Chapter 14: Thebes
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♠ Th 977 –Hesiod, Theogony
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes. Greek Text
♠ Hes fr 217A MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, p. 232, ed. Solmsen. 3d ed. Oxford 1990.
Anon. P. Michigan inv. 1447 ii 1-6, ed Renner
Aktaion, son of Aristaios and Autonoe, desiring marriage with Semele [ ] from his mother’s father[. . .] was transformed into the appearance of a deer by the will of Artemis and he was torn by his own dogs, as Hesiod says in his Catalogue of Women. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Stesichoros 236 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, ed. D. L. Page, p. 124. Oxford 1962.
Paus. ix 2. 3, iii 4 Sp.
For those traveling from Megara there is a spring on the right, and for those who go a little farther there is a rock. They call it the bed of Actaion, claiming that on this rock Actaion slept when he met with disaster while hunting, and they say that he looked towards the spring when Artemis was bathing in it. Stesichoros of Himera wrote that the goddess threw the skin of a stag around Actaion to procure for him death from his dogs so that he would not take Semele a his wife. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2020
