Chapter 13: Herakles
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♦ Chest of Kypselos from temple of Hera at Olympia (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions)
♠ Paus 5.18.3 – Pausanias, Description of Greece
A man wearing a tunic is holding in his right hand a cup, and in his left a necklace; Alcmena is taking hold of them. This scene represents the Greek story how Zeus in the likeness of Amphitryon had intercourse with Alcmena. Greek Text
Zeus in form of Amphitryon and Alkmene, from reconstruction of chest of Kypselos (lost monument once in temple of Hera, Olympia) by W. von Massow, “Die Kypseloslade,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung vol. 41 (1916), pl. 1.
♠ Athen 11.474f (11.49) – Athenaios, The Deipnosophists
if at least it is true that Jupiter, when he had gained the affections of Alcmena, gave her one as a love gift, as Pherecydes relates in his second book, and Herodorus of Heraclea tells the same story. Greek Text
same as
♠ Pherekydes 3F13a FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 63, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
same as
♠ Herodoros 31F16 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 219, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Σ Od 11.266 – Scholia to Homer, Odyssey – Scholia Graeca in Homeris Odysseam, ed. W. Dindorf 2, p. 495. Oxford 1855.
same as
♠ Pherekydes 3F13b FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 63, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Athenaios 11.498c (11.99)
And in the same manner Anaximander in his Heroology speaks, where he says, “But Amphitryon, when he had divided the booty among his allies, and having the cup ῾σκύπθος᾿ which he had selected for himself, . . .”And in another place he says—“But Neptune gives his σκύπθος to Teleboas his own son, and Teleboas to Pteselaus; and he when he received it sailed away.” Greek Text
same as
♠ Anaximandros 9F1 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 160, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
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