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... gold . ( 2.3-4 ) The showering is like Zeus pouring himself down in gold upon Danaë — the act that begot Perseus and , thus , the Persians ; see below in this chapter — also an expression of European hunger and awe at the fabulous ...
... gold . ( 2.3-4 ) The showering is like Zeus pouring himself down in gold upon Danaë — the act that begot Perseus and , thus , the Persians ; see below in this chapter — also an expression of European hunger and awe at the fabulous ...
Page 69
... gold - guarding griffin ( 2.943–47 ) of Scythia ; to his treading upon the gold and jewels of the sun ( 3.595 ) ; to his building of a northern seat in Heaven " with pyra- mids and towers / From diamond quarries hewn , and rocks of gold ...
... gold - guarding griffin ( 2.943–47 ) of Scythia ; to his treading upon the gold and jewels of the sun ( 3.595 ) ; to his building of a northern seat in Heaven " with pyra- mids and towers / From diamond quarries hewn , and rocks of gold ...
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... gold . Aeschylus alluded to the Persians as a race " sown in gold " in his play recounting the battles of Salamis and Plataea to which Milton here referred his reader ( The Persians , line 79 ) . Xerxes ' capital at Susa was a gold ...
... gold . Aeschylus alluded to the Persians as a race " sown in gold " in his play recounting the battles of Salamis and Plataea to which Milton here referred his reader ( The Persians , line 79 ) . Xerxes ' capital at Susa was a gold ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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