Lucian, De saltatione, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 40

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Λυκῖνος

ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τὴν Δήμητρος πλάνην καὶ Κόρης εὕρεσιν καὶ Κελεοῦ ξενίαν καὶ Τριπτολέμου γεωργίαν καὶ Ἰκαρίου ἀμπελουργίαν καὶ τὴν Ἠριγόνης συμφοράν, καὶ ὅσα περὶ Βορέου καὶ ὅσα περὶ Ὠρειθυίας καὶ Θησέως καὶ Αἰγέως. ἔτι δὲ τὴν Μηδείας ὑποδοχὴν καὶ αὖθις ἐς Πέρσας φυγὴν καὶ τὰς Ἐρεχθέως θυγατέρας καὶ τὰς Πανδίονος, ἅ τε ἐν Θρᾴκῃ ἔπαθον καὶ ἔπραξαν. εἶτα ὁ Ἀκάμας καὶ ἡ Φυλλὶς καὶ ἡ προτέρα δὲ τῆς Ἑλένης ἁρπαγὴ καὶ ἡ στρατεία τῶν Διοσκούρων ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ Ἱππολύτου πάθος καὶ Ἡρακλειδῶν κάθοδος· Ἀττικὰ γὰρ καὶ ταῦτα εἰκότως ἂν νομίζοιτο.

ταῦτα μὲν τὰ Ἀθηναίων ὀλίγα πάνυ δείγματος ἕνεκα ἐκ πολλῶν τῶν παραλελειμμένων διῆλθον.

De saltatione. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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

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The Dance Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 40 focus

[40] but particularly the wandering of Demeter, the finding of Core, the visit to Celeus, the husbandry of Triptolemus; the vine-planting of Icarius, and the sad fate of Erigone; the story of Boreas, of Oreithyia, of Theseus and Aegeus. Also, the reception of Medea and her later flight to Persia, the daughters of Erechtheus, and the daughters of Pandion, with what they suffered and did in Thrace. Then Acamas, Phyllis,¹ the first rape of Helen, the campaign of the Dioscuri against the city, the fate of Hippolytus, and the return of the Heracleidae; for all this may properly be considered Attic.

These Athenian tales that I have run over are a very few by way of example out of the many that have been omitted.

Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 40 focus

[40] Above all, the wanderings of Demeter, the finding of Persephone, the hospitality of Celeus; Triptolemus’s plough, Icarius’s vineyard, and the sad end of Erigone; the tale of Boreas and Orithyia, of Theseus, and of Aegeus; of Medea in Greece, and of ther flight thereafter into Persia, and of Erechtheus’s daughters and Pandion’s, and all that they did and suffered in Thrace. Acamas, and Phyllis, and that first rape of Helen, and the expedition of Castor and Pollux against Athens, and the fate of Hippolytus, and the return of the Heraclids,—all these may fairly be included in the Athenian mythology, from the vast bulk of which I select only these few examples.

Lucian De saltatione 40

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