[113] Ovid, Metam. 4, 256-270. [114] § 196. [115] § 168. [116] Ovid, Metam. 5, 585-641. [117] Ovid, Metam. 3, 138-252. [118] Apollodorus, 1, 4, § 3. [119] Ovid, Fasti, 5, 537; Iliad, 18, 486, and 22, 29; Odyssey, 5, 121, 274. [120] The story is told by Hyginus in his Fables, and in his Poetical Astronomy. [121] Authorities are Pausanias, 5, 1, §§ 2-4; Ovid, Ars. Am. 3, 83; Tristia, 2, 299; Apollonius, and Apollodorus. [122] From the Endymion, Bk. 3. [123] § 194. [124] Ovid, Metam. 10, 503-559, 708-739. [125] From an elegy intended to be sung at one of the spring celebrations in memory of Adonis. Translated from Bion by Andrew Lang. _Cypris_, _Cytherea_, and the _Paphian_ refer to Venus. See Commentary. This elegy is also translated by Mrs. Browning and by Sir Edwin Arnold. [126] Apuleius, Metam. Golden Ass, 4, 28, etc. [127] William Morris, The Story of Cupid and Psyche, in The Earthly Paradise. [128] Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche. [129] The last three paragraphs are from Pater's version in Marius the Epicurean. [130] William Morris, The Earthly Paradise. [131] By T. K. Hervey. [132] Ovid, Metam. 10, 560-680. [133] From W. S. Landor's Hippomenes and Atalanta. [134] The poetical passages are from Marlowe's Hero and Leander, First Sestiad. Marlowe's narrative was completed by Chapman. See Musæus of Alexandria, De Amore Herois et Leandri; Virg. Georg. 3, 258; Ovid, Her. 18, 19; Stat. Theb. 6, 770. [135] Sonnet, On a Picture of Leander. [136] Ovid, Metam. 10, 243-297. [137] Andrew Lang, The New Pygmalion. [138] From William Morris, Pygmalion and the Image, in The Earthly Paradise. [139] Andrew Lang, The New Pygmalion, or The Statue's Choice. A witty and not unpoetic bit of burlesque. [140] Ovid, Metam. 4, 55-166. [141] § 100, and Commentary. [142] Murray, Manual of Mythology, p. 87; Ovid, Metam. 10, 298-502. [143] See Index for sections. [144] Hymn to Mercury (Hermes). CHAPTER VIII MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF EARTH =110. Myths of Bacchus.= Since the adventures of Ceres, although she was a goddess of earth, are intimately connected with the life of the underworld, they will be related in the sections pertaining to Proserpine and Pluto. The god of vernal sap and vegetation, of the gladness that comes of youth or of wine, the golden-curled, sleepy-eyed Bacchus (Dionysus),--his wanderings, and the fortunes of mortals brought under his influence (Pentheus, Acetes, Ariadne, and Midas), here challenge our attention. [Illustration: FIG. 82. SILENUS TAKING DIONYSUS TO SCHOOL]