Xanthus : the river Scamander (q.v.), in Homer, the god of that river.
... wheels and the throb of the hooves' exultation, Hooves of the horses of Greece as they galloped to Phrygian Troya. Proudly they trampled through Xanthus thwarting the foam of his anger, Whinnying high as in scorn crossed Simois' tangled currents, Xanthus' reed-girdled twin, the gentle and sluggard river. One and unarmed in the car was the driver; grey was he, shrunken, Worn with his decades. To... that the gods have prepared for our striving,— Men upon earth fulfilled their harsh ephemeral labour. But in the Troad the armies clashed on the plain of the Xanthus. Swift from their ships the Argives marched,—more swiftly through Xanthus Driving their chariots the Trojans came and Penthesilea Led and Anchises' son and Deiphobus the Priamid hero. Now ere the armies met, ere their spears were... wideness beyond, crept Simois lame in his currents, Guiding his argent thread mid the green of the reeds and the grasses. Headlong, impatient of Space and its boundaries, Time and its slowness, Xanthus clamoured aloud as he ran to the far-surging waters, Joining his call to the many-voiced roar of the mighty Aegean, Answering Ocean's limitless cry like a whelp to its parent. Forests looked up ...
... hooves' exultation, Hooves of the horses of Greece as they galloped to Phrygian Troya. Proudly they trampled through Xanthus thwarting the foam of his anger, Whinnying high as in scorn crossed Simois' tangled currents, Page 55 Xanthus' reed-girdled twin, the gentle and sluggard river. Then comes a high peak of poetry — not so brilliant as the Dawn-d... crept Simois lame in his currents, Guiding his argent thread mid the green of the reeds and the grasses. Headlong, impatient of Space and its boundaries, Time and its slowness, Xanthus clamoured aloud as he ran to the far-surging waters, Joining his call to the many-voiced roar of the mighty Aegean, Answering Ocean's limitless cry like a whelp to its parent. ...
... limped, his thin legs Were nimble enough. But huge bright-helmeted Ares And Apollo with hair unshorn went down to the Trojans, Along with arrow-showering Artemis, Leto, The river-god Xanthus, and Aphrodite, adorer Of smiles. So long as the gods were not there, the Achaeans Won glorious victory, since now Achilles, who had Page 48 For so long stayed out of the... echoing shouts Of the chase, while coming forth against Leto was powerful Luck-bringing Hermes, and there opposing Hephaestus Came the god of the great deep-swirling river, Called Xanthus by the immortals, Scamander by men. So gods advanced to meet gods. But Achilles had interest In none but Priam's son Hector, with whose blood He most lusted to glut the battling Ares ...
... the throb of the hooves' exultation, Hooves of the horses of Greece as they galloped to Phrygian Troya. Proudly they trampled through Xanthus thwarting the foam of his anger, Page 387 Whinnying high as in scorn crossed Simois' tangled currents, Xanthus' reed-girdled twin, the gentle and sluggard river. One and unarmed in the car was the driver; grey was he, shrunken, Worn with his decades... wideness beyond, crept Simois lame in his currents, Guiding his argent thread mid the green of the reeds and the grasses. Headlong, impatient of Space and its boundaries, Time and its slowness, Xanthus clamoured aloud as he ran to the far-surging waters, Joining his call to the many-voiced roar of the mighty Aegean, Answering Ocean's limitless cry like a whelp to its parent. Forests looked up ...
... Laothoe, Lycaon was once captured in his father's orchard to be sold as a slave on sacred Lemnos. Ransomed and taken back to Troy, he met Achilles once more after the death of Patroclus, by the river Xanthus, and this time, although unarmed and begging for his death, is killed by him. Marpessa: Daughter of Euenus, son of Ares. Idas, an Argonaut, had won Marpessa as his bride, but she was carried... They are lustful and fond of revelry. Scamander: The river near 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... Apollo for Laomedon. The Trojans, according to the Greeks, traced their descent through Dardanus to Zeus and considered their city to be inviolable because of the presence of the Palladium. Xanthus: The river Scamander or, as in Homer, the god of that river. Zeus: The supreme god in Greek religion; son of Cronus, the Titan, whom he overthrew. He decrees all that shall be, subject only ...
... Prince Hector. Antiphonus: Trojan, son of Priam. Argos: another name for mainland Greece. Automedon: Charioteer of Achilles; he drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthus given Peleus by Poseidon. Barrow: a large sepulchral mound; a tumulus. Bird of omen: to discover the will of the gods, the Greeks consulted oracles who observed the flight... fortify the city walls, making it a significant stronghold in the region. The Trojans as we meet them in the Iliad are a highly civilized people ruled by a wise and benevolent king. Xanthus: the divine name given to a river of the Troad which was named Scamander by mortals. ...
... valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart: So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed. Mind you, we are presented with a battlefield as the occasion of the simile. The point of likeness is between many twinkling stars and many twinkling fires. Nothing else bears ...
... valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart: So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed. Mind you, we are presented with a battlefield as the occasion of the simile. The point of likeness is between many twinkling stars and many twinkling fires. Nothing else bears the ...
... through Asia plain to the Ganges": With this line Briseis takes us almost a thousand years after the Trojan war when Alexander the Great was to fulfill Achilles' vision of a unified land going from Xanthus to the Ganges. Exceptional man of war and great visionary, Alexander conquered the whole Persian Empire (334-326 BC) from the Mediterranean to the Indus valley, thus spreading Hellenistic culture ...
... his dire intolerant beauty. Over the summits descending that slept in the silence of heaven, He through the spaces angrily drew towards the tramp and the shouting Over the speeding of Xanthus and over the pastures of Troya. Clang of his argent bow was the wrath restrained of the mighty, Stern was his pace like Fate's; so he came to the warfare of mortals And behind Paris strong ...
... the herald. Hermes harnessed the mules and team for both men, drove them fast through the camp and no one saw them. Once they reached the ford where the river runs clear, the Strong, whirling Xanthus sprung of immortal Zeus, Hermes went his way to the steep heights of Olympus as Dawn flung out her golden robe across the earth, and the two men, weeping, groaning, drove the team toward Troy and the ...
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