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 #80 —­
Herodian in Etymologicum Magnum: 
`Who bare Autolycus and Philammon, famous in speech....  All
things that he (Autolyeus) took in his hands, he made to
disappear.’

Fragment #81 —­
Apollonius, Hom.  Lexicon: 
`Aepytus again, begot Tlesenor and Peirithous.’

Fragment #82 —­ Strabo, vii. p. 322:  `For Locrus truly was leader of the Lelegian people, whom Zeus the Son of Cronos, whose wisdom is unfailing, gave to Deucalion, stones gathered out of the earth.  So out of stones mortal men were made, and they were called people.’ (52)

Fragment #83 —­
Tzetzes, Schol. in Exeg.  Iliad. 126: 
`...Ileus whom the lord Apollo, son of Zeus, loved.  And he named
him by his name, because he found a nymph complaisant (53) and
was joined with her in sweet love, on that day when Poseidon and
Apollo raised high the wall of the well-built city.’

Fragment #84 —­ Scholiast on Homer, Od. xi. 326:  Clymene the daughter of Minyas the son of Poseidon and of Euryanassa, Hyperphas’ daughter, was wedded to Phylacus the son of Deion, and bare Iphiclus, a boy fleet of foot.  It is said of him that through his power of running he could race the winds and could move along upon the ears of corn (54)....  The tale is in Hesiod:  `He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and not break it; nay, he would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit.’

Fragment #85 —­
Choeroboscus (55), i. 123, 22H: 
`And she bare a son Thoas.’

Fragment #86 —­
Eustathius, Hom. 1623. 44: 
Maro (56), whose father, it is said, Hesiod relates to have been
Euanthes the son of Oenopion, the son of Dionysus.

Fragment #87 —­
Athenaeus, x. 428 B, C: 
`Such gifts as Dionysus gave to men, a joy and a sorrow both. 
Who ever drinks to fullness, in him wine becomes violent and
binds together his hands and feet, his tongue also and his wits
with fetters unspeakable:  and soft sleep embraces him.’

Fragment #88 —­
Strabo, ix. p. 442: 
`Or like her (Coronis) who lived by the holy Twin Hills in the
plain of Dotium over against Amyrus rich in grapes, and washed
her feet in the Boebian lake, a maid unwed.’

Fragment #89 —­ Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth. iii. 48:  `To him, then, there came a messenger from the sacred feast to goodly Pytho, a crow (57), and he told unshorn Phoebus of secret deeds, that Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.

Fragment #90 —­
Athenagoras (58), Petition for the Christians, 29: 
Concerning Asclepius Hesiod says:  `And the father of men and gods
was wrath, and from Olympus he smote the son of Leto with a lurid
thunderbolt and killed him, arousing the anger of Phoebus.’

Fragment #91 —­
Philodemus, On Piety, 34: 
But Hesiod (says that Apollo) would have been cast by Zeus into
Tartarus (59); but Leto interceded for him, and he became bondman
to a mortal.

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