"devouring his own soul", until he died. Enough fragments of Euripides' lost tragedy, Bellerophon, remain as about thirty quotations in surviving texts, giving...
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Bellerophon is a hero in Greek mythology. Bellerophon may also refer to: Bellerophon (play), an ancient Greek play by Euripides Bellérophon, an opera...
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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians...
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Publishing. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-4286-4768-8. Euripide, Tragédies, vol. 8, 2e part. Fragments. De Bellérophon à Protésilas; Greek text and French translation...
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Fabulae 82 & 83 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 52 Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 4 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 Scholion on Pherecydes, fr. 40 Robert Graves...
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parallels that of a number of indisputably divine beings in other plays by Euripides. Just like these gods, Medea "interrupts and puts a stop to the violent...
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10 May 2022. Euripides (1995). Aris & Philips (eds.). Euripides, Selected Fragmentary Plays: Telephus, Cretans, Stheneboea, Bellerophon, Cresphontes,...
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appears in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, but is best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. As a daughter...
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Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda and by Zenobius. In the Heracleidae of Euripides, Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a daughter of Heracles. Even after...
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the literature of Homer and of others, such as Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. The Greek heroes can be grouped into an approximate mythic chronology...
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In Greek religion, the staff was carried by the devotees of Dionysus. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads...
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Greek hero and founder of Boeotian Thebes. He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles...
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built with a variety of wood from around the region of Greece. In Medea, Euripides mentions the oars were made from pine trees around Mount Pelion. Catullus...
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also the Greek region of Euboia ("rich in cattle"). Euripides' tragedies Stheneboia and Bellerophon are both lost. Hesiod, Catalogue of women Pseudo-Apollodorus...
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Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3 Homer, Iliad 5.152–158 Pausanias, 9.5.16; Strabo, 9.1.7 Hyginus, Fabulae 30 Homer, Iliad 16.149 & 19.400–423; Euripides, Rhesus...
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Although in the Iliad, he was the son of Zeus and Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon, in the later standard tradition, he was the son of Zeus and Europa,...
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by Pausanias (2nd century AD), where no mention is made of Eurydice. Euripides and Plato both refer to the story of his descent to recover his wife,...
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Trojan War. The three great tragedians of Athens, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, wrote a number of dramas that portray episodes from the Trojan War. Among...
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successful of the century. His three opera librettoes, Psyché (1678), Bellérophon (1679) and Médée (1693) make him, next to Philippe Quinault and Jean...
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Proetus (son of Abas) (section Bellerophon)
Apollodorus, 2.2.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.16.2 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 953 Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.16.4 Homer, Iliad 6.155...
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Tauria, or Tauro (the Tauric goddess), from the Tauri or of the bull. Euripides mentions the image of "Artemis Tauria". It was believed that the image...
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punishment of Ixion, possibly based on a scene from a lost tragedy by Euripides. They also appear in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Romantic depictions...
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the Odyssey) upon having returned from the dead.[clarification needed] Euripides, in Cyclops, also identified Sisyphus as Odysseus' father. As a punishment...
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of Apollo. Hipponous, the birth name of Bellerophon. Apollodorus, 1.8.4 Hyginus, Fabulae 70 Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 133 Apollodorus, 3.12...
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Henioche, and grandfather and instructor of Theseus. He was described by Euripides as the most pious son of Pelops, a wise man, and well versed on understanding...
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Online version at Harvard University Press. Internet Archive. Euripides, Andromache in Euripides: Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba, edited...
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legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles...
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Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Euripides. The Children of Herakles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Euripides. Heracles. England: Shirley A....
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classical Athenian drama. The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan...
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