Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 1615A: Attic black-figure neck amphora showing Hermes carrying infant Herakles (side A), Cheiron (side B) Flickr Side A, from Archäologische Zeitung vol. 34 (1876), pl. 17 Side B, from A. Furtwaengler, Adolf K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, 1932), … Continue reading Theban Exploits (page 378 lower, with art)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 38-39 he the slayer of his children, the destroyer of my fatherland; who smote his second mother, invulnerable with grievous shaft upon the breast. Greek Text ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 1327-28 he went with the wild beast, the Initiate, who drew the milky … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 378 upper, with art)
Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Herodoros 31F15 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 218-19, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Tzetzes, Scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra 932 – Lykophronis Alexandra 2, pp. 883-86, ed E. Scheer. Berlin 1908 Greek Text ♠ Ovid, Ibis 361-62 … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 377, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 24.602-09 For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 95, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes 3F120 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 92, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Scholia at Homer, Odyssey 19. 432: Philonis, daughter of Dion, lived in Parnassos where she lay with Apollo 〈and Hermes〉; for she possessed such a lovely beauty … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 94, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.592-93 and Ares led them and the queen Enyo, she bringing ruthless Din of War. Greek text ♠ Homer, Iliad 13.518-19 Howbeit this time again he missed him, and smote with his spear Ascalaphus, son of Enyalius, and through the shoulder the … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Ares (page 81 upper, with art)