A hand-book of mythology : the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome (1884)
Berens, E. M · New York : Clark & Maynard · leaf 23
o try and save this one child at least, to love and cherish, and appealed to her parents, Uranus and Gaea, for counsel and assistance. By their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and Cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the decep¬ tion. The child thus saved, eventually,… … intruders. Under the watchful care of the Nymphs the infant Zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with extra- 1 The myth of Cronus swallowing his children is evidently intended by the poets to express the melancholy truth that time destroys all things. 2 Nectar was the…
Mythology, Classical
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