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Hylas (hī`ləs), in Greek mythology, beautiful youth. He was a favorite companion of Hercules. While on the expedition of the Argonauts, Hylas was dragged into a spring by water nymphs enchanted by his beauty and was never found. Hylas boy beloved by Heracles is carried off by the nymphs after he draws water from their fountain. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 476] See : Abduction Hylas Hercules’ servant; so captivates Naiads, they abduct him. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 158] See : Beauty, Masculine How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Black: A Celebration of a Culture Hylas Publishing, December 2003, $35, ISBN 1-592-58051-3 In such a climate of duplicity, the baldpate shepherd Hylas -- who has the singular merit of practicing the inconstancy he preaches and thus eliciting with ease the admiration and love of women -- deftly crafts sophistic paradoxes which support his professed beliefs. Berkeley's sleep and awakening represent Johnson's allusion to Bishop Berkeley's view in Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous of what happens to the world when all modes of perception are extinguished: Hylas says, "Suppose you were annihilated, cannot you conceive it possible that things perceivable by sense still exist? |
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