To right and left stood the Day, Month, and Year, the Century and the equally spaced Hours. Wearing a purple robe, Phoebus sat on a throne shining with bright emeralds. Above them was an image of the glowing sky, with six signs of the zodiac on the right hand door and the same number on the left.Īs soon as Clymene’s son had climbed the steep path there, and entered the house of this parent of whose relationship to himself he was uncertain, he immediately made his way into his father’s presence, but stopped some way off, unable to bear his light too close. The land shows men and towns, woods and creatures, rivers and nymphs and other rural gods. They are neither all alike, nor all different, just as sisters should be. The dark blue sea contains the gods, melodious Triton, shifting Proteus, Aegaeon crushing two huge whales together, his arms across their backs, and Doris with her daughters, some seen swimming, some sitting on rocks drying their sea-green hair, some riding the backs of fish. The work of art was finer than the material: on the doors Mulciber had engraved the waters that surround the earth’s centre, the earthly globe, and the overarching sky. Shining ivory crowned the roofs, and the twin doors radiated light from polished silver. The palace of the Sun towered up with raised columns, bright with glittering gold, and gleaming bronze like fire. Bk II:833-875 Jupiter’s abduction of Europa.Bk II:812-832 Aglauros is turned to stone.
Bk II:787-811 Envy poisons Aglauros’s heart.Bk II:737-751 Mercury elicits the help of Aglauros.Bk II:676-707 Mercury, Battus and the stolen cattle.Bk II:633-675 Chiron and Ocyrhoë’s prophecies.Bk II:612-632 Phoebus repents and saves Aesculapius.
Bk II:441-465 Diana discover’s Callisto’s shame.Bk II:381-400 The Sun returns to his task.Bk II:344-366 The sisters turned into poplar trees.Bk II:329-343 Phaethon’s sisters grieve for him.Bk II:301-328 Jupiter intervenes and Phaethon dies.Bk II:178-200 Phaethon lets go of the reins.Bk II:90-110 Phaethon insists on driving the chariot.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved
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