SUMMARY of Apollodorus's Library

• I.-Theogony.
• II.-The Family of Deucalion.
• III.-The Family of Inachus (Belus).
• IV.-The Family of Agenor (Europa).
• V.-The Family of Agenor (Cadmus).
• VI.-The Family of Pelasgus.
• VII.-The Family of Atlas.
• VIII.-The Family of Asopus.
• IX.-The Kings of Athens.
• X.-Theseus.
• XI.-The Family of Pelops.
• XII.-Before the Iliad.
• XIII.-The Iliad.
• XIV.-After the Iliad.
• XV.-The Returns.
• XVI.-The Wanderings of Ulysses.

Translated, with some modifications, from the Argumentum prefixed to R. Wagner's edition of Apollodorus, by J.G. Frazer. Minor modifications made by Perseus staff to facilitate text formatting on the Web.

I.-THEOGONY. Book I., Chaps. I.-VI.

OFFSPRING of Sky and Earth: the Hundred-handed, Cyclopes, Titans, 1.1.1-3. The Titans attack and mutilate Sky, origin of the Furies, 1.1.4. The children of Cronus and Rhea, the birth of Zeus, 1.1.5-7. Zeus conquers the Titans and divides the kingdom with his brothers, 1.2.1. Offspring of the Titans, 1.2.2-5. Offspring of Sea and Earth, 1.2.6-7.

Children of Zeus by Hera, Themis, Dione, Eurynome, Styx and Memory (the Muses), 1.3.1. Children of the Muses: Calliope's children Linus and Orpheus, 1.3.2, Clio's child Hyacinth (Thamyris), 1.3.3, Euterpe's child Rhesus, Thalia's children the Corybantes, Melpomene's children the Sirens, 1.3.4. Hephaestus, 1.3.5. The birth of Athena, 1.3.6. Asteria, Latona, the birth of Artemis and Apollo. Apollo slays the Python, 1.4.1, Tityus, 1.4.1, and Marsyas, 1.4.2. Artemis slays Orion, 1.4.3-5.

Children of Poseidon and Amphitrite,1.4.6.

Pluto carries off Persephone. Demeter comes to Eleusis (Triptolemus) Persephone remains with Pluto (Ascalaphus), 1.5.

Battle of the gods and giants, 1.6.1-2. Typhon, 1.6.3.

II. -THE FAMILY OF DEUCALION. Book I., Chaps. VII-IX.

Prometheus creates men, and for the theft of fire is nailed to the Caucasus, 1.7.1. Deucalion and Pyrrha saved from the flood, 1.7.1-2. Deucalion's children. Hellen's sons Dorus, Xuthus, Aeolus and their children, 1.7.2-3.

Aeolus's daughters and their offspring : Perimede, Pisidice, Alcyone, 1.7.3-4. Canace (the Aloads), 1.7.4. Calyce, Endymion, Aetolus, Pleuron and Calydon and their children (Marpessa), 1.7.5-10. Oeneus, grandson of Pleuron, father of Deianira and Meleager, 1.8.1-2. The hunting of the Calydonian boar (list of the hunters, 1.8.2), death of Meleager, 1.8.2-3. Tydeus, son of Oeneus. Death of Oeneus, 1.8.4-6.

Aeolus's sons and their offspring : Athamas, father of Phrixus and Helle (the Golden Fleece), 1.9.1. The deaths of Athamas and Ino, 1.9.2. Sisyphus and his stone, 1.9.3. Deion, 1.9.4. Perieres, 1.9.5. Magnes, 1.9.6. Salmoneus and his mock thunder, 1.9.7. Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus, mother of Neleus and Pelias, 1.9.8-1O. Cretheus, husband of Tyro. His grandsons Bias and the seer Melampus (the kine of Phylacus), 1.9.11-13. Admetus, son of Pheres (son of Cretheus), and husband of Alcestis, 1.9.14-15. Jason, son of Aeson (son of Cletheus), sent by Pelias to fetch the Golden Fleece, 1.9.16.

The Argonauts.-The building of the ship Argo. List of the Argonauts, 1.9.16. The Argonauts put in at the island of Lemnos, 1.9.17, they kill Cyzicus, king of the Doliones, by mistake, 1.9.18, they leave Hercules and Polyphemus in Mysia (Hylas), 1.9.19. Pollux conquers Amycus, king of the Bebryces, 1.9.20, at Salmydessus they rid Phineus of the Harpies, 1.9.21, they pass through the Symplegades, 1.9.22, they are received by Lycus, king of the Mariandynians, 1.9.23, they arrive in Colchis. Jason, with the help of Medea, tames the bulls, conquers the earth-born men, and carries off the Golden Fleece. The Argonauts set out with Medea (the murder of Apsyrtus), 1.9.23-24. As they sail past the Eridanus, Zeus causes them to wander; they are purified for the murder of Apsyrtus by Circe, 1.9.24, sailing past the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis, they come to the Phaeacians, 1.9.25, they dedicate an altar to Radiant Apollo, they destroy Talus, the bronze guardian of the island of Crete, 1.9.26. Return of the Argonauts. Death of Pelias, 1.9.26-27. Jason and Medea fly to Corinth. Medea murders Glauce, the bride of Jason, and her own children, takes refuge with Aegeus at Athens, has by him a son, Medus, and finally returns to her own country, 1.9.28.

III.-THE FAMILY OF INACHUS (BELUS). Book II., Chaps. I.-VIII.

Inachus's sons Aegialeus and Phoroneus, and Phoroneus's children. Argus and Pelasgus. Argus of the many eyes, 2.1.1. Io's wanderings, 2.1.2-4. Her great-grandsons Agenor (compare 3.1.1-7) and Belus, 2.1.4.

Belus's offspring: Danaus and Egyptus, 2.1.4. Marriage of the sons of Egyptus with the daughters of Danaus (list, 2.1.5), 2.1.4-5. Nauplius the wrecker, son of Amymone, 2.1.5.

Acrisius and Proetus, grandsons of Lynceus and Hypermnestra, 2.2.1. The daughters of Proetus are cured of their madness by Melampus, 2.2.2. Bellerophon kills the Chimera, 2.3.1-2. Danae, daughter of Acrisius, with her infant son Perseus, floats to Seriphos,2.4.1. Perseus, sent by Polydectes, comes to the Phorcides and the nymphs, slays Medusa (birth of Pegasus), 2.4.2, frees Andromeda, punishes Polydectes, 2.4.3, and returning to his country kills Acrisius accidentally, 2.4.4. The family of Perseus. Birth of Eurystheus, grandson of Perseus, 2.4.5. War of Electryon, son of Perseus, against the Teleboans. Amphitryon, grandson of Perseus, accidentally kills Electryon, 2.4.6. Amphitryon goes with Alcmena to Thebes, kills the Cadmean vixen, and wages war on the Taphians: Pterelaus of the golden hair killed by his daughter,2.4.6-7.

Hercules, son of Zeus and Alcmena, kills the serpents sent by Hera, 2.4.8. The education of Hercules (Linus), 2.4.9. Hercules kills the lion of Cithaeron (the daughters of Thespius), 2.4.9-10, conquers the Minyans, marries Megara, receives arms from the gods,2.4.11. goes mad, murders his children, and is sent by Apollo to Eurystheus, 2.4.12.

The twelve (ten, see 2.4.12 and 2.5.11) labors of Hercules, 2.5.

1. He strangles the Nemean lion and is entertained by Molorchus, 2.5.1.

2. With Iolaus he destroys the Lernaean hydra and kills the crab, 2.5.2.

3. He wounds and captures the Cerynitian hind. 2.5.3

4. He captures the Erymanthian boar, he kills the Centaurs (Pholus, Chiron), 2.5.4.

5. He cleanses the stable of Augeas (the testimony of Phyleus), 2.5.5.

6. He shoots the Stymphalian birds, 2.5.6.

7. He brings the Cretan bull to Eurystheus, 2.5.7.

8. He carries off the mares of Diomedes the Thracian (death of Abderus and foundation of Abdera), 2.5.8.

9. He wins the belt of Hippolyta (the sons of Androgeus in Paros; Mygdon; rescue of Hesione; Sarpedon; Thasos; the sons of Proteus), 2.5.9.

10. He drives away the kine of Geryon from Erythia (the pillars of Hercules; the golden goblet of the Sun; Ialebion and Dercynus, Eryx, Strymon), 2.5.10.

11. He brings the apples of the Hesperides from the Hyperboreans to Mycenae (Cycnus, Nereus, Antaeus, Busiris, Emathion, Prometheus, Atlas), 2.5.11.

12. He carries off Cerberus from the nether world (the Eleusinian mysteries, the Gorgon's ghost, Theseus and Pirithous, Ascalaphus, Menoetes), 2.5.12.

Hercules woos in vain Iole, daughter of Eurytus, and in a fit of madness kills Iphitus, 2.6.1-2, fights with Apollo for the Delphic tripod, and serves Omphale for three years (Ceropes, Syleus; the burial of Icarus), 2.6.2-3. Along with Telamon he captures Troy (Hesione, Priam), 2.6.4. He ravages the island of Cos,2.7.1. He conquers Augeas (Eurytus and Cteatus; foundations at Olympia), 2.7.2, captures Pylus, makes war on the Lacedaemonians (Cepheus, Sterope, and the Gorgon's tress), 2.7.3, and forces Auge (exposure of Telephus), 2.7.4. He marries Deianira (the wrestling with Achelous, the horn of Amalthea), 2.7.5, fights for the Calydonians against the Thesprotians (Astyoche, Tlepolemus), sends his sons to Sardinia, kills Eunomus at a feast, sets out with Deianira for Trachis, kills Nessus at the ford, 2.7.6, slaughters an ox of Thiodamas, fights for Aegimius against the Lapiths (Coronus, Laogoras), slays Cycnus and Amyntor. He captures Oechalia and carries off Iole; infected by the poisoned robe which he received from Deianira, he burns himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta (Poeas), and ascending to heaven he marries Hebe, 2.7.7.

List of the children of Hercules, 2.7.8.

The Heradids fly to Ceyx, and then to the Athenians, with whose help they vanquish Eurystheus, 2.8.1. They occupy and then abandon Peloponnese. Tlepolemus goes to Rhodes. Through misunderstanding an oracle the Heraclids make a second fruitless attenipt to conquer Peloponnese, 2.8.2. In the third generation afterwards Temenus, Cresphontes, and Aristodemus build ships and again prepare to attack Peloponnese, but having slain a soothsayer they fail in the enterprise, 2.8.2-3. Ten years afterwards the Heraclids under the leadership of Oxylus conquer Peloponnese and divide it among themselves by lot, 2.8.3-5. The deaths of Temenus and Cresphontes, 2.8.5.

IV. -THE FAMILY OF AGENOR (EUROPA). Book III., Chaps. I. 1-III. 2.

Agenor's children. Europa is carried off by Zeus; and Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, and Thasus, being sent to fetch her back, settle in Phoenicia, Cicilia, Thrace, and Thasos, 3.1.1. Europa's children: Minos, Sarpedon, Rhadamanthys (Miletus), 3.1.2. On the death of Asterius, husband of Europa, Minos succeeds to the kingdom of Crete. Inflamed with love for a bull, which Poseidon had sent from the sea, Pasiphae gives birth to the Minotaur, 3.1.3. Althaemenes, grandson of Minos, settles with his sister Apemosyne in Rhodes, and involuntarily kills his father Catreus, 3.2.1. Glaucus, son of Minos, his death and resurrection (the seer Polyidus), 3.3.1-2.

V. -THE FAMILY OF AGENOR (CADMUS). Book III., Chaps. IV. 1-VII. 7.

Cadmus, folloving a cow, founds Thebes, slays the dragon of Ares, and overcomes the earthborn brothers, 3.4.1-2. Children of Cadmus and Harmonia: Autonoe, Ino, Semele, Agave, Polydorus. Semele and Zeus. Birth and upbringing of Dionysus (Athamas, Ino, and Melicertes), 3.4.2-3. Actaeon, son of Autonoe, and his dogs, 3.4.4. The travels of Dionysus (deaths of Lycurgus and Pentheus, adventure with the pirates), 3.5.1-3. The end of Cadmus and Harmonia in Illyria, 3.5.4. The offspring of Polydorus: Labdacus, Laius. Lycus and Dirce are slain by Zethus and Amphion, the sons of Antiope by Zeus, 3.5.5. Niobe and her children, the weeping stone, 3.5.6. Oedipus, his birth and exposure, his parricide, the riddle of the Sphinx, his incest, his exile and death in Attica, 3.5.7-9.

Expedition of the Seven against Thebes, 3.6.1-3.7.1. Polynices, expelled by Eteocles, marries the daughter of Adrastus (Tydeus), 3.6.1. Eriphyle, bribed by Polynices with the golden necklace, induces Amphiaraus to join in the war, 3.6.2. List of the leaders, 3.6.3. On the death of Opheltes they institute the Nemean games, 3.6.4, they send Tydeus on an embassy to Thebes, 3.6.5, attack the city (account of the seer Tiresias, 3.6.7), and are defeated by the Thebans (Capaneus, Eteocles and Polynices, Tydeus, Amphiaraus), 3.6.6-8. Heroism and death of Antigone. The bodies of the leaders are buried by Theseus, death of Evadne on the pyre, 3.7.I.

The Epigoni (list, 3.7.2) capture Thebes; death of Tiresias, 3.7.2-4. Alcmaeon, his matricide, madness, wanderings and death; his wife Callirrhoe, and his children Amphilochus and Tisiphone, 3.7.5-7.

VI. -THE FAMILY OF PELASGUS. Book III., Chaps. VIII.-IX.

Lycaon, son of Pelasgus, and his sons (list 3.8.1), except the youngest, Nyctimus, are killed for their impiety by Zeus with thunderbolts, 3.8.1-2. Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, mother of Arcas, transformed into a bear, 3.8.2. The offspring of Arcas. Auge, mother of Telephus, 3.9.1. Atalanta and her suitors, Milanion and the golden apples, 3.9.2.

VII.-THE FAMILY OF ATLAS. Book III., Chaps. X. 1-XII. 6.

The Pleiades, 3.10.1. Hermes, son of Maia, his youthful exploits, 3.10.2. The offspring of Taygete : Lacedaemon, Hyacinth, Lynceus, and Idas. Leucippus's daughters, of whom Arsinoe becomes the mother of Aesculapius (Coronis). Aesculapius is educated by Chiron and thunderstruck by Zeus for his leechcraft. Apollo kills the Cyclopes and serves Admetus for a year, 3.10.3-4. Children of Hippocoon, of Icarius, and of Tyndareus. Birth of Helen, 3.10.4-7. Helen is carried off by Theseus, but rescued by Castor and Pollux, 3.10.7. Helen's suitors and marriage with Menelaus, 3.10.8-9. Menelaus's children, 3.11.1. Castor and Pollux, their combat with Idas and Lynceus, their elevation to the gods, and their alternations between the upper and lower worlds, 3.11.2.

Electra, daughter of Atlas, her offspring, 3.12.1-6. Iasion and Dardanus and his sons Ilus and Erechthonius. Tros, son of Erechthonius, and father of Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede, 3.12.1-2. Ilus, following a cow, founds Troy and receives the Palladium. Laomedon, son of Ilus, father of Tithonus and of Priam, 3.12.3. Tithonus and the Dawn. Priam's children: Aesacus, Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and the rest, 3.12.4-5. Hector and Andromache. Paris and Oenone, 3.12.6.

VIII.-THE FAMILY OF ASOPUS. Book III., Chaps. XII. 6-XIII. 8.

Asopus's children, Ismenus, Pelagon and twenty daughters, of whom Aegina is carried off by Zeus, 3.12.6. Aeacus, son of Aegina, his righteousness, his prayer for rain ; father of Peleus and Telamon, who are banished for the murder of their brother Phocus. Telamon becomes king of Salamis; father of Ajax and Teucer, 3.12.6-7. Peleus comes to Phthia; joining in the hunt of the Calydonian boar he accidentally kills Eurytion; he is purified by Acastus; hunts on Mount Pelion and is saved from the centaurs by Chiron, 3.13.1-3. Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, 3.13.4-5. The nurture of Achilles (Thetis, Chiron, Lycomedes), 3.13.6-8. Phoinix, Patroclus, 3.13.8.

IX.-THE KINGS OF ATHENS. Book III., Chaps. XIV. 1-XV. 9.

1. Cecrops, earth-born. Contest between Athena and Poseidon for the guardianship of Athens, 3.14.1. Cecrops's children Erysichthon, Agraulus, Herse, Pandrosus (Halirrhothius; trial and acquittal of Ares at the Areopagus), 3.14.2. Cephalus, son of Herse, and ancestor of Cinyras, 3.14.3. Adonis, son of Cinyras, loved by Aphrodite, killed by a boar, 3.14.3-4.

2. Cranaus, earth-born, father of Cranae, Cranaechme, and Atthis, 3.14.5.

3. Amphictyon, earth-born or son of Deucalion, 3.14.6.

4. Erichthonius, son of Hephaestus by Atthis or Athena, dedicates an image of Athena on the Acropolis and institutes the Panathenaic festival, 3.14.6.

5. Pandion, son of Erichthonius: in his reign Demeter comes to Celeus at Eleusis, and Dionysus comes to Icarius (death of Erigone), 3.14.7. Pandion's daughters Procne and Philomela (Tereus), 3.14.8.

6. Erechtheus, son of Pandion: his priestly brother Butes, his children, 3.15.1. Chthonia. Procris and Cephalus (Minos), 3.15.1. Orithyia and Boreas, 3.15.2. Cleopatra and Phineus, 3.15.3. Eumolpus, son of Chione, 3.15.4. Erechtheus, in the war with Eleusis, sacrifices one of his daughters, and slays Eumolpus, 3.15.4-5.

7. Cecrops, son of Erechtheus, 3.15.5.

8. Pandion, son of Cecrops, is expelled by the sons of Metion and flies to Megara, 3.15.5.

9. Aegeus, son of Pandion, returns to Athens with his brothers, 3.15.5-6, and begets Theseus by Aethra at Troezen, 3.15.6-7. He sends Androgeus, son of Minos, against the Marathonian bull, 3.15.7. Minos makes war on Megara (Nisus and Scylla) and on Athens, 3.15.7-8. Hyacinth's daughters are sacrificed at Athens, 3.15.8. Minos imposes on the Athenians a tribute of boys and girls to be sent annually to the Minotaur (the labyrinth built by Daedalus), 3.15.8-9.

10. Theseus.

X.-THESEUS. Book III., Chap. XVI., Epitome, I.1-24.

On growing up Theseus quits Troezen for Athens, kills Periphetes, Sinis, 3.16.1., the Crommyonian sow, Sciron, Cercyon and Damactes, Epitome,1-4. Aegeus, instigated by Medea, sends Theseus against the Marathonian bull and offers him a cup of poison, 5-6. Theseus, with the help of Ariadne, conquers the Minotaur, and flying with Ariadne resigns her to Dionysus in Naxos, 7-9, and on the death of Aegeus succeeds to the kingdom of Athens, 10-11. Daedalus and his son Icarus escape from the labyrinth: Icarus falls into the sea, but Daedalus reaches the court of Cocalus, whose daughters kill Minos, 12-15. Theseus marries an Amazon, and afterwards Phaedra. Death of Hippolytus. 16-19. Ixion and his wheel, 20. Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths, 21. (Zenobius). Caeneus, 22. Theseus goes down to hell with Pirithous, but is freed by Hercules, and being expelled from Athens is murdered by Lyomedes, 23-24.

XI.-THE FAMILY OF PELOPS. Epitome, II. 1-16.

Tantalus in hell, 1. Broteas, 2. Pelops, with the help of Myrtilus, vanquishes Oenomaus, marries Hippodamia, kills Myrtilus, and takes possession of Peloponnese, 3-9. Sons of Pelops: Atreus and Thyestes (the golden lamb, Aerope, backward journey of the sun, the cannibal feast, Aegisthus), 10-14. Agamemmnon and Menelaus brought up by Polyphides and Oeneus, 15 (Tzetzes). Agamemnon marries Clytaemnestra, and Menelaus marries Helen, 16.

XII. -BEFORE THE ILIAD.Epitome, III. 1-35.

Zeus resolves to stir up war, 1. The Apple of Discord awarded by Paris to Aphrodite. Paris carries off Helen, and, after tarrying in Phoenicia and Cyprus, returns to Troy, 2-4. Helen left with Proteus in Egypt, 5. Menelaus and Agamemnon summon the kings of Greece to war. Ulysses feigns madness (death of Palamedes). Cinyras sends toy ships. The Wine-growers, 6-10.

Catalogue of the ships, 11-14. The portent at Aulis, 15. Agamemnon and Achilles chosen leaders, 16. The Mysian war. Telephus wounded by Achilles. Return of the Greeks 17-18.

In the tenth year after the rape of Helen the Greeks again assemble. Telephus, being healed by Achilles, shows them the way, 19-20. lphigenia sacrificed to Artemis at Aulis and transported by the goddess to Tauris, 21-22. The Greeks arrive at Tenedos, 23. Tenes and his stepmother, 24-25. Tenes killed by Achilles, 26. Philoctetes, stung by a serpent, is marooned in Lemnos, 27. Ulysses and Menelaus demand the restoration of Helen, 28. The Greeks land at Troy and put the Trojans to flight. Death of Protesilaus (Laodamia). Cycnus. The Trojans besieged, 29-31. Achilles slays Troilus, captures Lycaon, and having slain Mestor drives off the herds of Aeneas, 32. List of the towns taken by Achilles, 33. In the tenth year the Trojans receive the help of allies (list), 34-35.

XIII. -THE ILIAD. Epitome, IV. 1-8.

The wrath of Achilles. The combat of Menelaus and Paris, 1. Diomedes wounds Aphrodite and meets Glaucus in battle. The combat of Ajax and Hector, 2. The Greeks, put to flight, send ambassadors to Achilles, 3. Ulysses and Diomedes slay Dolon, 4. Hector attacks the ships, 5. The death of Patroclus, 6. Achilles receives arms from Thetis, puts the Trojans to flight, and slays Hector. The burial of Patroclus. Priam ransoms the body of Hector, 7-8.

XIV. -AFTER THE ILIAD. Epitome, V. 1-25.

Penthesilea slain by Achilles. Thersites (death of Hippolyte), 1-2. Achilles slays Memnon, but is shot by Apollo and Paris, 3. His body and his arms are rescued by Ajax and Ulysses, 4. The burial of Achilles, 5. Competition of Ajax and Ulysses for the arms of Achilles. Death and burial of Ajax, 6-7.

In accordance with a prophecy of Calchas, Ulysses and Diomedes fetch Philoctetes, who shoots Paris, 8. Quarrel between Deiphobus and Helenus for the hand of Helen. By the advice of Calchas, Ulysses captures Helenus on Mount Ida, and Helenus prophesies to the Greeks concerning the fall of Troy, 9-10. By the advice of Helenus, the Greeks fetch the bones of Pelops, and Ulysses and Phoenix bring Neoptolemus from Scyros. Neoptolemus kills Eurypylus, son of Telephus. Ulysses and Diomedes steal the Trojan Palladium,11-13.

By the advice of Ulysses, Epeus fashions the Wooden Horse, in which the leaders ensconce themselves. The Greeks leave Sinon behind and depart to Tenedos, 14-15. The Trojans drag the Horse into the city, and despite the counsels of Laocoon and Cassandra resolve to dedicate it to Athena, 16-17. The sons of Laocoon killed by serpents, 18. On a signal given by Sinon, the Greeks return. Helen comes to the Horse and calls to the Greek leaders (Anticlus), 19. The leaders descend from the Horse and open the gates to the Greeks, 20. The sack of Troy: Priam, Glaucus, Aeneas, Helena, Aethra, Cassandra, 21-22. Division of the spoil: the slaughter of Astyanax and Polyxena, the fortunes of Cassandra, Andromache, and Hecuba (changed into a dog), Laodice swallowed in an earthquake. Trial of Ajax for impiety, 23-25.

XV. -THE RETURNS. Epitome, VI. 1-30.

Quarrel between Agamemnon and Menelaus concerning the return. Diomedes, Nestor, and Menelaus set out, 1. Amphilochus, Calchas, Leonteus, Polypoetes, and Podalirius go by land to Colophon, where Calchas is vanquished by Mopsus in a contest of skill and buried by his companions, 2-4.

The fleet of Agamemnon is dispersed by a storm off Tenos. Shipwreck, death, and burial of Ajax, 5-6. Many are shipwrecked and perish through the false lights displayed by Nauplius at Cape Caphereus, 7. Nauplius, the revenge he takes for the death of his son, 8-1l. Neoptolemus goes by land to Molossia, and by the way he buries Phoenix. Helenus remains with Deiadamia in Molossia. Neoptolemus, on the death of Peleus, succeeds to the kingdom of Phthia, wrests Hermione from Orestes, and is killed at Delphi, 12-l4. Wanderings of the leaders who escaped shipwreck at Cape Caphereus, 15, 15 a b c (Tzetzes).

The loves of Demophon and Phyllis, 16-17. Podalirius and the oracle, 18. Amphilochus, 19. Virgins sent by the Locrians for a thousand years to Athena at Troy, 20-22.

Agamemnon on his return home is murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, 23. Orestes is brought up by Strophius, and with the help of Pylades murders Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus. He is tormented by the Furies, but acquitted at the Areopagus, 24-25. Orestes with the help of Pylades brings back Iphigenia and the image of Artemis from Tauris to Greece, 26-27. The children of Orestes and his death, 28.

After many wanderings Menelaus arrives in Egypt, where he recovers Helen from Proteus, and after eight years returns to Sparta. Dying, he is received with Helen into the Elysian fields, 29-30.

XVI.-THE WANDERINGS 0F ULYSSES. Epitome, VII. 1-40.

Ulysses variously said to have roamed over Libya, or Sicily, or the Ocean, or the Tyrrhenian Sea, 1.

Ulysses, after setting sail from Troy, fights with the Cicones, 2. The Lotus-eaters, 3. Adventures with the Cyclops Polyphemus, 4-9. The isle of Aeolus, King of the Winds, 10-11. The cannibal Laestrygones, 12-13. The enchantress Circe, 14-16. The descent to the nether world, 17. The Sirens, 18-19. Scylla and Charybdis, 20-21. The oxen of the Sun. The shipwreck. Charybdis, 22-23. The island of Calypso. The raft. Alcinous and the Phaeacians. The return home, 24-25. The suitors of Penelope (list 27-30), 26-31. Eumaeus. Melanthius. Irus, 32. The slaughter of the suitors, 33.

Ulysses in Thesprotia performs the rites enjoined by Tiresias and marries the queen Callidice (Poliphorthes), 34-35. Ulysses is killed unwittingly by his son Telegonus. Telegonus takes his father's body and Penelope with him to Circe, who transports them to the Islands of the Blest, 36-37.

Other stories told of Penelope and Ulysses: Penelope said to have been debauched by Antinous and therefore sent back to her father Icarius; at Mantinea she gives birth to Pan, whom she had by Hermes, 38. Amphinomus slain by Ulysses, because he was said to have seduced Penelope, 39. Ulysses sentenced by Neoptolemus to banishment for the murder of the suitors, emigrates to Aetolia, and having there begotten a son Leontophonus by the daughter of Thoas he dies in old age, 40.