Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Pindar, Nemean 4.25-26
Heracles, [25] with whom once powerful Telamon destroyed Troy and the Meropes. Greek Text
♠ Pindar, Isthmian 6.31-32
He took Pergamos, and with Telamon’s help he slew the tribes of Meropes. Greek Text
♠ Scholion at Pindar, Nemean 4.42c – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, Vol. 2, Part 2, p. 70, ed. A.B Drachman, 3 Vols. Leipzig 1903-27.
he says that he destroyed Kos because of his love of Chalkiope, daughter of Eurypylos. (Transl E. Bianchelli)
♠ Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library) 2.7.1
When Hercules was sailing from Troy, Hera sent grievous storms, which so vexed Zeus that he hung her from Olympus. Hercules sailed to Cos, and the Coans, thinking he was leading a piratical squadron, endeavored to prevent his approach by a shower of stones. But he forced his way in and took the city by night, and slew the king, Eurypylus, son of Poseidon by Astypalaea. And Hercules was wounded in the battle by Chalcedon; but Zeus snatched him away, so that he took no harm. And having laid waste Cos, he came through Athena’s agency to Phlegra, and sided with the gods in their victorious war on the giants. Greek Text
♠ Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library) 2.7.8
by Chalciope, daughter of Eurypylus, he had Thettalus Greek Text
♠ Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.363-64
the city of Eurypylus
upon the Isle of Cos, whose women wore
the horns of cattle when from there had gone
the herd of Hercules. Latin Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, November 2023.
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