Authors - other interpretations Flashcards
Hyginus
When Diana became exhausted from constant hunting in the summer heat, she went to the well-shaded valley called Gargaphia and washed herself in the Spring of the Virgin…..
Palephaitus - rationalisation
Action was a real person
He really liked hunting
He ignored his other duties
Did not pay attention to his property/money etc, he was ruined
The people said “poor Achaion he has been eaten up by his own dogs”
It is essentially a term of phrase
Apollodorus
When the boy grew up, he surpassed his peers in strength….
Palaephatus - rationalisation (Sphinx a woman)
Hyginus - Moral allegory (don’t marry your mum)
Diodorus Siculus
Near the Thermodon River they say that the predominant race was one ruled by women…
Palaephatus - rationalisation
“These warrior women were not women, but barbarian men who used to wear full-length tunics, put their hair up in hairbands, and shave their beards”
“They were probably never an army of women, for there are none anywhere now”
Hippocrates - rationalisation
Men who act like women
“they put on female attire, reproach themselves for effeminacy, play the part of women, and perform the same work as women do.”
Apollodorus
While they slept. Their names were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa….
Hyginus
Hyginus
When Amphitryon was away fighting in the siege of Oechalia, Alcimena welcomed Jupiter into her chamber in the belief that he was her husband…
Apollodorus
Homeric Hymn
Apollonius of Rhodes
Terror flew far away. So now let us too thing up some such contrivance - and having myself already thought of one, let me tell it to you: put on your heads your tall-crested helmets, then by turns half of you bend to the oars
Apollodorus
Moral allegory
The blood guilt of Jason and Medeia
Ovid
But you returned to Haemonia’s cities safe and triumphant; the Golden Fleece was laid out before your country’s gods. Why mention Pelias’ daughters, who bought harm through their devotion, or their father’s limbs cut by their maidenly hands…
Apollodorus
Aelien
Hyginus
While Theseus was held up on the island of Dia by a storm, he got to thinking that if he bought Ariadne home it would be a disgrace. So he abandoned her on the island while she was asleep…
Apollodorus - moral allegory/different interpretation
Theseus lands on naxos
Ariadne is there
Dionysus falls in love with ariadne and takes her haway
Theseus is absolved of any wrong as gods interfered
Different in that he didn’t choose to leave Ariadne there, he had to
Hyginus explains Theseus to have intentionally left her due to his personal reasons
Apollodorus
After Telephassa died and Cadmos buried her, he was treated as a guest by the Thracians and went to Delphi to inquire about Europa.
not different but
Hyginus
Moral allegory
Cadmus doing what the oracle tells him
Diodorus of Sicily
There is a disagreement about the birth and kingship of Zeus…
- Hesiod - natural allegory
Gaia as “the ever-firm foundation”
“Starry” Ouranos - Apollodorus
