The mythology of ancient Greece and Italy. By Thomas Keightley
Thomas Keightley
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 16, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...by thunder, lightning, and pitch darkness, came on. Zeus struck the ship with a thunderbolt: it went to pieces, and all the sacrilegious crew were drowned. The resemblance between Thrinakia and Trinacriaa, a name of Sicily, has induced both ancients and moderns to acquiesce in the opinion of the two islands being identical. Against this opinion we will observe, that Thrinakia was a desert isle (vfjaos epij)irj)b, that is, an uninhabited isle; and that during the whole month that Odysseus and his men were in it they did not meet with any one, and could procure no food but birds and fish; that it is called the excellent isle of the godc, whose peculiar property it therefore must have been; that according to the analogy of the Odyssey it must have been a small island, for such were Mxa, Ogygia, and all that we meet;--not one of which circumstances agrees with Sicily. It seems therefore the more probable supposition, that the poet regarded Thrinakia as an islet of about the same size as those of Circe and Calypso, belonging to the Sun-god, and tenanted only by his flocks and herds, and his two daughters their keepers. He must also have conceived it to lie much more to the west than Sicily, for it could not have been more than the third day after leaving Eaea that Odysseus arrived at it. KaXvyfra iv 'ilyvylr;. Calypso in Ogygia. Odysseus, when his ship had gone to pieces, fastened the mast and keel together, and placed himself on them. The wind changing to the south-east (voto?) carried him back to Scylla and Charybdis. As he came by the latter, she absorbed the mast and keel, but the hero caught hold of the fig-tree, and held by it till they were thrown out again. He then floated along for nine days; and on the tenth reached Ogygiad, the Thucydides (vii. 1.) is...