man’s skyward gaze from earth to the heaven of Olympus.
Here are earth’s ancient progeny, the Titan brood,
hurled down by the thunderbolt to wallow in the depths 35
of the gulf. Here too saw I the twin sons of Aloeus,
frames of giant bulk, who essayed by force of hand to
pluck down the mighty heavens, and dislodge Jove from
his realm in the sky. I saw too Salmoneus, smitten with
cruel vengeance, while mimicking the fires of Jove and
the rumblings of Olympus. Borne in a four-horse car, a
flaring torch in hand, he was making his triumphal progress 5