The play is named Aitnaiai, The Women of Aetna, in the Medicean Catalogue, and so apparently in Frag. “Having arrived in Sicily, as Hiero was then (476 B.C.) founding the city of Aetna, Aeschylus exhibited his Aetnae as an augury of a prosperous life for those who were uniting in the settlement of the city” ( Life of Aeschylus). The Palici were worshipped (originally with human sacrifices) in the neighbourhood of Mount Aetna (Macrobius, Saturnalia, v. Her prayer was granted, but when the time of her delivery was at hand, the earth opened again and twin boys came forth, who were called Palïci, because they had “come back” ( apo tou palin hikesthai) from the earth. 56.Ī Sicilian maiden named Thaleia or Aetna, having been embraced by Zeus, in fear of Hera’s wrath prayed that the earth might open and swallow her up.
FRAGMENT 2Įtymologicum Florentium 116 (Miller) cp. The one was cast into the three-legged cauldron of the house, that ever kept its place above the fire. The Isthmian games were instituted by Sisyphus in honour of Melicertes. The Argument to the first Isthmian Ode of Pindar reports a different version: that the corpse of Learchus was thrown into the cauldron of Ino, who then, having become mad, plunged into the sea. In consequence of madness brought upon them by Hera in her indignation, Athamas hunted his elder son as a deer and killed him Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron, and then, carrying it, together with the dead body of the child, leaped into the sea. 2) narrates that Zeus entrusted the newly-born Dionysus to Hermes, who conveyed him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to rear the babe as a girl. By his divine wife Nephele he had two children, Phrixus and Helle by his second wife Ino, daughter of Cadmus, he had two sons, Learchus and Melicertes. To make Pentheus the name of the trilogy Semelê ^h Hudrophoroi, Bakchai, Xantriai.Īthamas, a hero localized in Boeotia and Thessaly, was the son of Aeolus according to the genealogy commonly adopted in antiquity. To make Bakchai the title of the group Semelê ê Hudrophoroi, Pentheus, Xantriai.Ĥ. To regard Bakchai as an alternative name for Pentheus, or for Xantriai (not satiric), or even for Bassarai.ģ. To seek other connexions for Dionusos trophoi and assume a tetralogy consisting of Semelê ê Hudrophoroi, Bakchai, Pentheus, Xantriai (satiric).Ģ. To reduce the number of these Dionysus-plays to the compass of a trilogy or tetralogy, various expedients have been proposed:ġ. The Argument to Euripides’ Bakchai asserts that the story of that drama had been handled in Pentheus. Theban legends of Dionysus seem to have formed the subject of no less than five plays : Semelê ê Hudrophoroi, Dionusos trophoi (or Trophoi), Bakchai, Xantriai, Pentheus. Murmidones, Nêreïdes, Phruges ê Hektoros lutra.Īrgô, Lêmnioi ( Lêmniai ?), Hupsipulê, Kabeiroi (satyric ?).Įleusinioi, Argeioi ( Argeiai ?), Epigonoi. Promêtheus desmoôtes, Promêtheus luomenos, Promêtheus purphoros. Psuchagôgoi, Ostrologoi, Pênelopê, Kirkê (satyric). Iketides, Aiguptioi, Danaïdes, Amumônê (satiric). (The order within the group is often uncertain.)
Oresteia (458 B.C.): Agamemnôn, Choêphoroi, Eumenides, Prôteus.īy reason of the myth or of other indication of connexion between their several members, the following groups may be assumed with some probability. Lukourgeia: êdônoi, Bassarai, Neaniskoi, Lukourgos.Ĥ. (467 B.C.) Laïos, Oidipous, Epta epi Thêbas, Sphinx.ģ. (472 B.C.) Phineus, Persai, Glaukos (Potnieus), Promêtheus (purkaeus).Ģ. Possibly satiric are: Amumônê, Glaukos pontios, Kallistô, Kabeiroi, Xantriai, Sisuphos drapetês, Phorkides.ġ. Satyric plays attested: Kerkuôn, Kêrukes, Kirkê, Leôn, Lukourgos, Promêtheus (purkaeus), Prôteus, Sphinx. The descriptive epithet added after a title may be due to Alexandrian scholars, who sought thereby to distinguish dramas of the same name. Where such alternative titles occur, that denoting the Chorus is presumably older than that denoting a principal personage or the subject matter of the play.Ħ. Alternative titles are due to Alexandrian scholars whose explanatory designations sought to avoid confusion between dramas of the same name. The two plays of this name are not to be distinguished in the extant fragments.ĥ. No identified fragment forming an entire verse is extant.Ĥ. Not mentioned in the Katalogos tôn Aischulou dramatôn.ģ. Seventy-three of the under-mentioned titles appear in the list of the dramas that is found in the Medicean manuscript.ġ. PAPYRI FRAGMENTS AESCHYLUS FRAGMENTS 1 - 56, TRANSLATED WITH NOTES BY HERBERT WEIR SMYTH THE PLAYS OF AESCHYLUS
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