors; therefore it is beautiful. The Hindu mythology fell into the hands of priests and moralists; therefore it has become hideous. Art holds the mirror up to Nature ...
... long standing and highly evolved to have produced such enduring results. In Greece it is probable that the Hellenic type was moulded in the same way by Orphic and Eleusinian influences and that Greek mythology, as it has come down to us, full of delicate psychological suggestions, is a legacy of the Orphic teaching. It would be only consonant with the general tradition if it turned out that Indian c ...
... the antiquity to which he has referred in the two earlier stanzas is: Psyche. The word means "Soul" and by itself designates the inmost essence of human existence, a spark of the Divine. But in Greek mythology it spells also the name of the girl who married Eros the God of Love, lost him by attempting to look directly into his face and won him back after undergoing various trials imposed on her by his ...
... Parnell's life. The two opening lines of the same piece, Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel The hydra of the world with bruised head, run together two incidents of Greek mythology, which have been already explained in the second part of The World of Sri Aurobindo's Poetry. The reference is to Apollo and Hercules. * ** Lines on Ireland. 1896 express ...
... and his eyes are open to contemporary situations as his verses on Parnell and Ireland show. The same modernism is astir in another piece, The Lost Deliverer, which begins with an allusion to Greek mythology but moves on to some dramatic development of the day. The subject is not very clear, but ignorance on our part detracts in no way from the poem's force and from the grandeur, the irony, the tragedy ...
... are speaking of the Puranic gods, because the Christians, for example, do not understand what this can mean. They have an entirely different conception of the gods. It could apply to the old Greek mythology, though. No, not uniquely. It could apply in many other eases. Even if the Christians don't understand, there are many others who will! Those who have read a little and who know something ...
... combine the heart with the head? 6 The thought of Greece gives Amal Kiran an "imaginative thrill" and there is an adequate response from Raine for she too had "lived in imagination in Greek mythology (the mythology I knew best, as all children in England did at one time) and the Gods were entirely real to me." But then a curiosity about life had led her to Natural Sciences at Cambridge and ...
... × Medea’s kettle is a metaphor for Nature’s workings frequently used by Sri Aurobindo as well as by the Mother. Medea was the greatest sorceress in Greek mythology. She could make whole beings from the pieces thrown into her magic kettle. × See the ‘gap’ the ...
... paraśurāmśca saptaite cirajivīnaḥ. 2 Mahābhārata, vanaparva, sarga 295. 3 Manasāmaṅgal. 4 Babylonian myth. 5 Greek legend. 6 Katha Upanishad. 7 8 Greek mythology. 9 Mahābhārata, ādiparva. Page 329 to have escaped death and been bodily assumed to heaven. 1 But, alas, all these are only myths and legends expressing ...
... unprepared to find not long after the picture of Satan's fall the picture of the fall of a comrade of his, who built Satan's palace in Hell and who, according to Milton, was the same spirit that in Greek mythology was known as having offended Zeus and been flung earthwards from Olympus. Milton, relating that he was not unheard of and unadored in ancient Greece and that "in Ausonian land/Men called him Mulciber" ...
... Chaldea, in ancient Persia, in Egypt, in Greece, but all these traditions have been lost. There is hardly anything available in the form of any text. There are ideas; there are mythologies. Even Greek mythology which is available is a later statement of the earlier Ileusian tradition. But as far as texts and their secret knowledge are concerned, these are lost. So, if one wants to know what was the ...
... When the agricultural communities in Greece worshipped Mother Earth they called the Great Goddess or the Mother Goddess by many names, (Gaea, Rhea, Demeter). Most of the female divinities in Greek mythology were originally Great Mother Goddesses; Hera in Argos, Artemis in Crete, Aphrodite in Cyprus. Their role changed when they were incorporated into the male-dominated religion of Zeus. Aphrodite ...
... of his enterprises. Somehow everything gets bogged down before the final goal is reached. His boat sinks before the shore is reached. He has to remain permanently thirsty like King Tantalus of Greek mythology: his parched lips cannot touch the level of the drink in his cup. The question is: Why so? Who or what frustrates all his efforts at final fulfilment? Enough is enough: let us stop multiplying ...
... spirit and atmosphere which passed away centuries ago, but still has the power to uplift us because it expresses the universal human possibility of rising above the lower nature. According to Greek mythology, Achilles, the greatest warrior of Agamemnon's army at Troy, was the son of the mortal king Peleus and the immortal sea-nymph Thetis. In one tale of his childhood, it is related that his mother ...
... al into poetry. This is partly done by carrying the eighteenth-century habit of personification to an almost ridiculous extreme, but more successfully by dwelling like Milton on the images of Greek mythology, as in the Hymn to the Naiads, or Gray's earlier poems, especially the Progress of Poesy; also by dwelling on the ideas of the Celtic romantic fancy, such as ghosts, fairies, spirits as in Gray's ...
... Circa 1900–1901. The Nightingale . Circa 1900–1901. Euphrosyne . Circa 1900–1901. The Greek word euphrosunē means "cheerfulness, mirth, merriment". In Greek mythology, Euphrosyne was one of the three Graces. A Thing Seen. Circa 1900– 1901. Epitaph . Circa 1900–1901. To the Modern Priam . Circa 1900– 1901 ...
... in their various shapes and levels of existence, including the Asuras , the great mental beings who are a challenge to any godlike powers, the rakshasas, who are comparable to the titans in Greek mythology, and the pishachas, the small beings on the lowest vital levels who have pleasure in making the lives of the humans and of each other as chaotic as possible. “Imagine not the way is easy” ...
... and attempts to eliminate them. According to the Indian tradition there are in descending order the asuras , the great hostiles of the vital-mental plane, sometimes compared to the Titans of Greek mythology; then there are the rakshasas, the ugly ogres of the vital plane, which are nevertheless perfectly capable of taking on the most seductive appearance; and on the lowest level there are the pishachas ...
... drive our human hearts, Our nature’s twilight is their lurking place. 13 — Savitri All those beings, like all beings not embodied in (gross) matter, are immortal — like the Titan from Greek mythology (a rakshasa) who, when slain, became alive again through each contact with the life-force of the Earth and continued fighting. The only medium that can bring to an end their manifested existence ...
... precisely the emanation which is in charge of the Earth, of the material evolution of the Earth, and of the beings born from her womb. Which means that she is fairly familiar to us, for example from Greek mythology. Along a path of aeons serpentine … The Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of Time. 16 — Savitri It is comical, in a sense, that the Mother fell foul with Mother Nature, which ...
... (Twice Acheron I've crossed, victorious, Modulating by turns on the lyre of Orpheus The sighs of the saint and the cries of the fay.) Acheron is a river of the underworld in Greek mythology. Nerval makes it stand for the crise de folie through which he passed twice before writing the poem. The legend of Orpheus trying to bring back his beloved Eurydice from the underworld becomes ...
... gives brief snatches, often intermixed, of nearly all the various manners and tempers compassed by Keats in his poetic career. There is the romantic mood of wonder and exultation, the penchant for Greek mythology and the Greek spirit in its movement towards the beautiful mingled with the sublime, the distant charm of Spenser, the Miltonic majesty, the Shakespearean * Much have I travelled in the ...
... verses, are an extraordinary series of psychological functions to apply to two stars of a heavenly constellation! It is evident that if this was the physical origin of the Ashwins, they have as in Greek mythology long lost their purely stellar nature; they have acquired like Athene, goddess of dawn, a psychological character and function. They are riders Page 82 on the horse, the Ashwa, symbolic ...
... connections. Before proceeding farther let us cast a rapid and cursory glance at them to see what they can teach us. The association of a river with the poetical inspiration occurs also in the Greek mythology; but there the Muses are not conceived of as rivers; they are only connected in a not very intelligible fashion with a particular earthly stream. This stream is the river Hippocrene, the fountain ...
... We see the same revolution effected in the Puranas partly by the substitution of other divine names and figures, but also in part by the same obscure process that we observe in the evolution of Greek mythology. The river Saraswati has become the Muse and Goddess of Learning; Vishnu and Rudra of the Vedas are now the supreme Godhead, members of a divine Triad and expressive separately of conservative ...
... double meaning of the Vedic words. Go, for instance, means both cow and ray; the cows of the dawn and the sun, Homer's boes Eelioio , are the rays of the Sungod, Lord of Revelation, even as in Greek mythology Apollo the Sungod is also the Master of poetry and of prophecy. Ghrita means clarified butter, but also the bright thing; soma means the wine of the moon plant, but also delight, honey, sweetness ...
... creator whom we have identified with Christ. And indeed in Milton we find even a Father-Son context for the word "seize", though here too the celestial situation is of enmity, taken as it is from Greek mythology: Titan, Heav'n's first-born, With his enormous brood, and birthright seiz'd By younger Saturn ; he from mightier Jove , His own and Rhea's son, like measure found, ...
... between the Romantic writer and the Classical. "Romanticism," he 6 says, "is indeed as old as European literature - as old as the Odyssey. It is even older." He considers the legends of Greek mythology highly Romantic, nor does Greek Romanticism end for him with the fabulous and the fantastic in Homer: imagination breaks bounds in Aeschylus, passion snaps the leash in Euripides and strange as ...
... return to their greatness. For if the twilight be helped not, night o'er the world cannot darken; Night forbidden how shall a greater dawn be effected?" 3 In terms of the Greek Mythology, the. immediate issue was that of the departure of Apollo, the god of spiritual light, and enthronement of Athene, the goddess of Reason. The beautiful mystic Apollo knows this and responds ...
... been initiated by Sri Aurobindo in his illuminative work, The Human Cycle. Ill The story of Iliad, which is centered on the siege of Troy, had its beginning, according to the Greek mythology, at a feast of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Peleus was the king of Phithia and Thetis was the goddess of the sea. All the gods came to the wedding to present their gifts and take part ...
... scientific discovery, sent him to the limits of the known world. (...) He was firmly persuaded that he was under the special protection of the gods, and therefore _______________ 1 Achilles in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. He was the bravest handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War. During the ...
... chance of accidents, but some accept the risk. The carefree enthusiast asks you to hitch your wagon to a star whereas the more cautious would point to the tragedy of Icarus. The legendary hero of Greek mythology had invented wings for man to fly, but he built them of wax. His aim had been to reach the sun, but as he came near that burning orb the wax got melted by the heat and his wings vanished and he ...
... chance of accidents, but you accept the risk. The carefree enthusiast asks you to hitch your wagon to a star whereas the more cautious would point to the tragedy of Icarus. The legendary hero of Greek mythology had invented wings for man to fly, but he built them of wax. His aim had been to reach the sun, but as he came near that burning orb the wax got melted by the heat and his wings vanished and ...
... first time in Page 26 the last century. A hundred years ago, it was Whitman who said: "Why should we take the idiom of Europe? Why should we idealise the characters of Greek mythology or European history? There is sufficient grandeur all around here in the democratic country where we are living. People are performing deeds which are equally capable of being called heroic." His ...
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