Chapter 13: Herakles
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♠ Hepta 423-25 – Aischylos, Hepta (Seven agains Thebes)
Capaneus is stationed at the Electran gates, another giant of a man, greater than the one described before. [425] But his boast is too proud for a mere human. Greek Text
♠ Ag 692 – Aischylos, Agamemnon
earth-born Zephuros Greek Text
♠ Sophokles, Aigeus fr 24 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 4, pp. 125-26, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.
♠ HF 177-80 – Euripides, Herakles Mainomenos (Hercules Furens)
I appeal then to the thunder of Zeus, and the chariot in which he rode, when he pierced the Giants, earth’s brood, to the heart with his winged shafts, [180] and with gods uplifted the glorious triumph song. Greek Text
♠ Euripides, Ion 206-18
See the battle of the giants, on the stone walls.
I am looking at it, my friends.
Do you see the one [210] brandishing her gorgon shield against Enceladus?
I see Pallas, my own goddess.
Now what? the mighty thunderbolt, blazing at both ends, in the far-shooting hands of Zeus?
I see it; [215] he is burning the furious Mimas to ashes in the fire.
And Bacchus, the roarer, is killing another of the sons of Earth with his ivy staff, unfit for war. Greek Text
♠ Euripides, Ion 989-96
There the earth brought forth the Gorgon, a dreadful monster.
Tutor
[990] As an ally for her children and trouble for the gods?
Creusa
Yes; and Pallas, the daughter of Zeus, killed it.
Tutor
[What fierce shape did it have?
Creusa
A breastplate armed with coils of a viper.]
Tutor
Is this the story which I have heard before?
Creusa
[995] That Athena wore the hide on her breast.
Tutor
And they call it the aegis, Pallas’ armor? Greek Text
♠ Hek 466-74 – Euripides, Hekabe (Hecuba)
Chorus
Or in the city of Pallas, the home of Athena of the lovely chariot, shall I then upon her saffron robe yoke horses, [470] embroidering them on my web in brilliant varied shades, or the race of Titans, put to sleep by Zeus the son of Cronos with bolt of flashing flame? Greek Text
♠ IT 221-24 – Euripides, Iphigeneia among the Tauroi
nor embroidering with my shuttle, in the singing loom, the likeness of Athenian Pallas and the Titans Greek Text
♠ Σ Is 6.47 – Scholia to Pindar, Isthmian Odes – Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina, 3, pp. 254-55, ed. A.B Drachman. Leipzig 1927.
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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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