Chapter 6: Other Early Families
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♠ Pherekydes 3F12 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 62-63, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
In what comes next, he also says about the death of Akrisios that after the petrification of Polydektes and the people with him by the Gorgon’s head, Perseus leaves Diktys behind in Seriphos to be king of the Seriphians who were left, but he himself went by boat to Argos with the Kyklopes and Danae and Andromeda. (Transl. Silvio Curtis) Greek Text
♠ Hes fr 151 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 75, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Ephorus (in the fourth book, 70 F 42) in Strabo vii. 3. 9 p. 302
Hesiod, in his work called Journey Around the World says that Phineus was taken by the Harpuiai
to the land of the Glaktophagoi (Milk-Eaters) who use wagons as their homes. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hes fr 254 MW – Hesiod, Megalai Ehoiai (Great Catalogue of Women) in Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 124, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Scholion at Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.178 (p.141. 12-15 Wendel)
Hesiod in the Great Catalogue of Women says that Phineus was disabled because he showed the way to Phrixos, and in the third Catalogue, because he chose a long life over eyesight. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Pherekydes 3F27 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 68, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ POxy 1358 – Papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus, as published in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series, Vol. XI (1351-1404), pp. 44-51. London 1915.
♠ AR 2.178 – Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautica
There Phineus, son of Agenor, had his home by the sea. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2024.
