Apollodorus Library 3.14.2

ed. Sir James George Frazer

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Library. Apollodorus. ed. Sir James George Frazer. Cambridge, MA. 1921.

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Current edition Perseus

Library (English) (Apollodorus. The Library, Vol 1-2. Frazer, James George, Sir, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.)

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Βιβλιοθήκη Perseus (Apollodorus. The Library, Vol 1-2. Frazer, James George, Sir, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.) — 3.14.2 focus

Notes on the current edition

Library

1. Compare Paus. 1.2.6 ; Hyginus, Fab. 146 ; Ov. Met. 2.737ff. All these writers call the first of the daughters Aglaurus instead of Agraulus, and the form Aglaurus is confirmed by inscriptions on two Greek vases ( Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, vol. iv. p. 146, Nos. 7716, 7718 ).
2. Compare Paus. 1.21.4 ; Stephanus Byzantius and Suidas, s.v. Ἄρειος πάγος in Bekker's Anecdota Graeca, vol. i. p. 444, lines 8ff. From the three latter writers we learn that the story was told by the historians Philochorus and Hellanicus, whom Apollodorus may here be following.
3. See Eur. Ion 1258ff. ; Eur. IT 945ff. ; Dem. 23.66 ; Marmor Parium 5ff. ; Paus. 1.28.5 ; Scholiast on Eur. Or. 1648, 1651 . The name Areopagus was commonly supposed to mean “the hill of Ares” and explained by the tradition that Ares was the first to be tried for murder before the august tribunal. But more probably, perhaps, the name meant “the hill of curses.” See Frazer, note on Pausanias. i.28.5 (vol. ii. pp. 363ff.) . For other legendary or mythical trials in the court of the Areopagus, see below, Apollod. 3.15.1 ; Apollod. 3.15.8 .