Post by GateKeeper on Aug 25, 2012 15:29:40 GMT
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 173 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"[Aesacus mourning the death of his beloved Hesperie :] flung himself into the sea. In pity as he fell Tethys received him gently, and as he swam clothed him with feathers; thus the golden chance of death so much desired was never given. The lover, outraged to be forced to live against his will, to find his soul that longed to leave its lamentable home restrained, with new wings on his shoulders flew aloft and once more launched himself into the waves. His feathers broker his fall. In fury then poor Aesacus dived down into the deep trying endlessly to take the road to death. Love made him leans; his jointed legs are long, and long his neck, and long his head extends. He loves the sea; that name of his he keeps, a diver, for he dives into its deep." [N.B. aisakos, is the Greek name for the diver-bird.][/color]
www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisTethys.html
is it navigation?