(ll. 1-2) And she (Helen) bare neat-ankled Hermione in the palace, a
child unlooked for.
(ll. 2-13) Now all the gods were divided through strife; for at that
very time Zeus who thunders on high was meditating marvellous deeds,
even to mingle storm and tempest over the boundless earth, and already
he was hastening to make an utter end of the race of mortal men,
declaring that he would destroy the lives of the demi-gods, that the
children of the gods should not mate with wretched mortals, seeing
their fate with their own eyes; but that the blessed gods henceforth
even as aforetime should have their living and their habitations apart
from men. But on those who were born of immortals and of mankind verily
Zeus laid toil and sorrow upon sorrow.
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(ll. 16-30)....nor any one of men.... ....should go upon black
ships.... ....to be strongest in the might of his hands.... ....of
mortal men declaring to all those things that were, and those that are,
and those that shall be, he brings to pass and glorifies the counsels
of his father Zeus who drives the clouds. For no one, either of the
blessed gods or of mortal men, knew surely that he would contrive
through the sword to send to Hades full many a one of heroes fallen in
strife. But at that time he knew not as yet the intent of his father’s
mind, and how men delight in protecting their children from doom. And
he delighted in the desire of his mighty father’s heart who rules
powerfully over men.
(ll. 31-43) From stately trees the fair leaves fell in abundance
fluttering down to the ground, and the fruit fell to the ground because
Boreas blew very fiercely at the behest of Zeus; the deep seethed and
all things trembled at his blast: the strength of mankind consumed away
and the fruit failed in the season of spring, at that time when the
Hairless One 1746 in a secret place in the mountains gets three young
every three years. In spring he dwells upon the mountain among tangled
thickets and brushwood, keeping afar from and hating the path of men,
in the glens and wooded glades. But when winter comes on, he lies in a
close cave beneath the earth and covers himself with piles of luxuriant
leaves, a dread serpent whose back is speckled with awful spots.
(ll. 44-50) But when he becomes violent and fierce unspeakably, the
arrows of Zeus lay him low.... Only his soul is left on the holy earth,
and that fits gibbering about a small unformed den. And it comes
enfeebled to sacrifices beneath the broad-pathed earth.... and it
lies....’
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Fragment #69—Tzetzes 1747, Exeg. Iliad. 68. 19H: Agamemnon and Menelaus
likewise according to Hesiod and Aeschylus are regarded as the sons of
Pleisthenes, Atreus’ son. And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a
son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the
children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.
Fragment #70—Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles’ Electra, 539: ‘And she
(Helen) bare to Menelaus, famous with the spear, Hermione and her
youngest-born, Nicostratus, a scion of Ares.’
Fragment #71—Pausanias, i. 43. 1: I know that Hesiod in the _Catalogue
of Women_ represented that Iphigeneia was not killed but, by the will
of Artemis, became Hecate 1748.
Fragment #72—Eustathius, Hom. 13. 44. sq: Butes, it is said, was a son
of Poseidon: so Hesiod in the _Catalogue_.
Fragment #73—Pausanias, ii. 6. 5: Hesiod represented Sicyon as the son
of Erechtheus.
Fragment #74—Plato, Minos, p. 320. D: ‘(Minos) who was most kingly of
mortal kings and reigned over very many people dwelling round about,
holding the sceptre of Zeus wherewith he ruled many.’
Fragment #75—Hesychius 1749: The athletic contest in memory of Eurygyes
Melesagorus says that Androgeos the son of Minos was called Eurygyes,
and that a contest in his honour is held near his tomb at Athens in the
Ceramicus. And Hesiod writes: ‘And Eurygyes 1750, while yet a lad in
holy Athens...’
Fragment #76—Plutarch, Theseus 20: There are many tales.... about
Ariadne...., how that she was deserted by Theseua for love of another
woman: ‘For strong love for Aegle the daughter of Panopeus overpowered
him.’ For Hereas of Megara says that Peisistratus removed this verse
from the works of Hesiod.
Athenaeus 1751, xiii. 557 A: But Hesiod says that Theseus wedded both
Hippe and Aegle lawfully.
Fragment #77—Strabo, ix. p. 393: The snake of Cychreus: Hesiod says
that it was brought up by Cychreus, and was driven out by Eurylochus as
defiling the island, but that Demeter received it into Eleusis, and
that it became her attendant.
Fragment #78—Argument I. to the Shield of Heracles: But Apollonius of
Rhodes says that it (the _Shield of Heracles_) is Hesiod’s both from
the general character of the work and from the fact that in the
_Catalogue_ we again find Iolaus as charioteer of Heracles.
Fragment #79—Scholiast on Soph. Trach., 266: (ll. 1-6) ‘And
fair-girdled Stratonica conceived and bare in the palace Eurytus her
well-loved son. Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like
Toxeus and Iphitus, a scion of Ares. And after these Antiope the queen,
daughter of the aged son of Nauboius, bare her youngest child,
golden-haired Iolea.’
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.’ 1752
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 1753 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 1754.... 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 1755, i. 123, 22H: ‘And she bare a son
Thoas.’
Fragment #86—Eustathius, Hom. 1623. 44: Maro 1756, 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 1757,
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 1758, 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 1759; but Leto interceded
for him, and he became bondman to a mortal.
Fragment #92—Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth. ix. 6: ‘Or like her, beautiful
Cyrene, who dwelt in Phthia by the water of Peneus and had the beauty
of the Graces.’
Fragment #93—Servius on Vergil, Georg. i. 14: He invoked Aristaeus,
that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls ‘the shepherd
Apollo.’ 1760
Fragment #94—Scholiast on Vergil, Georg. iv. 361: ‘But the water stood
all round him, bowed into the semblance of a mountain.’ This verse he
has taken over from Hesiod’s _Catalogue of Women_.
Fragment #95—Scholiast on Homer, Iliad ii. 469: ‘Or like her (Antiope)
whom Boeotian Hyria nurtured as a maid.’
Fragment #96—Palaephatus 1761, c. 42: Of Zethus and Amphion. Hesiod and
some others relate that they built the walls of Thebes by playing on
the lyre.
Fragment #97—Scholiast on Soph. Trach., 1167: (ll. 1-11) ‘There is a
land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and
shambling kine. There dwell men who have many sheep and many oxen, and
they are in number past telling, tribes of mortal men. And there upon
its border is built a city, Dodona 1762; and Zeus loved it and
(appointed) it to be his oracle, reverenced by men........And they (the
doves) lived in the hollow of an oak. From them men of earth carry away
all kinds of prophecy,—whosoever fares to that spot and questions the
deathless god, and comes bringing gifts with good omens.’
Fragment #98—Berlin Papyri, No. 9777: 1763 (ll. 1-22) ‘....strife....
Of mortals who would have dared to fight him with the spear and charge
against him, save only Heracles, the great-hearted offspring of
Alcaeus? Such an one was (?) strong Meleager loved of Ares, the
golden-haired, dear son of Oeneus and Althaea. From his fierce eyes
there shone forth portentous fire: and once in high Calydon he slew the
destroying beast, the fierce wild boar with gleaming tusks. In war and
in dread strife no man of the heroes dared to face him and to approach
and fight with him when he appeared in the forefront. But he was slain
by the hands and arrows of Apollo 1764, while he was fighting with the
Curetes for pleasant Calydon. And these others (Althaea) bare to
Oeneus, Porthaon’s son; horse-taming Pheres, and Agelaus surpassing all
others, Toxeus and Clymenus and godlike Periphas, and rich-haired Gorga
and wise Deianeira, who was subject in love to mighty Heracles and bare
him Hyllus and Glenus and Ctesippus and Odites. These she bare and in
ignorance she did a fearful thing: when (she had received).... the
poisoned robe that held black doom....’
Fragment #99A—Scholiast on Homer, Iliad. xxiii. 679: And yet Hesiod
says that after he had died in Thebes, Argeia the daughter of Adrastus
together with others (cp. frag. 99) came to the lamentation over
Oedipus.
Fragment #99—1765 Papyri greci e latine, No. 131 (2nd-3rd century):
1766 (ll. 1-10) ‘And (Eriphyle) bare in the palace Alcmaon 1767,
shepherd of the people, to Amphiaraus. Him (Amphiaraus) did the Cadmean
(Theban) women with trailing robes admire when they saw face to face
his eyes and well-grown frame, as he was busied about the burying of
Oedipus, the man of many woes. ....Once the Danai, servants of Ares,
followed him to Thebes, to win renown........for Polynices. But, though
well he knew from Zeus all things ordained, the earth yawned and
swallowed him up with his horses and jointed chariot, far from
deep-eddying Alpheus.
(ll. 11-20) But Electyron married the all-beauteous daughter of Pelops
and, going up into one bed with her, the son of Perses begat........and
Phylonomus and Celaeneus and Amphimachus and........and Eurybius and
famous.... All these the Taphians, famous shipmen, slew in fight for
oxen with shambling hoofs,.... ....in ships across the sea’s wide back.
So Alcmena alone was left to delight her parents........and the
daughter of Electryon....
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(l. 21)....who was subject in love to the dark-clouded son of Cronos
and bare (famous Heracles).’
Fragment #100—Argument to the Shield of Heracles, i: The beginning of
the _Shield_ as far as the 56th verse is current in the fourth
_Catalogue_
Fragment #101 (UNCERTAIN POSITION)—Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1359 fr. 1 (early
3rd cent. A.D.): ((LACUNA—Slight remains of 3 lines))
(ll. 4-17) ‘...if indeed he (Teuthras) delayed, and if he feared to
obey the word of the immortals who then appeared plainly to them. But
her (Auge) he received and brought up well, and cherished in the
palace, honouring her even as his own daughters.
And Auge bare Telephus of the stock of Areas, king of the Mysians,
being joined in love with the mighty Heracles when he was journeying in
quest of the horses of proud Laomedon—horses the fleetest of foot that
the Asian land nourished,—and destroyed in battle the tribe of the
dauntless Amazons and drove them forth from all that land. But Telephus
routed the spearmen of the bronze-clad Achaeans and made them embark
upon their black ships. Yet when he had brought down many to the ground
which nourishes men, his own might and deadliness were brought low....’
Fragment #102 (UNCERTAIN POSITION)—Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1359 fr. 2 (early
3rd cent. A.D.): ((LACUNA—Remains of 4 lines))
(ll. 5-16) ‘....Electra.... was subject to the dark-clouded Son of
Cronos and bare Dardanus.... and Eetion.... who once greatly loved
rich-haired Demeter. And cloud-gathering Zeus was wroth and smote him,
Eetion, and laid him low with a flaming thunderbolt, because he sought
to lay hands upon rich-haired Demeter. But Dardanus came to the coast
of the mainland—from him Erichthonius and thereafter Tros were sprung,
and Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymede,—when he had left holy
Samothrace in his many-benched ship.
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1359 fr. 3 (early 3rd cent. A.D.): (ll. 17-24)
1768....Cleopatra ....the daughter of.... ....But an eagle caught up
Ganymede for Zeus because he vied with the immortals in
beauty........rich-tressed Diomede; and she bare Hyacinthus, the
blameless one and strong........whom, on a time Phoebus himself slew
unwittingly with a ruthless disk....