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T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, or The Casket (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 14 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
. Il. v.126 we learn that the story was told by Pherecydes, whom Apollodorus may be following in the present passage. The grave of Melanippus was on the road from Thebes to Chalcis （Paus. 9.18.1）, but Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, “fetched Melanippus” （e)phga/geto to\n Mela/nippon ） to Sicyon and dedicated a precinct to him in the Prytaneum or town-hall; moreover, he transferred to Melanippus the sacrifices and festal honours which till then Sicyon and dedicated a precinct to him in the Prytaneum or town-hall; moreover, he transferred to Melanippus the sacrifices and festal honours which till then had been offered to Adrastus, the foe of Melanippus. See Hdt. 5.67. It is probable that Clisthenes, in “fetching Melanippus,” transferred the hero's bones to the new shrine at Sicyon, following a common practice of the ancient Greeks, who were as anxious to secure the miraculous relics of heroes as modern Catholics are to secure the equally miraculous relics of saints. The most famous case of such a translation of holy bones was that of Oreste