The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 118)

Chapter 2: The Olympians

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Pindar fr 70b.21 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 74, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.

in Bacchic orgies (transl. E Bianchelli)

Sophokles OT (Oidipous Tyrannos, Oedipus Rex) 211

ruddy Bacchus  Greek Text

Euripides, Likymnios fr 477 N² – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, p. 508 , ed. A. Nauck, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1889.

Lord laurel-loving Bakchos, Paian Apollo skilled in the lyre (Transl. E. Bianchelli) Greek Text

Aischylos fr 341 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 412, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

ivied Apollo, Bacchic seer (Transl. E Bianchelli)

Alkman 7 PMGPoetae Melici Graeci, p. 27, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962

Aischylos, Eumenides 25

he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war  Greek Text

Pratinas 708 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 367, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962

Pindar fr 70b SM – Pindarus 2, pp. 73-75, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.

Pindar fr 75 SM – Pindarus 2, pp. 81-82, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.

Aischylos, Eumenides 24

Bromius has held the region —I do not forget him  Greek Text

Sophokles, Antigone 1149-54

son begotten of Zeus, appear, my king, with your attendant Thyiads, who in night-long frenzy dance and sing you as Iacchus the Giver!  Greek Text

Sophokles fr 959 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, p. 596, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.

Whence saw I Nysa, indwelt by Bakchos, famed among mortals, the land which bull-horned Iakchos deems sweetest to himself …?  (Transl. Mary Emerson)

Aischylos fr 382 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 432, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

father Theoinos (God of wine), yoker of the Mainades (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

Alkmaionis fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 33, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

Revered Gaia, and Zagreus highest of all the gods  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

Aischylos, Sisyphos fr 228 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 339, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

Aischylos, Aigyptioi fr 5 – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 125, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

Zagreus (= Hades) (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

♠ Euripides, Kretes fr 79 Aus – Nova fragmenta Euripidea in papyris reperta, ed. C. Austin. Berlin 1968

Euripides, Kretes fr 472 N ² – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, pp. 405-6, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1889.

Greek Text

Kallimachos fr 43.117 Pf – Callimachus, ed. R. Pfeiffer, vol. 1, p. 54. Oxford 1949

Having given birth to a son Dionysos Zagreus (Tranls. E. Bianchelli)

Kallimachos, apparatus to fr. 43.117 Pf – Callimachus, ed. R. Pfeiffer, vol. 1, p. 54. Oxford 1949

Zagreus, Dionysus among the poets; in fact it seems that Zeus lay with Persephone to whom the underworld Dionysos was born.  (Transl E. Bianchelli)

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