Chapter 6: Other Early Families
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♠ ApB 2.1.4 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
Libya had by Poseidon twin sons, Agenor and Belus. Greek Text
♠ Py 4.14-15 – Pindar, Pythian Odes
For I say that from this wave-washed land one day the daughter of Epaphus [15] will have planted in her a root of cities that are dear to men. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 127 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 61, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 128 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 62, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 129 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 62-63, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
P. Oxy. 2487 fr. 1, ed. Lobel
. . . gave . . . [paid ba]ck a great harm. . . . then b[ore blam]eless Abas . . . in the lofty palace . . . [who] rivaled [the Oly]mpians [in sightliness;] . . . [fa]ther of men and gods . . . and to mount the same bed; [and she bore Proitos] and Akrisios the king.
[And the] father of [me]n an[d of go]ds s[ettled them: Akrisios] was k[i]ng in well-buil[t A]rgos . . . rugged . . . [Eury]dike . . . [o]f Lakedai[mo]n . . . [fair-]cheeked, well fur[nishe]d with wi[ts.
And she bore] f[a]ir-ankle[d Dana]e [in her h]a[lls, who bore Perseus, mi]g[ht]y in[st]ille[r] of fear. [But Proitos dwelt in Tiry]ns, a well-[b]ui[l]t city, [and he married the daughte]r of great-hearted [Apheida]s so[n] of Arkas, S[th]eneboi[a] of beau[tiful] locks. . . . cow-eyed Sthen[e]boia . . . mounting the same bed, [the daughter of gr]eat-h[e]arte[d Apheidas s]on of Arkas . . . s who knew [most b]eautiful works, [Lysippe and Iphi]noe and Iphianassa, . . . palace of their father . . . (Tansl. Silvio Curtis)
♠ Danais fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 122, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Σ Or 872 – Scholia to Euripides, Orestes – Scholia in Euripidem 1, p. 185, ed. E. Schwartz. Berlin 1887.
The tragedian Phrynikos says that Aigyptos came to Argos with his sons. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
same as
♠ Phrynikos, Aigyptioi fr 1 – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 1, p. 72, ed. B. Snell. Göttingen 1971.
Aigyptos came to Argos with his sons. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hekataios FGrH 1F19 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 12, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2024.
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