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Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
Hor. Epod. 17, 65ff.and Sat. i.1.68ff.; Ov. Met. 4.458ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 82. Ovid notices only the torments of hunger and thirst, and Lucian only the torment of thirst. According to another account, Tantalus lay buried under Mount Sipylus in Lydia, which had been his home in life, and on which his grave was shown down to late times （Paus. 2.22.3, 5.13.7）. The story ran that Zeus owned a valuable watchdog, which guarded his sanctuary in Crete; but Pandareus, the Milesian, stole the animal and entrusted it for safekeeping to Tantalus. So Zeus sent Hermes to the resetter to reclaim his property, but Tantalus impudently denied on oath that the creature was in his house or that he knew anything about it. Accordingly, to punish the perjured knave, the indignant Zeus piled Mount Sipylus on the top of him. See the Scholiast on Pind. O. 1.60(97); Scholiast on Hom. Od. xix.518, xx.66. In his
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
hat the business had been carried on in the family for three generations. Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 97. For nine days he was entertained by Menelaus; but on the tenth day, Menelaus having gone on a journey to Crete to perform the obsequies of his mother's father Catreus, Alexander persuaded Helen to go offThe Greek for “to go off” is a)pagagei=n, a rare use of a)pa/gein, which, however, occurs in the common phrase, a)/page,“Be off wit him. And she abandoned Hermione, then nine years old, and putting most of the property on board, she set sail with him by night.With this account of the hospitable reception of Paris in Sparta, the departure of Menelaus for Crete, and the flight of the guilty pair, compare Proclus, Chrestom. i., in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 17; Tzetzes, Antehomerica 96-134. As to the death of Catreus, the maternal grandfather of Menelaus, see<
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
ghter Clisithyra, who had taken refuge in the temple; and having detached ten cities from Crete he made himself tyrant of them; and when after the Trojan war Idomeneus landed in Crete, Crete, Leucus drove him out.See Frazer's Appendix to Apollodorus, “The vow of Idomeneus.” These were the earlier contrivances of Nauplius; but afterwards, when he learned that the Gree when Prothous was shipwrecked at Caphereus, the Magnesians with him drifted to Crete and settled there. Tzetzes, Scholia on Lycophron, 902 Ionian gulf and inhabited Apollonia in Epirus. And the people of Tlepolemus touched at Crete; then they were driven out of their course by winds and settled in the Iberian islands put in at Sunium, a headland of Attica; and being again driven thence by winds to Crete he drifted far away, and wandering up and down Libya, and Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and
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