Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthshaker
Literary usage of Earthshaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Isles and Shrines of Greece by Samuel June Barrows (1898)
"ZANTE THE WORK OF THE earthshaker POOR Zante! When first I saw her, from the
heights of Cephalonia, she was lying peacefully, like a brooch, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1921)
"Thus gathered they within the doors of Zeus; nor was the earthshaker heedless of
the goddess' call, but from the salt sea came up after the rest, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... gave to their god of the ocean, Poseidon, the epithet of the earthshaker ;
while the Jews, possessed by a truer inspiration, spoke of God as the root of ..."
4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"... copying his verbal antitheses and other affectations, and especially his
scolding of Poseidon, the earthshaker. For the pious Julian seems to have been ..."
5. The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence by Adolf Holm (1906)
"Here also he is in agreement with the popular notion of the earthshaker Poseidon.
His attempts to penetrate the secrets of nature were continued by a ..."
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