Chapter 14: Thebes
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, F1904 (not lost, as Gantz): Attic black-figure hydria of the Leagros Group with Dionysos and Semele/Thyone.
E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pls. 4-5
Beazley Archive Pottery Database (no photo)
Digital LIMC (with photo)
♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico 3790: Attic black figure hydria with Dionysos and Thyone behind chariot of Peleus and Thetis
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♠ Ol 2.22-27 – Pindar, Olympian Odes
This saying applies to the daughters of Cadmus on their lovely thrones: they suffered greatly, but their heavy sorrow collapsed in the presence of greater blessings. Long-haired Semele, who died in the roar of the thunderbolt, lives among the Olympians. Greek Text
♠ HomH 1 – Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. Greek Text
♠ Py 11.1 – Pindar, Pythian Odes
Daughters of Cadmus, Semele dwelling among the Olympians and Ino Leucothea, sharing the chamber of the Nereid sea-nymphs. Greek Text
♠ Py 3.96-99 – Pindar, Pythian Odes
But in time Cadmus’ three daughters, by their bitter suffering, took from him his share of joy; even though father Zeus had visited the desirable bed of white-armed Thyone. Greek Text
♠ Aischylos, Semele or Hydrophoroi (Water-Bearers) fr 221 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 336, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
Zeus, who killed him (Trans. by T. N. Gantz)
♠ Rep 2.381d – Plato, Republic
for the life-giving sons of Inachus, the Argive stream. Greek Text
Same as
♠ Aischylos, Xantriai (Wool-carders) fr 168.17 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 283, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Σ Batr 1344 – Scholia to Aristophanes, Batrachoi (Frogs) – Scholia graeca in Aristophanem, p. 310, ed. F. Dübner. Berlin 1877.
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