: . the triple heads of the herdsman of Hiberus [Geryon]. The Irish Factor. And each desert her mate. 100 ff (trans. This chapter considers Anne Carson's work on Greek lyric poets Sappho and Stesichorus, whose songs were roughly contemporaneous, and whose reception histories are both characterized by profound dam. XII 424425); or as . Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) Geryoneis in Athenaeus' . Hammond, N. G. L. The bibliog- Boulei diamachesthai Geruoni tetraptiloi (trans. ((lacuna)) for if I am by birth immortal and ageless, so that I shall share in life on Olympos, then it is better (to endure) the reproaches . And infant sons, in this sequestered palace; : That is, with a three-headed [one]. "[Amongst the scenes depicted on the throne of Apollon at Amyklai (Amyclae) :] Herakles is driving off Geryon's cows. : Its contribution to the interpretation of the Geryones is very great, and to the understanding of Stesichorus more generally is unrivalled. . There is inconsistency between the information in text, apparatus and commentary on fragment 6, line 1: the printed text is simply a dotted mu, the apparatus conservative, but the commentary speculative (pages 77 and 115). He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. ", Strabo, Geography 3. [1.2] KHRYSAOR (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). Fragment from Geryoneis.In = Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum.Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. Stesichorus, (born 632/629 bc, Mataurus, Bruttium, Magna Graecia [now in southern Italy]died 556/553 bc, Catania [or Himera], Sicily), Greek poet known for his distinctive choral lyric verse on epic themes. ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 30 : Texts retrieved July 2021. because silver was mined in the region] waters of the river Tartessos in the hollow of a rock.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S10 (from Papyri) : Athenian Red Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. "Khrysaor (Chrysaor), married to Kallirhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of glorious Okeanos (Oceanus), was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Herakles at sea-circled Erytheis (Erythea) beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Herakles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. There he encountered and slew the cattle-herder Eurytion, the two-headed guard dog Orthros (Orthus), and finally three-bodied Geryon himself. 190 0 obj<>stream Image . Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Parthenius, Love Romances 30 (trans. GERYON was a three-bodied, four-winged giant who lived on the island of Erytheia in the westernmost reach of the earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus). When Perseus cut off the head of Medusa, Chrysaor and Pegasus sprang . There are three appendices: the first two are Stesichorean testimonia and the third contains Indo-Iranian parallels. Stesikhoros says he has six hands and six feet and is winged. Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S86 (from Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius) : "Stesikhoros in his Geryoneis calls an island in the Atlantic sea Sarpedonian." Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S87 (from Scholiast on Hesiod's Theogony) : "Geryon is son of Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and Khrysaor (Chrysaor). Scafoglio, G. 2005. Notes on Greek Lyric Poets., Fhrer, R. 1970. His fleet accompanied him along the coast and on it he crossed over into Iberia. Famous is the, This abnormal child-birth of bloody males cannot be uncoupled from the ambiguous. The Suda in yet another entry refers to the fact, now verified by Papyrus fragments, that Stesichorus composed verses in units of three stanzas (strophe, antistrophe and epode), a format later followed by poets such as Bacchylides and Pindar. Text in Greek with introduction and commentary in English. Stesichorus: Poet and Thinker., . [4] Possibly Stesichorus was even more Homeric than ancient commentators realized they had assumed that he composed verses for performance by choirs (the triadic structure of the stanzas, comprising strophe, antistrophe and epode, is consistent with choreographed movement) but a poem such as the Geryoneis included some 1500 lines and it probably required about four hours to perform longer than a chorus might reasonably be expected to dance. Article Index. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) The result is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Stesichorus; the newly edited and re-ordered text is the book's major advance. 0000023380 00000 n Has data issue: true Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) : Note stesicoree (Pap. ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S17 (from Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae) : Online purchasing will be unavailable between 18:00 BST and 19:00 BST on Tuesday 20th September due to essential maintenance work. "And seeing him [Herakles] coming she [Kallirhoe (Callirhoe)] addressed him [her son Geryon] : Strength wins victory . IN STESICHORUS' GERYONEIS Christina Franzen The fragmentary Geryoneis is based on Herakles' tenth labor, which en . "The tenth labour assigned to Herakles was to fetch the cattle of Geryon from Erytheia (Erythea). . 0000010456 00000 n Campbell (ed.). 2. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) . 0000002268 00000 n We discern two opposing views at best, although we cannot specify the literary sources on which our poet draws. 21-44), discute a 35. Diodorus makes Heracles collect a large fleet in Crete, to sail against Chrysaor, the wealthy king of Iberia, and his three sons. "[A metaphor employed by Plato :] If a man were gifted by nature with the frame of a Geryon or a Briareus, with his hundred hands, he ought to be able to throw a hundred darts. . Finglass (Cambridge 2014) Marco Ercoles. This page was last edited on 14 February 2023, at 17:13. Euripides, the tragedian who dwells on the ruin of Troy and the plight of her female residents, resumes the imagery of pregnancy in unequivocal terms, pressing the limits between metaphor and reality with words such as (see Plotin. And many a coronal, wherein were set, Curtis is cautious about attributing fragments to the poem, but bold in his reconstruction. It was called Erythea, because the original ancestors of the Carthaginians, the Tyrians, were said to have come from the Red Sea. The main feature to the book is its full-length commentary. But claims for a renewed and rapidly growing interest in translation and translation practices can be substantiated by the popularity of works such as Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and Red Doc> (both loosely based on the ancient Greek lyric poet Stesichorus' poem 'Geryoneis'), the appearance of translation projects with visible . "The triple-bodied Geryon, son of Chrysaor, he [Heracles] killed with a single weapon. This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry - a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) Bury) : Further Eratosthenes says that the country adjoining Kalpe (Calpe) is called Tartessis, and that Erytheia is called Blest Island (Nesos Eudaimos). 289 (trans. "These [the breed of bulls called Syrian] are they which report said Herakles, the mighty son of Zeus, when fulfilling his labours, drove of old from Erytheia, what time he fought with Geryoneus beside Okeanos (Oceanus) and slew him amid the crags; since he was doomed to fulfil yet another labour, not for Hera nor at the behest of Eurystheus, but for his comrade Arkhippos (Archippus), lord of holy Pella. [99], Bovillae, about twelve miles outside Rome, was the original site of a monument dating from the Augustan period and now located in the Capitoline Museum. There seem to be intrusive apostrophes in the first word of line 3 of fragment 1 (page 73) and in the third word of line 10, column 2, of fragment 12 (page 84). "[Menoites (Menoetes) urges Geryon to think of his parents :] Your mother Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) and Khrysaor (Chrysaor), dear to Ares.", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S11 (from Papyri) : Composed in the 6th century BC, it narrates an episode from the Heracles myth in which the hero steals the cattle of Geryon, a three-bodied monster with a human face. After that, Alexa passed out. His gory heads were cast in dust, dashed down by that resistless club. For there is a man's seat carved on a rocky spur of the mountain. Stesichorus (Greek , Stsikhoros, c. 630 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West. ", Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. La leggenda di Epeo.. [18] Hieronymus declared that his poems became sweeter and more swan-like as he approached death,[19] and Cicero knew of a bronzed statue representing him as a bent old man holding a book. Further Light on Stesichorus Iliu Persis., Zancani Montuoro, P. 19741976. The Pythagoreans play a significant role in this manipulation. Wroth with the daughters for the fathers sake, 0000040355 00000 n Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana. On page 145, I am not sure why Aeschylus and Pindar are mentioned as examples of 6th century poetry. For testimonium 34 the translation runs past the Latin printed. Budelmann 2018 contains some of the Geryoneis fragments with a commentary. ((lacuna)) and . They say also that they saw trees here [at Gadeira] such as are not found elsewhere upon the earth; and that these were called trees of Geryon. It is true that ancient poets were interested in the divisions of time, of the night, in particular (. The fragment here taken into account, PMGF S15 + S21, describes the beginning of the duel between the hero and the monster: Heracles attacks Geryon by stealth, striking his brow with a missile, likely a stone (S15 i.1-14). Related Papers. 1987. ", Virgil, Aeneid 6. It remains unclear whether he models his poem on Arctinus. Finglass (Cambridge 2014) . ((lacuna)) by (your feasting). (With these words she opened) her fragrant robe. . His father's name Khrysaor ("Golden Sword") was an appellation of the constellation Orion and most of Herakles other labours are connected with star groups. 2018, Gnomon XC. There a crest broke away in a storm, and there appeared bones the shape of which led one to suppose that they were human, but from their size one would never have thought it. 289 (trans. 17. ", Plato, Laws 795c (trans. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) : Suidas s.v. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then . (trans. Oxy. The Homeric qualities of Stesichorus' poetry are demonstrated in a fragment of his poem Geryoneis describing the death of the monster Geryon. . Sm. Text, apparatus criticus and translation appear together on the page as much as possible, with commentary following as a unit. He was ranked among the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria, and yet his work attracted relatively little interest among ancient commentators,[2] so that remarkably few fragments of his poetry now survive. Gryonis. . The admonition of the second speaker, in particular, formulated in the first person plural, let us not dishonor the horse treating it in a shameful manner, suggests that this man is not Sinon, as in Tryphiodorus ( , 301303), but rather a Trojan, although hardly Laocoon. And a torrent they called the river Okeanos (Oceanus), and they said that men ploughing met with the horns of cattle, for the story is that Geryon reared excellent cows. 2. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. It may be connected with the ancient Greek word g (earth) or gry (singing). Campbell, Vol. no captulo "Stesichorus and Homer" (pp. : Aeschylus, Agamemnon 869 ff (trans. story Mito y Perfomance. Stesichorus (S7 Loeb): D.A. 0000000016 00000 n The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon . . . He was called Stesichorus because he was the first to establish (stesai) a chorus of singers to the cithara; his name was originally Tisias. The "Geryoneis" is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. "The tradition is that this [Nora] was the first city in the island [of Sardinia], and they say that Norax [who founded it] was a son of Erytheia, the daughter of Geryones, with Hermes for a father. Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2022, Patrick J. Finglass published Of centaurs and satyrs: Stesichorus' Geryoneis and satyr drama | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate [14] Nevertheless, the Suda's dates "fit reasonably well" with other indications of Stesichorus's life-span for example, they are consistent with a claim elsewhere in Suda that the poet Sappho was his contemporary, along with Alcaeus and Pittacus, and also with the claim, attested by other sources, that Phalaris was his contemporary. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) Athenian Black Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by M. Davies and P.J. [21], The Suda's claim that Hesiod was the father of Stesichorus can be dismissed as "fantasy"[22] yet it is also mentioned by Tzetzes[23] and the Hesiodic scholiast Proclus[24] (one of them however named the mother of Stesichorus via Hesiod as Ctimene and the other as Clymene). 0000040107 00000 n One is the ambiguous verb (), which conveys the concept of covering about, and is associated with the ruinous effects of Moira, death, eros, pain, and old age; only rarely is it used of divine protection. Athenaeus 4.172de, cited by David Campbell, "Ooops! Rckseitentitel auf Papyrusrollen.. "[3] Recent discoveries, recorded on Egyptian papyrus (notably and controversially, the Lille Stesichorus),[4] have led to some improvements in our understanding of his work, confirming his role as a link between Homer's epic narrative and the lyric narrative of poets like Pindar. The dog smelled him there and went after him, but he struck it with his club, and when the cowherd Eurytion came to help the dog, he slew him as well. : Pindar, Fragment 169 (trans. Stesichorus. "Starting thence, when that he [Herakles] had crossed Okeanos (Oceanus) in a golden bowl [belonging to the sun-god Helios], he drave the straight-horned kine from the uttermost parts of the earth, slew the evil herdsmen [Eurytion] and their triple-bodied master [Geryon], who wielded three spears in his (right) hands; in his left, extending three shields, and shaking his three crests, he advanced like unto Ares in his might. : "Silver and gold money is not used by them [the Baliares who dwelt on islands off the coast of Iberia (Spain)] at all, and as a general practice its importation into the island is prevented, the reason they offer being that of old Herakles made an expedition against Geryones, who was the son of Khyrsaor (Chrysaor) and possessed both silver and gold in abundance. He deviates, for instance, from the extant Cyclic legend as regards the number of the Greek soldiers who entered the horse (. W. Baumann and W. Pratt. 13 : Campbell, Vol. They say that he was blinded for writing abuse of Helen and recovered his sight after writing an encomium of Helen, the Palinode, as the result of a dream. Vernant, J.-P., and P. Vidal-Naquet. Stesichorus: The Sack of Troy and the Wooden Horse., Pardini, A. And finding there the sons of Khrysaor (Chrysaor) encamped at some distance from one another with three great armies, he challenged each of the leaders to single combat and slew them all, and then after subduing Iberia he drove off the celebrated herds of cattle. 0000048844 00000 n [33] It was also a sympathetic environment for his most famous poem, The Palinode, composed in praise of Helen, an important cult figure in the Doric diaspora. A scholiast writing in a margin on Hesiod's Theogony noted that Stesichorus gave the monster wings, six hands and six feet, whereas Hesiod himself had only described it as 'three-headed'. In the essay, Carson elucidates Stesichoros's contribution to poetry, claiming that, in verse, "Stesichoros released being" by abandoning the fixity of the Homeric epithet . The fragments of the "Geryoneis" on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus XXXII 2617. Two Homeric Formulae in the P. Lille Poem: o and o ., . 2803 (Stesichoros)., . Stesicoro, Simonide e la presa di Troia: compresenza o interazione?. Geryoneis. . He there slew Eurytion, his dog, and Geryones, and sailed with his booty to Tartessus, where he returned the golden cup (boat) to Helios. For a rare example see fragment 19, line 1, where in the commentary a generous comment is made concerning Lobels alternative conjecture (pages 91 and 163). There is also discussion interesting for its own sake, as for example on the use of prepositional dialectical forms (page 132). On his way he is further said to have killed Antaeus and Busiris, and to have founded Hecatompolis. based on Curtis' autopsy, is . 0000005490 00000 n Related Papers. [Herakles arrow] (Bringing) the end that is hateful (death), having (doom) on its head, befouled with blood and with . "Or if he had died as often as reports claimed, then truly he might have had three bodies, a second Geryon, and have boasted of having taken on him a triple cloak of earth, one death for each different shape. I have a few minor criticisms. Alchetron "Threefold Geryon by one hand [Heracles'] overcome. 1 : Stesichorus was a great asset, indeed! 19. ", Ibycus, Fragment 282A (trans. 191-92. ", Strabo, Geography 3. Stesichorus was born in Metauros (modern Gioia Tauro) in Calabria, Southern Italy[8][9][10][11][12] c. 630 BC and died in Katane (modern Catania) in Sicily in 555 BC. Easterling, P. E. Minghao laughs. 18. Moved, with firm step, the hero son of Jove. He was a lyric poet. Here consistency would be a virtue. To sum up, Stesichorus is versed in the Trojan legend that underlies the Cyclic and the Homeric epics. 0000023416 00000 n : . A Study of Ezra PoundsThe Cantos. By overcoming this "bane to human beings" (' , line 329) and other creatures like it, Herakles does more than make the world safer for human habitation. Theoi Project Copyright 2000 - 2017 Aaron J. Atsma, Netherlands & New Zealand, (Hesiod Theogony 287, Stesichorus Geryoneis Frag, Apollodorus 2.106, Hyginus Pref), (Ibycus Frag 282A, Diodorus Siculus 4.17.1). 1991. 1971b. 188. . "I [Heracles] faced unafraid . Stesichorus's famous "palinode," a retraction or an apology for offending Helen and incurring her wrath, is at the center of H.D.'s epic text. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres,[1] and for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy. "On the side facing Hispania [i.e. The Trojans haul onto the acropolis the horse that was heavy inside, (357). ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S14 (from Papyri) : Mr Barrett gave me a copy of his lecture, which is not yet published, and with his usual generosity has allowed me to make use of it. . Schol.Ap.Rhod.4.825-31, cited by David Campbell. The adjective also qualifies the ships with which the horse is so often assimilated. Maria Noussia. For all the above reasons, our task of mapping the provenace of the themes and poetic contribution of Stesichorus is hampered. Budelmann, F . Deipnosophistae (Scholars at Dinner) REFERENCES. 2 For convenience of reference, here and hereafter, I add in brackets the letter prefixed to the text of the fragments in Part I. The apparatus and commentary are very full. Eurystheus, in view of the reputation of the Iberian cattle, ordered Herakles to drive off the herd of Geryones. Paul Curtis here gives us a new edition of the fragments of the Geryoneis of Stesi-chorus, with English translation and detailed commentary. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C.) There is a small city of upper Lydia called The Doors of Temenos. "[Kallirhoe (Callirhoe) addresses her son Geryon :] I, unhappy woman, miserable in the child I bore, miserable in my sufferings; but I beseech you, Geryon, if ever I offered you my breast . trailer The Geryoneis is a fragmentary poem, written in Ancient Greek by the lyric poet Stesichorus. "[The labours of Heracles :] Among his herds in the distant land of Hesperia [Spain] the three-shaped shepherd [Geryon] of the Tartesian shore was killed and his cattle driven as spoil from the farthest west; Cithaeron has fed the herd once to Oceanus known. "Geryones: A proper name. Significantly, this also corresponds to the third option submitted in the, On account of its state of transmission, the lyric text is reticent as regards the number and the content of the Stesichorean alternatives. Gades, now Cadiz] and the nearby island Erytheia. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk2 (trans. Stesichorus (/ s t s k r s /; Greek: , Stsichoros; c. 630 - 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of today's Calabria (Southern Italy). As Herakles proceeded through Europe to these cattle, he killed many wild animals, paid a visit to Libya, and went on to Tartessos (Tartessus) where he set up two steles opposite each other at the borders of Europe and Libya, as commemorative markers of his trip. Geryones kept a herd of red oxen, which fed together with those of Hades, and were guarded by the giant Eurytion and the two-headed dog Orthrus. Some say that he came from Himera in Sicily, but that was due to him moving from Metauros to Himera later in life. Who repose in deaths last sleep. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) : Aelian, On Animals 12. "Herakles, it is told, after he had taken the kine of Geryones from Erytheia, was wandering through the country of the Keltoi (Celts). It was originally conceived to be situated off the coast of Epeirus, but afterwards it was identified either with Gades or the Balearian islands, and was at all times believed to be in the distant west. 249 ff (trans. 0000003191 00000 n Curtis provides us with an edition and translation of and a commentary upon the fragments of the Geryoneis as he reconstructs it. . Hesiod, Theogony 979 ff. Gioia Tauro - Wikipedia. His name was originally Teisias, according to the Byzantine lexicon Suda (10th century ad). "[52] The account is repeated by Pliny the Elder[53] but it was the epic qualities of his work that most impressed ancient commentators,[46] though with some reservations on the part of Quintilian: The greatness of Stesichorus' genius is shown among other things by his subject-matter: he sings of the most important wars and the most famous commanders and sustains on his lyre the weight of epic poetry. Son Dnem Osmanl mparatorluu'nda Esrar Ekimi, Kullanm ve Kaakl . 18. According to one modern scholar, however, this saying could instead refer to the following three lines of his poem The Palinode, addressed to Helen of Troy:[47]. Odysseus asks Demodocus to sing the story of the wooden horse which Epeius constructed with the help of Athena, , Demodocus begins his enframed song from the, , , Enfolding in its belly the crouching Argive soldiers and enfolded by the bemused and undecided Trojans, the carved and cavernous horse forms the centerpiece of the closely-packed gathering. 5. The stone monument features scenes from the fall of Troy, depicted in low relief, and an inscription: ('Sack of Troy according to Stesichorus'). to C1st A.D.) : Ovid, Heroides 9. . Edited and translated into Latin by Johannes Schweighuser. Total loading time: 0 Carsonclassicist, translator, and writerintroduces the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, whose "Geryoneis" serves as the inspiration for Autobiography of Red. Greco-Roman Llria Floor Mosaic C3rd A.D. A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page. 8. "Herakles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land [Skythia (Scythia)], which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Skythians. The Poems. BMCR provides the opportunity to comment on reviews in order to enhance scholarly communication. 36. The ancient poet Stesichorus is said to have been born there. ", Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. [34] On the other hand, the western Greeks were not very different from their eastern counterparts and his poetry cannot be regarded exclusively as a product of the Greek West . More light is thrown on the poetic art of Stesichorus by the papyrus-text of his Geryones than by all his other fragments together. . This seems to be the key point in the lost Geryoneis by the poet Stesichorus, whether our hero would prove a deathless god or a short-lived mortal in the fight to come with Hrakls. 2009. . ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. Geryoneis - Wikipedia. only a poem's precedents but also its receptionis in the case of the Geryoneis crucial to our understanding of the Stesichorus' mastery of allusion and creativity as a poet in his own right. Contact Us; How to Subscribe Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Ipse autem in lucum se contulit. "Vergil on Killing Virgins." In Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Indoor & Outdoor SMD Screens, LED Displays, Digital Signage & Video Wall Solutions in Pakistan The vocal debate of the Trojans, sitting in the open, The Odyssean narrative rests on an intriguing use of elements. ", Herodotus, Histories 4. And Herakles, realizing that the task called for preparation on a large scale and involved great hardships, gathered a notable armament and a multitude of soldiers as would be adequate for this expedition. 5 : ", Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S7 (from Strabo, Geography) (trans. Then, when Helios (the Sun) made him hot as he proceeded, he aimed his bow at the god and stretched it; Helios was so surprised at his daring that he gave him a golden goblet, in which he crossed Okeanos. Modern scholars tend to accept the general thrust of the ancient comments even the 'fault' noted by Quintilian gets endorsement: 'longwindedness', as one modern scholar calls it, citing, as proof of it, the interval of 400 lines separating Geryon's death from his eloquent anticipation of it. Eryx too, who was reigning in Sikelia (Sicily), plainly had so violent a desire for the cattle from Erytheia that he wrestled with Herakles, staking his kingdom on the match against these cattle. . Finally, a full bibliography is followed by a concordance (Curtis and Davies numerations of the fragments) and indices. See M. Noussia-Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and C. Tsagalis, eds., "The Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception," 2015; also P. J. Finglass and A. Kelly, eds. 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