Lucian of Samosata, De saltatione, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 38

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[38] Then, in order, the revolt of the Giants, the theft of fire, the fashioning of man,¹ the punishment of Prometheus, the power of the two Erotes;² and after that, the errancy of Delos, the travail of Leto, the killing of Pytho, the plot of Tityus, and the discovery of earths’ central point by the flight of the eagles.³

De saltatione. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

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Current edition Perseus

The Dance (English) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 38 focus

Λυκῖνος

εἶτα ἑξῆς Γιγάντων ἐπανάστασιν, πυρὸς κλοπήν, ἀνθρώπων πλάσιν, Προμηθέως κόλασιν, Ἔρωτος ἰσχὺν ἑκατέρου,¹ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Δήλου πλάνην καὶ Λητοῦς ὠδῖνας καὶ Πύθωνος ἀναίρεσιν καὶ Τιτυοῦ ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ τὸ μέσον τῆς γῆς εὑρισκόμενον πτήσει τῶν ἀετῶν.

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Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 38 focus

[38] Again, the revolt of the Giants, Prometheus’s theft of fire, his creation of mankind, and the punishment that followed; the might of Eros and of Anteros, the wanderings of the island Delos, the travail of Leto, the Python’s destruction, the evil design of Tityus, the flight of eagles, whereby the earth’s centre was discovered.

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The Dance

The allusion is not to the making of Pandora, but to the legend of the moulding of man out of earth and water by Prometheus, with the help of Athena, who supplied the breath of life: see Lucian’s Prometheus, 1, and 11-17; A Literary Prometheus, 4; and Frazer on Apollodorus I, 7, 1, to whose references add Callimachus, Fr. 87 and Fr. 133 Schn. (Mair [L.C.L.], pp. 292, 310). It took place at Iconium in Lycaonia; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ixdévov.

The ancient cosmogonic Eros of § 7, and the son of Aphrodite.

Two eagles let fly by Zeus, one from the east, the other from the west, met at Delphi; the Navel-stone (Omphalos) marked the spot, the centre of the earth, and had two eagles of gold set up by it (Pindar, Pyth., IV, 6, with the scholia; Frazer, Pausanias, Vol. V, pp. 314-315).

Lucian of Samosata De saltatione 38

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