The Age of Fable, Or, Beauties of Mythology
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When Hercules was about to offer sacrifices to the gods in honor of iiis victory he sent to his wife for a white robe to use on the occasion.
Dejanira, thinking it a good opportunity to try her love- spell, steeped the garment in the blood of Nessus. We ore to suppose she took care to wash out all traces of it, but the magic power remained, and as soon as the garment became warm on the body of Hercules, the poison pene- trated into all hift limbs and caused him the most intense iigony. In his f...renzy he seized Lichas, who had brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea. He wrenched off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and with it he tore away whole pieces of his body. In this STOEIES OF GODS AND HEROES. 206 Btate he embarked on board a ship and was convejed home. Dejanira on seeing what she had unwittingly done, hung herself. Hercules, prepared to die, ascended Mount CEta, where he built a funeral pile of trees, gave his bow and, arrows to Philoctetes, and laid himself down on the pile, his head resting on his club, and his lion's skin spread over him.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
When Hercules was about to offer sacrifices to the gods in honor of iiis victory he sent to his wife for a white robe to use on the occasion.
Dejanira, thinking it a good opportunity to try her love- spell, steeped the garment in the blood of Nessus. We ore to suppose she took care to wash out all traces of it, but the magic power remained, and as soon as the garment became warm on the body of Hercules, the poison pene- trated into all hift limbs and caused him the most intense iigony. In his f...renzy he seized Lichas, who had brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea. He wrenched off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and with it he tore away whole pieces of his body. In this STOEIES OF GODS AND HEROES. 206 Btate he embarked on board a ship and was convejed home. Dejanira on seeing what she had unwittingly done, hung herself. Hercules, prepared to die, ascended Mount CEta, where he built a funeral pile of trees, gave his bow and, arrows to Philoctetes, and laid himself down on the pile, his head resting on his club, and his lion's skin spread over him.
What to read after The Age of Fable, Or, Beauties of Mythology?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Bulfinch Thomas to read onlineMoreLess
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