Word: myth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classical department of the University of Pennsylvania; "The Symbolism of the Apple in Classical Antiquity," by Doctor B. O. Foster, now at the American School of Classical Studies at Rome; "Greek Shoes in the Classical Period," by A. A. Bryant 3G.; "The Attic Prometheus," by Professor Gulie; "The Myth of Daphnis," by H. W. Prescott; and "Some Studies in Greek Religion," by Professor Greenough...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting. Papers: The Daphnis Myth. Mr. H. W. Prescott.- Virgil's Text of Theocritus. Mr. E. M. Rankin. Classical Library, Harvard...
...Thursday.Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting. Papers: The Daphnis Myth. Mr. H. W. Prescott.- Virgil's Text of Theocritus. Mr. E. M. Rankin. Classical Library, Harvard...
...Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood...
...Buddha Legend.- Buddha as a sun-myth.- No "Life of Gotama." - "The Light of Asia."- Historical basis of the tradition.- The Bodhisat. Gotama's birth and youth.- His names.- Retirement from the world.- Attainment of illumination.- Life-work.- Death...