Mortal men
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
mortal men · men · Such men · earthly craftsmen · man
in the texts
Hymn 30 to Earth
Human beings whose lives, households, lands, and cities prosper when Earth honors them.
Through you, O queen, men are blessed in their children and blessed in their harvests, and to you it belongs to give means of life to mortal men and to take it away.
Hymn 32 To Selene
Human observers for whom Selene's cycle serves as a sign.
So she is a sure token and a sign to mortal men.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Mortal men are the human class subject to Aphrodite's power, contrasted with gods, and implicated in secrecy about divine unions.
I mated all the immortals with mortal women, making them all subject to my will.
But of all others there is nothing among the blessed gods or among mortal men that has escaped Aphrodite.
long indeed do they live, eating heavenly food and treading the lovely dance among the immortals, and with them the Sileni and the sharp-eyed Slayer of Argus mate in the depths of pleasant caves;