Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... Cyclops--Diana 51 taur mentioned. Both names are mentioned in North's Plutarch, Theseus, p. 49. Danae (?).--Rom. 1. 1. 220. See Jupiter. Daphne.--Mids. 2. 1. 231; Troil. 1. 1. 101; Shr. Ind. 2. 61. See Apollo. Destiny, Destinies.--See Fate. Deucalion.--Cor. 2. 1. 102; Wint. 4. 4. 441; (Cses. 1. 2. 152). Deucalion is mentioned twice in plays with classical setting as equivalent to Noah, i. e. as the common ancestor of the race, or as one standing in the dawn of history. Cf. 'Since before Noah was a sailor, ' Tw. 3. 2. 18. The 'great flood' of Ges. 1. 2. 152 is probably Deucalion's. For the story see Met. 1. 313 seq. Diana. It is as patroness and type of chastity that Shakespeare most often alludes to Diana. These allusions, of which there are sixteen in the authentic plays, cover the whole range of Shakespeare's activity from Mids. to Cymb., and are pretty evenly divided between tragedies and comedies, but never occur in the histories. In this capacity, Diana is antithetic to Cupid (or Venus). The antithesis is expressed in Rom. 1. 1. 215; Ado 4. 1. 58; Alls 1. 3. 218; 2. 3. 80. In Mids. 4. 1. 76, Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power, Steevens sees an allusion to the Agnus Castus, 'the virtue of which is that he will keep man and woman chaste' (see the Chaucerian Flower and the Leaf 472-5). The line is more simply explained by Ado 4. 1. 58: You seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown. Still the context would seem to show that 'Cupid's flower' is the 'love-in-idleness' of 2. 1. 168, and we not unnaturally expect a particular flower to counteract its charm. It is noticeable that as patroness of chastity, Shakespeare mentions the divinity by only one name, Diana (or Dian). Next in..
