The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 229
Medusa Rondanini.Beautiful yet ghastly. (Glyptothek, Munich.) 208 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. in the fray {Trpoj^taxos), the brightly victorious {xaXXivi-Hos), the celestial {oXvjuttios) , destroyer of flies, vermin,and grasshoppers {/uviafjyos, ittohtovos^ HopvoTtioov). He,the solar hero, is… … Bellerophon Slaying the Chim^era.(A terra cotta statue of Melos, now at the British Museum.) The legends of Perseus are in many respects simi-lar to the tales of Hercules. Perseus, too, the Greekprototype of the Christian St. George, is a divine saviour.Assisted by Athene, he liberates Andromeda,…
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