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Endymion[edit]
Classical Sources[edit]
Hesiod - Early 8th century BC[edit]
- Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.57:
- Hesiod says that Endymion was the son of Aethlius the son of Zeus and Calyee, and received the gift from Zeus: "(To be) keeper of death for his own self when he was ready to die."[1]
- In the Great Eoiae it is said that Endymion was transported by Zeus into heaven, but when he fell in love with Hera, was befooled with a shape of cloud, and was cast out and went down into Hades.[2]
Plato[edit]
- ... in the end, you know, that would make the sleeping Endymion mere nonsense; he would be nowhere, for everything else would be in the same state as he, sound asleep.[3]
Aristotle[edit]
- ... we cannot suppose they are always asleep like Endymion.[4]
Theocritus[edit]
- Together with other mortal men loved by goddesses, Adonis by Aphrodite and Jasion by Demeter, Theocritus mentions:
- ... Endymion that sleeps the unchanging slumber on ...[5]
Cicero[edit]
- ... Endymyion, indeed, if you listen to fables, slept once on a time, on Latmus, a mountain in Caria, and for such a length of time that I imagine he is not as yet awake. Do you think that he is concerned at the Moon's being in difficulties, though it was by her that he was thrown into that sleep, in order that she might kiss him while sleeping;[6]
- ...we should not want the slumber of Endymion given to us, not even if we expected to enjoy the most delicious dreams;[7]
Ovid[edit]
- See how the moon does her Endymion keep / In night conceal'd, and drown'd in dewy sleep.[8]
- The Moon, like a faithful attendant to direct my way, furnished a trembling light as I traversed the flood. Regarding her with a wishful look, "Bright Goddess," I said, "favor my design, and call to mind the happy Latmian cliffs. Endymion cannot allow that you should be of an unrelenting mind; favor therefore with a friendly look these my stolen delights. You, though a Goddess, left heaven in quest of a mortal"[9]
Other[edit]
- Scholiast on Theocritus's Idylls 3.49
Notes[edit]
- ^ Evelyn-White, p. 160, 161.
- ^ Evelyn-White, p. 260, 261. A similar story is told by Pindar of Ixion, Pythian 2.21–48.
- ^ Plato, Phaedo 72c.
- ^ Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 10.8.7.
- ^ Theocritus, Idyll 3, 44–47.
- ^ Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.38.92, Englishy translation, Younge, p. 325.
- ^ Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum , 5.20.56], translation, Younge, p. 266.
- ^ Ovid, Amores 1.13.
- ^ Ovid, The Epistles of Ovid, "Leander to Hero".
References[edit]
- Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
- Edmonds, J.M. Greek Bucolic Poets, Loeb Classical Library, Volume 28, Cambridge, MA. Harvard Univserity Press. 1912.
- Evelyn-White, Hugh Gerard, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Loeb Classical Library, Volume 57, Heinemann (1920)
- Ovid, Ovid's Art of Love (in three Books), the Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, the Court of Love, the History of Love, and Amours. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. New York. Calvin Blanchard. 1855.
- Ovid, The Epistles of Ovid, London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
- Younge, Charles Duke, The Academic questions: treatise De finibus and Tusculan disputations of M.T. Cicero, with a sketch of the Greek philosophers mentioned by Cicero, G. Bell, 1880.