Chapter 2: The Olympians
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♠ Il 5.844-45 – Homer, Iliad
but Athene put on the cap of Hades, to the end that mighty Ares should not see her. Greek Text
♠ ApB 1.2.1 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
And the Cyclopes then gave Zeus thunder and lightning and a thunderbolt, and on Pluto they bestowed a helmet and on Poseidon a trident. Armed with these weapons the gods overcame the Titans, shut them up in Tartarus, and appointed the Hundred-handers their guards. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Aspis (Shield of Herakles) 226-27
Upon the head of the hero lay the dread cap of Hades which had the awful gloom of night. Greek Text
♦ London, British Museum B155: Chalkidian black-figure amphora with Athena, Perseus and Nymphai (named Neides)
Drawing showing inscriptions, from Daremberg and Saglio, Dicionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines (1896 ff.), vol. 4.1, p. 399
♠ Pherekydes FGrH 3F11 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 61-62, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
And Perseus says he has it (the eye) and he will give it back if they (the Graiai) direct him to the nymphs who have the cap of Aides and the winged sandals and the pouch. And they tell him, and Perseus gives back what he took. And he goes away to the nymphs with Hermes, and after asking and getting them he ties on the winged sandals and hangs the pouch on his shoulders and sets the cap of Aides over his head. (Transl. Silvio Curtis) Greek Text
♠ ApB 1.6.2 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
And Hermes, wearing the helmet of Hades, slew Hippolytus in the fight, and Artemis slew Gration. Greek Text
♠ Ol 9.33-35 – Pindar, Olympian Odes
nor did Hades keep his staff unmoved, with which he leads mortal bodies down to the hollow path of the dead. Greek Text
♠ A: Hik 228-31 – Aischylos, Hiketides (Suppliant Women)
For such an act, not even in Hades, after death, shall he escape arraignment for outrage. There also among the dead, so men tell, another Zeus holds a last judgment upon misdeeds. Greek Text
♠ Eum 273-75 – Aischylos, Eumenides
For Hades is mighty in holding mortals to account under the earth, and he observes all things and within his mind inscribes them. Greek Text
♠ Il 3.278-79 – Homer, Iliad
Father Zeus, that rulest from Ida, most glorious, most great, and thou Sun, that beholdest all things and hearest all things, and ye rivers and thou earth, and ye that in the world below take vengeance on men that are done with life, whosoever hath sworn a false oath. Greek Text
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