Chapter 7: The Royal House of Athens
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♠ DS 4.59.5 – Diodoros Siculus, Library of History
After this he put to death Procrustes, as he was called, who dwelt in what was known as Corydallus in Attica. Greek Text
♠ Met 7.438 – Ovid, Metamorphoses
And fierce Procrustes, matched with you
beside the rapid river, met his death. Latin Text
♠ Ovid, Ibis 407
As Sinis and Sciron and Polypemon with his son. Latin Text
♠ ApE 1.4 – Apollodorus, Epitome
Sixth, he slew Damastes, whom some call Polypemon. Greek Text
♠ Thes 11.1 – Plutarch, Theseus
at Erineus, he killed Damastes, surnamed Procrustes, by compelling him to make his own body fit his bed, as he had been wont to do with those of strangers. Greek Text
♠ Paus 1.38.5 – Pausanias, Description of Greece
Near this Cephisus Theseus killed a brigand named Polypemon and surnamed Procrustes. Greek Text
♠ Fab 38 – Hyginus Fabulae
He killed Procrustes, son of Neptune. Latin Text
London, British Museum E36: Attic red-figure cup with Theseus and Prokroustes
C.H. Smith, Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, vol. 3 (1896), pl. 2
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Florence, Museo Archeologico 91456: Attic red-figure cup with Theseus and Prokroustes
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Paris Louvre, G104: Attic red-figure cup by Onesimos with Theseus and Prokroustes
A. Furtwaengler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, 1932), pl. 141
Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser
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Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional 11265: Attic red-figure cup by Aison with Theseus and Prokroustes
G. Leroux, Vases grecs et italo-grecs du Musée Archéologique de Madrid (1912), pl. 27
G. Leroux, Vases grecs et italo-grecs du Musée Archéologique de Madrid (1912), pl. 26
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1937.983: Attic red-figure calyx krater by the Dinos Painter with Theseus and Prokroustes
J. D. Beazley, “Prometheus Fire-Lighter,” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 43 (1939), 619 fig. 1 and pl. 10
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♠ DS 4.59.5 – Diodoros Siculus, Library of History
After this he put to death Procrustes, as he was called, who dwelt in what was known as Corydallus in Attica; this man compelled the travellers who passed by to lie down upon a bed, and if any were too long for the bed he cut off the parts of their body which protruded, while in the case of such as were too short for it he stretched (prokrouein) their legs, this being the reason why he was given the name Procrustes. Greek Text
♠ Σ Hipp 977 – Scholion to Euripides, Hippolytos – Scholia in Euripidem 2, pp. 109-10, ed. E. Schwartz. Berlin 1891.
♠ Thes 11.1 – Plutarch, Theseus
See above
♠ ApE 1.4 – Apollodorus, Epitome
Sixth, he slew Damastes, whom some call Polypemon. He had his dwelling beside the road, and made up two beds, one small and the other big; and offering hospitality to the passers-by, he laid the short men on the big bed and hammered them, to make them fit the bed; but the tall men he laid on the little bed and sawed off the portions of the body that projected beyond it. Greek Text
♠ Fab 38 – Hyginus Fabulae
He killed Procrustes, son of Neptune. When a guest came to visit him, if he was rather tall, he brought a shorter bed, and cut off the rest of his body; if rather short, he gave him a longer bed, and by hanging anvils to him stretched him to match the length of the bed. Latin Text
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Edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown Univ., July 2016; and by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, November 2016.
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2023
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