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 THE GREEK GODS 33 Prometheus : Hesiod, Theog. 510 ; Aeschylus, Prometheus Vinctus ; Vergil, Eel. vi. 42 ; Hyginus, Fab. cxliv. ; Cowper, Translation from Milton, Epigram on the Inventor of Guns: Praise in old time the sage Prometheus won, Who stole ethereal radiance from the sun ; But greater he whose bold invention strove To emulate the fiery bolts of Jove. Translation from Milton, To his Father : - Man's heavenly source, and which retaining still Some scintillations of Promethean fire, Bespeaks him animated from above. Shak., Love's Labour's Lost iv. 3, 304, Othello v. 2, 12, Titus An- dronicus ii. 1, 17. Pandora: Hyginus, Fab. cxlii.; Milton, Par. L. iv. 714: More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endow'd with all their gifts. Pallas Athena (Minerva) : Hesiod, Theog. 923 : Aurds 5' K K(f>aijs 7avAcc67rt5a yelvar' ^KQivrv^ Homer, II. ii. 157, i. passim ; Ovid, Fast. iii. 5 : Ipse vides manibus peragi fera bella Minervae : Num minus ingenuis artibus ilia vacat ? Ars Arnat. i. 625, 745 ; Vergil, Aen. v. 704, ii. passim ; Horace, Ars Poet. 385 : Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva. Pope, The Dunciad i. 10 : Ere Pallas issued from the Thund'rer's head. Gorgones : Ovid, Met. iv. 618 ; Vergil, Aen. vi. 289 ; Milton, Comus 447 : What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield That wise Minerva wore, unconquer'd virgin, Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal'd stone? Browning, Protus 4 : Loric and low-browed Gorgon on the breast. Erechtheus: Vergil, Geor. iii. 113; Hyginus, Fab. clxvi. Arachne : Ovid, Met. vi. 5 sq. Graeae: Hesiod, Theog. 270. D