Word: milesians
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...monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what is it?' through his whiskers...
Homer's anthropomorphism caused the gods to dominate the life of the Greeks. Consider, for instance, the supersititious terror about the mutilation of the Hermes, the Eleusinian mysteries, etc. The "Milesian Spirit" in the Iliad is illustrated by the numerous battles between the gods favorable to the Greeks and those favorable to the Trojans, and by the marriage between Zeus and Hera, often called the trickery of Zeus...
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