Euripidis Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1913.
69. +Transliteration: ti m' anainei, ti me pheugeis. Translation:
"Why do you reject me, why do you run from me?" Bacchae 519. Euripidis
Fabulae, ed. Gilbert Murray, vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.
THE MYTH OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE: I
[81] No chapter in the history of human imagination is more curious
than the myth of Demeter, and Kore or Persephone. Alien in some
respects from the genuine traditions of Greek mythology, a relic of
the earlier inhabitants of Greece, and having but a subordinate place
in the religion of Homer, it yet asserted its interest, little by
little, and took a complex hold on the minds of the Greeks, becoming
finally the central and most popular subject of their national
worship. Following its changes, we come across various phases of
Greek culture, which are not without their likenesses in the modern
mind. We trace it in the dim first period of instinctive popular
conception; we see it connecting itself with many impressive elements
of art, and poetry, and religious custom, with the picturesque
superstitions of the many, and with the finer intuitions of the few;
and besides this, it is in itself full of [82] interest and
suggestion, to all for whom the ideas of the Greek religion have any
real meaning in the modern world.
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