Leda (page 322 with art)

Chapter 11: The Daughters of Thestios

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Hes fr 23 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of WomenFragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 13-14, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

Il 9.144-47 – Homer, Iliad

Three daughters have I in my well-builded hall, [145] Chrysothemis, and Laodice, and Iphianassa; of these let him lead to the house of Peleus which one he will.  Greek Text

S: El 157 – Sophokles, Elektra

Chrysothemis and Iphianassa, whose parents and blood you share  Greek Text

Kypria fr 24 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 58, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

SCHOL. Soph. El. 157 (110 Papageorgios)  He either agrees with Homer (Il 9.144) who said that Homer had three daughters or he says, as the Kypria, that he had four, including Iphigeneia and Iphianassa.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

IA 49-51 – Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

Leda, the daughter of Thestius, had three children, maidens, [50] Phoebe, Clytemnestra my wife, and Helen.  Greek Text

Basel Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig.  Attic black-figure hydria.  Leda, Dioskouroi.

 

Athens National Museum 18063. Attic red-figure stamnos by Polygnotos. Leda, Helen.

Matheson, Polygnotos pl. 53

Her 8.77 – Ovid, Heroides (Epistles): Hermione to Orestes

my grandsire wept, and my mother’s sister Phoebe, and the twin brothers.  Latin Text

Hes fr 197 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of WomenFragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 96-97, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

Hes fr 204.85-95 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 101, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

Hes fr 175 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 84, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

Kinaithon fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 116, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

Alexandrian Lysimachos 382F12 FGrH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 3 B, p. 256, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.

Greek Text

Kypria fr 12 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 51, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

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Artistic sources edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Brown University, October 2017.

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2024.

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