Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Sophokles, Aleadai pp. 140-41 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, pp. 140-41, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.
♠ Sophokles, Aleadai fr 89 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta vol. 4, pp. 145-46, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.
♠ Fab 244 – Hyginus, Fabulae
Telephus, son of Hercules, killed Hippothous and Nerea, son of his grandmother. Latin Text
♠ Poet 24.1460a – Aristotle, Poetics
or in the Mysians the man who came from Tegea to Mysia without speaking. Greek Text
♦ Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum 1960.302: Late Corinthian aryballos with Telephos (name roughly incised) attacking opponent with a sword while seizing his forelock; kneeling opponent (one of sons of Aleos?) attempts to draw his sword
J. H. Kroll, “Three Corinthian Vases in the Fogg Art Museum,” Antike Kunst 11 (1968) p. 21 fig. 2 (drawing by Marjory Cohen)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Digital LIMC and link to entries in printed LIMC
♠ Euripides, Telephos 17 GLP (Select Papyri III) ed. D. L. Page. London 1941.
♠ Str 13.1.69 – Strabo, Geography
and the story told is that Teuthras was king of the Cilicians and Mysians. Euripides says that Auge, with her child Telephus, was put by Aleus, her father, into a chest and submerged in the sea when he had detected her ruin by Heracles, but that by the providence of Athena the chest was carried across the sea and cast ashore at the mouth of the Caïcus, and that Teuthras rescued the prisoners, and treated the mother as his wife and the child as his own son. Greek Text
♠ Euripides, Auge, pp. 436-37 N² – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1889.
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