Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: life in Delos, or that Endymion slept in the cave of Latmos. No sooner, we are told, had he come to his full strength than he delivered the Kyklopes (Cyclopes) from Tartaros, and obtained the aid of the hundred-handed giants, the Hekatoncheires, in his war against the Titans. In this struggle, according to the story followed by Eschylus, he had the help of Prometheus, son of Deukalion, and was thus able to dethrone his father, Kronos. But his gratitude was afterwards turned into hatred, from a cause which shows how completely the mythical Zeus was distinct from the Zeus whom the swineherd Eumaios worshipped, and of whom the Hesiodic poet thought when he spoke of the righteous ruler and judge of all mankind. Under the sway of Zeus, the lord of the glistening firmament, Prometheus. it is said, found the race of men grovelling in the lowest depths of misery, without clothing, without dwellings, without fire.1 From him they learnt the use of fire, which he stole from heaven, and brought to them in the hollow of a reed ; and so began the new order of things in which they gradually groped their way into a condition more befitting creatures who have the power of thought and speech. For these great deeds done for the benefit of beings whom he hated or despised, Zeus condemned Prometheus to be chained on the rugged crags of Caucasus, where a vulture gnawed his liver, which grew as fast as it was devoured. So soon as, in accordance with the meaning of the name, Zeus was regarded as the lord of the upper air, it became certain that the same process would go on in refer- The olympian ence to other parts or aspects of the material world. Z:Us- Thus the story grew up that the Kyklopes (Cyclopes) gave to Zeus a thunderbolt, to his brother Hades a helmet which made the wearer invisible,2 and t...