Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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oddesses every harvest-tide, and decked their hair withwreaths of wheat-ears and corn-flowers, as Ceres had adorned her golden tresses in thejoy of being re-united with her child. Thus Sicily owed her wealth and civilization to the beneficence of the kind divinity.And even to this day it is distinguished above all lands for the gifts of Ceres. But alsothe swarms of shining lizards which we see darting out their rapid tongues, and flashing THE ISLAND UNDER THE VEIL OE LEGEND AND HISTORY. swiftly over the old walls, on every road in the island are creations of Ceres. Theirancestor was a brown vintagers boy who mocked at the goddess as she was drinkinghastily in her flight, and whom she sprinkled with the dregs of her draught, and thustransformed him into a restless wall-haunting lizard. Enna, where now Castro-Giovannistands poor and wretched on its brown, steep rock, became the holy central point of theisland—the navel of Sicily, as the Romans called it. And, in truth, one looks hence
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RUINS OF THE ANCIENT THEATRE AT SYRACUSE. over the whole island with its wild green valleys, rugged hills, and blue glimmeringmountains. Here Gelon, after the great victory near Himera, built a splendid temple toCeres. The shores of the island, before agriculture accustomed men to softer manners, wereinhabited by wild people. Near Etna were the Cyclops, the lawless crew of Homer,amongst whom the companions of Ulysses met with a tragic fate. Later they dweltinside Etna, and in the volcanoes of the Lipari islands, and forged thunderbolts forJupiter, and armour for heroes. Also the ferocious and gigantic Laestrygonians lived awild life in their city of Telepylos, and cruelly opposed the landing of foreign ships. Around the .^Eolian islands the winds blew boisterously from the sea, and the fire oftheir volcanoes glowed far and wide across the waters. These islands were once wasteand empty; when Liparos, the son of King Anson, being banished from his home on themainland, wandered hither, a

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