Euhemerism and Its Uses by Syrithe Pugh

Author:Syrithe Pugh [Pugh, Syrithe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781000356601
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Thus he cows his Council, who had dared to demur at his plan to have Jupiter murdered, ‘for they dredde more his yre than to offend Iustyce’ (89). This textbook tyrant (for as Cybele has pleaded, ‘murder is cruelte apperteynyng to vnresonable bestes and to tyrantes,’ p. 63) takes a lively interest in the political potential of the divine status he has been accorded:

for to ample and encrece the splendure of his natyuyte, he named hym self saturne sone of heuen & of erthe. But then as he began to studye how and what maner he myghte enhaunce the resplendour of his felicite by dyuyne mysteryes ffortune torned her back to hym ward. And as ther ne is no thinge in erthe that may abide & endure So hit happend …

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