Chapter 9, Theseus’ Later Exploits
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♠ Hellanikos 4F134 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 139, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957
♠ Euripides, Herakles 1169-70
Wherefore I came making recompense for the former kindness of Heracles in saving me from the world below. Greek Text
♠ Athenaios, The Deipnosophists 11.496b (11.93)
and the author of the Pirithous names them (whoever he was, whether Critias the tyrant, or Euripides), saying,—
That with well-omen’d words we now may pour
These plemochoæ into the gulf below. Greek Text
♠ Tzetzes pp. 546-47 N² – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1889.
♠ Plutarch, Moralia 98c – vol. 2, pp. 64-65, ed. F. C. Babbitt, Cambridge, Mass., 1957.
Greek Text and English Translation
♠ Critias fr 6 Sn – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 1, p. 175, ed. B. Snell. Göttingen 1971.
♠ POxy 3531 – Papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus, as published in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series, Vol. L 1983
♠ Horace, Odes 3.4.79-80
Three hundred chains confine the lover, Peirithoos (Transl. T. Gantz) Latin Text
♠ Horace, Odes 4.7.27-28
and Theseus is not strong enough to break the Lethaean chains from dear Pirithous. (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey). Latin Text
♠ Apollodorus, Epitome 1.24
But when Theseus arrived with Pirithous in Hades, he was beguiled; for, on the pretence that they were about to partake of good cheer, Hades bade them first be seated on the Chair of Forgetfulness, to which they grew and were held fast by coils of serpents. Pirithous, therefore, remained bound for ever, but Hercules brought Theseus up and sent him to Athens. Greek Text
Berlin, Antikensammlung 30035, Attic red-figure lekythos with Peirithoos in Hades
J.D. Beazley, Attic red-figured Vases in American Museum (1918), p. 137, Fig. 85
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser
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Edited by Aaron J. Ivey, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, Univ. of Georgia, June 2016; and by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, July 2016.
Literary sources updated by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, May 2023.
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