... mystical secret . ritual have shown forth the nature of the gods at Eleusis ? Their secret always eluding inquiry was like their godhead for ever eluding the grasp of our senses , 1 for ever streaming on beyond reach of our straining ...
Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated: Being Eight Lectures Given in 1890 at the Lowell Institute
... allusions to Aphrodite , the daughter of Zeus and Dione . Now Dione is the feminine form of Zeus , and these names both lead back to a primitive cult as far from Cyprus and the east as any- thing on Greek soil possibly could be . Dodona ...
Machiavelli and the Modern State: Chapters on His Prince, His Use of History and His Idea of Morals, Being Three Lectures Delivered in 1899 at the Royal Institution (Classic Reprint)
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Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated: Being Eight Lectures
... Greek gods still live their charmed life , and even to - day each one in some sense is the centre of a scheme of things , a universe all his own . There was , in fact , little or no thought in early Greece of how one god's power might ...
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