Chapter 1: The Early Gods
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♠ Th 791-92 – Hesiod, Theogony
he winds about the earth and the sea’s wide back, and then falls into the main; but the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore trouble to the gods. Greek text
♠ Od 11.13-19 – Homer, Odyssey
She came to deep-flowing Oceanus, that bounds the Earth, where is the land and city of the Cimmerians, wrapped in mist and cloud. Never does the bright sun look down on them with his rays either when he mounts the starry heaven or when he turns again to earth from heaven, but baneful night is spread over wretched mortals. Greek Text
♠ Mim 12 W – Mimnermos in Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, pp. 86-87, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972.
Ath. 469f-70b
And Mimnermos in his Nannoi says that Helios, when he is asleep, is carried to the east, lying on a golden bed made for this express purpose by Hephaistos; with this he implies that the cup is hollow; so he says:
For Helios received a task every day, nor there is ever any rest for his horses or for him after rosy-fingered Eos, having left Okeanos, mounts up into the sky. [5] For through the waves a lovely intricate bed carries him over the surface of the water, made by the hands of Hephaistos, of precious gold, winged, as he pleasantly sleeps from the land of the Hesperides to the region of the Ethiopians where his swift chariot and his horses [10] stand until early-born Eos comes; then the son of Hyperion mounts his chariot again. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Stes 185 PMG – Stesichoros in Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 100-1, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Tit fr 8 – Titanomachia fr 8, Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 14, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
Athen. 11, 470b But Theolytos, in the second book of the Annals (FGrHist 478 F 1), says that he [the Sun] sailed in a cauldron, and that the first person to say this was the author of the Titanomachia. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Il 18.607-8 – Homer, Iliad
Therein he set also the great might of the river Oceanus, around the uttermost rim of the strongly-wrought shield. Greek Text
♠ Il 21.195-97 – Homer, Iliad
nor the great might of deep-flowing Ocean, from whom all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, July 2020
