id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-71	Yates, Velvet	The Titanic Origin of Humans: The Melian Nymphs and Zagreus	2004	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6131	235	60	The second part examines the afterlife of Hesiod’s Melian Nymphs over a thousand years later, in the allegorizing myths of late Neoplatonism, in order to suggest that the Hesiodic myth in which the Melian Nymphs primarily figure, namely the castration of Ouranos, has close similarities to a central Neoplatonic myth, that of Zagreus. In this case, line 564 9 Most 109–110: “First, the bronze race, unlike the preceding two races, is said to have arisen §k meliçn (145): whether Hesiod means ash-trees or tree- nymphs, he is certainly qualifying the bronze men as the earliest members of the human race to which we too belong.”	cache/grbs-71.pdf	txt/grbs-71.txt