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From the time of Peter the Athonite to Adolf the paper hanger, the great rocky promontory of Athos, jutting into the Aegean like a prong of Poseidon's three-forked scepter, has been a place of refuge -for men only. No woman has knowingly been allowed to desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish...
Perhaps no other people have had the healthy animation and the sensitive and earnest imagination of the Greeks. Nature held for them a kind of religious ecstasy: the mountain, the water, and the wood were peopled with divinities. There was Athena, queen of the air; there was Poseidon, god of the sea; Hephaestus, god of fire; Hermes, messenger and herald of the gods. Alas, that such a way of looking at nature should ever pass away...
...Story of The Odyssey, as every schoolboy used to know, is the tale of wily Odysseus' wanderings after the fall of Troy. Ten long years he and his comrades were buffeted about from disaster to disaster before hostile Poseidon, god of the sea, would...
Able Seaman Thomas Morris had one more month of submarine service in Britain's Navy. His wife had the days marked on a calendar. Last summer when the Poseidon sank off the coast of China with 20 men, Able Seaman Morris saved himself by jumping over the side as she went down. Last week he was aboard the M-2 off the Bill of Portland in that part of the English Channel known as "Dead Man's Bay" because of the number of ships wrecked there during the War. At 10:30 one morning the M-2 radioed...
Then divers descended and hammered a Morse-code query against the Poseidon's hull. The return tap-taps indicated that at least eight of the 18 were alive. A day passed and the taps from the Poseidon ceased. The British Admiralty decided that the 18 men were dead...