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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
excusing herself on the ground that her passion for the bull was a form of madness inflicted on her by Poseidon as a punishment for the impiety of her husband Minos, who had broken his vow by not sacrificing the bull to the sea-god. See W. Schubart und U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Griechische Dichterfragmente, ii. （Berlin, 1907）, pp. 74ff. In her love for the bull she found an accomplice in Daedalus, an architect, who had been banished from Athens for murder.See below, Apollod. 3.15.8. He constructed a wooden cow on wheels, took it, hollowed it out in the inside, sewed it up in the hide of a cow which he had skinned, and set it in the meadow in which the bull used to graze. Then he introduced Pasiphae into it; and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow. And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human; a
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
e not chosen by lot, but Minos came to Athens and picked them for himself, and on thelp him if he would agree to carry her away to Athens and have her to wife. Theseus having agreed onnds a wonderful view over the ports of Athens and away across the sea to Aegina and Theseus succeeded to the sovereignty of Athens, and killed the sons of Pallas, fifty ir murder before the court of the Delphinium at Athens, and was acquitted on the plea of justifiable . Wherefore the Amazons marched against Athens, and having taken up a position about trding to him, the events took place at Athens, and Phaedra conceived her passion for Lacedaemonians and Arcadians, captured Athens and carried away Helen, and with her Aeus from exile, and gave him the sovereignty of Athens.Menestheus was one of the royal familyules brought Theseus up and sent him to Athens.As to Theseus and Pirithous in hell, and the r[8 more...]
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
hat 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 Alhe west. Sacrifices were regularly offered at his grave, and when Solon desired to establish the claim of Athens to the possession of the island, he sailed across by night and sacrificed to the dead man at his grave. See Plut. Sol. 9. Cychreus was worshipped also at Athens （Plut. Thes. 10）. It is said that at the battle of Salamis a serpent appeared among the Greek ships, and God announced to the Athenians that this serpent was the hero Cychreus （Paus. 1. same belief possibly explains the association of Erichthonius or Erechtheus and Cecrops with serpents at Athens. See The Dying God, pp. 86ff. On account of this legendary serpent Lycophron called Salamis the Dragon I<
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
ken without him; so Thetis, foreseeing that it was fated he should perish if he went to the war, disguised him in female garb and entrusted him as a maiden to Lycomedes.As to Achilles disguised as a girl at the court of Lycomedes in Scyros, see Bion ii.5ff.; Philostratus Junior, Im. 1; Scholiast on Hom. Il. ix.668; Hyginus, Fab. 96; Statius, Achill. i.207ff. The subject was painted by Polygnotus in a chamber at the entrance to the acropolis of Athens （Paus. 1.22.6）. Euripides wrote a play called The Scyrians on the same theme. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 574ff. Sophocles composed a tragedy under the same title, which has sometimes been thought to have dealt with the same subject, but more probably it was concerned with Neoptolemus in Scyros and the mission of Ulysses and Phoenix to carry him off to Troy. See The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 191ff. The yo
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
rident on the rock of the acropolis at Athens was shown down to late times. See Straive. Athena, therefore, called the city Athens after herself, and Poseidon in hot angeistrict, he fled for safety to king Cranaus at Athens, where he founded a sanctuary of Rainy Zeus anas reigning, first at Thermopylae, and then at Athens; but it records nothing as to his revolt again the Virgin Athena on the acropolis of Athens, he notices the serpent coiled at her ch lived in the Erechtheum on the acropolis of Athens and was fed with honey-cakes once a month, maye may conjecture that the old kings of Athens claimed kinship with the sacred serpen is the Erechtheum on the acropolis of Athens. It was in the Erechtheum that the sac expelled Amphictyon and became king of Athens; and he set up the wooden image of Athe daughter of Aegisthus, who accused Orestes at Athens of the murder of her father and hanged herself
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
o a hero in the Erechtheum on the acropolis of Athens （Paus. 1.26.5）. Compare J. Toepffer, htheus was identified with Poseidon at Athens （Hesychius, s.v. *)erexqeu/s）. The Ath fearing the wife of Minos, she came to Athens and being reconciled to Cephalus she wey agrees. The war waged by Eumolpus on Athens is mentioned by Plat. Menex. 239b; Isoc. ath of Pandion his sons marched against Athens, expelled the Metionids, and divided thoose not until thou hast reached the height of Athens.As to the oracle, the begetting of Thainted by Micon in the sanctuary of Theseus at Athens Paus. 1.17.3, and is illustrated by stitors in the games, Androgeus was murdered at Athens by Athenian and Megarian conspirators. Paus. 1ced by their father, for the safety of Athens in obedience to an oracle. A precinct he Leocorium was dedicated to their worship at Athens. See Ael., Var. Hist. xii.28; Dem. 40.[8 more.
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
nd took up the sandals and the sword,The tokens of paternity left by his human father Aegeus. See above, Apollod. 3.15.7. and hastened on foot to Athens. And he clearedLiterally, “tamed.” As to the adventures of Theseus on his road to Athens, see Bacch. 17(18).16ff., ed. Jebb; Diod. 4.59; PlutAthens, see Bacch. 17(18).16ff., ed. Jebb; Diod. 4.59; Plut. Thes. 8ff.; Paus. 1.44.8; Paus. 2.1.3ff.; Scholiast on Lucian, Jupiter Tragoedus 21, pp. 64ff., ed. H. Rabe; Ov. Met. 7.433ff.; Ovid, Ibis 407ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 38. the road, which had been beset by evildoers. For first in Epidaurus he slew Periphetes, son of Hephaestus and An 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
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
1; Paus. 2.27.1. The notion that either a birth or a death would defile the holy island is illustrated by an inscription found on the acropolis of Athens, which declares it to be the custom that no one should be born or die within any sacred precinct. See *)efhmeri\s *)arxaiologikh/, Athens, 1884, pp. 167ffus hid his light o' love under the earth to save her from the jealous rage of Hera was told by the early mythologist and antiquarian Pherecydes of Athens, as we learn from the Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., (l.c.). Pherecydes was a contemporary of Herodotus and Hellanicus, and wrote in the first half of ths rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. G.H.Bode, i. pp. 40, 114 (First Vatican Mythographer 125; Second Vatican Mythographer 115). On the acropolis at Athens there was a group of statuary representing Athena smiting Marsyas because he had picked up the flutes which she had thrown away （Paus. 1.24.1）. The subjec
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
disposition and predatory habits, who proved a thorn in the flesh to the Thebans, until Cephalus rid them of the nuisance by knocking him on the head. But though Amphitryon undertook the task, it was fated that nobody should catch her. As the country suffered thereby, the Thebans every month exposed a son of one of the citizens to the brute, which would have carried off many if that were not 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 Argo
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
e rites were performed on this occasion by Musaeus, son of Orpheus. Elsewhere （Tzetzes, Chiliades iv.14.3） the same writer says that Demeter instituted the lesser Eleusinian mysteries in honour of Herakles for the purpose of purifying him after his slaughter of the centaurs. The statement that Pylius acted as adoptive father to Herakles at his initiation is repeated by Plut. Thes. 33, who mentions that before Castor and Pollux were initiated at Athens they were in like manner adopted by Aphidnus. Herodotus says （Hdt. 8.65） that any Greek who pleased might be initiated at Eleusis. The initiation of Herakles is represented in ancient reliefs. See A. B. Cook, Zeus, i.425ff. And having come to Taenarum in Laconia, where is the mouth of the descent to Hades, he descended through it.Compare Eur. Herc. 23ff.; Paus. 3.25.5; Seneca, Herakles Furens 807ff. Sophocles seems to have written a Saty
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