Chapter 15: The Line of Tantalos
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♠ 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 (1 F 56) two males and three females, and Homer (24 603-/4) says that there were six sons and six daughters. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Alkman 75 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 57 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
Aelian. v.h. xii 36, ii 132 Hercher
Ancient poets don’t seem to agree with each other on the number of Niobe’s children. Homer says that there were six males and an equal number of females (Il 24.603), Lasos says fourteen (fr. 5), Hesiod nineteen (fr. 34 Rzach),… Alkman ten, Mimnermos twenty (fr. 19 Bergk) and Pindar the same (fr. 52 n Sn.). (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Mimnermos 19 W – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, p. 88, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972.
Ael. V.H. 12. 36
Ancient poets don’t seem to agree with each other on the number of Niobe’s children… Hesiod (fr. 183 M.–W.) says that they were nineteen… Mimnermos twenty, and Pindar (ad Pae 13 Sn) the same. (Transl. E Bianchelli)
♠ Sappho 205 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, p. 107, ed. E. Lobel and D.L. Page. Oxford 1955.
Homer says that the (Niobe’s) children were six boys and six girls, Euripides seven and seven, and Sappho nine and nine,… (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
Aul. Gell. Noct. Att. xx 7 (ii 301 Hosius). cf. quae Ael. V.H. xii 36 (p. 132 Hercher) de eadem re disserit.
♠ Lasos 706 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 366 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
Aelian v.h. xii 36, ii 132 Hercher
Ancient poets don’t seem to agree with each other on the number of Niobe’s children… Lasos says that there were seven and seven. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Pindar fr 52n: see apparatus – Pindarus 2, pp. 52-54, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975.
♠ Bakchylides fr 20D – Bacchylidis Carmina cum fragmentis, pp. 101-3, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1970.
♠ Σ Pho 159 – Scholia to Euripides, Phoinissai (Phoinician Women) – Scholia in Euripidem 1, pp. 271-72, ed. E. Schwartz. Berlin 1887.
♠ Pherekydes 3F126 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 93, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Hellanikos 4F21 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 111-12, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Herodoros 31F56 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 226, ed. F. Jacoby. 2 nd ed. Leiden 1957.
[APOLLOD.] Bibl. iii 45: Herodoros says that Niobe had two male and three female children. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) Greek Text
♠ Sappho 142 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, p. 96, ed. E. Lobel and D.L. Page. Oxford 1955.
Leto and Niobe were exceedingly good friends (Transl. Timothy Gantz)
♠ Aischylos, Niobe fr 154a R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, pp. 267-72, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Rep 2.383b (2.380a) – Plato, Republic
nor again must we permit our youth to hear what Aeschylus says—“ A god implants the guilty cause in men
When he would utterly destroy a house.” Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2024.
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