Anonymous De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana) 4

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How it is said Apollo and Poseidon built the walls of Troy.

Apollo and Poseidon are said to have built the walls of Troy. But this is not so: rather, Laomedon built the city in an impious way. There was an exceptionally revered temple of Apollo and Poseidon on the acropolis; he plundered it and spent the money on building the walls.

De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana). Anonymous. Oxford. 2014.

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Excerpta Vaticana (English) (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, Hawes, Greta, author and translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

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Peri Apiston First1KGreek (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Mythographi Graeci. Vol. 3, fasc. 2.Festa, Nicola, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1902.) — 4 focus

Πῶς λέγεται Ἀπόλλων καὶ Ποσειδῶν τειχίσαι Ἴλιον.

Ὅτι τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ τὸν Ποσειδῶνα λέγουσι τειχίσαι τὴν Ἴλιον. τὸ δὲ οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει, ἀλλ᾿ ὁ Λαομέδων ἐτείχισε τὴν πόλιν οὐχ ὁσίως. ἦν δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Ποσειδῶνος διαφερόντως τιμώμενον, ὅθεν συλῶν ἀνήλισκε τὰ χρήματα εἰς τὴν τοῦ τείχους κατασκευήν.

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How it is said Apollo and Poseidon built the walls of Troy.

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Πῶς λέγεται Ἀπόλλων καὶ Ποσειδῶν τειχίσαι Ἴλιον.

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