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
♠ Hes fr 127 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 61, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Schol. Eur. Or. 872 (i. 184. 20 Schwartz)
Most people maintain that Aigyptos did not come to Argos, as Hekataios and others say (1 F 19) writing thus: “Aigyptos himself did not go to Argos, but his sons did, fifty of them, as Hesiod says, or not even twenty, as I say.” (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hes fr 128 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 62, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Hes fr 129 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in 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.
and then the daughters of Danaos quickly armed themselves by the fair-flowing river Nile, the king. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ 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 1F19 FGrH – 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.
