Anonymi Paradoxographi De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana) 6

ed. Nicola Festa

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Περὶ τῆς Ἡρακλέους καὶ Ἀχελῴου πάλης.

Ὅτι φασὶ τὸν Ἡρακλῆ μονομαχῆσαι τῷ Ἀχελῴῳ. ἔχει δὲ οὕτω. ῥέων ὁ Ἀχελῷος μεταξὺ Αἰτωλῶν καὶ Κουρήτων πολλὰ τῆς χώρης ἀπετέμνετο ποτὲ μὲν τούτοις, ποτὲ δ᾿ ἐκείνοις προστιθείς · ἐφ᾿ ᾧ καὶ νεῖκος ἦν ἑκατέροις κρατερόν. Ἡρακλῆς οὖν ἐλθὼν ἐπίκουρος Αἰτωλοῖς ὑπέρτερος τῶν Κουρήτων ἐγένετο καὶ τὸν ποταμὸν κατακλείσας εἰς ἓν ῥεῖθρον καὶ μίαν ἐκβολὴν ἐκρατύνατο τοῖς Αἰτωλοῖς τὴν γῆν, καὶ τὴν Οἰνέως Δηιάνειραν ἔλαβεν.

De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana). Anonymi Paradoxographi. ed. Nicola Festa. Leipzig. 1902.

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

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Excerpta Vaticana First1KGreek (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, Hawes, Greta, author and translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) — 6 focus

The wrestling match between Heracles and Achelous.

They say that Heracles fought Achelous in single combat. But here is how it was: the Achelous flowed between the Aetolians and the Curetes and would cut off great tracts of land, sometimes favouring one tribe and sometimes the other. As a result, a great quarrel arose. Heracles, coming to the Aetolians as an ally, defeated the Curetes and, having confined the river in a single channel and one outlet, he strengthened the land to the advantage of the Aetolians and took away Deianeira, daughter of Oeneus.

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Περὶ τῆς Ἡρακλέους καὶ Ἀχελῴου πάλης.

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The wrestling match between Heracles and Achelous.

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