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- Incorporate Shapiro [in folder]
- Add cite for identifications on the Pergamon Altar figure.
- I cannot say why Bathycles has represented the so-called Bull of Minos bound, and being led along alive by Theseus. There is also on the throne a band of Phaeacian dancers, and Demodocus singing. Perseus, too, is represented killing Medusa. Passing over the fight of Heracles with the giant Thurius and that of Tyndareus with Eurytus, we have next the rape of the daughters of Leucippus. Here are Dionysus, too, and Heracles; Hermes is bearing the infant Dionysus to heaven, and Athena is taking Heracles to dwell henceforth with the gods.
- "It has been suggested by Gruppe [cols. 921–922; 955] that the Alcyoneus legend may have been transplanted to Pallene by Corinthian colonists in Potidaea"
- Epicharmus wrote an Alcyoneus
Get
Read/Look at
- R. Olmos and L. J. Balmaseda, "Alkyoneus" in LIMC [in folder]
- Shapiro 1993 [in folder]
- pp. 133 ff.
- Strabo 8.336 = 8.2.3:"The sea from Antirrhium as far as the Isthmus8 is called Alcyonian, it being a part of the Crisaean Gulf."
- Pausanius 2.37.5 "Alcyonian Lake"
- Nonnus (see Theoi: [1])
- [2]
- [3]
Other stuff
Yasumura
- pp. 49–58 (see Amazon for page numbers)
- Copy text for Schol. Pind. Nem 1.101 (compare w Gantz, p. 449)
- Incorporate Schol. Pind. Nem 1.101 for prophecy concerning need for Heracles and Dionysos, and location of the battle at Phlegra.
- Asterius/Asterus
- Meropis and the Meropes
Schol. on Apoll. Rhod. I.1289 (Grimal p. 473)
Andreae
Andreae, Bernard "Herakles und Alkyoneus" (PDF) 1962 [in folder]
Bennett
Bennett, p. 124
Gantz
p. 419
- Nevertheless the suspicion arises, given the sameness of locale, that Alkyoneus was in the beginning a Gigas, although Pindar never calls him that.
p. 420
- In art we find quite a number of instances in which Herakles dispatches an oversized figure, beginning probably as early as a metope from Heraion I at Foce del Sele (no #)69 and several shield-band reliefs from Olympia.
p. 445
- We have seen that Pindar instead links together Troy, Kos, and Alkyoneus, whom he does not actually call a Gigas but does locate at Phlegrai.
p. 446
- ... the exceptional staure of Alkyoneus in art (if he really is a Gigas)"
p. 447
- Again, although Phlegra is also the site of Herakles' battle with Alkyoneus in Pindar, the poet must intend two different events, since the Alkyoneus combat forms part of Herakles' expedition with Telamon and other mortal supporters.
p. 448
- We have already seen that the scholia to Isthmian 6 speak of Alkyoneus as stealing the cattle of Helios and thereby initiating the battle between Olympians and Gigantes (Σ Is 6.47).
Hard
p. 89
MacLean
p. 100
- Perhaps originally the legendary hero of the Argolid and the Isthmus, then one of the Giants.
Moon
- p. 64
- 50. B. Andreae, "Herakles und Alkyoneus," Jdl 77 (1962) 174–176
- p. 65
- As mentioned, a type A amphora in Paris (Louvre F 208) (fig. 24) has been attributed to the Priam Painter, and its rendition of the Alkyoneous story is quite different. The giant is out of doors. The painter has put him on a mountain, as in Pindar, Isthmian VI.32, where he is asleep, with his eyes tightly closed head down-turned, and his arms hanging limp. The body is properly massive, stretching across much of the panel. Behind Alkyoneus is a small-leafed tree. Herakles approaches on the left, his body tensed, his bow aimed, soon to deliver his arrow.
Natoli
p. 130
Ridgway
p. 39
- It is usually stated that the Giant [Athena's opponent on the Pergamon Altar] is Alkyoneus, a son of Ge who derived immortality from contact with Mother Earth. ...
p. 59–60 [Pages can be viewed form my laptop]
- 59. The quotation ...
Stafford
p. 118
- A group of Attic vase-paintings ... a feature common to personifications of physical sleep.10
p. 252
- 10 ... Andreae 1962 discusses images of the Alkyoneus encounter in detail; Borg 2002, 153–47 considers Hypnos' role in these scenes.
Pots
- Getty 84.AE.974: Beazley 16201
- Cohen p. 66–68
- 500–450 BC (Beazley), c. 480 BC (Cohen)
- Cattle (Cohen, Beazley)
- Sleeping (Cohen)
- Hypnos (Cohen)
- Geneva XXX401: Beazley 401 [No image]
- LIMC Alkyoneus 12 [No image]
- For images and description see Christophe KUNICKI
- 500 BC (LIMC)
- Cattle (Beazley, LIMC)
- Hypnos (Beazley, LIMC)
- London XXXX205808: Beazley 205808
- Cattle (Beazley)
- Sleeping (Image)
- Louvre F208: Beazley 6561
- Gantz, p. 420
- Moon p. 65
- LIMC Alkyoneus 3
- 575–525 BC (Beazley), 520 BC (LIMC)
- Inscription (Gantz, Beazley)
- Sleeping (Moon)
- Melborne 1730.4: Beazley 201048 [No image]
- Stafford, p. 118
- LIMC Alkyoneus 11
- Cattle (LIMC)
- Sleeping (Stafford)
- Hypnos (Stafford)
- Munich 1784: Beazley 351331
- Gantz, p. 420
- 525–475 BC (Beazley)
- Hypnos (Gantz)
- Munich 2590: Beazley 200135
- Cattle (Image)
- Sleeping (Image)
- Inscription (Beazley)
- Munich (Market): Beazley 9022273 [No image]
- LIMC Alkyoneus Add 4
- 520–510 (LIMC)
- Cattle (Beazley, LIMC)
- Taranto 7030
- Gantz, p. 420
- Andreae, p. 188, 189 (German, images, PDF)
- LIMC Alkyoneus 17
- Cattle (Gantz)
- Heracles dragging? Alkconeus? (Gantz)
- Tarquinia RC 2070 Beazley 332028 [No image]
- Gantz, p. 420
- 550–500 BC (Beazley)
- Cattle (Gantz)
- LIMC?
- Toledo 52.66: Beazley 2190
- Gantz, p. 420
- Moon p. 65
- LIMC Alkyoneus 7 [No image]
- 525–475 BC (Beazley) 510 BC (LIMC)
- Hypnos (Gantz, Moon)
Sculpture
Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele
- Bennett, p. 124
- c. 560–550 BC
- Another Giant Thourios? See Pausanias 3.18.11
- Perseus: Foce del Sele, Temple of Hera
Pergamon Altar
- Ridgway, B. S., pp. 39–40, p. 59–62 [Pages can be viewed from my laptop]
- Cunningham, p. 113