Excerpt: ...daughter of Tant lus, and wife of Amph on, king of Thebes, experienced the resentment of Latona, whose children Apollo and Diana, at her instigation, destroyed. Her beauty became fatal to Tityus, the giant, who was put to death also by the same divinities. After having been long persecuted by 82 Juno, she became a powerful deity, beheld her children exalted to divine honors, and received adoration where they were adored. In explanation of the fable, it may be observed, that as Jupiter is taken for the maker of ...
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Excerpt: ...daughter of Tant lus, and wife of Amph on, king of Thebes, experienced the resentment of Latona, whose children Apollo and Diana, at her instigation, destroyed. Her beauty became fatal to Tityus, the giant, who was put to death also by the same divinities. After having been long persecuted by 82 Juno, she became a powerful deity, beheld her children exalted to divine honors, and received adoration where they were adored. In explanation of the fable, it may be observed, that as Jupiter is taken for the maker of all things, so Latona is physically understood to be the matter out of which all things were made, which, according to Plato, is called or Latona, from to lie hid or concealed, because all things originally lay hid in darkness till the production of light, or birth of Apollo. AURORA, goddess of the morning, was the youngest daughter of Hyperion and Theia, or, according to some, of Titan and Terra. Orpheus calls her the harbinger of Titan, for she is the personification of that light which precedes the appearance of the sun. The poets describe this goddess as rising out of the ocean in a saffron robe, seated in a flame-colored car, drawn by two or four horses, expanding with her rosy fingers the gates of light, and scattering the pearly dew. Virgil represents her horses as of flame color, and varies their number from two to four, according as she rises slower or faster. She is said to have been daughter of Titan and the earth, because the light of the morning seems to rise out of the earth, and to proceed from the sun, which immediately follows it. She is styled mother of the four winds, because, after a calm in the night, the winds rise in the morning, as attendant upon the sun, by whose heat and light they are begotten. There is no other goddess of whom we have so many beautiful descriptions in the poets. CHAPTER III. Terrestrial Gods. SATURN was the son of C lus and Titaea or Terra, and married his sister Vesta. She, ..
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