When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja ( Old Norse " fetter ") hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll ( Old Norse " scream "), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground.

When the gods were believed to be duly propitiated ... Armour, weapons, and other things of the kind were ordered to be in readiness, and the ancient spoils gathered from the enemy were taken down from the temples and colonnades.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

When he realizes that his applications of these laws don't work, he gives up his belief in natural law, in favor of a belief in personal gods controlling nature — thus giving rise to religious myths.

When she first appears before gods and mortals, " wonder seized them " as they looked upon her.

When the gods saw that Fenrir was bound they all rejoiced, except Tyr, who had his right hand bitten off by the wolf.

When they make war on the gods, they always lose, since the gods are much more powerful.

When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes, rather than considering them separate deities, the Romans interpreted them as local manifestations or aspects of their own gods, a cultural trait called the interpretatio Romana.

When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers.

When they left, the gods decided that it shouldn't be poured out, but rather kept as a symbol of their peace, and so from the contents they made a man ; Kvasir.

When his work is completed among the living, he takes every form to his heart, because the seed of the gods came into being in his body [...] the healing body of his mother.

When the other gods had found out what Tantalus had done, they put the remaining pieces of Pelops in a cauldron.

When Lucifer gives Hell's key ( and therefore, the ownership of Hell ) to the Sandman, Morpheus himself becomes trapped in a tangled network of threats, promises, and lies, as gods and demons from various pantheons seek ownership of Hell.

When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.

When the ceiling collapsed the next morning, the kidnappers decided he was a prophet and that to hold on to him might offend the gods.

According to Hyginus ' Fabulae, the story runs like this: " When Laodamia, daughter of Acastus, after her husband's loss had spent the three hours which she had asked from the gods, she could not endure her weeping and grief.

Walter Burkert points out, " When in the Iliad Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Olympians who come along, but also all the nymphs and all the rivers ; Okeanos alone remains at his station ", Greek hearers recognized this impossibility as the poet's hyperbole, which proclaimed the universal power of Zeus over the ancient natural world: " the worship of these deities ," Burkert confirms, " is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality.

When Zeus began passing out domains to the various gods, Penthus was not there.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When he saw me coming he turned his radio off.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

When the cloth dried and stiffened, he saw what adjustments had to be made.

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

When his vision cleared he saw the taller one scrambling upward, reaching.

When he reached the dip in the woods, he saw that already the earlier ruts were barely discernible.

When he saw Tommy sitting alone, the tinkling sound stopped.

When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

When the Governor saw that he was confessing his Christianity publicly, not caring what might happen to him, he ordered him not to show up in the city.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When the Byzantine forces saw the entire Ottoman army get on their knees to pray, the Byzantine army was witnessing how united the Ottoman Turks were and this worried them.

" When fighting broke out again, Hinde saw his Batetela allies drop human arms, legs and heads on the road.

When the time came for him to provide a dowry for his daughter, he saw no alternative than to sell his library.

When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's acting — the hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction: