This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... or village of Lesbos, named from Geren, son of Poseidon. The town seems to have been the modern Gerani near Arisba.7 This name can likewise be traced to Boeotia, where we have the name Teprjvixos; and Geres from Boeotia is said to have given his name to the harbor Gerrhaiidai at Teos. There are indications that human ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... or village of Lesbos, named from Geren, son of Poseidon. The town seems to have been the modern Gerani near Arisba.7 This name can likewise be traced to Boeotia, where we have the name Teprjvixos; and Geres from Boeotia is said to have given his name to the harbor Gerrhaiidai at Teos. There are indications that human sacrifice was not unknown in this early Poseidon worship. The fullest account is given by Plutarch, Sept. Sapient. Conviv. ch. 20. An oracle directed that when those who were to settle Lesbos should in their course meet with a reef called Mesogeion? they should throw to Poseidon a bull and to Amphitrite and the Nereids a living maiden. The lot fell to the daughter of Smintheus, one of the eight leaders. But a certain Enalus, of noble birth, loved her and leaped into the sea to save her. 2 Steph.Byz. s. v. Mutixktj. 3 Usener, Gr. Gotternamen, p. 327. Qui est apud Graecos Priapus, Aug.. Civ. Dei, IV, I. 4 Usener, I. c. note 9, though Mytion occurs five times in inscriptions from Rhodes. 5 Gruppe, Gr. Myth. p. 853, n. 6. Steph. Byz. s. v. Tkpqv. 'Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. VII, 1246. Strabo, XIV, 644; Gruppe, Gr. Myth. p. 293, n. 2. The name is found also in Elis. Cf. title of Nestor. Geres from Boeotia, the eponymous founder of the harbor, Strabo, XIV, 633; Paus. VII, 3, 6. - Farnell, op. cit. IV, p. 26, obviously means Lesbos, not Chios, when he says the sacrifice was performed by the early immigrants who were sailing to Chios, as his references on p. 95, n. Ill indicate. Later he appeared on land and said that he and the maiden had both been carried to shore unharmed. Shortly afterwards, when a great wave arose around the island and the men feared to meet it, Enalus alone came with many polypi to the temple of Poseidon, the greatest poly...
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