Chapter 14: Thebes
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♠ Aischylos, Niobe Fr 154a – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, pp. 267-72, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Aischylos, Niobe Fr 160 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 275, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Hes fr 183 MW – Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 87-88, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Ps. Apollod., Bibl. iii [45] 5.6 (p. 120. 3 Wagner)
Zethos married Thebe, from whom the city of Thebes is named, Amphion married Niobe, daughter of Tantalos, who bore seven sons…, and the same number of daughters…Hesiod says ten sons and ten daughters, Herodoros (31 F 56) two males and three females, and Homer (24 603-/4) says that there were six sons and six daughters. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Od 19.518-23 – Homer, Odyssey
Even as when the daughter of Pandareus, the nightingale of the greenwood, sings sweetly, when spring is newly come, as she sits perched amid the thick leafage of the trees, and with many trilling notes pours forth her rich voice in wailing for her child, dear Itylus, whom she had one day slain with the sword unwittingly, Itylus, the son of king Zethus. Greek Text
♠ Pherekydes 3F125 FGrH – Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker 1, p. 93, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Paus 9.5.9 – Pausanias, Description of Greece
The son of Zethus was killed through some mistake or other of his mother. Zethus himself died of a broken heart. Greek Text
♠ ApB 3.5.6 -Apollodorus, Bibliotheke (Library)
Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city of Thebes is named; and Amphion married Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2020
