Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 201
roducing fruits whosejuices are potent for inspiration or for intoxication ac-cording to the use made of them. The vine was notthe only, but the most perfect, expression of this earth-life ; and as the new force that appeared in the graperesulted from the combined effects of earth-moistureand… … 200 GREEK MYTHOLOGY. in what might be called the rejoicing and the sorrow-ing of vegetation. We shall find that in the first stage of the Greekdevelopment of the idea and worship of Dionysus hewas received not alone as the giver of the enliveningwine, but the ^ift of the wine jwas considered as a…
Mythology, Greek · Emblems
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