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Eratosthenes

18

• Hard 2015

p. 49

EPITOME 18. Horse

[Eratosthenes:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that this is Hippe, the daughter of Cheiron, who was deceived and seduced by Aiolos, ... she was place among the constellations by Artemis, in a position in which she is out [cont.]

p. 50

of sight of the Centaur (for that constellation is said to be Cheiron*). The hind part of her body is invisible, so that no one should know she is female.

p. 51

[Hyginus:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that Hippe, daughter of Cheiron, was peviously called Thetis; she was brought up on Mount Pelion, and was extremely fond of hunting, but was seduced one day by Aiolos, son of Hellen, a grandson of Zeus, and found herself pregnant. ...

Hyginus

• Hyginus, Gaius Julius, De Astronomica, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at ToposText.

De Astronomica

2.18.2.1–5

Euripides autem in Melanippa Hippen, Chi-

ronis centauri filiam, Thet[i]n antea appellatam dicit.

Quae cum aleretur in monte Pelio et studium in ue-

nando maximum haberet, quodam tempore ab Aeolo,

Hellenis filio, Iouis nepote, persuasam concepisse;

Hard 2015 translation, p. 51

Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that Hippe, daughter of Cheiron, was previuosly called Thetis; she was brought up on Mount Pelion, and was exremely fond of hunting, but was seduced one day by Aiolos, son of Hellen, a grandson of Zeus, and found herself pregnant [with Melanippe].

Grant translation via ToposText

Euripides in his Melanippe, says that Melanippe [sic], daughter of Chiron the Centaur was once called Thetis. Brought up on Mount Helicon, a girl especially fond of hunting, she was wooed by Aeolus, son of Hellen, and grandson of Jove, and conceived a child be him.

Ovid

Metamorphoses

2.633–675

OCYROE AND AESCULAPIUS

Chiron, the Centaur, taught his pupil; proud

that he was honoured by that God-like charge.

Behold, his lovely daughter, who was born

beside the margin of a rapid stream,

came forward, with her yellow hair as gold

adown her shoulders.—She was known by name

Ocyroe. The hidden things that Fate

conceals, she had the power to tell; for not

content was she to learn her father's arts,

but rather pondered on mysterious things.

So, when the god of Frenzy warmed her breast,

gazing on Aesculapius ...

...

"And thou, dear father Chiron, brought to birth

...

and the three Destinies shall cut thy thread."

...Now my human form

puts on another shape, and the long grass

affords me needed nourishment. I want

to range the boundless plains and have become,

in image of my father's kind, a mare:

but gaining this, why lose my human shape?

My father's form is one of twain combined.”

... Her voice and shape

were altogether changed, and since that day the change has given her a different name.

Modern

Hard 2004

p. 409

Aiolos does make an appearance in one mythical tale as seducer of HIPPE (or Hippo), the daughter of the Centaur Cheiron. It should be remembered in this connection that the daughters or wives of the Centaurs were fully human in form. Th the best-preserved version of her tale, from the astronomical literature, Hippe fled into the mountains in shame after becoming pregnant by Aiolos; and when her father arrived in search of her as she was about to give birth to her child, she prayed to the gods to make her unrecognizable by [cont.]

p. 410

changing her form. So she was transformed into a horse (as seems fitting for the child of a Centaur); And she was then transferred to the sky by Artemis on account of her piety to become the constellationof the Horse (now known as Pegasus).^{40 [Eratosth. 18, Hyg. Astr. 2.18.]} Hippe bore Aiolos a daughter, Melanippe, who appeared in two plays by Euripides; in a fragment from one of these plays, Melanippe declares that her mother was turned into a horse by Zeus by Zeus for relieving mortals from the pain by means of charms.^{41 [Page GLP III, no. 14.]} Or she was transformed for using her divinatory powers to reveal the secrets of the gods to mortals.^{42 [Hyg. Astr. 2.18, cf. Ov. Met. 2.633-75 (in which she is transformed, presumably at the will of Zeus, after revealing the fates of Asklepios and Cheiron).}

Hard 2015

p. 49

[Erat. Epitome 18:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that this [contellation Horse] is Hippe, the daughter of Cheiron, who was deceived and seduced by Aiolos,

p. 51

[Hyg. De Astr. 2.18:] Euripides for his part says in his Melanippe that Hippe, daughter of Cheiron, was previuosly called Thetis; she was brought up on Mount Pelion, and was exremely fond of hunting, but was seduced one day by Aiolos, son of Hellen, a grandson of Zeus, and found herself pregnant [with Melanippe].

p. 52

This is the tale in which Hippe ('Mare'), daughter of Cheiron, prayed to the gods to be transformed to prevent her father from seeing her give birth to child outside wedlock. The Casterism was added to a version of her story that had been presented in one of Euripides' two lost plays about Melanippe (that being the name of the daughter who was brought to birth by her in the circumstances that led to her transformation).