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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
Westermann's Mythographi Graeci （Brunswick, 1843）, Appendix Narrationum, xxix, 1, pp. 371ff. Hephaestus fell on Lemnos and was lamed of his legs,The significance of lameness in myth and ritual is obscure. The Yorubas of West Africn, Märkische Sagen und Marchen （Berlin, 1843）, pp. 323ff. but Thetis saved him.As to the fall of Hephaestus on Lemnos, see Hom. Il. 1.590ff.; Lucian, De sacrificiis 6. The association of the fire-god with Lemnos is supposed to Lemnos is supposed to have been suggested by a volcano called Moschylus, which has disappeared—perhaps submerged in the sea. See H. F. Tozer, The Islands of the Aegean, pp. 269ff.; Jebb on Soph. Ph. 800, with the Appendix, pp. 243-245. According to another account, Hephaestus fell, not on Lemnos, but into the sea, where he was saved by Thetis. See Hom. Il. 18.394ff. Zeus had intercourse with Metis, who turned into many shapes in order to avoid h
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
These with Jason as admiral put to sea and touched at Lemnos.As to the visit of the Argonauts to Lemnos, see Ap.Lemnos, see Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.607ff.; Orphica, Argonautica 473ff.; Scholiast on Hom. Il. vii.468; Valerius Flaccus, Argoginus, Fab. 15. As to the massacre of the men of Lemnos by the women, see further Hdt. 6.138; Apostolius, C., Argon. i.609, 615. The visit of the Argonauts to Lemnos was the theme of plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles. tuttgart, 1861）, pp. 84ff. Every year the island of Lemnos was purified from the guilt of the massacre and sacostratus, Her. xx.24. At that time it chanced that Lemnos was bereft of men and ruled over by a queen, Hypsipyle, da saved her father Thoas by hiding him. So having put in to Lemnos, at that time ruled by women, the Argonauts had intbore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus. And after Lemnos they landed among the Doliones, of whom Cyzicus was
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
of Crete. Theseus would pass the island in sailing for Athens” （Merry on Hom. Od. xi.322）. Apollodorus seems to be the only extant ancient author who mentions that Dionysus carried off Ariadne from Naxos to Lemnos and had intercourse with her there. and having brought her to Lemnos he enjoyed her, and begat Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus.Compare Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. iii.997. Others said that Ariadne bore StaphyluLemnos he enjoyed her, and begat Thoas, Staphylus, Oenopion, and Peparethus.Compare Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. iii.997. Others said that Ariadne bore Staphylus and Oenopion to Theseus （Plut. Thes. 20）. In his grief on account of Ariadne, Theseus forgot to spread white sails on his ship when he stood for port; and Aegeus, seeing from the acropolis the ship with a black sail, supposed that Theseus had perished; so he cast himself down and died.Compare Diod. 4.61.6ff.; Plut. Thes. 22; Paus. 1.22.5; Hyginus, Fab. 43; Serv. Verg. A. 3.74; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 11
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
by the orders of Agamemnon, put him ashore on the island of Lemnos, with the bow of Hercules which he had in his possession; and therelderness.This story of the exposure and desertion of Philoctetes in Lemnos appears to have been told in the epic Cypria, as we may jud5. The island of Chryse is no doubt the “desert island near Lemnos” in which down to the first century B.C. were to be seen “a unfortunate encounter of Philoctetes with the snake took place in Lemnos itself, the island where he was abandoned by his comrades. 165). Homer speaks of Philoctetes marooned by the Greeks in Lemnos and suffering agonies from the bite of the deadly water-sna how or where the sufferer was bitten. Sophocles represents Lemnos as a desert island （Soph. Phil. 1ff.）. The fate of ather Priam. After being sold by his captor into slavery in Lemnos he was ransomed and returned to Troy, but meeting
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
e bow and arrows of Hercules fighting on their side. On hearing that, Ulysses went with Diomedes to Philoctetes in Lemnos, and having by craft got possession of the bow and arrows he persuaded him to sail to Troy. So he went, and ny poetic embellishments, by Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica ix.325-479 （the fetching of Philoctetes from Lemnos and the healing of him by Podalirius）, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica x.206ff. （Paris wounded to death b uttered, not by Calchas, but by the Trojan seer Helenus, whom Ulysses had captured; Philoctetes was brought from Lemnos by Diomedes alone, and he was healed, not by Podalirius, but by Machaon. The account of Tzetzes, Posthomerica 571 Euripides and Sophocles differed as to the envoys whom the Greeks sent to bring the wounded Philoctetes from Lemnos to Troy. According to Euripides, with whom Apollodorus, Quintus Smyrnaeus, and Hyginus, Fab. 103 agree, the envoy<