Chapter 16, The Trojan War
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♠ Homer, Iliad 1.71-72
and among them arose Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of bird-diviners, who knew the things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before, [70] and who had guided the ships of the Achaeans to Ilios by his own prophetic powers which Phoebus Apollo had bestowed upon him. Greek Text
♠ Diodoros Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica 5.62.1-2
To Staphylus and Chrysothemis were born three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos by name. Apollo lay with Rhoeo and brought her with child; and her father, believing that her seduction was due to a man, was angered, and in his anger he shut up his daughter in a chest and cast her into the sea. But the chest was washed up upon Delos, where she gave birth to a male child and called the babe Anius. And Rhoeo, who had been saved from death in this unexpected manner, laid the babe upon the altar of Apollo and prayed to the god to save its life if it was his child. Thereupon Apollo, the myth relates, concealed the child for the time, but afterwards he gave thought to its rearing, instructed it in divination, and conferred upon it certain great honours. Greek Text
♠ Scholia at Lykophron, Alexandra 570 – Lykophronis Alexandra, vol. 2, pp. 197-98, ed. E. Scheer. Berlin 1908.
♠ Pherekydes 3F140 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 96, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
♠ Scholia at Lykophron, Alexandra 580 – Lykophronis Alexandra, vol. 2, pp. 199-200, ed. E. Scheer. Berlin 1908.
♠ Scholia at Lykophron, Alexandra 581 – Lykophronis Alexandra, vol. 2, p. 200, ed. E. Scheer. Berlin 1908.
♠ Scholia at Homer, Odyssey 6.164 – Scholia Graeca in Homeris Odysseam, vol. 1, p. 308, ed. W. Dindorf. Oxford 1855.
Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2023
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