Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
chapter:
chapter prchapter 1chapter 2chapter 3chapter 4chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9chapter 10chapter 11chapter 12chapter 13chapter 14chapter 15chapter 16chapter 17chapter 18chapter 19chapter 20chapter 21chapter 22chapter 23chapter 24chapter 25chapter 26chapter 27chapter 28chapter 29chapter 30chapter 31chapter 32chapter 33chapter 34chapter 35chapter 36chapter 37chapter 38chapter 39chapter 40chapter 41chapter 42chapter 43chapter 44chapter 45chapter 46chapter 47chapter 48chapter 49chapter 50chapter 51chapter 52chapter 53chapter 54chapter 55chapter 56chapter 57chapter 58chapter 59chapter 60chapter 61chapter 62chapter 63chapter 64chapter 65chapter 66chapter 67chapter 68chapter 69chapter 70chapter 71chapter 72chapter 73chapter 74chapter 75chapter 76chapter 77chapter 78chapter 79chapter 80chapter 81chapter 82chapter 83chapter 84chapter 85
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
book 1
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
ἐπεὶ δὲ Πέλοπος ἐμνήσθημεν, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι καὶ περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Ταντάλου διελθεῖν, ἵνα μηδὲν τῶν ἀκοῆς ἀξίων παραλίπωμεν. Τάνταλος Διὸς μὲν ἦν υἱός, πλούτῳ δὲ καὶ δόξῃ διαφέρων κατῴκει τῆς Ἀσίας περὶ τὴν νῦν ὀνομαζομένην Παφλαγονίαν. διὰ δὲ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς Διὸς εὐγένειαν, ὥς φασι, φίλος ἐγένετο τῶν θεῶν ἐπὶ πλέον. [2] ὕστερον δὲ τὴν εὐτυχίαν οὐ φέρων ἀνθρωπίνως, καὶ μετασχὼν κοινῆς τραπέζης καὶ πάσης παρρησίας, ἀπήγγελλε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ παρὰ τοῖς ἀθανάτοις ἀπόρρητα. δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίαν καὶ ζῶν ἐκολάσθη καὶ τελευτήσας αἰωνίου κατὰ τοὺς μύθους τιμωρίας ἠξιώθη, καταταχθεὶς εἰς τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς. [3] τούτου δ᾽ ἐγένετο Πέλοψ υἱὸς καὶ Νιόβη θυγάτηρ: αὕτη δ᾽ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς ἑπτὰ καὶ θυγατέρας τὰς ἴσας εὐπρεπείᾳ διαφερούσας. ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ πλήθει τῶν τέκνων μέγα φρυαττομένη πλεονάκις ἐκαυχᾶτο καὶ τῆς Λητοῦς ἑαυτὴν εὐτεκνοτέραν ἀπεφαίνετο. εἶθ᾽ ἡ μὲν Λητὼ κατὰ τοὺς μύθους χολωσαμένη προσέταξε τῷ μὲν Ἀπόλλωνι κατατοξεῦσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς Νιόβης, τῇ δ᾽ Ἀρτέμιδι τὰς θυγατέρας. τούτων δ᾽ ὑπακουσάντων τῇ μητρὶ καὶ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν κατατοξευσάντων τὰ τέκνα τῆς Νιόβης, [p. 516] συνέβη τὴν προειρημένην ὑφ᾽ ἕνα καιρὸν ὀξέως ἅμα εὔτεκνον καὶ ἄτεκνον γενέσθαι. [4] ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ Τάνταλος μισηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν θεῶν ἐξέπεσεν ἐκ τῆς Παφλαγονίας ὑπὸ Ἴλου τοῦ Τρωός, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Ἶλον καὶ τοὺς προγόνους αὐτοῦ διελθεῖν.
Diodori Bibliotheca Historica, Vol 1-2. Diodorus Siculus. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Keyboarding.
Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.