Apollodorus Library 3.15.7

ed. Sir James George Frazer

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

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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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1. This account of the murder of Androgeus is repeated almost verbally by the Scholiast on Plat. Minos 321a . Compare Diod. 4.60.4ff. ; Zenobius, Cent. iv.6 ; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xviii.590 . All these writers mention the distinction won by Androgeus in the athletic contests of the Panathenian festival as the ultimate ground of his undoing. Serv. Verg. A. 6.14 and Lactantius Placidus on Statius, Achill. 192 say that, as an eminent athlete who beat all competitors in the games, Androgeus was murdered at Athens by Athenian and Megarian conspirators. Paus. 1.27.10 mentions the killing of Androgeus by the Marathonian bull. According to Hyginus, Fab. 41 , Androgeus was killed in battle during the war which his father Minos waged with the Athenians.