Word: oceanus
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...this time the ethical conceptions were very imperfectly developed, but now the growth of an ethical motive began. Homer represented the dead in an under world, and beyond Oceanus. The Erinnyes were mentioned as the punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
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