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The Queen of the Air - Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
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Title: The Queen of the Air
Author: John Ruskin
Release Date: June 17, 2004 [eBook #12641]
Language: English
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THE QUEEN OF THE AIR
Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
BY
JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
I. ATHENA CHALINITIS. (Athena in the Heavens.) Lecture on the Greek myths of Storm, given (partly) in University College, London, March 9, 1869.
II. ATHENA KERAMITIS. (Athena in the Earth.) Study, supplementary to the preceding lecture, of the supposed and actual relations of Athena to the vital force in material organism.
III. ATHENA ERGANE. (Athena in the Heart.) Various notes relating to the Conception of Athena as the Directress of the Imagination and Will.
PREFACE
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