PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
Alkman 7.6-8 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 27, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
……
Menelaos [……] that he was honored in the Therapnai with the sons of Zeus
……. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 132
Alkman 63 PMG – p. 53
Schol. min Hom. Il. 6. 21, Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1931 ser. vi (sci. mor., stor., e filol.) vol. iv p. 384 de Marco
whom once a nymph:… the many races of nymphs, as Alkman says:
Naiades, Lampades, and Thuiades,
Thuiades are the ones that join in the Bacchic feast and offer sacrifice along with Dionysos, that is to say those who sally forth; Lampades are those who bear torches and make light for Hekate. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 141
Alkman 64 PMG – p. 54
Plut. de fort. Rom. 4, ii 2. 49 Nachst.-Siev.-Titch.
Thus she (i.e Tyxhe) came into Rome as to abide and she stays the same, as for a trial. For she is not disobedient, according to Pindar (fr. 40 Sn) nor she turns a double rudder, but rather she is
the sister of Good Order and Persuasion and the daughter of Foresight
as Alkman says. (tranls. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 150
Alkman 67 PMG – p. 55
Diod. Sic. iv 7. I, i 404 Vogel
Concerning the Muses, since we have mentioned them in connection with the deeds of Dionysos, it may be appropriate to speak about them summarily. For the majority of the mythographers and those who enjoy the best reputation say that they were daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; but a few poets, including Alcman, state that they were daughters of Ouranos and Gaia.
Schol. Pund. Nem. iii 16 b, iii 43 Dr.
Aristarchos states that the Mousa is a daughter of Ouranos, as also Mimnermos (fr. 13 Bergk) and Alkman say. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 54
Alkman 75 PMG – p. 57
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) EGM p. 537
Stesichoros 186 PMG – p. 101
Geryoneus is the son of Okeanos’ daughter, Kalliroe, and of Chrysaor. Stesichoros says that he has six hands and six feet and that he is winged. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM pp. 22, 403
Stesichoros, Iliou Persis fr 198 PMG– p. 108
Pausan. 10.27.2
About Hekabe Stesichoros said in the Iliou Persis that she was taken to Lydia by Apollo. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 661
Stesichoros, Iliou Persis fr 200 PMG– p. 109
Athenaios 456 F seq.
And [ they say that] there was an ass that they called Epeios who was carrying water up to them; [he was so named] because there was a story that [Epeios] was doing the same and this Trojan fable had been represented in the temple of Apollo, where Epeios brings water to the Atreidai, as Stesichoros says:
For the daughter of Zeus took pity on him always carrying water to the kings. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 224
Stesichoros, Oresteias II 213 PMG– p. 115
An. Bekker ii 783. 16 (=Schol. Dion. Thrac. 183. 13 Hilg)
Stesichoros in the second section of the Oresteias says that Palamedes discovered [the letters of the alphabet] ; 786. 11 Stesichoros describes Palamendes as their inventor. almost the same An. Ox. Cramer iv 318 19 (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 604
Stesichoros, Oresteias I or II fr 215 PMG– p. 115
Philodem. de piet. p. 24 Gomperz
Stesichoros in his Oresteia followed Hesiod in saying that Agamemnon’s Iphigeneia is now called Ekate. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 27 upper, 583, 686 lower
Stesichoros fr 224 PMG– p. 120
Stesichoros and Euphorion say that Hektor was son of Apollo. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 562
Stesichoros fr 227 PMG – p. 121
Perieres was son of Kynortes who married Gorgophone daughter of Perseus, as Stesichoros says, and he begat Tyndareos, Ikarios, Aphareus, and Leukippos. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 181
Stesichoros fr 233 PMG – p. 123
P.Oxy. 2260 ii 18 seqqw., ed. Lobel; saec. ii p.C.
In Stesichoros about the birth: she darted forward on the wide earth shining in her armour. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EMG p. 51
Stesichoros fr 236 PMG – p. 124
Paus. ix 2. 3, iii 4 Sp.
For those traveling from Megara there is a spring on the right, and for those who go a little farther there is a rock. They call it the bed of Actaion, claiming that on this rock Actaion slept when he met with disaster while hunting, and they say that he looked towards the spring when Artemis was bathing in it. Stesichoros of Himera wrote that the goddess threw the skin of a stag around Actaion to procure for him death from his dogs so that he would not take Semele a his wife. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM pp. 98, 478 lower
Stesichoros fr 239 PMG– p. 125
Et. Mag.772. 49, Et. Sym. cod. V ibid. Gaisf.
Typhoeus: Hesiod traces his origins back to Gaia, but Stesichors says that he is the son of Hera alone who bore him because of her resentment against Zeus. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 49, 74 lower
Stesichoros fr 254 PMG– p. 129
Stesichoros says that steep Tartarus is deep (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EMG p. 130
Ibikos fr 282.21-22 – p. 144
the king Pleisthenides, leader of men, son of a noble father Atreus (Transl. Timothy N. Gantz) EGM p. 553
Ibykos fr 285 PMG– p. 148
Athen. 2 57 F-58 A
Ibykos in the fith book of poems says about the children of Molione:
I slew the youths of the white horses, the children of Molione, of the same age, an equal number of heads, one in limbs, both born from a silver egg. (Transl. T. Gantz) EGM p. 245
Ibykos fr 291 PMG– p. 151
Schol Ap. Rhod. iv 814-15, p.293 W.
Ibykos was the first to say that Achilleus, after arriving in the Elysian plain, married Medeia.; after him, Simonides said the same. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM pp. 133, 630
Ibykos fr 292 PMG– p. 152
Philodem. de piet. p. 18 Gomberz
Aischylos .[…….] and Eibykos and Telestes (fr 8) [….
……] the Arpuiai (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 353
Ibykos 301 PMG – p. 154
Schol. Ap. Rhod. i 287 p. 33 W
for whom alone: for the only man. For he (i.e. Iason) had a sister, Hippolyte, as Ibykos says. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EMG p. 195
Ibykos fr 309 PMG – p. 157
Ibykos says that Talos became the lover of Rhadamanthys the just. (Transl. Nick Gardner) EGM p. 259
Anakreon fr 357 PMG – p. 182
Dio Chrys. or. ii 62, i 29 Arnim, i 37 seq. de Budé
For these reasons truly it follows that the king should neither offer prayers similar to the other men nor call upon the gods asking in the way of the Ionian poet Anacreon:
“O king, with whom subduer Eros, and dark-eyed Nymphai, and rosy Aphrodite play together, you who wander the lofty peaks of mountains: you I entreat, come to me, benevolent, to hear and welcome my prayer: be a good adviser to Kleoboulos and approve my love, o Dionysos.” (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 141
Simonides fr 534 PMG– p. 277
Simonides [says] that Oreithuia was from Brilessos and that she was snatched and carried away from Thrace to the Sarpedonian Rock (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey). EGM pp. 25, 234, 242 243
Simonides fr 546 PMG– p. 286
Simonides calls the Clashing Rocks Synormades. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 356 lower
Simonides fr 548 PMG– p. 286
Argum. Eur. Med ii 137 SCHW.
Pherekydes [3F113] and Simonides say that Medea, having boiled Jason, rejuvenated him. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 367
Simonides fr 558 PMG– p. 290
Schol. Ap. Rhod. iv 814-15, p.293 W.
Ibykos was the first to say that Achilleus, after arriving in the Elysian plain, married Medeia.; after him, Simonides said the same. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 630
Simonides 564 PMG – p. 292
Athen. (om. E) iv 172 E
(the author is Seleukos) that this poem (i.e. The Contest for Pelias) is by Stesichoros the poet Simonides is the most befitting witness, who speaking about the story of Meleagros said:
he who with his spear overcame all the youths, throwing over whirling Anauros from grape-abundant Iolkos; for thus Homer and Stesichoros sang to the people. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 192
Simonides fr 569 PMG – p. 294
Schol. Hes. Theog. 313, iii 414 Gaisford
Alkaios says that the Hydra had nine heads, but Simonides says that it had fifty. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 23, 385
Simonides fr 575 PMG – p. 296
Apollonios traces Eros back to Aphrodite,… and Simonides to Aphrodite and Ares:
Cruel child of crafty Aphrodite,
whom she bore to wily Ares (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EMG p. 3 lower, 104
Lasos 704 PMG –p. 365
Athen. x 455 C
These same things (scil. Pind. fr 70 b i seqq Sn) may be remarked against those who consider spurious the sigmaless ode of Lasos of Hermione, which is entitled Kentauroi. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) PMG p. 147
Lasos 706 PMG – p. 366
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) PMG p. 537
Pratinas 708.3 PMG – p. 367
Bromios is mine, mine! I am the one who should sing, should sing. (Transl E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 118
Telesilla 721 PMG – p. 373
[Apollod.] bibl. iii 46 seq., p. 120 Wagner
Of the males (i.e. of the children of Niobe), Amphion was saved, and of the females Chloris the elder whom Neleus married. But according to Telesilla, Amyklas and Maliboia escaped, while Amphion was shot with the bow by them (Apollo and Artemis). (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM pp. 95, 539
Ion of Chios fr 741 PMG – p. 383
and Ion says in a dithyramb that he (i.e. Aigaion) having been summoned from the sea by Thetis had been led to protect Zeus: a child of the Sea. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 59
Melanippides of Melos 758 PMG – p. 393
Athen. xiv 616 E
For about flutes, someone stated that Melanippides, in his Marsyas, beautifully ridiculing the art of playing the flute, had said about Athena:
Athena threw away those instruments from her holy hand and said: “Go to ruin, shameful things, disgrace to the body; I shall yield myself to baseness.” (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 86
Melanippides of Melos fr 764 PMG– p. 395
Philodem. de piet. p. 23 Gomperz = Philippson Herm. 55 (1920) 277
Melanippides says that Demeter and the Mother of the gods are one, and Telestes says the same among the children of Zeus and that Rhea… (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM pp. 43, 69
Likymnios of Chios 771 PMG – p. 397
Athen. xiii 564 C-D
And Licymnios of Chio said that Hypnos had fallen in love with Endymion and did not cover the eyes of the sleeping youth; instead he put his beloved to sleep with his eyelids open in order to enjoy contemplating his eyes without interruption. Thus he says:
Hypnos, being delighted in the beams of the boy’s eyes, put him to sleep with his lids open. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 36
Timotheos, Niobe fr 786 PMG – p. 402
Machon ap. Athen. viii 341 C
But since the Charon of Timotheos’ Niobe does not allow to linger, and cries out to proceed to the ferry, and deadly Moira, who must be obeyed, calls,… (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 125
Telestes fr 812 PMG– p. 422
Philodem. de piet. p. 18 Gomberz
Aischylos .[…….] and Eibykos and Telestes (fr 8) [….
……] the Arpuiai (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 353
Polyidos fr 837 PMG – p. 441
Et. Mag. 164. 20 (=Tzetz ad Lyk. Alex. 879, p.284 seq. Sheer)
Polyidos the dithyrambic poet represents him (Atlas) as being a shepherd. He adds that, when Perseus was passing by, the giant questioned the hero about his identity and place of origin. When Perseus’s answers did not convince the giant, the hero was forced to show him the Gorgon’s face and so turned him to stone. And from him, the Atlas mountain got its name (according to Lycophron in his commentary). (Transl. Mary Emerson) EGM pp. 46, 307 upper
Carmina Convivialia 886 PMG – p. 472
Then in Delos Leto gave birth to golden-haired Phoibos Apollo and huntress Artemis who shoots deer and has great power over women. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 38
