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NOTES 325 10. See Friedlander, pp. 36-37. 11. In other versions the weapon employed by Perseus was a stone, or a sword, or his scimitar (sickle-sword). 12. The story of Perseus in its bearings on primitive folk-tale and religion is exhaustively treated by E. S. Hartland, Legend of Perseus, 3 vols., London, 1894-96. 13. Homer, Odyssey, xi. 593-600 (translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang, London, 1900). 14. Fick {Hattiden und Danubier in Griechenland, pp. 43 fF.) suggests that the name and person of Sisyphos are derived from Tisup (or Tishub, Teshub), the principal male deity of the Hittites so often depicted on their monuments. 15. For a similar story see that of Kyknos and Tennes in Pausanias, X. xiv. 16. One is probably nearer the truth in connecting it with Tn^yos (cf. TrrfyvvjJLL), "strong." Chapter III 1. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Act II. 2. For a discussion of the problems involved consult T. G. Tucker, Aeschylus, The Seven against Thebes, Cambridge, 1908, Introd.; Gomme, "The Legend of Cadmus," etc.; and "The Topography of Boeotia," etc. 3. For the story of Aktaion see infra, p. 252; of Ino, p. 262; of Semele and Dionysos, p. 217. 4. Sophokles, Oidipous Koloneus, 11. 161 1 if. (translated by E. H. Plumptre, Boston, 1906). 5. Allinson, Greek Lands and Letters, p. 332. 6. Cf. Tucker, pp. xxxiv-xxxvii ; Allinson, p. 292. 7. Homer, Iliad, ix. 573-99. Chapter IV 1. "In Cretan myth the sun was conceived as a bull. On the other hand, in Cretan ritual the Labyrinth was an orchestra of solar pattern presumably made for a mimetic dance. ... It would seem highly probable that the dancer imitating the sun masqueraded in the Laby- rinth as a bull" (A. B. Cook, Zeus, i. 490-91). 2. Pausanias, II. iv. 5 (translated by J. G. Frazer). 3. Miss Harrison (Myth. and Mon., pp. xxxiii, xxxv) advances the very probable suggestion that this story is primarily aetiological in character, being intended as an explanation of the ritual of the Arrephoria (or Hersephoria). The fate of the disobedient sisters is a detail