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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
e, and, whenever she bows her head, it is as if Zeus had nodded,--a privilege which he has given to omprehended it. Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Harmonia, according to some legends; while, in the oldest mythology, is simply the wife of Zeus (or Jupiter), and the type and protector of marhe highest gods reverence Hera, but she reveres Zeus. His domestic relations, therefore, are a despself to her august spouse. Accordingly, when Zeus embraces Hera on Mount Ida, clothed in fascinat like Hera, both sister and in a manner wife of Zeus, to bring her into equality with him. Yet she ierpine. In a sense this maiden is the child of Zeus, but not in a mortal manner,--by an ineffable cst them all. Hestia, or Vesta, is the sister of Zeus, but not his wife like Hera, nor his symbolicalebus and Poseidon, she has sworn by the head of Zeus to be a virgin forever. She represents woman ass, and Artemis, the maid, her cruel chastity. Zeus and Actaeon were the sufferers, because consist[5 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Sappho. (search)
hat even the harshest voice or most awkward recital can hardly render it unpleasing to the ear. Let us hope that the Muses may extend some such grace, even to a translation. Hymn to Aphrodite. Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite! Daughter of Zeus, beguiler, I implore thee, Weigh me not down with weariness and anguish, O thou most holy! Come to me now! if ever thou in kindness Hearkenedst my words,--and often hast thou hearkened, Heeding, and coming from the mansions golden Of thy great Fughts and dreams that draw round us with the shadows and vanish with the dawn. Achilles Tatius, in the fifth century, gave in prose the substance of one of Sappho's poems, not otherwise preserved. It may be called The song of the rose. If Zeus had wished to appoint a sovereign over the flowers, he would have made the rose their king. It is the ornament of the earth, the glory of plants, the eye of the flowers, the blush of the meadows, a flash of beauty. It breathes of love, welcomes