A Commentary on Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica III, 1-471 9004101586, 9789004101586

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MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA C:OLLEGERUNT

A COMMENTARY ON APOLLONIUS RHODIUS ARGONAUTICA III 1-471

j. ;-,._.c BRE?vlER· L. F. JA.1'1SSEN· H. PINKSTER

H. VV.PLEKET • C.J. RUIJGH • P.H. SCHRijVERS

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BIBUOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT C.J. RUIJGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIU}.'1,OUDE TURFMARKT 129, Ai.\1STERDAM

SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM QUADRAGESIMUM PRIMUM

MALCOLM CAMPBELL

MALCOLM CAMPBELL

A COMMENTARY ON APOLLONIUS RHODIUS ARGONAUTICA III 1-471

EJ. BRILL LEIDEN · NEW YORK · KOLN 1994

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Preface .......................................................................................... . Abbreviations and Bibliography .................................................. .

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Commentary Indexes ......................................................................................... . Prefatory Note ......................................................................... . I Greek Words ........................................................................ . IIA Greek Authors ................................................................. . IIB Latin Authors ................................................................... . IHA Composition, Language & Style, Metre & Prosody ...... IIIB Text, Testimonia, Seholia .............................................. . IV Mythology, Religion, Geography, Ethnography, Aetiology

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PREFACE If the third book of Apollonius' Argonautica was not an instant hit, it

very soon became one, and its popularity has endured despite the chilly reception often accorded to the other three. It is surprising then that it still lacks a comprehensive and fully documented commentary. It is the aim of this and subsequent volumes to provide o_ne.One of my main concerns has been systematic analysis of the Homeric subtext; I have not only put the material assembled in Echoesto work but have added considerably to it, chiefly by extending the range of its coverage (see Preface, p. vn). This I consider to be labour well spent: after all, no Greek poem presents us with a more sustained or more intricate manipulation of the two great epics of the archaic period; and recent attempts to throw light on the Homeric heritage have, with only a handful of exceptions, proved distressingly inadequate. I have been conscious at every turn of my indebtedness to the writings of those scholars (F. Vian and H. Frankel in particular) who spearheaded the Apollonian revival. There has been much less to get excited about in all the frantic repackaging of the past decade or so, but the few good things have been very good indeed, and I take the opportunity here to acknowledge an obligation to them, and to those earlier works which seem to me to have made outstanding contributions to the study of this poem. In a class apart are the three Bude volumes, F. Vian's commentary on iii (a finely crafted miniature: I have learned a tremendous amount from this) and his various papers, H. Frankel's OCT (which really stirred things up) and his Noten, E. Livrea's commentary on iv and the rest of his writings. Others, in alphabetical order: Ardizzoni (i958 etc.) resolved a number of thorny problems of text and interpretation; Beye (1982)knows how to combine instruction with broad entertainment; Drager (1993):some basic suppositions are flawed, but his monograph provides an invaluable Erbse (i953): a virtuoso (if partial) denew survey of resArgonauticae; monstration of Apollonius' incontrovertible dependence on Homeric annotation in its shortest and sweetest form (not suitable for those who suffer from tunnel vision); Faerber (i932): an exercise in severe compression, so heavy going in places, but full of penetrating insights in the best Wilamowitzian tradition, from a scholar with a sharp eye for detail and a sure command of Greek; Fantuzzi's book (i988) offers

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a wide-ranging and thought-provoking miscellany; Feeney (1991) provides an intelligent and often original appraisal of the divine apparatus; Fusillo (1985): narratology made easy (not as easy as it might have been: a work as dense as this cries out for multiple indexes), though others have followed with faltering steps; Haslam (1978) takes a searching look at the many quirks of Apollonian papyri; Herter's bibliographical survey (1944/r945) is beautifully organised, lucid, indispensable; Hoelzlin (1641)beat a lot of us to the post with his many shrewd observations; in an able paper Lennox (1980) did for a portion of Apollonius' text what Herter had done for one of the hymns of Callimachus; Platt (1914 etc.) was perhaps the first scholar to deal seriously with the question 'How much can textual critics and editors Rengakos' study get away with?' in their treatment of the Argonautica; of the Homertext(1993) is neither full nor ideally balanced, but it does raise issues which have barely been aired in the course of the present century; to van Krevelen (1949 etc.) we owe a number of fine textual • aud interpretive notes in the Wifstrand mould. My obligations are not of course confined to the world of books. I had the pleasure of discussing at length with Professor C.J Ruijgh in Amsterdam the idea of producing a detailed commentary on Apollonius iii; my thanks to him, and to Mr Julian Deahl, Senior Editor at E. J Brill, for encouragement and advice. It was in the Netherlands too that I first met the late Dr D. A. van Krevelen; I still have vivid memories of his wide learning, his love of Hellenistic poetry and his infectious enthusiasm. Sir Hugh Lloyd:Jones had a hand in my first book: I greatly appreciate the interest he has shown since in my work, both published and projected, on Hellenistic and Imperial poets. A number of my early thoughts on the text and interpretation of the Argonauticawere submitted to Professor F. Vian, and I am still learning from the rich collection of comments which he was kind enough to communicate to me. I am also most grateful to him, as to Professor M. Fantuzzi, for providing me in recent months with copies of papers which I would not otherwise have seen in time. It remains to record a number of debts incurred closer to home. I am extremely grateful to Mrs Barbara Fleming, who with exemplary skill, patience and good humour typed page after page of closely handwritten commentary, and who was still nice to me after surfacing from the entry under Apollonius Rhodius in Index IIA. She also offered advice on and practical help with both word processing and printing, as did others in the School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History at St Andrews: Mrs Hilde Barrie, Mr Peter George,

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Dr Adriau Gratwick, Dr Susauna Phillippo, Dr Christopher Smith. I am much indebted also to the Head of School, Professor Harry Hine, for providing word processing facilities, for looking favourably upon an application for a subsidy towards production costs, and, not least, for taking a keen interest in the whole project. Finally, I must thank my wife Dorothy and my sons Michael and Richard: I have had the great good fortune not only to enjoy their staunch support but also to draw upon their own considerable talents. St Andrews, March 1994

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ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Ancientauthorsand texts

L In general, abbreviations do not differ markedly from those employed in LSJ, but some are more explicit: so 'Bacch.' rather than 'B.' Note as well: i-iv refer to the four books of Ap. 's Argonautica; the lemmata usually reflect the text ofVDB 2/2 2 : for the odd exception the reason will not be far to seek. 2. Homeric Hymns: the big ones are HyDem,HyAp, HyHerm,HyAphr,the rest HyHom; but h. 1-6 for Callimachus'. 3. Man. (i.e. 'Manethoniana'): cited by singlebook-number. 4. Gregory of Nazianzus: references to Carminafrom Migne (PG vol. 37), cited by page and line-number. 5. Christod(orus) + line-number: i.e. from AP 2. 1,

II. For the following collections of texts cited by editor(s) or editor(s)/title in abbreviated form continuous (line or fragment) numbering is employed where applicable. For JG/ SEG and certain other epigraphical and papyrological publications see LSJ. Note that the fragments of Callimachus' Hecaleare numbered according to Hollis' recent edition, other fragments coming from Pfeiffer and/ or SH; Blem., Dion. Bass. and Pampr. are sourced from Livrea's editions, not from GDK

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CA GAF CEG Cougny

DK

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EGF EG Kaibel FGE FGH GDK GPh GVI HE IEG !ME

Collectanea Alexandrina, ed. J. U. Powell. Oxford 1925. / Comicorum AtticorumFragmenta,ed. T. Kock. Leipzig 1880-8. CarminaEpigraphica Graeca,ed. P. A. Hansen. Berlin and New York 1983/89. E. Cougny, ed. vol. 3 of Firmin Didot Antfwlogi.a Palatina.Paris 1890. edd. H. Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed., Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Berlin 1952. l:.,f)icorum Graecorum Fragmenta,ed. M. Davies. G0ttingen 1988. EpigrammataGraecaex lapidibusconlecta,ed. G. Kaibel. Berlin 1878. Furth,rGreekEpigrams,ed. D. L. Page. Cambridge 1981. Die Fragmenttdergriechischen Historiker,ed. F. Jacoby. Berlin/Leiden 1923-. Die griechischen Dichtefragmente derri:imischen Kaizerzeit,ed. E. Heitsch. Bd I 2 Aufl., Gottingen 1963; Bd II, Gottingen 1964. The GarlandefPhilip and SomeConwmporary Epigrams,edd. A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page. Cambridge 1968. Griechische Vers-lnschriften, Bd I: Grab-Epigrqmme, ed. W. Peek Berlin 1955· The GreekAnthology:HellenisticEpigrams,edd. A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page. Cambridge 1965. Iambiet ElegiGraeci,ed. M. L. West. 2nd ed., Oxford 1989/92. InscriptionsmCtriques de l'Egyptegreco-romaine, ed. E. Bernand (Annales littirairesde FUniversitide Besanfon,vol. 98). Paris 1969.

PLF

PMG PMGF PW

SH SLG TGF

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PoetaeComiciGraeci,edd. R. Kassel and C. Austin. Berlin and New York 1983-. Poetarum l.esbiorum Fragmenta, edd. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955· PoetaeMelici Graeci,ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962. PoetarumMelicorumGraecornm Fragmenta,ed. M. Davies. (I) Oxford 1991. H. W. Parke and D. E. W. Wormell, 71,,DelphicOracl,:II The OracularResponses.Oxford 1956. Supplementum Hellenisticum 1 ed. H. Lloyd:Jones and P. Parsons. Berlin and New York 1983. Supp!ementum LyncisGraecis,ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1974. TragicorumGraecorum Fragmenta, edd. B. Snell et al. G0ttingen 1971-.

B. Modernworks L Periodical abbreviations: as in L'anrleephilolog£que. II. Grammars, lexica and other basic works of reference cited by title author(s) editor(s) in abbreviated form: ' '

AH AHS ANRW

Archaeologia Homerica,edd. F. Matz and H-G. Buchholz. Gottingen 1967-. Allen, Halliday and Sikes.

A,efstiegund Niedergang der romischenWelt, edd. H. Temporini and W. Haase. Berlin/New York 1972-.

BP

DGE Echoes F-G

FJW

GG GH GHD GP Index KB KG

uxCal ux.Nonn IfgrE

LH

C. D. Buck and W. Petersen, A ReverseIndex ef GreekNouns and Atfjectives.Chicago 194.5. DiccionarioGriego-Espanol, edd. F. R. Adrados et al. Madrid 1980-. M. Campbell, EchoesandImitationsefEar/yEpicin Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden 198r. Fernandez-Galiano. Friis Johansen and Whittle. E. Schwyzer, Gr£echische Grammatik.Munich 1939-50. P. Chantraine 1 Grammaire homerique. Paris 1958-63. D. B. Monro, A Grammar efthJJ HomericDialect.2nd ed., Oxford 1891. J. D. Denniston, The GreekParticles.2nd ed., Oxford 1954. M. Campbell, Indexverborum 111 Apolwnium Rlwdium.Hildesheim 1983. R. Kuhner and F. Blass, AusfiihrlicheGrammatikdergriechischen Sprache.ErsterTei!:Elementar-und Formenlehre. Hanover 1890-2. R. Kuhner and B. Gerth, id. ?:,weiter Teil· Sat,:1,/rie. Hanover/ Leipzig I 898- I 904. E. Fernii.ndez-Galiano, Uxico de los Himnos de Calimaco.Madrid 1976-80. W. Peek (ed.), uxikon zu denDionysiakadesNonnos.Berlin t968-75. Lexikondes.friihgriechischen Epos,edd. B. Snell and H. Erbse. G0ttingen 1955-. Leipzig 1880-5. Ebeling (H., ed.), uxicon Homericum.

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Lexicon iconographicu.m mythologi.ae classicae,edd. H. C. Ackermann andJ. R. Gisler. Zurich 1981-. Lexicon.9th LSJ + Suppl. H. G. Liddell, R. Scotr and H. S.Jones, A Greek-English ed., Oxford 1940; Supplement, Oxford 1968. Nisbet and Hubbard. NH H. Frankel, Noten zu denArgonautikadesApollonios.Munich 1968. Noten 71,e OxfordClassicalDictionary, edd. N. G. L. Hammond and H. H. OCD Scullard. 2nd ed., Oxford 1970. G. Paduano and M. Fusillo, ed. Ap. Milan 1986. PF Paulys Real-Encyclopiidie der classischen Altertumswissenschajt, edd. G. RE Wissowa et al. Stuttgart/Munich 1893-. Supplements to the above. RESuppl. M. Campbell, Studiesin the 71,irdBook ofApolloniusRhodius'ArgoStudies nautica. Hildesheim 1983. ThesauruslinguaeGraecae. Thesaurus F. Vian and E.Delage, Bude ed. of Ap. 3 vols, Paris 1974-: VDB r: VDB 2nd impression; VDB 2: 1980, VDB 2': 2nd ed. 1993; VDB 3: 1981.

IJMC

IIL The following list embraces, with very few exceptions, other books and ar~ tides to which I refer more than once. Allen Ardizzoni Ardizzoni 1956

Ardizzoni 1958 Ardizzoni 1970 Arend Armstrong

and Rarchford Bechtel Belloni Beye 1969 Beye 1982 Beye 1993

Eissinger Blumberg

Boesch Bowra

Brendel

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ofMimnermus.Stuttgart 1993. (A.) 71,eFragments (A) Ed. of Ap. iii. Bari 1958. (A.) 'Note critiche ed esegetiche sul testo di Apollonio Ro-

dio,' RFIC 84.364-88. (A.) 'Su Apollonio Rodio,' Orpheus545-7. (A) 'Note sul testo di Apollonio Rodio e Callimaco,' GIF 22.40-6. Scenenbei Hom,r.Berlin 1933. (:N.) Die !Jpischen (D./E. A.) 'lphigeneia's Veil: Aeschylus, Agamemnon22848,' BICS 32 (1985), 1-12. (F.) Lexiloguszu Homer.Halle 191+ (L.) 'A proposito di alcuni Omerismi in Apollonio Rodia,' Aevum53 (1979),66-71. (C. R.) '.Jason as Love-hero in Apollonius' Argonautika,' GRBS ro.31-55. (C. R.) Epic and Romancein the Argonautica ofApol/onius. Carbondale. (C. R.) AncientEpic Poetry:Homer,Apollonius,Virgil.Ithaca and London. Dichtung.Diss. Mu(M.) Das AqjectivMEI'Al: in dergri.echischen nich 1966. · (K.) Untersuchungen zur epischenTechnikdesApolloniusvonRhodos.Diss. Leipzig 1931. (G.) De Apol/oniiRJwdiielocutwne. Diss. Berlin 1908. (C. M.) GreekLyricPoetryfrom Akman to Simonides.2nd ed., Oxford 1961. (0. J.) The Symbolismofthe Sphere.Leiden 19n

Brunck Buccholz

Bulloch 1977 Bulloch 1985 Busch Caggia Cairns Campbell Campbell Campbell Campbell

Echoes Index Studies 1969

Campbell 1971

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(R. F.) Ed. Ap. Strasbourg 178012nd ed. Leipzig r8ro. (A) Zur Darstellungdes Pathosder Liebe in der hellenisti,chen Dichtung.Diss. Freiburg 1954. (A W.) 'Callimachus' Erysichthon, Homer and Apollonius Rbodius,' A]Ph 98.97-123. (A W.) 'Hellenistic Poetry,' The Cambridge HistoryofClassical LiteratureI, 541-621. Cambridge. (S.) 'Orpheus bei Apollonios Rhodios,' Hermes121 (1993), 301-24(G.) 'Due parole omeriche in Apollonio Radio,' RFIC roo (1972),23-31. (F.) Virgil'sAugustanEpic. Cambridge 1989. See BII above. See Bll above. See Bll above. (M.) 'Critical Notes on Apollonius Rhodius,' CQ, n.s. 19.269-84. (M.) 'Further Notes on Apollonius Rhodius,' CQ, n.s. 21.402-23.

Campbell 1973 Campbell 1974 Campbell 1976 Campbell 1978 Campbell r982 Campbell 1983 Campbell 1990 Carspecken

Casson Chamoux Chantraine Chantraine Chantraine Chantraine Chuvin Ciani Clark Clausen Clauss

DE EVG FN 1962

(M.) 'Notes on Apollonius Rhodius 1 Argonauticaii,' RPh 47.68-90. (M.) 'Three Notes on Alexandrine Poetry/ Hermes102.3846. (M.) Review of E. Livrea, ed. Ap. iv, Gnomon48.336-40. (M.) 'LIQLIEKA ATIOAAQNIOY,' Studi in onoredi A. Ardi,zoni, I Ig-25. Rome. (M.) Review of VDB 2, CR n.s. 32.14-6. (M.) 'Apollonian and Homeric Book Division,' Mnemo.ryne 36.154-5. (M.) Review of Hunter ed. Ap. iii, Gnomon62481-5. ().) 'Apollonius Rhodius and the Homeric Epic,' YCS 13 (1952),35-1+3. (L) Shipsand Seamanship in theAncientWorld.Princeton 1971. (F.) 'Une evocation litteraire d'un palais macedonien (Argonautiques,iii.215 sq.),' in AncientMacedonia:Fifth International Symposium,1989 (Thessalonica 1993), 1.337-43. i/ymologique de la languegrecque.Paris 1968-80. (P.) Dictionnaire (P.) .Etudessur le vocabulaire grec.Paris 1956. (P.) Laformationdesnomsengrecancien.Paris 1933. (P.) Review of Frankel OCT, RPh36.313-+ (P.) Review of VDB 2, RPh 56 (1982), 331-2. (M. G.) 'Poesia come enigma,' in Scrittiin orwredi Carlo Diano,77-111.Bologna 1975. (R. J.) Catabasis:Vergiland the Wisdom-Trudition. Amsterdam 1979. (:N.) Virgil'sAeneid and the Traditwn of HellenisticPoetry. Berkeley 198t (J. J.) 'Hellenistic Imitations of Hesiod Catalogue of Women fr. 1.6-7 M-W,' Q,UCCn.s.36 (1990), 129-40.

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Coleridge Cook Zeus Couat

Crane 1988 Cunliffo LED Damste Dejong ~

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Del Como De Martino De Mirmont Detienne and Vernant Dickie Diggle Doederlein Drager Drbgemtiller Duckworth Duentzer Dyck Edwards Elderkin Elliger Erbse 1953 Erbse 1963 Faerber

Fantuzzi Feeney Fehling

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The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey. Princeton 1983. (E. P.) Trans!. of Ap., London 1889. (A. B.) Zeus. Cambridge 1914-40. (A.) AkxandrianPoetryunderthe First ThreePto/emies.London 1931. (G.) 'The Laughter of Aphrodite in Theocritus, Idyll I,' HSCP 91.161-84. (G.) Calypso.Backgroundsand Conventionsof the Odyssey. Frankfurt am Main. (R. J.) A Lexiconof the HomericDia/,ect.London 1924(0.) Adversaria ad ApoUoniiRhodiiArgonautica. Diss. UtrechtRotterdam 1922. (I. J. F.) Narratorsand Focalizers:the Presentation efthe Storyin the Iliad. Amsterdam 1987(E.) La geographicdans /,es Argonautiques d'Apolloniosde Rhodes.Bordeaux 1930. (D.) Review of POxy vol. 34, Cnomon45 (1973), 542-5. (F.) 'Note apolloniane,' AFLB 27/28 (1984/85), 101-17. (H. de la Ville) Trans!. of Ap., Bordeaux-Paris 1892. (M. D.!J.-P. V.) CunningIntelligence in GreekCultureand Society. Hassocks 1978. (M.) 'Talos Bewitched,' PLLS 6 (1990), 267-96. G.)Studieson the Text of Euripides.Cambridge 1981. G-)HomerischesGwssarium.Erlangen 1850-8. (P.) Argo Pasimelousa: Der Argonautenmythos in der griechischen und riimischen LiteratucTei/ I. Stuttgart 1993. (H.-P.) Die Gleichnisse im heli£nistischen Epos. Diss. Hamburg 1956. (G. E.) Foreshadowing and Suspensein the Epics of Homer,Apolloniusand Vergil.Diss. Princeton 1933. (H. D.) De ZenodotistudiisHomericis.Gottingen 1848. (A. R.) 'The Glossographoi,' HSCP 91 (1987), 119-60. (G. P.) TheLanguageof Hesiodin its TraditionalContext.Oxford 1971. (G. W.) 'Repetitions in the Argonautica of Apollonius,' A]Ph 34 (1913), 198-201. (W.) Die Darstellungder Landschaflin dergriechischen Dichtung. Berlin 1975. (H.) 'Homerscholien und hellenistische Glossare bei Apollonios Rhodios,' Hermes81.163-96, (H.) Review of Frankel OCT, Gnomon35.18-27. (H.) ' (cf. ii.1047 fote Ka\ a{noU, based on the recurrent otiicx or -e Ko:\ au,6,/); a slight illogicality then, quite in keeping with Cypris' state of mind. 104 Cf. JI. 9.344 /vvv o' end (then ... et86,o,· ouoe µe nd,m 345), al., Od. 16.3II-2 ,6oe .. ./fiµiv aµcpo,epotcrt,ll. 19.56-7 ,68' aµcpotepotcrtv &pewvli!n1cew, id. 7.387 o:t Ke .. uµµt cpw,v (~ iii-727) ... yevoao/, esp. i!n1ce,o.. /iJµiv altava'tTI"', scil. whose 3r-2 (npocreerne33) ene\ &, cp{1cov wish was final: Zen. vulg. aitavaww,, but Aristophanes read here aµcpo,epncrt: tii 'Altrjvi;Qlfl]villo,Cf. iv.84-9-50 -o-.Moo,;, D.P. 20 + 5 and Cougny 6.233.3 'Acrioo,;,D.P. 805 Mucrioo,;,957 and Also -iv.131, 568 (kK6.,;),cf. D.P. 46, 1038 Ilepcrioo,;, 1148 Kro>-.ioo,;. D.P. 25, suppl. in orac. in Porph. ap. Eus. PE 9.10, verse 5; Anon. hex. (pap. 2nd cent. AD) SH 913.10. In archaic epic da (etc.) always occupies the final foot: cf. Haslam, Ciotta54 (1976), 207f.; so in Ap. 4 x, and in 38 generally: Call. h. 4.287 Ud. Hee.Jr. 70.23: foia should be read], Theoc. 17.91, Euphor. CA 50.1 and SH 432.3 [suppl. in undatable SH 913.10; id. 938.14 is definitely Imperial]. Internally i.580, not so otherwise in 3H (dub. conj. in Eratosth. CA 16.12).Ala as a name is more mobile: clausular 5 x, otherwise 8 x.

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report at ii.1204, n.b. o Eurystheus who imposed /iel}Aoton Heracles; iv.1092 (which

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recalls Hes. Theog.164) litmpoA-11 motif, Aeetes in relation to 216; ~ 10, 33; in bondage 62 Zeus Chthonios, O:.µelA-tK-roc; 337 Heracles, tutored by Linus n7/r24; Halitherses 307-8 labours/Eurystheus 390, 420-1, daiHeaven as Colchian deity 200-9, 207f. mon/labours 389-90, motivation for Hecate in Hes. Theog.,transfunctional 3, labours 336-9, wanderer 261, 'mer3-4j her temple 252; and Circe/ Mecenary' 352-3, hero ambushes Hipdea (cf. s.v.) 309-13; Perseis 467 polyte 6-7, as 'Hellenic' expeditionHector 181,235f., 253-6, 371, 407, 422-6, leader 347; in Arg., H. and loss of 4-37-8 Hylas 2761 'atrabilious' 422f., spoken Helios, family connexions 242-3, father of by Telamon 347, described by of Augeias cf. s.v.; eyes of his descenAegle 192; in heaven II6 dants 371; his cattle 326-7, chariot (cf. Hermes, and Calypso rn8f., 388-9, Hos. Aeetes) 159-63, 23of., 233-4, 245-6, meric descent to earth I59-63; and cup 23of., palace 215£, 230£, rays at Aethalides, heraldic function 196£, Aea 244, springs 225-7; rises at Aea 197-8; and Aeetes 196£, 200-9; m 159-63, 1591 163, 244.,heads for 'HesEratosthenes 135-41,159-63 perian Land' 3u; in Gigantomachy Hesperian Land 3u (cf. s. Hephaestus) 233-4 HieraHephaestou 42 Hellas 13, 306, 347, 375-6 Horse, Trojan 340 Hephaestus, husband of Cypris (q.v.) Hunter-hero 66-74 37, 41f., 136, of Charis 36f., 82; phy- Hylas 2-3, 121-2,163, 276, 444-5 sically abnormal 37, 82, 197, ?? 233-4; Hyperboreans 309 a workaholic 4rf., 41, 42-3, his-place Hypsipyle 216 of work 42, craftsman/builder in Aeetes' palace etc. 37, 41f., 42-3, 44, Ida 133-4, 134 46, u8, r31f., 135-41, 136, 137, 215£, ldas 422f. 222-3, 228-9, 229 (epithets; marvel- Idmon 199, 205 worker), 23of. (animate figures), 231£ Iduia see Eiduia (id.), 235f., 237; assoc. with Helios Ilioneus 215f., 319, 386, 391-2 23of., 233-4.(Gigantomachy) !no (aka ... ) 190, 191 Hera, 'Thessalian' PPelasgian' 8, 64-5; lo 276, 277 role as unseen helper in Arg. esp. 7- Iolcus 2, 265-6 1661 8, 210, 250-21 Iliadic backdrop lphias 252 passim,e.g. 7-166, 100-1, 107; slighted Isis/ Anti 66-74 by Pelias 7-166, 8, 66-74, 68, 86-9, bcion 6I-3, 62, 63

MYTHOLOGY, RELIGION, GEOGRAPHY, ETHNOLOGY, AETIOLOGY

Jason, 'son of Aeson/ Aesonides' /parentage 169, 357, 365-6; physical attractiveness 443f., 443, 444-5; favourite of Hera 8, 56f., 64-5, 66-74, 66, 74, hunter-hero 66-74 tested by her (cf. s. Hera); J. and the Fleece 2-3, 121-2, 176f.; a reluctant Argonaut 348-9, 349, 386-95, 386-8, 388-9, prone in desperate situations to Clµrixav{ri(cf. s. Argonauts) 176f., 336, 422f., 423, 432-31 advocate of 'softly softly'/flattering approach in appropriate circumstances 189-90, 190, 195, 196£, 385, 396, 457-8, with a spare, nonconfrontational style of speaking 18890, 386-95, 409£, conscious of his responsibilities to crew 171-95, 333f.; sometimes naively branded an 'antihero' or worse 73, 388-9, but essentially (and increasingly) a tactician constantly striving against the odds 67, 168f., 171-95, 171, 173-4, 175, 176f., 178, 179, 181, 182, 183-.1-,183, 184, 188, 189-90, 190, 19.ef.;aspects of his dealings with the Phrixids/ Argos 320-66, 336-9, 34of., 352-3, 354f., 358£, and with Aeetes 171-95,352-3, 375-6, 385, 386-95, 386, 386-8, 38990, 391, 392, 393, 396, 422f., 423, 425, 4.26, 427-31, 428, 429, 429-31, 429-30; miscellaneous: loses sandal 66-74; issue of reinstatement at Iolcus 333; part in building of Argo 340; his ne'ipa in ii rn7; conduct in iv 192 Cf. also notably s. Aeetes, Argos, Cheiron, Hera, Medea, Odysseus, Pelias, Phrixus Juno in Virgil 2II Lycus 314 Medea, first mentioned in iii 2-3, in proems of iii/iv 1-5; 'daughter of Aeetes' 27, 247, M. and Circe 27, 89, 309-13, priestess of/attitude to Hecate 252, 309-13, 467-8, 467, and chariot of Helios 309; age 276, significant name 288-9, complexion 297-8, mantilla 444-5, bedroom :215f.,216, 235-6, 247, 248, 451; her qicipµaKa/ cleverness/guile 27, 89) 288-9, hence

423

tool of Hera 8, 86-9; assailed by Erotes as well as by Eros 452; in relation to Jason, her