Sidon : ancient city on the coast of Phoenicia (now Lebanon).
... Andromeda weds King Phineus. What noise is that? CIREAS It was the cry of many men in anguish. He climbs up a rock. DIOMEDE Zeus, what a wail was there! surely a royal Huge ship from Sidon or the Nile has kissed Our ragged beaches. CIREAS A Phoenician galley Is caught and spinning in the surf, the men Urge desperate oars in vain. Hark, with a crash She rushes on the boulders' ...
... gold Aphrodite,– Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment, He to whom now thou givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene, But for my might is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness Once that was known by the children of men when the thrill of their members Was but the immortal joy of the spirit overflowing their ...
... "In Jesus' day Palestine was set in a matrix of Graeco- Page 87 Roman cities. Syria to the north; the coast cities along the Mediterranean such as Jappa, Caesarea, Tyre and Sidon, Tran-sjordania, as the ruins of temples and theatres in such towns as Jerash and Amman still show, were all predominantly influenced by Hellenistic culture. "Moreover, within Palestine itself ...
... declares, Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment, He to whom now you givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene, But for my mind is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness Once that was known by the children of men the thrill of their members Was the immortal joy of the spirit overflowing their bodies ...
... Aphrodke,- Only my form he pursues that I wear for a mortal enchantment, He to whom now thou givest the world, the Ionian, the Hellene, But for my might is unfit which Babylon worshipped and Sidon Page 84 Palely received from the past in images faint of the gladness Once that was known by the children of men when the thrill of their members Was but the immortal joy of the ...
... whose banks Troy was situated, the modern Menderes, rising on Mount Ida and emptying into the Dardanelles; also called the Xanthus. Page 123 Odysseus and the sirens Sidon; The oldest city of ancient Phoenicia, the modern Saida in Lebanon. Simois: A small river near ancient Troy, a tributary of the Scamander. Sirens: According to legend, the sirens were depicted ...
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