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Flaccus, Argon. iii.332ff. and after the burial they sailed away and
touched at Mysia.Compare Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.1172ff.; Valerius Flaccus, Argon.
iii.481ff.
Tthe two were seeking for Hylas,
the ship put to sea. So Polyphemus founded a city Cius in Mysia and reigned as king;Compare Ap.
Rhod., Argon. i.1321ff., 1345ff. but Hercules returned to. See Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.1290. In saying
that Herakles was left behind in Mysia and
returned to Argos, our author follows, as
usual, the version of Ap. Rhod., A3ff. According to another
version, after Herakles was left behind by the
Argo in Mysia, he made his way on
foot to Colchis （Theocritus
xiii.73ff.）. Herodotus says （Hdodotus was following Pherecydes. Compare Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. *)afetai/.
From Mysia they departed to the land of the
Bebryces, which was ruled by King Amycus, son of Poseido<
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don, Chryses,
Nephalion, and Philolaus. But it chanced that two of those in the ship landed and were
killed by the sons of Minos. Indignant at this, Hercules killed the sons of
Minos on the spot and besieged the rest closely, till they sent envoys to request that in
the room of the murdered men he would take two, whom he pleased. So he raised the siege,
and taking on board the sons of Androgeus, son of Minos, to wit, Alcaeus and Sthenelus, he
came to Mysia, to the court of Lycus, son of
Dascylus, and was entertained by him; and in a battle between him and the king of the
Bebryces Hercules sided with Lycus and slew many, amongst others King Mygdon, brother of
Amycus. And he took much land from the Bebryces and gave it to Lycus, who called it all
Heraclea.
Having put in at the harbor of Themiscyra, he received a visit from Hippolyte, who
inquired why he was come, and promised to give him the belt. But He
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girl （Auge） gave birth
to Telephus on Mount Parthenius, and instead of drowning her and the infant the ferryman
sold them both to king Teuthras in Mysia, who,
being childless, married Auge and adopted Telephus. See Alcidamas, Od. 14-16, pp.
179ff., ed. Blass （appended to his edition of Antiphon）. Tother and child as sold together to Teuthras, differs from
the version adopted by Apollodorus, according to whom Auge alone was sold to Teuthras in
Mysia, while her infant son Telephus was left
behind in Arcadia and reared by herdsmen
（Apollod. 3.9.1）. The sons of Aleus
and maternal uncles ofhocles appears to have told the story in his lost play,
The Mysians; for in it he described how Telephus came, silent and
speechless, from Tegea to Mysia （Aristot. Poet. 1460a
32">P">Aristot. Poet. 1460a 32）, and this silence of
Telephus seems to have been proverbial. For the comic poet Ale
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he held. But the land remaining barren, and the
oracles declaring that there was impiety in the precinct of Athena, she was detected and
delivered by her father to Nauplius to be put to death, and from him Teuthras, prince of
Mysia, received and married her. But the babe,
being exposed on Mount Parthenius, was suckled by a doe and hence called Telephus. Bred by
the neatheards of Corythus, he went to Delphi
in quest of his parents, and on information received from the god he repaired to
Mysia and became an adopted son of Teuthras, on
whose death he succeeded to the princedom.
Lycurgus had sons, Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasus,Compare Paus. 8.4.10, who mentions only the first two of
these four sons. by Cleophyle or Eurynome. And Amphidamas had a son Melanion and
a daughter Antimache, whom Eurystheus married. And Iasus had a daughter AtalantaFor the story of Atalanta, and how her suitor won her
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beards began to grow; according to him, the pinions
sprouted from their sides in the usual way. and met their end in chasing the
Harpies; but according to Acusilaus, they were killed by Hercules in Tenos.This is the version
adopted by Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.1298-1308, who tells us that when Zetes and
Calais were returning from the funeral games
of Pelias, Herakles killed them in Tenos
because they had persuaded the Argonauts to leave him behind in Mysia; over their grave he heaped a barrow, and on the
barrow he set up two pillars, one of which shook at every breath of the North Wind, the
father of the two dead men. The slaughter of Zetes and
Calais by Herakles is mentioned by Hyginus, Fab. 14, p. 43, ed.
Bunte.
Cleopatra was married to Phineus, who had by her two
sons, Plexippus and Pandion. When he had these sons by Cleopatra, he married Idaea,
daughter of Dardanus. She falsely accused
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But not knowing the course to steer for Troy,
they put in to Mysia and ravaged it, supposing it
to be Troy.With
the following account of the landing of the Greeks in Mysia and their encounter with Telephus, compare Proclus, in Epicorum
Graecorum Fragmdue. The incident is alluded to by Pind. I. 8.48(106)ff. The war in Mysia is narrated in more detail by Philostratus, Her.
iii.28-36branch and wounded with a spear in the thigh.
Departing from Mysia, the Greeks put to sea, and a violent storm coming on, they were
arations, set out on the expedition and after their retirement from Mysia to Greece
eight years elapsed before they again returned to hen the one who wounded him
should turn physician, came from Mysia to
Argos, clad in rags, and begged the help of
Achillconverted the adjective Pelasgian into a noun Pelasgus. from
Mysia, ChromiusHomer calls him Chromis （Hom. Il.
2.858）. and Enno
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r the Trojans, bringing a
great force of Mysians. He performed doughty deeds, but was slain by Neoptolemus.As to the single combat of Eurypylus and Neoptolemus, and the
death of Eurypylus, see Hom. Od. 11.516-521; the
Little Iliad of Lesches, summarized by Proclus, in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta,
ed. G. Kinkel, p. 37; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica
viii.128-220; Tzetzes, Posthomerica 560-565; Dictys Cretensis
iv.17. Eurypulus was king of Mysia. At
first his mother Astyoche refused to let him go to the Trojan war, but Priam overcame
her scruples by the present of a golden vine. See Scholiast on Hom. Od.
xi.520. The brief account which Apollodorus gives of the death of Eurypylus
agrees closely with the equally summary narrative of Proclus. Sophocles composed a
tragedy on the subject, of which some very mutilated fragments have been discovered in
Egypt. See The Fragments of
So
f
inexplicable details; so far as possible there should be nothing inexplicable, or,
if there is, it should lie outside the story—as, for instance, Oedipus not
knowing how Laius died—and not in the play; for example, in the
Electra the news of the Pythian games,In Sophocles'Electrathe plot hinges on a false story
of Orestes' death by an accident at the Pythian games. Presumably the
anachronism shocked Aristotle. or in the Mysians the man who came from
Tegea to Mysia without speaking.Telephus. To say that the plot would otherwise have been ruined is
ridiculous. One should not in the
first instance construct such a plot, and if a poet does write thus, and there seems
to be a more reasonable way of treating the incident, then it is positively absurd.
Even in the
Odyssey the inexplicable elements in the story of his
landingHom. Od.
13.116ff. It seemed to the critics inexplicable that Odysseus should
not awake when his
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“‘convey’ the wise it call”
（Merry Wives, I. iii.）. Either the
euphemistic or unfavorable application of the term may be adopted.;
and so it is allowable to say that the man who has committed a crime has
“made a mistake,” that the man who has “made a
mistake” is “guilty of crime”, and that one who
has committed a theft has either “taken” or
“ravaged.” The saying in the Telephus of
Euripides,
Ruling over the oar and having landed in Mysia,
is inappropriate, because the word ruling exceeds the dignity of the
subject, and so the artifice can be seen. Forms of words also are faulty, if they do not express an agreeable sound; for
instance, Dionysius the BrazenAccording to
Athenaeus, p. 669, he was a poet
and rhetorician who recommended the Athenians to use bronze money. in
his elegiacs speaks of poetry as
the scream of Calliope;
both are
Again, what frightens
some of you—that his wealth will attract a large mercenary
army—does not strike me as true. For although I believe that many
Greeks would consent to serve in his pay against the Egyptians and OrontesEgypt
had been in revolt for many years, and in 363 most of the satraps of western
Asia, including Orontes, satrap
of Mysia, joined in the rebellion.
Agesilaus, Iphicrates and Chabrias were among the Greek generals who took
part on one side or the other. and other barbarians, not so much to
enable him to subdue any of those enemies as to win for themselves wealth and
relief from their present poverty, yet I do not think that any Greek would
attack Greece. For where would he
retire afterwards? Will he go to Ph
