--- title: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens — a tale · trees and pragmatics description: 41 sentences of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens» with dependency trees and pragmatics, from Mova's tales treebank. It begins: From those thrown by Deucalion there sprang up men, and from those thrown by Pyrrha, women. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an… # Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens 41 sentences of «Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, by E. M. Berens» (Project Gutenberg book 22381), a sample the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 annotates, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/169/) — From those thrown by Deucalion there sprang up men, and from those thrown by Pyrrha, women. - [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/181/) — Everything which surrounded them was of brass; their arms, their tools, their dwellings, and all that they made. - [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/186/) — We now come to the men of the Iron Age. - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/223/) — He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality. - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/227/) — The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights. - [282](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/282/) — ANTIOPE, to whom Zeus appeared under the form of a satyr, was the daughter of Nicteus, king of Thebes. - [327](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/327/) — Aware of the stratagem, she contrived to obtain the animal from Zeus, and placed her under the watchful care of a man called Argus-Panoptes, who fastened her to an olive-tree in the grove of Hera. - [441](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/441/) — Schools were under her especial care, and schoolboys, therefore, had holidays during her festivals (the Greater Quinquatria), when they always brought a gift to their master, called the Minerval. - [458](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/458/) — It was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices. - [861](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/861/) — When Althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds. - [940](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/940/) — It is said that the first work of Hephaestus was a most ingenious throne of gold, with secret springs, which he presented to Hera. - [942](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/942/) — Hephaestus thus revenged himself on his mother for the cruelty she had always displayed towards him, on account of his want of comeliness and grace. - [978](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/978/) — The exterior of the building was of bright gold, which the continual wash of the waters preserved untarnished; in the interior, lofty and graceful columns supported the gleaming dome. - [1034](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1034/) — Proteus, more familiarly known as "The Old Man of the Sea," was a son of Poseidon, and gifted with prophetic power. - [1039](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1039/) — Triton was the only son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, but he possessed little influence, being altogether a minor divinity. - [1048](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1048/) — No sooner was this done than, obeying an irresistible impulse, he precipitated himself into the deep, and became a sea-god. - [1095](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1095/) — The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city. - [1112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1112/) — The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker. - [1127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1127/) — The most magnificent of these statues, was that raised by Augustus after the battle of Actium. - [1201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1201/) — This was the vine, from which he subsequently learnt to extract a juice which formed a most exhilarating beverage. - [1278](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1278/) — These three were Acheron (sorrow), Cocytus (lamentation), and Styx (intense darkness), the sacred stream which flowed nine times round these realms. - [1284](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1284/) — The occupations and amusements of the happy shades were of the same nature as those which they had delighted in whilst on earth. - [1611](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1611/) — The NEREIDES were the daughters of Nereus and Doris, and were nymphs of the Mediterranean Sea. - [1828](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1828/) — The place of honour beside the hearth was occupied by the statue of the Lar of the house, who was supposed to have been the founder of the family. - [1850](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1850/) — Among the Lacedaemonians, however, we find no vestiges of these stately temples, for they were specially enjoined by a law of Lycurgus to serve the gods with as little outlay as possible. - [1969](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/1969/) — It was solemnized exclusively by women, who, dressed in white garments, wandered about with torches in their hands, to represent the search of the goddess for her daughter Proserpine. - [2112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2112/) — Athamas, king of Boeotia, had married Nephele, a cloud-nymph, and their children were Helle and Phryxus. - [2162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2162/) — Pollux, who was the best pugilist in Greece, was selected as their champion, and a contest took place, which, after a tremendous struggle, proved fatal to Amycus, who had hitherto been victorious in all similar encounters. - [2265](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2265/) — He stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth from the wound. - [2280](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2280/) — Though justly enraged at his deceitful conduct, Medea dissembled her wrath, and, feigning to be satisfied with this explanation, sent, as a wedding-gift to her rival, a magnificent robe of cloth-of-gold. - [2300](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2300/) — But in this emergency Poseidon came to the aid of the son of Tantalus. - [2332](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2332/) — The hide of the animal he wore ever afterwards over his shoulders, and the head served him as a helmet. - [2411](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2411/) — During his wanderings he undertook his ninth labour, which was to bring to Eurystheus the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons. 9. - [2484](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2484/) — But although the king treated him with marked respect and honour he refused, nevertheless, to give him the hand of his daughter, fearing for her a similar fate to that which had befallen Megara. - [2518](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2518/) — But her cries were heard by her husband, who without hesitation shot Nessus through the heart with one of his poisoned arrows. - [2635](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/2635/) — After the death of Hippolyte Theseus sought the hand of Phaedra, the sister of his former bride Ariadne, to whom he became united. - [3005](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3005/) — Here they found the gigantic wooden horse, which they examined with wondering curiosity, various opinions being expressed with regard to its utility. - [3103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3103/) — When they arrived in the city they discovered to their consternation that they had set foot in the land of the Laestrygones, a race of fierce and gigantic cannibals, governed by their king Antiphates. - [3330](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3330/) — Areopagus (a-re-op'-a-gus), 44, 113, 212. - [3706](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3706/) — Hymen (hi'-men), or Hymenaeus (hi-me-nee'-us), 154. - [3814](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/3814/) — Mares of Diomedes, 243 Marpessa (mar-pes'-sah), 75. - 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