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Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
olve frigus） and to persons （Sallust, Jugurtha 17, plerosque senectus dissolvit）. Theseus joined Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons and carried off Antiope, or, as some say, Melanippe; but Simonides calls her Hippolyte.As to Theseus and the Amazons, see Diod. 4.28; Plut. Thes. 26-28; Paus. 1.2.1; Paus. 1.15.2; Paus. 1.41.7; Paus. 2.32.9; Paus. 5.11.4 and Paus. 5.11.7; Zenobius, Cent. v.33. The invasion of Attica by the Amazons in the time of Theseus is repeatedly referred to by Isocrates （Isoc. 4.68, 70, 4.42, 7.75, 12.193）. The Amazon whom Theseus married, and by whom he had Hippolytus, is commonly called Antiope （Plut. Thes. 26; Plut. Thes. 28; Diod. 4.28; Paus. 1.2.1; Paus. 1.41.7; Seneca, Hippolytus 927ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 30）. But according to Clidemus, in agreement with Simonides, her name was Hippolyte （Plut. Thes. 27）, and so s
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
a brought her up as her own daughter.With this variant story of the birth of Helen compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 88 （who may have followed Apollodorus）; Eratosthenes, Cat. 25; Paus. 1.33.7ff.; Scholiast on Callimachus; Hyginus, Ast. ii.8. According to Eratosthenes and the Scholiast on Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis, 232, the meeting between Zeus and Nemesis, in the shape respectively of a swan and a goose, took place at Rhamnus in Attica, where Nemesis had a famous sanctuary, the marble ruins of which may still be seen in a beautiful situation beside the sea. The statue of the goddess at Rhamnus was wrought by the hand of Phidias, and on the base he represented Leda bringing the youthful Helen to her mother Nemesis. In modern times some of these marble reliefs have been found on the spot, but they are too fragmentary to admit of being identified. See Paus. 1.33.2-8, with Frazer's, comm
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
mphalus, king of Arcadia, and scattered the fragments of his mangled body abroad. This crime seems not to be mentioned by any other ancient writer; but Diodorus Siculus in like manner traces the calamity to a treacherous murder. He says （Diod. 4.61.1） that to punish the Athenians for the assassination of his son Androgeus, the Cretan king Minos prayed to Zeus that Athens might be afflicted with drought and famine, and that these evils soon spread over Attica and Greece. Similarly Alcmaeon's matricide was believed to have entailed a failure of the crops. See above, Apollod. 3.7.5 with the note. Even after his death Aeacus is honored in the abode of Pluto, and keeps the keys of Hades.In some late Greek verses, inscribed on the tomb of a religious sceptic at Rome, Aeacus is spoken of as the warder or key-holder （kleidou=xos） of the infernal regions; but in the same breath the poet assures us that th
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
） represents this Actaeus as the first king of Attica, and says that Cecrops succeeded him on the h person as Actaeus; according to him, Attica lay waste and depopulated from the delresenting Cecrops as the first king of Attica; Hyginus calls him a son of the earth. between Poseidon and Athena for possession of Attica, see Hdt. 8.55; Plut. Them. 19; Paus. 1.24.5; m, the olive-tree suddenly appeared in Attica, and at the same time there was an eru Poseidon respectively, and that the people of Attica were free to choose which of these deities the anger flooded the Thriasian plain and laid Attica under the sea.As to this flood, see Varans Hellanicus and Androtion in their works on Attica. Here, therefore, as usual, Apollodorus seems whose time Demeter and Dionysus came to Attica.Here Apollodorus differs from the Parian s nothing of the coming of Dionysus to Attica. The advent of Demeter and Dionysus is[6 more...]
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
hens, expelled the Metionids, and divided the government in four; but Aegeus had the whole power.Compare Paus. 1.5.4, Paus. 1.39.4, according to whom Aegeus, as the eldest of the sons of Pandion, obtained the sovereignty of Attica, while his brother Nisus, relinquishing his claim to his elder brother, was invested with the kingdom of Megara. As to the fourfold partition of Attica among the sons of Pandion, about which the ancients were not aAttica among the sons of Pandion, about which the ancients were not agreed, see Strab. 9.1.6; Scholiast on Aristoph. Lys. 58, and on Wasps 1223. The first wife whom he married was Meta, daughter of Hoples, and the second was Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor.Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 494, who may have copied Apollodorus. As no child was born to him, he feared his brothers, and went to Pythia and consulted the oracle concerning the begetting of children. The god answered him: The bulging mouth of the
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
ound the man was tossed up into the air and killed by falling heavily to the ground. Apollodorus seems to have contemplated a similar mode of death, except that he does not mention the cooperation of Sinis in bending the tree to the earth. According to the Parian Chronicle （Marmor Parium 35ff.） it was not on his journey from Troezen to Athens that Theseus killed Sinis, but at a later time, after he had come to the throne and united the whole of Attica under a single government; he then returned to the Isthmus of Corinth, killed Sinis, and celebrated the Isthmian games. This tradition seems to imply that Theseus held the games as a funeral honour paid to the dead man, or more probably as an expiation to appease the angry ghost of his victim. This implication is confirmed by the Scholiast on Pindar, who says that according to some people Theseus held the Isthmian games in honour of Sinis, whom he had
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
done. So Amphitryon betook him to Cephalus, son of Deioneus, at Athens, and persuaded him, in return for a share of the Teleboan spoils, to bring to the chase the dog which Procris had brought from Crete as a gift from MinosAs to Procris, see below, Apollod. 3.15.1.; for that dog was destined to catch whatever it pursued. So then, when the vixen was chased by the dog, Zeus turned both of them into stone. Supported by his allies, to wit, Cephalus from Thoricus in Attica, Panopeus from Phocis, Heleus, son of Perseus, from Helos in Argolis, and Creon from Thebes, Amphitryon ravaged the islands of the Taphians. Now, so long as Pterelaus lived, he could not take Taphos; but when Comaetho, daughter of Pterelaus, falling in love with Amphitryon, pulled out the golden hair from her father's head, Pterelaus died,Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 932. For the similar story of Nisus and his daughter Megara, see below, Apollod. 3.15.
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
ent it away to the herds and sacrificed another to Poseidon; at which the god was angry and made the bull savage. To attack this bull Hercules came to Crete, and when, in reply to his request for aid, Minos told him to fight and catch the bull for himself, he caught it and brought it to Eurystheus, and having shown it to him he let it afterwards go free. But the bull roamed to Sparta and all Arcadia, and traversing the Isthmus arrived at Marathon in Attica and harried the inhabitants. The eighth labour he enjoined on him was to bring the mares of Diomedes the Thracian to Mycenae.As to the man-eating mares of Diomedes, see Diod. 4.15.3ff.; Philostratus, Im. ii.25; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica vi.245ff.; Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.299-308 （who seems to follow Apollodorus, except that he speaks of the animals in the masculine as horses, not mares）; Strab. 7 Fr. 44, 47, ed. A. Meineke;
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
h. OC 1375; Zenobius, Cent. v.43. A different cause of his anger is assigned by Athenaeus xi.14, pp. 465ff., also on the authority of the author of the Thebaid . And having come with Antigone to Colonus in Attica, where is the precinct of the Eumenides, he sat down there as a suppliant, was kindly received by Theseus, and died not long afterwards.The coming of Oedipus and Antigone to Colonus Hippius in Attica, together with tAttica, together with the mysterious death of Oedipus, are the subject of Sophocles's noble tragedy, Oedipus Coloneus. As to the sanctuary of the Eumenides, see that play, Soph. OC 36ff. The knoll of Colonus is situated over a mile from Athens, and it is doubtful whether the poet intended to place the death and burial of Oedipus at Colonus or at Athens itself, where in later times the grave of Oedipus was shown in a precinct of the Eumenides, between the Acropolis and the Areopa
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
horses, and so to descend to the nether world. See Eur. Supp. 925ff.; Statius, Theb. viii.1ff.; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 49 (First Vatican Mythographer 152). Hence Sophocles speaks of him as reigning fully alive in Hades （Soph. Elec. 836ff.）. Moreover, Amphiaraus was deified （Paus. 8.2.4; Cicero, De divinatione i.40.88）, and as a god he had a famous oracle charmingly situated in a little glen near Oropus in Attica. See Paus. 1.34, with （Frazer, commentary on Paus., vol. ii. pp. 466ff.）. The exact spot where Amphiaraus disappeared into the earth was shown not far from Thebes on the road to Potniae. It was a small enclosure with pillars in it. See Paus. 9.8.3. As the ground was split open by a thunderbolt to receive Amphiaraus （Pind. N. 9.24(59)ff.; Pind. N. 10.8(13)ff.）, the enclosure with pillars in it was doubtless one of those little sanctuar
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