On visiting the earth, that he may repair the damage caused by the conflagration, Jupiter sees Calisto, and, assuming the form of Diana, he debauches her. Jupiter strikes Phaëton with a thunderbolt, and while his sisters and his kinsman Cyenus are lamenting him, the former are changed into trees, and Cyenus into a swan. This being granted, the whole earth is set on fire by him, and the Æthiopians are turned black by the heat. Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only persons saved from the deluge.įable X: Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth.įable XI: Apollo institutes the Pythian games.įable XIV: Jupiter changes Io into a cow the watchful Argus.įable XVI: Juno places Argus’s eyes in the peacock’s tail.įable XVII: Io stops in Egypt, under the name of Isis.Įpaphus, having accused Phaëton of falsely asserting that Phœbus is his father, Phaëton requests Phœbus, as a proof of his affection towards his child, to allow him the guidance of the viii chariot of the Sun for one day. The Iron Age.įable VI: Jupiter determines to destroy the world.įable VIII: Jupiter resolves to extirpate mankind by a universal deluge.įable IX: Neptune appeases the angry waves.

Io, having recovered human shape, becomes the mother of Epaphus.įable II: God gives form and regularity to the universe.įable IV: The Silver Age. She is entrusted by Juno to the care of Argus Mercury having first related to him the transformation of the Nymph Syrinx into reeds, slays him, on which his eyes are placed by Juno in the tail of the peacock. On this taking place, the other rivers repair to her father Peneus, either to congratulate or to console him but Inachus is not there, as he is grieving for his daughter Io, whom Jupiter, having first ravished her, has changed into a cow. Phœbus slays him, and institutes the Pythian games as a memorial of the event, in which the conquerors are crowned with beech for as yet the laurel does not exist, into which Daphne is changed soon after, while flying from Phœbus. Other animated beings are produced by heat and moisture: and, among them, the serpent Python. These becoming noted for their impiety, Jupiter not only transforms Lycaon into a wolf, but destroys the whole race of men and animals by a Deluge, with the exception of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who, when the waters have abated, renew the human race, by throwing stones behind them. The four Ages follow, and in the last of these the Giants aspire to the sovereignty of the heavens being slain by Jupiter, a new race of men springs up from their blood.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher StoweĬhaos is divided by the Deity into four Elements: to these their respective inhabitants are assigned, and man is created from earth and water.

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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