CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
unshorn Phoebus of secret deeds, that Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.
90.
Concerning Asclepius Hesiod says: "And the father of men and gods was wrath, and from Olympus he smote the son of Leto with a lurid thunderbolt and killed him, arousing the anger of Phoebus."
91.
But Hesiod (says that Apollo) would have been cast by Zeus into Tartarus[1]; but Leto interceded for him, and he became bondman to a mortal.
92.
"Or like her, beautiful Cyrene, who dwelt in Phthia by the water of Peneus and had the beauty of the Graces."
93.
He invokes Aristaeus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls "the shepherd Apollo."[2]
94.
"But the water stood all round him, bowed into the semblance of a mountain."
This verse he has taken over from Hesiod's Catalogue of Women.
- ↑ Zeus slew Asclepius (fr. 90) because of his success as a healer, and Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes (fr. 64). In punishment Apollo was forced to serve Admetus as herdsman. (Cp. Euripides, Alcestis, 1-8.)
- ↑ For Cyrene and Aristaeus, cp. Vergil, Georgics, iv. 315 ff.
