Chapter 14: Thebes
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♠ Σ Nem 9.30b – Scholia to Pindar, Nemean Odes – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, ed. A. B. Drachmann. Vol. 3, pp. 152-54. Leipzig 1927.
♠ Σ Od 11.326 – Scholia to Homer, Odyssey – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Odysseam 2, pp. 507-8, ed. W. Dindorf. Oxford 1855.
Maira, daughter of Proitos, son of Thersander, and of Anteia, daughter of Aphianax, was outstanding for her beauty. As she placed a very high value on her virginity, she used to follow Artemis to the hunt. Zeus desired her, and he came to her by stealth, and seduced her. She became pregnant and bore a child, Lokros by name, who dwelt at Thebes with Amphion and Zethos. The story goes that Maira was shot by the bow of Artemis because of no longer attending at the hunt. This is told by Pherekydes. V. (Transl. Mary Emerson) Greek Text
♠ Asklepiades 12F29 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 174, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Σ Nem 9.35 – Scholia to Pindar, Nemean Odes – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, ed. A. B. Drachmann. Vol. 3, pp. 154-55. Leipzig 1927.
♠ Il 14.121 – Homer, Iliad
And he [Tydeus] wedded one of the daughters of Adrastus, and dwelt in a house rich in substance. Greek Text
♠ Pherekydes 3F122 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 92-93, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Hes fr 192 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 91, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Schol. T Hom. 23. 679 (vi. 434. 27 Maass), “who once went to Thebes when Oidipous fell dead”
(the variant,) says that he (i.e. Oidipous) died as he was king in Thebes, not as the newer poets claim; and Hesiod too says that when he died in Thebes, Adrastos’ daughter Argeia went with others to Oidipous’ funeral. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2020
