Chapter 13: Herakles
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Athens, Acropolis Museum 288. Attic cup fragment. Herakles, Eurytos and sons.
Palermo, Museo Nazional Archeologico “A. Salinas.” Attic cup fragment. Herakles, Eurytos and sons.
♠ Panyasis fr 16 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, pp. 179-80, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Panyasis fr 17 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 181, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Pherekydes 3F82 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 82-83, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Hes fr 229 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 112-14, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Bak 16.25-29 – Bakchylides, Dithyrambs
Then a god, useless to fight against, wove for Deianeira, to her great sorrow, [25] a clever scheme, when she heard the bitter news that the son of Zeus, fearless in battle, was sending white-armed Iole to his splendid house to be his bride. Greek Text
♠ Tr 248-80 – Sophokles, Trachiniai
Lichas
No. The greater part of the time he was detained in Lydia, no free man, as he declares, [250] but sold into servitude. No offense should be taken at my tale, lady, when the deed is found to be Zeus’ work. He passed a whole year, as he himself says, a bought slave to the barbarian Omphale. And so stung was he by the shame of it, [255] that he bound himself by a solemn oath, swearing one day to enslave with wife and child the man who had brought that suffering upon him. And not in vain did he speak the oath; but, when he had been purified, he gathered a mercenary army and went against the city [260] of Eurytus. For, Heracles asserted, that man alone of mortals had a share in causing his suffering. For when Heracles, a guest-friend of long standing, came to his house and hearth, Eurytus roared against him with insults of ruinous intent, [265] saying that, although Heracles had inevitable shafts in his hands, he fell short of his own sons in the contest of the bow. Next he shouted that Heracles was a freeman’s slave, a broken hulk, and then at a banquet, when his guest was full of wine, he tossed him from his home. Furious at this treatment, [270] when afterward Iphitus came to the hill of Tiryns on the track of horses that had strayed, Heracles seized a moment when the man’s eyes were one place and his thoughts another, and hurled him from a towering summit. But in anger at that deed, the king, [275] the father of all, Olympian Zeus, sent him away to be sold, and did not tolerate that this once, he killed a man by guile. Greek Text
♠ Tr 476-78 – Sophokles, Trachiniai
That terrible longing for the girl long ago shot through Heracles, and for her sake the desolate Oechalia, her father’s land, was leveled by his spear. Greek Text
♠ Herodoros 31F37 FGrH – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 223, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
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