Lucian of Samosata, De saltatione, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 45

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[45] Sparta, too, affords not a few stories of this sort:¹ Hyacinthus, and Apollo’s rival, Zephyrus; the lad’s slaying with the discus, the flower that came from the blood, and the word of woe (AI) that is written on it.² Also the resurrection of Tyndareus, and Zeus’s anger at Asclepius over it. Further, the entertainment of Paris and the rape of Helen, after his judgement in the matter of the apple.

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

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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).) — 45 focus

Λυκῖνος

οὐκ ὀλίγα δὲ καὶ ἡ Λακεδαίμων τοιαῦτα παρέχεται, τὸν Ὑάκινθον καὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ἀντεραστὴν Ζέφυρον καὶ τὴν ὑπὸ τῷ δίσκῳ τοῦ μειρακίου σφαγὴν καὶ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος ἄνθος καὶ τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ αἰάζουσαν ἐπιγραφήν, καὶ τὴν Τυνδάρεω ἀνάστασιν καὶ τὴν Διὸς ἐπὶ τούτῳ κατʼ Ἀσκληπιοῦ ὀργήν· ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὸν Πάριδος ξενισμὸν καὶ τὴν Ἑλένης ἁρπαγὴν μετὰ τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ μήλῳ κρίσιν.

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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.) — 45 focus

[45] Lacedaemon, too, supplies him with many similar subjects; Hyacinth, and his rival lovers, Zephyr and Apollo, and the quoit that slew him, the flower that sprang up from his blood, and the inscription of woe thereon; the raising of Tyndareus from the dead, and the consequent wrath of Zeus against Asclepius; again, the reception of Paris by Menelaus, and the rape of Helen, the sequel to his award of the golden apple.

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The Dance

One wonders whether Lucian’s omission of the story of Leda is careless or intentional.

The tale is told by Lucian in Dialogues of the Gods, 16 (14), and there too the scene is laid in Sparta; cf. Apoll., III, 10, 3. It figured also among the tales of Northern Greece (Apoll., I, 3, 3).

Lucian of Samosata De saltatione 45

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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