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A scholion on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War attributes to Hecataeus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC) a very different genealogy of Hellen, in which he is not the son of Deucalion but rather the grandson, being the son of one "Pronous", himself the son of Deucalion, alongside "Orestheus" and "Marathonius".[12] According to a scholion on Plato's Symposium citing Hellanicus (fl. late fifth century BC), Hellen "was born to Deukalion and Pyrrha, or according to some, to Zeus and Pyrrha", and was the father, by "Othreis", of Dorus, Xuthus, Aeolus, and in addition a daughter, named Xenopatra.[13]
Vitruvius (c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC), in his De Architectura, calls Dorus the son of Hellen by the "nymph Phthia",[16] while Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 BC – after 7 BC) apparently considered Amphictyon to be Hellen's son (usually Hellen's brother).[17]
According to the mythographer Apollodorus (first or second century AD), Hellen's parents are Deucalion and Pyrrha, and his siblings Amphictyon and Protogeneia, or according to "some", his parents are Zeus and Pyrrha.[20] Apollodorus, similarly to the Catalogue and other sources, calls him the father of Dorus, Xuthus and Aeolus; however, he specifies the nymph Orseis (rather than Othreis) as their mother.[21]
According to the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas (c. 491 – 578), Hellen was the son of "Picus Zeus",[22] and the father (rather than son) of Deucalion.[23] According to Stephanus of Byzantium (fl. 6th century AD), the historian Archinus had Hellen as the father of one "Neonus", father of "Dotus", the latter of which gave his name to Dotium in Thessaly.[24]
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Notes
- ^ LIMC 64 Hellen (S) 1; Michael C. Carlos Museum 1994.001.
- ^ According to West 1985, p. 136, "the composition of the Catalogue ... may be assigned to sometime between 580 and 520", and "the range may perhaps be narrowed to c. 540–520", while West 1999, p. 380, says it was "certainly in the sixth century, and perhaps between 540 and 520". Fowler 1998, p. 1 n. 4 dates it to "about 580", while Hirschberger, p. 49 gives the period of 630 to 590. Janko, p. 200, figure 4, in contrast, places it roughly around 675 and 690.
- ^ For an extensive discussion of the Catalogue, see West 1985.
- ^ Gantz, p. 164; West 1985, p. 51; Yasumura, p. 111; Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 3 Most, pp. 44, 45 [= fr. 2 Merkelbach-West, p. 4 = fr. 1 Evelyn-White, pp. 154, 155 = Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.1086 (Wendel, p. 248)].
- ^ West 1985, p. 51 says that "it seems hard to resist the conclusion that Deukalion, not Prometheus, was his father [in the Catalogue]", and that "Prometheus' name must have been accidentally repeated [by the scholion] from the line before". While, according to Gantz, p. 164 the scholion "has probably garbled something in transmission", and "it seems better to presume miscopying and emend the scholion". See also Caduff, p. 86.
- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47 [= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia on Homer's Odyssey 10.2 (Dindorf, p. 444)].
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- ^ Hunter, pp. 283–4; Plutarch, Moralia 747F (pp. 292, 293) [= Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 9 Most, pp. 48, 49 = fr. 9 Merkelbach-West, p. 7 = fr. 4 Evelyn-White, pp. 156, 157]; Gantz, p. 167; Hall, p. 85; Asquith, p. 277.
- ^ Hunter, p. 283; Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 57.
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, 286 (Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 54; Scheer, p. 121) [= Scholia on Lycophron's Alexandra, 286 (Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 54; Leone, p. 58) = Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 9 Most, pp. 48, 49]. Tzetzes takes the passage from a scholion on Lycophron's Alexandra, and quotes it several times in different works: once in his own commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra, and twice in his Exegesis of the Iliad (Papathomopoulos, pp. 94–5, 430). The scholion only attributes the passage to "Hesiod", whereas Tzetzes specifies the work.
- ^ West 1985, p. 57.
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- FGrHist 4 F125 = Hellanicus fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200–1]. Cf. Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 277.17 (Fowler 2013, p. 142); see Fowler 2013, p. 142; Fowler 1998, p. 12 n. 29.
- Photius, Bibliotheca186 (Harry, pp. 20–1)].
- ^ West 1985, p. 57; Scholia on Pindar's Olympian 9.68b (Drachmann, p. 283); Smith, s.v. Hellen.
- De Architectura 4.1.3 (pp. 202–5).
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 142; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 4.25.3; Smith, s.v. Amphictyon; Cary, n. 54 to 4.25.3: "The Greek words can mean either "the son of Hellen" or "the Greek"; but the latter does not seem to be a very natural way of describing him".
- De Astronomica 2.18.4.
- Fabulae 157.
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.2 [= Scholia on Homer, Iliad 13.307].
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.3. West 1985, p. 57, says that both Othreis and Orseis are "probably" corruptions of Othryis, a nymph of Mount Othrys.
- ^ John Malalas, Chronographia 2.45 (p. 27); cf. 4.4 (p. 33), where he is called the son of "Picus".
- ^ John Malalas, Chronographia 4.4 (p. 33).
- BNJ, commentary on 604 F3.
- ^ Fowler 1998, p. 11; Fowler 2013, p. 128.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.681–4; Fowler 1998, p. 10; March, s.v. Hellen, p. 369. Cf. Herodotus, 1.56.2–3.
- FGrHist 1 F14] [= Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 6 Most, pp. 46, 47 = fr. 6 Merkelbach-West, p. 6 = fr. 5 Evelyn-White, pp. 156, 157].
- ^ Cf. Solinus, Polyhistor 8.1.
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- ^ Bury, p. 226; Thucydides, 1.3.2. Thucydides uses the mention of the Hellenes in the Iliad to support his argument here, as there they refer only to the group in Phthia (who Thucydides calls the "original Hellenes").
- ^ Gantz, p. 167: "The immediate offspring of Deukalion and Pyrrha, including indeed several generations, are primarily eponymous ancestors or intermediate place-holders rather than actors in any real narratives".
- ^ Gantz, p. 734; Euripides fr. 481 Collard and Cropp, pp. 578, 579 [= fr. 481 Nauck, p. 511 = Melanippe Wise 1–2 (Page pp. 118, 119)]; Melanippe Wise test. 1 Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573; cf. Euripides fr. 929b Collard and Cropp, pp. 522, 523 [= fr. 14 Nauck, p. 366].
- ^ Collard and Cropp, pp. 568–9.
- ^ Gantz, p. 734.
- ^ LIMC 64 Hellen (S) 1, image 1 of 1; Michael C. Carlos Museum 1994.001; Bing, p. 13; Oakley, p. 619, figure 18. For an extensive discussion of the vase, see Bing, pp. 13–6; see also Gantz, pp. 734–5; Collard and Cropp, p. 570. The only iconographic representation of Hellen, Bing, p. 14 describes him here as a "hooded, grizzled old man" and Gantz, p. 735 as "grim".
- ^ Grimal, p. 531; Hard, p. 702.
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