Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Th 215-16 – Hesiod, Theogony
and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean. Greek Text
♠ Th 274-75 – Hesiod, Theogony
and the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious Ocean [275] in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear-voiced Hesperides Greek Text
♠ Th 333-35 – Hesiod, Theogony
and Ceto was joined in love to Phorcys and bore her youngest, the awful snake who guards [335] the apples all of gold in the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds. Greek Text
♠ Pherekydes 3F16 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 65, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Pherekydes 3F17 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 65-66, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Σ AR 4.1396 – Scholia to Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika – Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium vetera, pp. 315-17, ed. C. Wendel. Berlin 1935.
♠ Panyasis fr 11 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 177-78, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Tr 1090-91 – Sophokles, Trachiniai
O shoulders and chest and trusty arms, you are indeed those noted arms which once subdued with your might the dweller in Nemea Greek Text
♠ Tr 1099-1100 – Sophokles, Trachiniai
you tamed the dragon [1100] that guarded the golden fruit in the farthest places of the earth. Greek Text
♠ HF 394-407 – Euripides, Herakles Mainomenos (Hercules Furens)
Chorus
And he came to those minstrel maids, [395] to their orchard in the west, to pluck from golden leaves the apple-bearing fruit, when he had slain the tawny dragon, whose terrible coils were twined all round to guard it; [400] and he made his way into ocean’s lairs, bringing calm to men that use the oar. And he stretched out his hands to uphold the firmament, [405] seeking the home of Atlas, and on his manly shoulders took the starry mansions of the gods. Greek Text
♠ Katast 3 – Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Katasterismoi – Mythographi Graeci 3.1, pp. 3-4, ed. A. Olivieri. Leipzig 1897.
♠ Katast 4 – Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Katasterismoi – Mythographi Graeci 3.1, pp. 4-5, ed. A. Olivieri. Leipzig 1897.
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Edited By Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2022
