Fragment #4 —­
Volumina Herculan, II. viii. 105: 
The author of the “Cypria” says that Thetis, to please Hera,
avoided union with Zeus, at which he was enraged and swore that
she should be the wife of a mortal.

Fragment #5 —­ Scholiast on Homer, Il. xvii. 140:  For at the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the gods gathered together on Pelion to feast and brought Peleus gifts.  Cheiron gave him a stout ashen shaft which he had cut for a spear, and Athena, it is said, polished it, and Hephaestus fitted it with a head.  The story is given by the author of the “Cypria”.

Fragment #6 —­
Athenaeus, xv. 682 D, F: 
The author of the “Cypria”, whether Hegesias or Stasinus,
mentions flowers used for garlands.  The poet, whoever he was,
writes as follows in his first book: 

(ll. 1-7) `She clothed herself with garments which the Graces and Hours had made for her and dyed in flowers of spring —­ such flowers as the Seasons wear —­ in crocus and hyacinth and flourishing violet and the rose’s lovely bloom, so sweet and delicious, and heavenly buds, the flowers of the narcissus and lily.  In such perfumed garments is Aphrodite clothed at all seasons.

((LACUNA))

(ll. 8-12) Then laughter-loving Aphrodite and her handmaidens wove sweet-smelling crowns of flowers of the earth and put them upon their heads —­ the bright-coiffed goddesses, the Nymphs and Graces, and golden Aphrodite too, while they sang sweetly on the mount of many-fountained Ida.’

Fragment #7 —­ Clement of Alexandria, Protrept ii. 30. 5:  `Castor was mortal, and the fate of death was destined for him; but Polydeuces, scion of Ares, was immortal.’

Fragment #8 —­ Athenaeus, viii. 334 B:  `And after them she bare a third child, Helen, a marvel to men.  Rich-tressed Nemesis once gave her birth when she had been joined in love with Zeus the king of the gods by harsh violence.  For Nemesis tried to escape him and liked not to lie in love with her father Zeus the Son of Cronos; for shame and indignation vexed her heart:  therefore she fled him over the land and fruitless dark water.  But Zeus ever pursued and longed in his heart to catch her.  Now she took the form of a fish and sped over the waves of the loud-roaring sea, and now over Ocean’s stream and the furthest bounds of Earth, and now she sped over the furrowed land, always turning into such dread creatures as the dry land nurtures, that she might escape him.’

Fragment #9 —­
Scholiast on Euripides, Andr. 898: 
The writer (3) of the Cyprian histories says that (Helen’s third
child was) Pleisthenes and that she took him with her to Cyprus,
and that the child she bore Alexandrus was Aganus.

Fragment #10 —­
Herodotus, ii. 117: 
For it is said in the “Cypria” that Alexandrus came with Helen to
Ilium from Sparta in three days, enjoying a favourable wind and
calm sea.

Fragment #11 —­ Scholiast on Homer, Il. iii. 242:  For Helen had been previously carried off by Theseus, and it was in consequence of this earlier rape that Aphidna, a town in Attica, was sacked and Castor was wounded in the right thigh by Aphidnus who was king at that time.  Then the Dioscuri, failing to find Theseus, sacked Athens.  The story is in the Cyclic writers.