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The Cestus of Aglaia and the Queen of Air
Author: The Queen of the Air
Author: John RuskinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752503610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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The Queen of the Air is a study of Greek myths written by John Ruskin. Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art critic during the Victorian era. Excerpt: "A myth, in its simplest definition, is a story with a meaning attached to it other than it seems to have at first; and the fact that it has such a meaning is generally marked by some of its circumstances being extraordinary, or, in the common use of the word, unnatural. Thus if I tell you that Hercules killed a water-serpent in the lake of Lerna, and if I mean, and you understand, nothing more than that fact, the story, whether true or false, is not a myth. But if by telling you this, I mean that Hercules purified the stagnation of many streams from deadly miasmata, my story, however simple, is a true myth; only, as, if I leftit in that simplicity, you would probably look for nothing beyond, it will be wise in me to surprise your attention by adding some singular circumstance; for instance, that the water-snake had several heads, which revived as fast as they were killed, and which poisoned even the foot that trod upon them as they slept. And in proportion to the fulness of intended meaning I shall probably multiply and refine upon these improbabilities; as, suppose, if, instead of desiring only to tell you that Hercules purified a marsh, I wished you to understand that he contended with the venom and vapor of envy and evil ambition, whether in other men's souls or in his own, and choked that malaria only by supreme toil,—I might tell you that this serpent was formed by the goddess whose pride was in the trial of Hercules; and that its place of abode as by a palm-tree; and that for every head of it that was cut off, two rose up with renewed life; and that the hero found at last that he could not kill the creature at all by cutting its heads off or crushing them, but only by burning them down; and that the midmost of them could not be killed even that way, but had to be buried alive. Only in proportion as I mean more, I shall certainly appear more absurd in my statement; and at last when I get unendurably significant, all practical persons will agree that I was talking mere nonsense from the beginning, and never meant anything at all."
"The Cestus of Aglaia" and "The Queen of the Air"
Author: Sir Edward Tyas CookPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 469
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The Works of John Ruskin
Author: John RuskinCambridge Public Library Bulletin
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON THE FINE ARTS
Author: Cambridge Public Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Reference Library Catalogue
Author: Bristol (England). Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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