THE STORY OF OEDIPUS
6.
The author of the War of the Giants says that Cronos took the shape of a horse and lay with Philyra, the daughter Ocean. Through this cause Cheiron was born a centaur: his wife was Chariclo.
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Theolytus says that he (Heracles) sailed across the sea in a cauldron[1]; but the first to give this story is the author of the War of the Titans.
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The author of the War of the Titans says that the apples (of the Hesperides) were guarded...
THE STORY OF OEDIPUS
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...the Story of Oedipus by Cinaethon in six thousand six hundred verses.
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Judging by Homer I do not believe that Oedipus had children by Iocasta: his sons were born of Euryganeia as the writer of the Epic called the Story of Oedipus clearly shows.
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The authors of the Story of Oedipus (say) of the Sphinx: "But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys."
- ↑ See the cylix reproduced by Gerhard, Abhandlungen, taf. 5, 4. Cp. Stesichorus, Frag. 3 (Smyth).
