Part 2 — NOTES ON REQUIRED READINGS IN “THE CHAUTAUQUAN.”
Reading edition
WHAT ENGLISH IS.
SUNDAY READINGS.
GLIMPSES OF ANCIENT GREEK LIFE.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
“The flowers the name still bearing which Apollo’s favorite bore, With the syllable of sorrow marked upon them evermore.”
The origin of the hyacinth is also thus related: When Ajax (see notes on “Preparatory Greek”) took his own life there sprung up from his blood a purple flower, bearing the Greek letters which were the initials of his name and expressive of a sigh.