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Myths of the Odyssey in art and literature (1882)

Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 238

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Panopeus. ^ Worn out atlast with punishment for tliis awful sacrilege, we shall seehim in the Lesche of that very shrine of Pytho, to whichLeto was going. Equally clear is the inscription and the attitude ofSisyphus (SI5T<1>0^), whom Odysseds saw, in strongtorment, grasping a monstrous stone… … MYTH OF THE DESCENT INTO HADES. 117 drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled thestone—the pitiless thing. And he once more kept heavingand straining, and the sweat the while was pouring downhis limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head. ^Sisyphus, too, is numbered, as we shall see,…

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