Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Kreophylos, Capture of Oichalia fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 161, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
Oh lady, she sees these things in her eyes. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Hes fr 26 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 16-18, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Hes fr 229 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 112-13, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
P. Pxy. 2493, ed. Lobel
. . .] beautiful [. . . . . .] blooming [. . . . . . ] he refused [. . . . . . ] killed him [. . . [5] . . . .] with force [. . .
…… (Transl. e. Bianchelli)
♠ Od 8.223-28 – Homer, Odyssey
Yet with men of former days I will not seek to vie, with Heracles or with Eurytus of Oechalia, [225] who strove even with the immortals in archery. Wherefore great Eurytus died soon, nor did old age come upon him in his halls, for Apollo waxed wroth and slew him, because he had challenged him to a contest with the bow. Greek Text
♠ Od 21.13-38 – Homer, Odyssey
gifts which a friend of Odysseus had given him when he met him once in Lacedaemon, even Iphitus, son of Eurytus, a man like unto the immortals. [15] They two had met one another in Messene in the house of wise Ortilochus. Odysseus verily had come to collect a debt which the whole people owed him, for the men of Messene had lifted from Ithaca in their benched ships three hundred sheep and the shepherds with them. [20] It was on an embassy in quest of these that Odysseus had come a far journey, while he was but a youth; for his father and the other elders had sent him forth. And Iphitus, on his part, had come in search of twelve brood mares, which he had lost, with sturdy mules at the teat; but to him thereafter did they bring death and doom, [25] when he came to the stout-hearted son of Zeus, the man Heracles, who well knew deeds of daring; for Heracles slew him, his guest though he was, in his own house, ruthlessly, and had regard neither for the wrath of the gods nor for the table which he had set before him, but slew the man thereafter, [30] and himself kept the stout-hoofed mares in his halls. It was while asking for these that Iphitus met Odysseus, and gave him the bow, which of old great Eurytus had been wont to bear, and had left at his death to his son in his lofty house. And to Iphitus Odysseus gave a sharp sword and a mighty spear, [35] as the beginning of loving friendship; yet they never knew one another at the table, for ere that might be the son of Zeus had slain Iphitus, son of Eurytus, a man like unto the immortals, who gave Odysseus the bow. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, November 2023.
