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Interpretative. The Cyclop, Polyphemus, does not possess much in common with Steropes, Brontes, and Arges, the offspring of Uranus and Gæa, save his one eye and his monstrous size. The sons of Gæa are emphatically personifications of thunder and lightning; Polyphemus is rather the heavy vapor that rolls its clouds along the hillside. The clouds are the sheep that he pastures; the sun glowering through the vapor is his single eye (Cox).

Illustrative. John Gay, Song of Polypheme (in Acis and Galatea); A. Dobson, A Tale of Polypheme; R. Buchanan, Polypheme's Passion; Shelley, The Cyclops of Euripides; Translations of Theocritus by Mrs. Browning and by Calverley; J. S. Blackie, Galatea; B. W. Procter, The Death of Acis. See also on Cyclops, Shakespeare, Titus Andron. 4:3; Hamlet 2: 2.

In Art. Carracci's frescos in the Farnese Palace, Rome, of Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea; Claude Lorrain's painting, Evening, Acis and Galatea; Raphael's Triumph of Galatea.

§ 127. Textual. - For descent of Glaucus, see § 95 C and § 132 (5) C. For Scylla's descent, see § 54 C. See Keats' Endymion Bk. 3.

Interpretative. - Glaucus is explained by some as the calm gleaming sea; by others, as the angry sea that reflects the lowering heavens (see Roscher, 1690). Scylla is a personification of treacherous currents and shallows among jagged cliffs and hidden rocks (see § 52 C).

§ 129. For genealogy of Ino, see § 59 C or § 61 C. "Leucothea waked and with fresh dews embalmed The Earth," Milton, P. L. 11:135. § 130. Cyrene was sister to Daphne (§ 85). Honey must first have been known as a wild product, the bees building their structures in hollow trees, or holes in the rocks, or any similar cavity that chance offered. Thus occasionally the carcass of a dead animal would be occupied by the bees for that purpose. It was no doubt from some such incident that the superstition arose that bees were engendered by the decaying flesh of the animal. Vergil assigns to Proteus the isle of Carpathus, between Crete and Rhodes; Homer, the isle of Pharus, near the river Nile.

Illustrative. -See § 52 C. Proteus, a poem by R. Buchanan. On Aristæus, Cowper's Task, comparison of the ice-palace of Empress Anne of Russia with Cyrene's palace. Milton probably thought of Cyrene in describing Sabrina (Comus). He calls Proteus "the Carpathian Wizard."

§ 131. Textual. — Acheloüs: the largest river in Greece, rose in Mount Lacmon, flowed between Acarnania and Etolia, and emptied into the Ionian Sea. It was honored over all Greece. Calydon: a city of Ætolia, famed for the Calydonian Hunt, § 148. Parthenope, see § 171. Ligea (Ligeia) the shrill-sounding maiden; here a Siren; sometimes a Dryad. Interpretative. - Even among the ancients such stories as this were explained on a physical basis: the river Acheloüs flows through the realm of

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Dejanira, hence Acheloüs loves Dejanira. When the river winds it is a snake, when it roars it is a bull, when it overflows its banks it puts forth new horns. Hercules is supposed to have regulated the course of the stream by confining it within a new and suitable channel. At the same time the old channel, redeemed from the stream, subjected to cultivation, and blossoming with flowers, might well be called a horn of plenty. There is another account of the origin of the Cornucopia. Jupiter at his birth was committed by his mother Rhea to the care of the daughters of Melisseus, a Cretan king. They fed the infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea. Jupiter, breaking off one of the horns of the goat, gave it to his nurses, and endowed it with the power of becoming filled with whatever the possessor might wish. Illustrative. The name Amalthea is given also to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milton, P. L. Bk. 4:—

That Nyseian isle,

Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham,

Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Jove,

Hid Amalthea and her florid son,

Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye."

See also Milton, P. R. 2: 356.

$132. For the general genealogy of the race of Inachus, see § 59 C. For the general table of the race of Iapetus, Deucalion, Hellen, Æolus, Ætolus, etc., see below, § 132 (5), Table I. (based in part on the table given in Roscher, article Deukalion). For the descendants of Agenor, see § 61 C. For the houses of Minos and of Labdacus, see §§ 149 C, 158 C. For the descendants of Belus, see § 133 C; of Eolus, below, § 132 (5); of below, § 132 (5), and § 148 C; of Cecrops and Erechtheus, § 151 C.

(1) The race of Inachus, § 59 C.

The descendants of Pelasgus,

(§§ 30, 59 C)

of Belus,
House of Danaüs
(§ 133 C)

of Agenor

tolus,

Houses of Minos and Labdacus
(§ 149 C) (§§ 61 C, 158 C)

(2) The race of Deucalion (§ 95 C), and of his son, Hellen, § 132 (5) below.

The descendants of Eolus, of Dorus, of Xuthus,

(Achæans and Ionians)

The descendants of Endymion, Perieres, Deïon, Sisyphus, Cretheus,
Athamas

(3) The descendants of tolus (son of Endymion), § 132 (5) below.

Houses of Porthaon and Thestius
(§ 148 C)

(4) The race of Cecrops.

The descendants of Erecthonius (§ 151 C)

House of Pandion and Ægeus

§§ 133-137. Textual. - Seriphus: an island of the Ægean.
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While Danaüs is, in fact, a native mythical hero of Argos, the story of his arrival from Egypt is probably an attempt to explain the influence of Egyptian civilization upon the Greeks. The name Danaüs means drought, and may refer to the frequently dry condition of the soil of Argos. The fifty daughters of Danaüs would then be the nymphs of the many springs which in season refresh the land of Argolis. Their suitors, the fifty sons of Ægyptus, would be the streams of Argolis that in the rainy months threaten to overflow their banks. But the springs by vanishing during the hot weather deprive the streams of water and consequently of life. That is to say, when the sources (Danaïds) choose to stop supplies, the heads of the streams (the fifty youths of Argolis) are cut off. The reference to Ægyptus and the sons of Ægyptus would indicate a reminiscence of the Nile and its tributaries, alternately overflowing and exhausted. The unsuccessful toil of the Danaïds in Tartarus may have been suggested by the sandy nature of the Argive soil, and the leaky nature of the springs, now high, now low. Or it

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