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326 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY added for the purpose of frightening officiating maidens into strict observance of the rules governing the rituah 4. Another etymology derives the word from άρῶν πάΥος, "hill of curses"; cf. pp. 102, 189. 5. I. XXX. 3. Chapter V 1. For the development of Herakles as a mythological character see especially Friedlander, Herakles. 2. xix. 90-133. 3. The order of the labours which we shall follow is that given by ApoUodoros. 4. For discussions of the identity and character of the Amazons see especially the articles by Adolphe Reinach listed in the Bibliography. 5. Pindar, Olympian Odes, xi. (x.) 44 ff. Chapter VII 1. Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika, i. 1 13-14. 2. ib. i. 544-45- 3. ib. ii. 79-80. 4. The writer is tempted, in agreement with A. B. Cook {Zeus, i. 723-24), to see in the person of Talos a reference to the cire perdue method of hollow-casting in bronze. Chapter VIII 1. A. B. Cook {Zeus, i. 414-19) is strongly inclined to believe that both this golden lamb and the golden ram of Phrixos are epiphanies of Zeus. 2. The most accessible collection of the fragments and ancient sum- maries of the Cyclic Epics is to be found in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, Honieri Opera, v. (Oxford, 191 1). The frag- ment of the Kypria just quoted appears on p. 118. 3. Euripides, Trojan Women, 11. 892-93 (translated by Gilbert Murray, New York, 191 5). 4. ib. 11. 924-33- 5. Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris, 1. 15 (translated by Gilbert Murray). 6. i. 52 (translated by A. Lang, W. Leaf, and E. Myers, London, 1907). 7. vi. 486-89 (translated by Lang, Leaf, and Myers). 8. xix. 67-70 (translated by Lang, Leaf, and Myers). 9. See Oxford text of Homer, v. pp. 125-27.