Minos is the first to whom tradition ascribes the possession of a navy. Perseus digital library scaife viewer society for classical. When his sons effeminacy, his drunkenness and his various habits of pleasure, were scorn fully mentioned in his presence, the divine father would sternly rebuke the critics, and instance the many manly exploits of his wellbeloved son. Perseus descends, strikes a deal with andromeda s parents, and uses medusas head to petrify the monster. Thucydides, the peloponnesian war, book 4, chapter 26. Thucydides, history of the peloponnesian war, the fourth book. For the athenians vexing peloponnesus, and their particular territory laconia most of all, they thought the best way to divert them was to send an army to. Thucydides, history of the peloponnesian war thomas hobbes, ed. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of metamorphoses and what it means. Lastly, it was he who, from a natural desire to protect his growing revenues, sought, as far as he. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Nothing which happened during the war caused greater amazement in hellas.
From the idea of containing in itself it is often used in the sense of bringing with itself, and therefore of involving or implying, the equivalent english depending on the context. Thucydides, history of the peloponnesian war, book iv, chapter 40. Andromeda and perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of thetis son calibos a madeup character introduced to provide perseus with a dramatic foil and before he slays medusa, whereas in the myth they first meet when perseus finds andromeda chained to the rock as he is returning home from having already. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position.
Thucydides, history of the peloponnesian war, book i. Thucydides, the peloponnesian war, book 4, chapter 42, section 3. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. Perseus and andromeda perseus, whose mother, danae, was impregnated by jove in a shower of golden rain, flew over the earth with medusas severed head in his hands. All search options view abbreviations home collectionstexts perseus catalog research grants open source about help. Perseus and andromeda in landscape fresco metropolitan. The strength of his fleet is particularly remarked by thucydides, apollodorus.
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