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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
ng her all over the earth with torches by night and day, and learning from the people of Hermion that Pluto had carried her off,This visit paid by the mourning Demeter to Hermion, Hermion, when she was searching for the lost Persephone, is not mentioned by the author of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, nor, so far as I know, by any other ancient writer except Zenobius, t compare Paus. 2.35.4-8, who mentions the sanctuary of Subterranean Demeter at Hermion, and describes the curious sacrificial ritual observed at it. At Hermion there was a chHermion there was a chasm which was supposed to communicate with the infernal regions, and through which Herakles was said to have dragged up Cerberus （Paus. 2.35.10）. The statement of Apollodorus ged down his bride to hell through the same chasm. So convinced were the good people of Hermion that they possessed a private entrance to the nether regions that they very thriftily a
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
Pluto for Cerberus, Pluto ordered him to take the animal provided he mastered him without the use of the weapons which he carried. Hercules found him at the gates of Acheron, and, cased in his cuirass and covered by the lion's skin, he flung his arms round the head of the brute, and though the dragon in its tail bit him, he never relaxed his grip and pressure till it yielded.Literally, “till he persuaded （it）.” So he carried it off and ascended through Troezen.Compare Paus. 2.31.2. According to others, the ascent of Herakles with Cerberus took place at Hermione （Paus. 2.35.10） or on Mount Laphystius in Boeotia （Paus. 9.34.5）. But Demeter turned Ascalaphus into a short-eared owl,Compare Ov. Met. 5.538ff. As to the short-eared owl （w)=tos）, see D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Glossary of Greek Birds, pp. 200ff. and Hercules, after showing Cerberus to Eurystheus, carried
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XI, Chapter 78 (search)
Athens, and in Rome Aulus Postumius Regulus and Spurius Furius Mediolanus succeeded to the consulship. During this year a war arose between the Corinthians and Epidaurians on the one hand and the Athenians on the other, and the Athenians took the field against them and after a sharp battle were victorious. With a large fleet they put in at a place called Halieis, landed on the Peloponnesus, and slew not a few of the enemy.Halieis is on the Argolic Gulf, near Hermione. Thucydides (Thuc. 1.105) says that the Athenians were defeated. But the Peloponnesians rallied and gathered a strong force, and it came to a battle with the Athenians near the place called CecryphaleiaAn island off Epidaurus. in which the Athenians were again victorious. After such successes the Athenians, seeing that the Aeginetans were not only puffed up over their former achievements but also hostile to Athens, decided to reduce them by war. Therefore th
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 26 (search)
Formerly, though I was sunk in misfortune, the hope always drew me to him that if the child lived my family would find some kind of help and defense. But ever since Neoptolemus married Hermione, spurning my bed since he was master and I a slave, I have been hounded with cruel ill-treatment by her. For she says that with secret poisons I make her childless and an object of hatred to her husband, and that I wish to take her place in the house, casting her marriage-bed out by violent means. This bed I received unwillingly to begin with and now I have relinquished it. Great Zeus be my witness that it was against my will that I became sharer in this bed! But I cannot persuade her of this, and she wants to kill me. Menelaus her father is acting as his daughter's accomplice in this, and he is now in the house, having come from Sparta for this very purpose. In fear I have come and taken my seat at this shrine of Thetis near the house on the chance that it may save me from death. For Peleu
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 56 (search)
not be in such sorry plight if he were present. But as it is you are bereft of friends. Andromache Is there also no word of Peleus' coming? Servant He is too old to help you were he here. Andromache And yet I sent a message more than once. Servant Do you suppose any of your messengers cared about you? Andromache Of course not! Will you then be messenger? Servant What shall I say being so long from home? Andromache You will find many dodges: you are a woman. Servant There is risk. Hermione is no slouch as guard. Andromache You see? You fail your friends in their misfortune! Servant No, indeed: don't reproach me with that! I will go, since in any case the life of a slave is not much to admire if I do in fact suffer disaster.The servant departs by Eisodos A. Andromache Go then! For my part I shall draw out at length to the upper air the laments and groans and tears to which my whole life is devoted. There is in women is an inborn pleasure in having their present misfortunes
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 103 (search)
Andromache sung It was not as a bride that Paris brought Helen to lofty Troy into his chamber to lie with but rather as mad ruin. For her sake, the sharp warcraft of Greece in its thousand ships captured you, O Troy, sacked you with fire and sword, and killed Hector, husband to luckless me. The son of the sea-goddess Thetis dragged him, as he rode his chariot, about the walls of Troy. I myself was led off from my chamber to the sea-shore, putting hateful slavery as a covering about my head. Many were the tears that rolled down my cheeks when I left my city and my home and my husband lying in the dust. Oh, unhappy me, why should I still look on the light as Hermione's slave? Oppressed by her I have come as suppliant to this statue of the goddess and cast my arms about it, and I melt in tears like some gushing spring high up on a cliff.
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 117 (search)
Enter by Eisodos A women of Phthia as Chorus. Chorus Woman, you who have been long sitting upon the floor of Thetis' shrine without leaving it, though I am a Phthian, I have come to you, scion of Asia, in the hope that I might be able to heal the struggles hard to resolve, struggles that have joined you, unhappy woman, and Hermione in haeateful quarrel about a bed two-fold, since you share a husband, the son of Achilles.
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs), line 147 (search)
Enter from the skeneHermione, dressed and bejewelled in impressive style. Hermione The finery of luxurious gold I have about my head and this variegated cloth I wear on my body—I did not wear coming these on my arrival here as the first-fruits of the house of Achilles or of Peleus, but my father Menelaus gave them to me from the city of Sparta together with a large dowry, and therefore I may speak my mind. [So it is with these words that I reply to all of you.] But though you are a slave woman won by the spear, you mean to throw me out of this house and take possession of it: because of your poisons I am hated by my husband, and my womb is perishing unfruitful because of you. The minds of Asian women are clever at such things. But I shall stop you from carrying out this plan, and the temple of the Nereid here will profit you not at all, not its altar or its sanctuary, but you will be put to death. If some god or mortal means to save your life, you must cease from those rich prou
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 666 (search)
esses brightened the beauty from which the judgment came. Menelaos Regarding the judgment, Hera made it a cause of these troubles for you? Helen To take me away from Paris— Menelaos How? Tell me. Helen To whom Kypris had promised me. Menelaos O unhappy one! Helen Unhappy, unhappy; and so she brought me to Egypt. Menelaos Then she gave him a phantom instead, as I hear from you. Helen Sorrow, sorrow to your house, mother, alas. Menelaos What do you mean? Helen My mother is no more; through shame of my disgraceful marriage she tied a noose around her neck. Menelaos Alas! Is our daughter Hermione alive? Helen Ah, my husband! Unmarried, without children, she mourns my fatal marriage. Menelaos O Paris, who utterly destroyed my whole house, these things ruined you also, and countless bronze-clad Danaans. Helen The god cast me out, ill-fated and accursed, from my country, from my city, and from you, when I left my home and bed—yet I did not leave them—for a shameful mar
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 1465 (search)
Chorus Perhaps you may find the daughters of Leukippos beside the swell of the river or before the temple of Pallas, when at last you join in the dances or the revels of Hyakinthos in night-long joy—Hyakinthos, whom Phoebus killed with the round discus, contesting for the farthest throw—a day of the sacrifice of oxen in the Lakonian land; the son of Zeus declared that his race would be honored; and you may find the girl whom you left at home, Hermione, for as yet no torch has lit the way to her marri
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