Mortal men · Atlas

in the texts

Hymn 30 to EarthClassical · Greek

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 30 to earth ¶

Hymn 32 To SeleneClassical · Greek

Human observers for whom Selene's cycle serves as a sign.

So she is a sure token and a sign to mortal men.

hymn 32 to selene ¶

Hymn 5 to AphroditeClassical · Greek

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.

hymn 5 to aphrodite ¶

-->“Anchises, most glorious of mortal men, take courage and be not too fearful in your heart.

hymn 5 to aphrodite ¶

But of all others there is nothing among the blessed gods or among mortal men that has escaped Aphrodite.

hymn 5 to aphrodite ¶