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May 20, 2024 · Bacchylides (5th century BC) also mentions Heracles bringing Cerberus up from the underworld, with no further details. Sophocles (c. 495 – c. 405 BC), in his Women of Trachis , makes Cerberus three-headed, [100] and in his Oedipus at Colonus , the Chorus asks that Oedipus be allowed to pass the gates of the underworld undisturbed by Cerberus ...
May 17, 2024 · I. J. F. de Jong, Bacchylides 5 and the theme of non-recognition on the battlefield, in: E. K. Emilsson – A. Maravela – M. Skoie (eds.), Paradeigmata: Studies in honour of Øivind Andersen (Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens Series 4, No. 2), Athens 2012, 29-38.
3 days ago · The 6th–5th century BC lyric poet Bacchylides calls the Giants "sons of the Earth". Later the term "gegeneis" ("earthborn") became a common epithet of the Giants. [17] The first century Latin writer Hyginus has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus , another primordial Greek deity.
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3 days ago · Bacchylides, Odes, translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1991. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Burkert, "Oriental and Greek Mythology: The Meeting of Parallels" in Interpretations of Greek Mythology, Edited by Jan Bremmer, Routledge, 2014 (first published 1987). ISBN 978-0-415-74451-5.
6 days ago · *Bacchylides 5, tr. D. Campbell (Loeb) * Selections from Greek Lyric Poetry , tr. M.L. West (Oxford: World's Classics) [* A text of Bacchylides , as well as a more detailed list of the prescribed poems from Greek Lyric Poetry, will be provided in a course-pack.]
