Chapter 6: Other Early Families
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♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 169 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 82, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Simonides 555 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 289 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Pindar fr 74 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 81, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.
♠ ΣA Il 18.486 – Scholia A to Homer, Iliad – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 2, pp. 168-71, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Titanomachia fr 14 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 16, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Astr 2.21.3 – Hyginus, De Astronomia
Alexander says they were called Hyades because they were daughters of Hyas and Boeotia, Pleiades, because born of Pleio, daughter of Ocean, and Atlas. Latin Text
♠ Ovid, Fasti 5.81-84
Tethys, the Titaness, who wedded of old by Ocean, who encompasses the earth, far as it stretches, with his flowing waters. Their daughter Pelione, as report has it, was united to Atlas, who upholds the sky, and she gave birth to the Pleiads. Latin Text
♠ ApB 3.10.1 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia, to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia. Greek Text
♠ Mousaios 2B18 – Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 1, pp. 25-26, ed. H Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed. Berlin 1951.
♠ W&D 619-20 – Hesiod, Works and Days
when the Pleiades plunge into the misty sea [620] to escape Orion’s rude strength Greek Text
♠ Katast 32 – Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Katasterismoi – Mythographi Graeci 3.1, pp. 37-39, ed. A. Olivieri. Leipzig 1897.
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 148 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 72-73, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
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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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