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... Apollo . This altar , we learn from the Ion of Euripides , was adorned with wooden images of the gods ( óava ) , which it was customary for suppliants to embrace . They per- haps represented Gaia , Themis , Phoebe , and Phoebus , the ...
... Apollo . This altar , we learn from the Ion of Euripides , was adorned with wooden images of the gods ( óava ) , which it was customary for suppliants to embrace . They per- haps represented Gaia , Themis , Phoebe , and Phoebus , the ...
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... Apollo , and Hermes come out of the temple in like manner . But who that reads the scene between the Ghost of Clytemnestra and the Furies , can believe that the latter were not visible to the audience during the whole of it ? of Apollo ...
... Apollo , and Hermes come out of the temple in like manner . But who that reads the scene between the Ghost of Clytemnestra and the Furies , can believe that the latter were not visible to the audience during the whole of it ? of Apollo ...
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Aeschylus. of Apollo becomes transformed into that of Athene Polias . Here the scene continues without interruption until the end of the Play . 14. In v . 653 , where Pallas speaks of Mars ' Hill as before the eyes of the audience , we ...
Aeschylus. of Apollo becomes transformed into that of Athene Polias . Here the scene continues without interruption until the end of the Play . 14. In v . 653 , where Pallas speaks of Mars ' Hill as before the eyes of the audience , we ...
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... Apollo's admonitions to Orestes , Choeph . 267-294 . But notwithstanding these motives to vengeance , it would have been impious in him to have pursued his mother had she taken to flight ; whereas , daring as she did to remain and still ...
... Apollo's admonitions to Orestes , Choeph . 267-294 . But notwithstanding these motives to vengeance , it would have been impious in him to have pursued his mother had she taken to flight ; whereas , daring as she did to remain and still ...
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... Apollo a destroying spirit . See Eurip . Orest . 283 , 1685. With regard to the vengeance directed against Orestes , this was peculiarly the office of the Erinnyes : it could not lawfully be undertaken by any of Clytemnestra's relatives ...
... Apollo a destroying spirit . See Eurip . Orest . 283 , 1685. With regard to the vengeance directed against Orestes , this was peculiarly the office of the Erinnyes : it could not lawfully be undertaken by any of Clytemnestra's relatives ...
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