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The Queen of the Air

Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

by John Ruskin

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The book is The Queen of the Air, Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm, by John Ruskin. One section is described as a lecture on the Greek myths of Storm, given partly in University College, London, on March 9, 1869. The contents also list a study, supplementary to the preceding lecture, of the supposed and actual relations of Athena to the vital force in material organism. Various notes relating to the Conception of Athena as the Directress of the Imagination and Will are listed as well.

The text says the story of Hercules and the Hydra was to the general Greek mind, in its best days, a tale about a real hero and a real monster. The text asks the reader to measure the mythic power of the hyacinth and asphodel as connected with Greek thoughts of immortality.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era and an influential social thinker whose ideas on art, labor, and society shaped movements from the Pre-Raphaelites to the welfare state.