CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
the Harpies. But according to Hesiod...they were not killed.
43.
Nor let anyone mock at Hesiod who mentions...or even the Troglodytes and the Pygmies.
44.
No one would accuse Hesiod of ignorance though he speaks of the Half-dog people and the Great-Headed people and the Pygmies.
45.
But Hesiod says they (the Argonauts) had sailed in through the Phasis.
But Hesiod (says)..they came through the Ocean to Libya, and so, carrying the Argo, reached our sea.
46.
Apollonius, following Hesiod, says that Circe came to the island over against Tyrrhenia on the chariot of the Sun. And he called it Hesperian, because it lies towards the west.
47.
He (Apollonius) followed Hesiod who thus names the island of the Sirens:
"To the island Anthemoessa (Flowery) which the son of Cronos gave them."
And their names are Thelxiope or Thelxinoe, Molpe and Aglaoplionus.[1]
- ↑ "Charming-with-her-voice" (or "Charming-the-mind"), "Song," and "Lovely-sounding."
