Butes, it is said, was a son ot Poseidon: so Hesiod in the Catalogue.
Hesiod represented Breyon as the son of Erechtheus.
“(Minos) who was most kingly of mortal kings and reigned over very many people dwelling round about, holding the sceptre of Zeus wherewith he ruled many.’
The athletic contest in memory of Eurygyes. Melesagoras says that Androgeos the son Minos was called Eurygyes, and that a contest in his honour is held near his tomb at Athens in the Ceramicus. And Hesiod writes:
“And Eurygyes while yet. a lad in holy Athens. .. .”
There are many tales... about Ariadne ..., how that she was deserted by Theseus for love of another woman:
“For strong love for Aegle the. daughter of Panopeus overpowered him.”
For Hereas of Megara says: that. Peisistratus removed this verse the works of Hesiod.
But Hesiod says that Theseus wedded both Hippe and Aegle lawfully.
The snake of Cychreus: Hesiod says that it was brought up by Cychreus, and was driven out by Eurylochus as defiling the island; but, that Demeter received it into Eleusis, and there it became her attendant.
But Apollonius of Rhodes. says that it.(the Shield of Heracles) is Hesiod’s both from the general character of the work and from the fact that in the Catalogue we again find Iolaus as charioteer.. of Heracles.
“And fair-girdled Stratonica conceived and bare in the palace Eurytus her well-loved son. Of him sprang sons, Didaeon and Clytius and god-like Toxeus and Iphitus, a scion of Ares. And after these Antiope the queen, daughter of the aged son of Naubolus, bare her youngest child, golden-haired lolea.”
“Who bare Autolycus and Philammon, famous in speech... All things that he (Autolycus). took in his hands, he made to disappear.”
“Aepytus again, begot Tlesenor and Peirithéus.”
“For Locrus truly was leader of the Lelegian people, whom Zeus the Son of Cronos, whose wisdom is‘unfailing, gave to Deucalion, stones gathered out of the earth. So out of stones mortal men were made, and they were called people.” 1
“. . . Ileus whom. the lord Apollo, son of Zeus, loved. And he named him by this name, because he found a nymph complaisant? and was joined with her in sweet love, on that day when Poseidon and Apollo raised high the wall of the well-built city.”
Clymene the daughter of Minyas the son of Poseidon and of Euryanassa,‘ Hyperphas’ daughter, was wedded to Phylacus the son of Deion, and bare Iphiclus, a boy fleet of foot. It is said of him that through his, power of, running he could race the winds and could. move. along upon the ears of corn! ... The tale is in Hesiod: He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and
“not break it; nay, he, would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit.”
“And she bare a son Thoas.”
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