Chapter 5: The Line of Deukalion
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♠ Il 9.567 – Homer, Iliad
for she prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother’s slaying. Greek Text
♠ Bak 5.128-29 – Bakchylides
Then I killed, among many others, Iphiclus and noble Aphares, my mother’s swift brothers. Greek Text
♠ ApB 1.7.10 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
Thestius had daughters and sons by Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea: the daughters were Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra, and the males were Iphiclus, Evippus, Plexippus, and Eurypylus. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 10a.49-54 MW – Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, pp. 227-30, ed. Solmsen. 3d ed. Oxford 1990.
and quick-glancing Eureite, similar to the Charites, [50] whom Porthaon, son of the son of Peuron (i.e. Agenor), possessed; and she bore him blameless children in the halls, Oineus, and Alkathoos, and horseman Agrios, and horse-taming Melas, unsated with the mighty war-cry; and Pylos, the youngest, was born in the well-built hall. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 26 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 16-18, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ ApB 1.7.10 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
Porthaon and Euryte, daughter of Hippodamas, had sons, Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and a daughter Sterope, who is said to have been the mother of the Sirens by Achelous. Greek Text
♠ ApB 1.3.4 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
and Melpomene had by Achelous the Sirens, of whom we shall speak in treating of Ulysses. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2022
