Now all the gods were divided through strife; for
at that very time Zeus who thunders on high was meditating marvellous deeds, even to mingle storm and tempest over the boundless earth, and already he was hastening to make an utter end of the race of mortal men, declaring that he would destroy the lives of the demi-gods, that the children of the gods should not mate with wretched mortals, seeing their fate with their own eyes; but, that the blessed gods henceforth even as aforetime should have their living and their habitations apart from men. But on those who were born of immortals and of mankind verily Zeus laid toil and sorrow upon sorrow.
“nor any one of men... should go upon black ships ... to be strongest in the might of his hands ... of mortal men declaring to all, those things that were, and those that are, and those that shall be, he brings to pass and glorifies the counsels of his father Zeus who drives the clouds. For no one, either of the blessed gods or of mortal men, knew surely that he would contrive through the sword to send to Hades full many a one of heroes fallen in strife. But at that time he knew not as yet the intent of his father’s mind, and how men delight in protecting their children from doom. And he delighted in the desire of his mighty father’s heart who rules powerfully over men. From stately trees the fair leaves fell in abun-
dance fluttering down to the ground, and the fruit fell to the ground because Boreas blew very fiercely at the behest of Zeus; the deep seethed and all things trembled. at his, blast: the strength of mankind consumed away and the fruit failed in the season of spring, at that time when the Hairless One? in a secret place in the mountains gets three young every three years. In spring he dwells upon the mountain among tangled thickets and brushwood, keeping afar from and hating the path of men, in the glens and: wooded glades. But when winter comes on, he lies in a close cave beneath the earth and covers himself with piles of luxuriant leaves, a dread serpent whose back is speckled with awful spots. —
But when he becomes violent and fierce unspeakably, the arrows of Zeus lay him low. ... Only his soul is left on the holy earth, and that flits gibbering about a small unformed den. And it comes enfeebled to sacrifices beneath the broad-pathed earth...) and it lies vs...”
Agamemnon and Menelaus likewise according to Hesiod and Aeschylus are regarded as the sons of: Pleisthenes, Atreus’ son. And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aérope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and. Cleolla the daughter of Dias.
. And she (Helen) bare to Menelaus, famous with the spear, Hermione and her youngest-born, Nicostratus, a scion of Ares.”
: ai. I know that Hesiod in the Catalogue of Women represented that Iphigeneia was not killed but, by the will of Artemis, became Hecate.!
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