Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.

Fragment #3 —­ Constantinus Porphyrogenitus (3), de Them. 2 p. 48B:  The district Macedonia took its name from Macedon the son of Zeus and Thyia, Deucalion’s daughter, as Hesiod says:  `And she conceived and bare to Zeus who delights in the thunderbolt two sons, Magnes and Macedon, rejoicing in horses, who dwell round about Pieria and Olympus....  ((LACUNA)) ....And Magnes again (begot) Dictys and godlike Polydectes.’

Fragment #4 —­ Plutarch, Mor. p. 747; Schol. on Pindar Pyth. iv. 263:  `And from Hellen the war-loving king sprang Dorus and Xuthus and Aeolus delighting in horses.  And the sons of Aeolus, kings dealing justice, were Cretheus, and Athamas, and clever Sisyphus, and wicked Salmoneus and overbold Perieres.’

Fragment #5 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 266: 
Those who were descended from Deucalion used to rule over
Thessaly as Hecataeus and Hesiod say.

Fragment #6 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 482: 
Aloiadae.  Hesiod said that they were sons of Aloeus, —­ called
so after him, —­ and of Iphimedea, but in reality sons of
Poseidon and Iphimedea, and that Alus a city of Aetolia was
founded by their father.

Fragment #7 —­ Berlin Papyri, No. 7497; Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 421 (4):  (ll. 1-24) `....Eurynome the daughter of Nisus, Pandion’s son, to whom Pallas Athene taught all her art, both wit and wisdom too; for she was as wise as the gods.  A marvellous scent rose from her silvern raiment as she moved, and beauty was wafted from her eyes.  Her, then, Glaucus sought to win by Athena’s advising, and he drove oxen (5) for her.  But he knew not at all the intent of Zeus who holds the aegis.  So Glaucus came seeking her to wife with gifts; but cloud-driving Zeus, king of the deathless gods, bent his head in oath that the.... son of Sisyphus should never have children born of one father (6).  So she lay in the arms of Poseidon and bare in the house of Glaucus blameless Bellerophon, surpassing all men in.... over the boundless sea.  And when he began to roam, his father gave him Pegasus who would bear him most swiftly on his wings, and flew unwearying everywhere over the earth, for like the gales he would course along.  With him Bellerophon caught and slew the fire-breathing Chimera.  And he wedded the dear child of the great-hearted Iobates, the worshipful king.... lord (of).... and she bare....’

Fragment #8 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodes, Arg. iv. 57: 
Hesiod says that Endymion was the son of Aethlius the son of Zeus
and Calyee, and received the gift from Zeus:  `(To be) keeper of
death for his own self when he was ready to die.’

Fragment #9 —­
Scholiast Ven. on Homer, Il. xi. 750: 
The two sons of Actor and Molione...  Hesiod has given their
descent by calling them after Actor and Molione; but their father
was Poseidon.

Porphyrius (7), Quaest.  Hom. ad Iliad. pert., 265:  But Aristarchus is informed that they were twins, not.... such as were the Dioscuri, but, on Hesiod’s testimony, double in form and with two bodies and joined to one another.

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