“... of the glorious lord... fair Atalanta, swift. of foot, the daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.” 163
Hesiod is therefore later in date than Homer since he represents Hippomenes as stripped when contending with Atalanta.!
“Then straightway there rose up against him the trim-ankled maiden (Atalanta), peerless in beauty: a great throng stood round about her as she gazed fiercely, and wonder held all men as they looked upon her. As she moved, the breath of the west wind stirred the shining garment about her tender bosom; but Hippomenes stood where he was: and much people was gathered together. All these kept silence; but Schoeneus cried and said:
“Hear me all, both young and old, while I speak as my spirit within my breast bids me. Hippomenes seeks my coy-eyed daughter to wife; but let him now hear my wholesome speech. He shall not win her without contest; yet, if he be victorious and escape death, and if the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus grant him to win renown, verily he shall return to his dear native land, and I will give him my dear child and strong, swift-footed horses besides which he shall lead home to be cherished possessions; and may he rejoice in heart possessing these, and ever remember with gladness the painful contest. May the father of men and of gods (grant that splendid children may be born to him?)’
“on the right. . . and he, rushing upon her, . drawing back slightly towards the left. And. on them was laid an unenviable struggle: for she, even fair, swift-footed Atalanta, ran scorning the gifts of golden Aphrodite; but with him the race was for his life, either to find his doom, or to escape it. Therefore with thoughts of guile he said to her: “«O daughter. of Schoeneus, pitiless in heart, receive these glorious gifts of the goddess, golden Aphrodite...’
“But he, following lightly on his feet, cast the first apple!: and, swiftly as a Harpy, she turned back and snatched it. . Then he cast the second to the ground with his hand. And now fair, swift-footed Atalanta had two apples and was near the goal; but Hippomenes cast the third apple to the ground, and therewith escaped death and black fate. And he stood panting and...”
“And the daughter of Arabus, whom worthy Hermaon begat with Thronia, daughter of the lord Belus.”
“Argos which was waterless Danaus made well-watered.”
Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented.
And Apollodorus says that Hesiod already knew that the whole people were called both Hellenes and Panhellenes, as when he says of the daughters of Proetus that the Panhellenes sought them in marriage.
Acrisius was king of Argos and Proetus of Tiryns. And Acrisius had by Eurydice the daughter of Lacedemon, Danae; and Proetus by Stheneboea “ Lysippe and Iphinoé and Iphianassa.’’ And these fell mad, as Hesiod states, because they would not receive the rites of Dionysus.
These (the daughters of Proetus), because they had scorned the divinity of Juno, were overcome with madness, such that they believed they had been turned into. cows, and left Argos their own country. Afterwards they were cured by Melampus, the son of Amythaon.
“Because of their hideous wantonness they lost their tender beauty ... For he shed upon their heads a fearful itch: and leprosy covered all. their flesh, and their hair dropped from their heads, and their fair scalps were made bare.”
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