Chorus
And there is in legend another murderous virgin to be loathed,Nisus was besieged in his town of Megara by Minos, king of Crete. Nisus' daughter Scylla, being in love with Minos, cut from the head of her father the purple hair on which his life depended, so that he was slain by the Cretans. who ruined a loved one at the bidding of his foes,when, lured by Minos' gift, the Cretan necklace forged of gold, she with her dog's heart despoiled Nisus of his immortal lock as he drew breath in unsuspecting sleep.And HermesHermes, the conductor to Hades of the souls of the dead. overtook him.
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
irstborn Hestia he swallowed, then Demeter and Hera,
and after them Pluto and Poseidon.Compare Hes. Th. 453-467ff.
Enraged at this, Rhea repaired to Crete, when she was big with Zeus, and brought him forth
in a cave of Dicte.According to Hesiod, Rhea gave birth to
Zeus in Crete, and the infant god was Crete, and the infant god was hidden in
a cave of Mount Aegeum (Hes. Th. 468-480). Diod.
5.70 mentions the legend that Zeus was born at Dicte in Crete, and that the god afterwards founded a city on the
site. But according to Diodorus, or his authorities, the child was brought up in a cave
on Mount Ida. The ancients were not agreCrete, and that the god afterwards founded a city on the
site. But according to Diodorus, or his authorities, the child was brought up in a cave
on Mount Ida. The ancients were not agreed as
to whether the infant god had been reared on Mount
Ida or Mount Dicte. Apollodorus declares for Dicte, and he is supported by
Verg. G. 4.153, Serv. Verg.
A. 3.104, and the Vatican Mythographers (Scriptores rerum mythicarum
Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 34, 79, First Vatican Mythographer 1
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
the earth constructed by Hephaestus.This quaint story of Orion and Oenopion is told also by
Eratosthenes, Cat. 32; the Old Scholiast on Aratus, Phaenomena 322,
quoted in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 89; the
Scholiast on Nicander, Ther. 15; Hyginus, Ast. ii.34; Serv. Verg. A. 10.763; and the Scriptores rerum
mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 12 (First Vatican Mythographer 33), except
that this last writer substitutes Minos, king of Crete, for Oenopion. The name of the guide whom Orion took on his back to
guide him to the sunrise was Cedalion （Lucian, De domo 28;
Eratosthenes, Cat.; and Hyginus, Ast. ii.34.）.
Sophocles made the story the theme of a satyric drama called Cedalion, of
which a few fragments have come down to us. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp.
202ff.; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol.
ii. pp. 8ff. Euripides represents the blinded Polymestor praying
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
ices was of a ribald
character (ai)sxroi=s e)/pessin.) Here Apollodorus again
departs from Apollonius, who places the intervention of Apollo and the appearance of the
island of Anaphe after the approach of the Argonauts to Crete, and their repulse by Talos. Moreover, Apollonius tells how, after
leaving Phaeacia, the Argonauts were driven by a storm to Libya and the Syrtes, where they suffered much hardship
（Ap. Rhod., Argon. iv.1228-1628）. This Libyan episode
in the voyage of the Argo is noticed by
Diod. 4.56.6, but entirely omitted by Apollodorus..
Putting to sea from there, they were hindered from touching at Crete by Talos.As to Talos,
see Ap. Rhod., Argon. iv.1639- 1693; Orphica, Argonautica
1358-1360; Agatharchides, in Photius, Bibliotheca, p. 443b, lines 22-25,
ed. Bekker; Lucian, De saltatione 49; Zenobius, Cent.
v.85; Suidas, s.v. *sarda/nios
ge/lws; Eustathius on Hom.
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
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 edusa, daughter of Alcathus. And Rhadamanthys, son of Zeus, married Alcmena after the
death of Amphitryon, and dwelt as an exile at Ocaleae in Boeotia.Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on
Lycophron 50, who says that Rhadamanthys fled from Crete because he had murdered his own brother. He agrees with Pausanias
that the worthy couple took up their abode at Ocaleae （or Ocalea） in
Boeotia. Their tombs were shown near
Haliartus, in Boeotia. See Plut. Lys. 28. The grav
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
r out of the sea.
And they say that when he saw the beauty of the bull he sent 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 Spbegotten by Typhon on Echidna,
was the watchdog. So journeying through Europe to
fetch the kine of Geryon he destroyed many wild beasts and set foot in Libya,Compare Diod.
4.17.3ff., who says that Herakles completely cleared Crete of wild beasts, and that he subdued many of the
wild beasts in the deserts of Libya and
rendered the land fertile and prosperous. and proceeding to Tartessus he erected
as tokens of his journey two pillars over against each
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
ame bull,
he mounted her on his back and conveyed her through the sea to Crete.Compare Moschus
ii.77ff.; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xii.292; Diod.
The connexion which the myth of Zeus and Europa indicates between Phoenicia and Crete receives a certain confirmation from the worship at Gaza of a god called Marnasre offered to him in time of drought. As to the god and his
relation to Crete, see G. F. Hill's
introduction to his translation, pp. xxxii.-xxxviii.the world he acts as judge in
Hades along with Minos. Minos, residing in Crete,
passed laws, and married Pasiphae, daughter of the SunDaughter of the Station of the year）. and
Perseis; but Asclepiades says that his wife was Crete, daughter of Asterius. He begat sons, to wit, Catreus,Compare Paus. 8.53.4.
he had Euxanthius.
Asterius dying childless, Minos wished to reign over Crete, but his claim was opposed. So he alleged that he had received the
kingd
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
the hand of one of his
children. Now Catreus hid the oracles, but Althaemenes heard of them, and fearing to be
his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with
his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia. And having
ascended the mountain called Atabyrium, he beheld the islands round about; and descrying
Crete also and calling to mind the gods of his
fathers he founded an altar of Atabyrian Zeus.As to
Atabyrian Zeus and his sanctuary on Mount Atabyrium, Atabyrum, or Atabyris, the highest
mountain in Rhodes, see Pind. O. 7.87(159)ff.; P Inst. i.22. Diodorus
Siculus tells us that the sanctuary, crowning a lofty peak, was highly venerated down to
his own time, and that the island of Crete was
visible from it in the distance. Some rude remains of the temple, built of grey
limestone, still exist on a summit a little lower than the high
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a
bastard son Molus.Compare Diod. 5.79.4.
But Glaucus, while he was yet a child, in chasing a mouse fell into a jar of honey and was
drowned.Glaucus was a son of Minos and Pasiphae. See
above, Apollod. 3.1.2. For the story of his death and
resurrection, see Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 811; Apostolius,
Cent. v.48; Palaephatus, De incredib. 27; Hyginus, Fab.
136; Hyginus, Ast. ii.14. Sophocles and Euripides composed tragedies
on the subject. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 216ff., 558ff.;
The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp.
56ff. On his disappearance Minos made a great search and consulted
diviners as to how he should find him. The Curetes told him that in his herds he had a cow
of three different colors, and that the man who could best describe that cow's color would
also restore his son to him alive.The cow
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
ompare
Diod. 5.48.2. Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to
defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt.Compare
Conon 21; Strab. 7 Fr. 50, ed.
Meineke; Hyginus, Ast. ii.4. A different turn is given to the
story by Homer, who represents the lovers meeting in a thrice-ploughed field
（Hom. Od. 5.125-128）. To the same
effect Hes. Th. 969-974 says that the thrice-ploughed
field where they met was in a fertile district of Crete, and that Wealth was born as the fruit of their love. Compare
Diod. 5.77.1ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 270. The Scholiast on
Hom. Od. v.125, attempts to rationalize the myth by saying that Iasion was the
only man who preserved seed-corn after the deluge. Grieved at his brother's
death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the
opposite mainland. That country was ruled by a king, Teucer, son of the river Scamander
and of a nymph Idaea, and the inhabitants of
