Chapter 2: The Olympians
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♠ Il 11.831-32 – Homer, Iliad
healing power, whereof men say that thou hast learned from Achilles, whom Cheiron taught, the most righteous of the Centaurs. Greek Text
♠ Il 4.218-19 – Homer, Iliad
and with sure knowledge spread thereon soothing simples, which of old Cheiron had given to his father with kindly thought. Greek Text
♠ Il 16.527-29 – Homer, Iliad
So spake he in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Forthwith he made his pains to cease, and staunched the black blood that flowed from his grievous wound, and put might into his heart. Greek Text
♠ Il 5.401 – Homer, Iliad
But Paeëon spread thereon simples that slay pain, and healed him. Greek Text
♠ Il 5.899 – Homer, Iliad
He spake, and bade Paeëon heal his hurt; and Paeëon spread thereon simples that slay pain, and healed him. Greek Text
♠ Od 4.232 – Homer, Odyssey
there every man is a physician, wise above human kind; for they are of the race of Paeëon. Greek Text
♠ Σ Od 4.232 – Scholia to Homer, Odyssey: Scholia Graeca in Homeris Odysseam, ed. W. Dindorf 1, p. 196. Oxford 1855.
♠ Hesiod fr 307 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 160, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Paieon is different from Apollo, as Hesiod also asserts:
If Phoibos Apollo saved not from death
nor Paieon himself, who knows remedies of all kinds (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ HAp 517 – Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo
So the Cretans followed him to Pytho, marching in time as they chanted the Ie Paean. Greek Text
♠ Il 1.473 – Homer, Iliad
they sought to appease the god with song, singing the beautiful paean. Greek Text
♠ Sappho 44 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, pp. 36-37, ed. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955
♠ OT 145 – Sophokles Oidipous Tyrannos (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King)
For with the god’s help our good fortune—or our ruin—will be made certain. Greek Text
♠ ΣA Il 1.39 – Scholia A to Homer, IliadScholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 1, pp. 11-12, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Hepta 145 – Aischylos, Seven against Thebes
And you, Apollo, lord of the Wolf, be a wolf to the enemy force. Greek Text
♠ Bak 13.148 – Bakchylides, Odes
and Loxias Apollo, lord of the Lycians. Greek Text
♠ Hepta 618 – Aischylos, Seven against Thebes
if the prophecies of Loxias are to come to fruition. Greek Text
♠ PD 669 – Aischylos, Prometheus Desmotes (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Bound)
Yielding obedience to such prophetic utterances of Loxias. Greek Text
♠ Hepta 689-91 – Aischylos, Seven against Thebes
Eteocles
Since God hastens the deed so urgently, let the whole race of Laius, hated by Phoebus, be swept on the wind to Cocytus’ destined flood! Greek Text
♠ Hepta 743-49 – Aischylos, Seven against Thebes
Chorus
Indeed I speak of the ancient transgression, now swift in its retribution. It remains even into the third generation, ever since Laius—in defiance of Apollo who, at his Pythian oracle at the earth’s center, said three times that the king would save his city if he died without offspring. Greek Text
♠ Hepta 800-802 – Aischylos, Seven against Thebes
But lord Apollo, the reverend leader of the seventh,1 took for himself the seventh gate, accomplishing upon the children of Oedipus the ancient follies of Laius. Greek Text
♠ Aischylos fr 350 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, pp. 416-18, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.
♠ Rep 2.383b – Plato, Republic
Apollo singing at her wedding, ‘foretold the happy fortunes of her issue’ “Their days prolonged, from pain and sickness free,
And rounding out the tale of heaven’s blessings,
Raised the proud paean, making glad my heart.
And I believed that Phoebus’ mouth divine,
Filled with the breath of prophecy, could not lie.
But he himself, the singer, himself who sat
At meat with us, himself who promised all,
Is now himself the slayer of my son.” Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2021
