ギリシア・ローマ神話
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(14)」の続きです。アポロンの子パエトーンの話の後半であり，第7章の最後です。 Phaëton gazed at the sun-car in delight, for it was all of gold—except the spokes of the wheel, which were of silver—and the body of the char…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(13)」の続きです。まだ第7章です。 III In one of the flower-filled meadows of sunny Greece, there played all day a golden-haired boy named Phaëton, who was the pride and delight of his mother Clymene, a stately maiden …
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(12)」の続きで，第7章に入ります。 Chapter VII The Love of Apollo I Like his father, Jupiter, the young Apollo was not content to stay always in the shining halls of Olympus, but spent many days wandering over the broa…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(11)」の続きで，「音楽家アポロン」の III です。 Apollo the Musician III When the news of Marsyas's dreadful fate spread abroad, people were careful for many years not to anger any of the deities by presuming to rival …
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(10)」の続きで，第6章に入ります。第6章もアポロンの話です。 Chapter VIApollo the Musician IWhen Apollo left King Admetus and returned to the halls of Olympus, he had not rested there long before he found that there was…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(9)」の続きで，第5章の後半です。 After wandering some miles further Latona came at last to the seashore and here she begged Neptune, "the god who shakes the shores," to come to her aid, for she knew that Juno's power …
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(8)」の続きで，第5章に入ります。 Chapter V Apollo and King AdmetusThere would have been but little trouble between Jupiter and his stately wife if no one but Minerva ever gave the watchful Juno cause for jealousy; but…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(7)」の続きで，第4章の後半です。 Chapter IV Minerva II Many, many years had passed since Epimetheus and Pandora wandered in the gardens of the earth; and many, many generations of men had come and gone since the day w…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(6)」の続きで，第4章に入ります。 Chapter IV Minerva I Although the brown-winged spirits of evil were kept busy flying up and down the earth, their mischief-making never reached those immortal ones who dwelt above the …
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(5)」の続きで，第3章の後半です。 There was one spot, however, that was not yet hidden under the waters, and this was the top of Mount Parnassus, the highest hill of Greece. To this place of refuge had fled Deucalion a…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(4)」の続きで，第3章に入ります。 Chapter III The DelugeThe children of Epimetheus and Pandora wandered in the gardens of the earth just as their parents had done; and the generations that followed them lived peacefull…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(3)」の続きで，第2章後半です。 She went to see whether Epimetheus had come back, and finding that he was still away, she returned to the chest again, but would not let herself be tempted into so much as touching the g…
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(2)」の続きで，第2章に入ります。 Chapter II The Story of PandoraIn the early days of man's life on the earth, when everything was beautiful and new, there was no sickness anywhere, nor any pain, nor sorrow. Men lived …
「ギリシア・ローマ神話(1)」の続きで，「Chapter I In the Beginning」の後半です。 Sometimes the great billows of clouds that rolled at the foot of the red-gold throne shut out for a moment all sight of the earth at his feet; but however thic…
「ローランの歌」全48回の全訳が終わったので，今度はギリシア・ローマ神話を読んでいきます。「プロジェクト・グーテンベルク」に Greek mythology などと打って検索し，以下の本にしました。1913年の本なので，100年以上前ですね。www.gutenberg.org では…
