# Address delivered at the quarter-centennial celebration of the admission of Kansas as a state

Author: Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51607

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## Summary

In Grecian mythology it is related that Zeus, warned by an oracle that the son of his spouse, Metis, would snatch supremacy from him, swallowed both Metis and her unborn child. When the time of birth arrived, Zeus felt a violent pain in his head, and in his agony requested Hephæstus to cleave the head open with an ax. His request was complied with, and from the brain of the great god sprang Athena, full-armed, and with a mighty war-shout. She at once assumed a high place among the divinities of Olympus. She first took part in the discussions of the gods as an opponent of the savage Ares. She gave counsel to her father against the giants; and she slew Enceládus, the most powerful of those...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/address-delivered-at-the-quarter-centennial-celebration-of-the-c3f5a68f/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/address-delivered-at-the-quarter-centennial-celebration-of-the-c3f5a68f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/address-delivered-at-the-quarter-centennial-celebration-of-the-c3f5a68f/chapters/3/index.md)