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Updated: June 13, 2025
Sirens and Tritons had disported themselves in this sea, the bluest and the beautifullest, the one sea that mattered, more important than all the oceans; the oceans might dry up to-morrow for all he cared so long as this sea remained; and with the story of Theseus and "lonely Ariadne on the wharf at Naxos" ringing in his ears he looked to the north-east, whither lay the Cyclades and Propontis.
The exertions of Clinias, although they proved unavailing, were gratefully acknowledged by the present of a large silver bowl, on which the skilful artificer, Mys, had represented, with exquisite delicacy, the infant Dionysus watched by the nymphs of Naxos. In the midst of this generosity, the services of Geta and Milza were not forgotten.
Then quickly rose the lowland city of Naxos, and by the river sprang up the temple to Guiding Apollo, the earliest shrine of the Sicilian Greeks, where they came ever afterward to pray for a prosperous voyage when they would go across the sea, homeward.
"In fact, I was astonished that, with your eminence's excellent memory," replied Athos, smiling, "you had not recognized me before." "Always refractory and grumbling monsieur monsieur What do they call you? Stop a name of a river Potamos; no the name of an island Naxos; no, per Giove! the name of a mountain Athos! now I have it.
There is a God that wields the rod Above: by him alone The Greek shall be free, when the Mede shall flee In shame from Marathon. He comes; and o'er the bright AEgean, Where his masted army came, The subject isles uplift the paean Of glory to his name. Strong Naxos, strong Ere'tria yield; His captains near the shore Of Marathon's fair and fateful field, Where a tyrant marched before.
Aspasia filled a golden basket with Athenian olives, Phoenician dates, and almonds of Naxos, and whispering a brief invocation, placed it on a small altar, before an ivory image of Demeter, which stood in the midst of the table.
On hearing of his sentence Alcibiades is said to have exclaimed, "I will show them that I am still alive." Three months had now been frittered away in Sicily, during which the Athenians had done little or nothing, if we except the acquisition of Naxos and Catana. Nicias now resolved to make an attempt upon Syracuse.
Moreover, the desert rocks of Naxos are here smoothed down to modern drawing-rooms; and the princes who people them, with all the observances of politeness seek to out-wit each other, or to beguile the unfortunate princess, who alone has anything like pretensions to nature. Crebillon, in point of time, comes between Racine and Voltaire, though he was also the rival of the latter.
"Before the old tribes of Hellas created temples to the divinities," says Porphyry in his treatise 'On the Cave of the Nymphs, "they consecrated caverns and grottoes to their service in the island of Crete to Zeus, in Arcadia to Artemis and Pan, in the isle of Naxos to Dionysos." And from caves issued the most famous Grecian oracles, and the mysteries were often celebrated in them.
It mingled with a suggestion of Venice, the eighteenth century Venice of the princes of Naxos how curiously she brought back tags of discarded reading! and of the rococo Viennese court. This much he grasped; but the secret of her fascination, of what, at heart, she represented, what in her had happened to love, entirely escaped him.
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