214. Among the ancients Ονὸμα often had this force. It denoted personality. The meaning, therefore, of Herodotus is that the Egyptians taught the Greeks to give their deities proper names, instead of common names. A proper name is the sign of personality.
215. Maury, Religions de la Grèce, III. 263.
216. Diod. Sic., I. 92-96.
217. Gerhard, Griechische Mythologie, § 50, Vol. 1.
218. Mr. Grote (History of Greece, Part I. Chap. 1.) maintains that Heaven, Night, Sleep, and Dream "are Persons, just as much as Zeus and Apollo." I confess that I can hardly understand his meaning. The first have neither personal qualities, personal life, personal history, nor personal experience; they appear only as vast abstractions, and so disappear again.
219. Keats, in his Hyperion, is the only modern poet who has caught the spirit of the mighty Titanic deities and is able to speak
"In the large utterance of the early gods."
220. Pictet, Les Origines Indo-Européenes.
221. B.C. 1104. Döllinger.
222. Die Dorier, X. 9.