10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THYESTIAN»
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1
When the going gets tough
The specific charges were that they were engaging in the practice of "Atheism,
Thyestian Feasts and Oedipodean Intercourse." Can you imagine the Christians
being accused of atheism by pagans? The pagans worshiped a multiplicity of
gods ...
2
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
Her thought rushes like a herald into the past time, guided on by the smell of
blood which springs up from the crimes of the Thyestian house. The
assassination of Agamemnon is' performed before her eyes, and she describes it
with phrenzied ...
3
Essays on Varous subjects
We cannot but trust that many minds of a generous cast will be more easily
undeceived by exposure of this eagerness to condemn Rome, at 1 We have
tasted of these supposed feasts (which would almost deserved to be called
Thyestian, ...
4
The history of Christianity: from the birth of Christ to the ...
Some heathen slaves were at length compelled, by the dread of torture, to
confirm the odious charges which were so generally advanced against the
Christians: banquets on human flesh; promiscuous and incestuous concubinage;
Thyestian ...
Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock,
1855
5
Fiction as History: Nero to Julian
We know from the famous letter of the younger Pliny to the emperor Trajan, as
well as from ecclesiastical texts, that the story of the eucharist and the rite
enjoined by Jesus had led to disreputable reports, culminating in accounts of
Thyestian ...
6
The Early Christian World
The chargesofatheism, Thyestian mealsand Oedipodean intercourse have no
foundation;if they weretrue, Christians would request their own destruction. There
have been proper atheists like Diagoras who denied all divine existence and ...
[Their loves, their nuptials, their separation, the cruel injury inflicted on his
hamstring, his Thyestian and winged vengeance, See. present an inviting subject
to any poet whose imagination may delight to revel among the wild fictions of ...
8
Thrice-Greatest Hermes [volume 3]
Thrice-unknown Darkness, ii. 25. Throne, of Necessity, i. 447 ; of Truth, ii. 109,
173. Thrones, iii. 101. Through the Word, ii. 255. Thueris, i. 290. Thyestian
banquets, i. 444. Thyiades, i. 310, 311, 312. Thyrsus, i. 311. Tiarnat, i. 60.
Tiedemann, i.
9
Mark as Recovery Story: Alcoholism and the Rhetoric of ...
170-71), quoting Gustaf Dalman's dictum that the more scandalous the reading
the more likely it will be historical, he points out that the susceptibility of Mark's "
this is my blood" to a Thyestian (blood-drinking) interpretation and the possibility
...
10
The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author
At that tasted fruit The sun, as from Thyestian banquet, turned His course
intended ; else, how had the world Inhabited, though sinless, more than now,
Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat ? [duced These changes in the
Heavens, though ...
John Milton, Elijah Fenton,
1822