#euphorion

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Euphorion, Son of Helen & Achilles

[deathlessathanasia]

I just learned that „Rheione” (Ῥειώνη) was a name used for Hera by the Hellenistic poet Euphorion. I know nothing about etymology so I can't say if this name is connected in any way to Rhea's (Ρεια), but it would be funny if it was given that Euphorion uses it in the context of Hera casting „mind-destroying drugs” on the caretakers of Dionysos (the Pheres) while Rhea herself is helpful to him and, in a story Euphorion is said to agree with, she reassembles his body after Dionysos is torn apart by the Titans.

[nardialrose]

Collections of Euphorion's fragments on mythology

Euphorion of Chalcis was a poet and grammatician who lived during the Hellenistic era. He studied at Athen and was invited as a guest for King Antiochus III of the Selucid Dynasty to his court, and was appointed as a librarian of the Library of Antioch. Euphorion has ridiculously amount of works attributed to him by various authors, but none of his stuff survived ironically.

So I'm posting these for accessibility from the Loeb edition. It's free online, but probably for a limited of time since other Loeb books are paywalled digitally. Only covering ones with mythology topics.

Fragments:

14 Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra Dionysus, too, was honoured in Delphi together with Apollo, in the following way. The Titans tore asunder Dionysus' limbs, threw them into a cauldron, and set it before his brother Apollo. Apollo stowed it away beside his tripod, as we learn from Callimachus and Euphorion, who says: In(to) the fire those arrogant beings cast divine Bacchus.

31 Scholiast on Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus Hippocoon was a Spartan whose sons, called the Hippocoontids after their father, slew Licymnius' son Oionos, the companion of Heracles, in anger because he had killed their dog. Outraged at this, Heracles opened hostilities against them and slew many of them, in the course of which he himself received a wound to his hand. Aleman mentions it in his first book. Euphorion in the Thrax also mentions the sons of Hippocoon as rival suitors to the Dioscuri,

32 Scholiast, Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra Cychreus, son of Salamis and Poseidon. He was king of the Salaminians, as reported by Euphorion in the Hippo- medon: For such was the Cychreian (or of Cychreus) in sandy Salamis Some say he is the bi-form Cecrops. Others, that a serpent once ravaged Salamis and made it uninhabitable until Cychreus killed it, and for this reason was called Anaxiphos. cf. Tzetzes Cychreus, son of Poseidon and Salamis, as Euphorion says, slew the dragon and became king of Salamis.

40 Philodemus, On Piety The first of these (sc. births) is the one from his mother, the second from Zeus' thigh, the third when he was torn apart by the Titans, reassembled by Rhea, and brought back to life. In the Mopsopia Euphorion agrees on these matters (or, with these people); the Orphics as a whole dwell on (these myths).

56 Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae For Zeus gave Thebes to Persephone as a bridal gift, on the occasion of her unveiling, as Euphorion says: But not yet were fate's balances fixed fast in Thebes, Which once the son of Cronos on Persephone bestowed, His bride, when first she was about to see him, Moving aside the cover of her maiden snood.

44 Scholiast on Theocritus, Idylls They say that the lettered hyacinth sprang from the blood of Ajax, and that for this reason the flower has the letters ai ai inscribed on it, the beginning of the name of Ajax. It was with regard to this that Euphorion said: Purple hyacinth, one story of the bards <relates that> When the Aeacid fell on the Rhoeteian shore You sprang forth from his blood, inscribed with a lament. cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad . and (Porphyry reports) that Euphorion says that the hyacinth grew from the blood that flowed from Ajax's wound.

55 Apuleius, On Spelling Azania is a part of Arcadia, where Euphorion relates that Jupiter was born

57. Oxy. 3830 fr. 2 col. ii "of earth [and sea, where Iapetus and Cronos" [c. 2 lines missing] fr. 3 col. ii Children of Heaven and Earth and because being young and Zeus hurling with thunderbolts and lightnings he confined them [and he entrusted the dominion to Cronos to excel [all of them?] Ophi[ the (mountain?) named after him The story (is) in Euphorion. cf. Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, "Of the earth and sea, where Iapetus and Cronos" ] After Zeus displaced his father Cronos from the kingship and took over the sovereignty of the gods, the Giants, sons of Earth, grew angry in Tartesus (a city beside the Ocean) and prepared a great war against him. Meeting them in battle, Zeus overcame their entire force, removed them to Erebus, and handed dominion over them to his father Cronos. As for Ophion, who towered over them all, he defeated him and penned him under a mountain, which came to be known as “Ophionion” after him.

58 Scholiast on Homer, Iliad While Hera was still being brought up by her parents, one of the Giants, Eurymedon, raped her and made her pregnant. She gave birth to Prometheus. Afterwards, when Zeus married his sister and found out what had happened, he consigned Eurymedon to Tartarus and used <his theft of> fire as a pretext to tied up Prometheus in chains. The story is in Euphorion.

60 Commentary on Lucan, Pharsalia Pindar and others say that he [sc. Pan] was son of Apollo and Penelope, others that he was son of Mercury and the same mother, and that he was handed over by his father to the mountain nymphs to be nurtured, whence he be- came a god of the woodlands. Euphorion represents Pan as son of Ulysses. cf. Scholiast on ps.-Euripides, Rhesus Some say that Pan was son of Penelope <and all the suitors, whence he was named "Pan" ("All")> , others that he was son of Apollo and Penelope, <while others still say that he was son of Odysseys and Penelope>, which is Euphorion's version.

65 Scholiast on Homer, Iliad "And the might of Orion" ] Hyrieus, son of Poseidon and Alcyone, one of the daughters of Atlas, lived in Tanagra, in Boeotia. He was a most hospitable person, and once even entertained deities. Zeus and Poseidon and Hermes were welcomed by him as guests, and after they had enjoyed his good cheer they encouraged him to ask for whatever he wanted. Being childless, he asked for a child. The gods therefore took the hide of the bull which had been sacrificed to them and ejaculated onto it, and they told him to hide it underground, then take it up again after ten months. After those ten months had passed, Ourion was born, his name derived from the gods "urinating" his seed, but later softened to "Orion". Once when he was out hunting with Artemis he tried to rape her. The goddess was angry and caused a scorpion to spring from the earth which bit him in the ankle and killed him. Zeus felt sympathy and translated him to the heavens. That is why, when Scorpio rises, Orion sets. The story is in Euphorion.

66 Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey For Day fell in love with him (sc. Orion) and snatched him from Tanagra to Delos, where he saw Oupis as she carried sheaves and wanted to force her to his will. The goddess was angry at this and slew him, as Euphorion relates.

67 Scholiast on Aratus, Phaenomena That it (sc. the constellation of Orion) has very bright stars, especially those that form the belt, and others around the straps and those that form the likeness of his sword, and two bright stars at the extremities of his feet, is stated also by Euphorion: not even infant Children seek (in vain) for the mighty Orion.

68 Scholiast on Homer, Iliad Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion. From her marriage to Amphion she had twelve children, six girls and six boys. Priding herself on the number of her children and their beauty she taunted Leto with the fact that she (Leto) had only two, Apollo and Artemis, and that she (Niobe) was more blessed in offspring than the goddess. This angered Leto, who sent her children against Niobe's family: Apollo killed the males while they were out hunting on Cithaeron, Artemis the females while the latter were at home. Zeus felt pity for Niobe's indescribable grief at this calamity, and turned her into a stone, which even to streams of tears. The story is in Euphorion,

69 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica He (Tityos) is punished in Hades for having overpowered Leto as she was on her way to Pytho, as when Homer mentions "Tityos son of Earth". Euphorion says that he laid hands on Artemis, and that that is the reason for his punishment.

72 Eustathius on Dionysius the Periegete Heracles is celebrated as having sailed to it [Erythea] in a bronze cauldron, when he drove off the cattle of Geryon In a light bronze vessel, from ox-rich Erythea as Euphorion is said to relate.

74 (a) Scholiast on Theocritus, Idylls Socrates calls Hylas son of Heracles, Apollonius of Rhodes son of Theiodamas, Nicander son of Ceyx, and Euphorion boy-friend of Polyphemus son of Poseidon. Others have different versions. cf. Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Socrates in his Against Eidotheus says that Hylas was the boy-friend of Polyphemus and not of Heracles. (b) Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Apollonius says that Polyphemus was son of Elatus, Socrates and Eurphorion of Poseidon.

78 Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes For he (Pindar) says that Poseidon and Apollo co-opted Aeacus to help with the building of the wall. And he renders this account, he says, in order that Ilium should be vulnerable in the part Aeacus had built. The story is not found in anyone earlier than Pindar, but Euphorion says: Now Phoebus and Poseidon summoned Aeacus Raising, not without his aid, the battlements all around

79 Servius on Virgil, Aeneid As Euphorion says, Priam had a son by Arisbe with prophetic powers. When he announced on a certain day that a child was being born who had the capacity to overthrow Troy, both Thymoetes’ wife and Hecuba, Priam’s legitimate spouse, gave birth simultaneously. But Priam ordered the son and wife of Thymoetes to be killed.

80 Scholiast, Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra Stesichorus and Euphorion say that Hector was son of Apollo; so too Alexander the Aetolian poet. cf. Scholiast on Homer, Iliad Porphyry in his Omissions says that Ibycus, Alexander, Euphorion, and Lycophron all made Hector the son of Apollo.

82 Scholiast on Homer, Iliad When Oeneus slighted Artemis by not giving her her due of sacrifice, the goddess grew angry and sent a wild boar against his city. An armed company of the best warriors of Greece set out against this boar, which was ravaging the countryside, as Homer himself records in Iliad 9. Among them was Thersites, who, in a fit of cowardice, abandoned the guard-post to which he had been assigned and withdrew to a high place in search of safety. Meleager was annoyed at this and set off in pursuit of him, and in the course of the pursuit Thersites fell from a cliff and became the way that Homer portrays him.110 The story is in Euphorion.

85 Scholiast on Aristophanes, Lysistrata Some set the Iphigenia story in Brauron, not in Aulis. Euphorion: Coastal Brauron, Iphigenia’s empty tomb. cf. Scholiast ibid. It seems that Agamemnon sacrificed Iphigenia in Brauron, not Aulis, and the animal that was rendered up in her place was not a deer, but a bear. Hence the rites which they perform to her.

86 Etymologicum Parvum Iphigenia: Euphorion offers an etymology of her name, ignoring the fact that she is Agamemnon’s daughter, and supposing her to be the child of Helen and Theseus and given suppositiously to Clytaemnestra: . . . (so-called) because Helen bore her to Theseus, who subdued her by main force. Of Helen and Theseus. cf. Pausanias Near the Lords is a temple of Eilethyia, dedicated by Helen . . . for they say that she was with child, and gave birth in Argos, and that after she had dedicated the temple to Eilethyia, she gave to Clytaemnestra the child to which she had give birth—for by this time Clytaemnestra was married to Agamemnon—while later on she herself married Menelaus. And on this matter, the hexameter poets Euphorion of Chalcis and Alexander of Pleuron, and still earlier Stesichorus of Himera, agree with the Argives that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus. This and the previous fragment were thus combined by A. S. Hollis: Coastal Brauron, Iphigenia’s empty tomb ...(Iphigenia, so-called) because Helen bore her to Theseus, who subdued her by main force.

87 Scholiast, Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra Stesichorus says that Odysseus had the image of a dolphin on his shield, and Euphorion agrees with him.

91 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica The reference is obviously to Neleus’ son Periclymenus . . . Inasmuch as he was descended from him (Neleus being the son of Poseidon), Poseidon bestowed on him various endowments, including the boon of being able to turn himself into any shape, as Euphorion says: Who changed himself to every form, like Proteus of the sea.

94 Servius on Virgil, Aeneid Autolycus was a thief who was capable of forming himself into various shapes. His children were Aesimus, father of Sinon, and Anticleia, mother of Ulysses: thus these two were cousins. So it is not undeservedly that Virgil endows Sinon with deceitfulness, and gives him the role of traitor, which is not a great departure from tradition, since Euphorion’s Ulysses did the same.

[neoptolemid]

You might know Pyrrhus (my son, my boy) but APPARENTLY Achilles had a kid in Elysium with Helen and the kid turned out to have wings. Now I’m gonna respectfully ignore the Helen detail but I want !bonding! give me father son relations! give me brothers 

[mdzs-fic]

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Summary:

Wei Wuxian locks his phone and puts it down, blinks at his ceiling, and picks it up again. The pictures are still there.

His first thought is that Lan Zhan meant them for someone else. That he just woke up at—he checks the timestamp—6:30 am on a Sunday and decided to go absolute full nuclear seduction option on some poor boy he met on Grindr, who would now be missing out on the best thing to ever happen to him because Wei Wuxian had a bad habit of distracting—of—oh.

Pieces of last night start to resurface and paste themselves together in his head. He winces.

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"I’m gonna act like we’re dating. I’m gonna act like I’m head over heels for you, but I won’t act like you’re my girlfriend. For one thing, I wouldn’t have a fucking clue how.”

Idiot (derek nurse, spoken word, 2016) by @flightlesscrowkids

This fic kills me but this line is a one hit KO, as a person who is not a girlfriend, but will probably always be called one, just cause that's how people are, c'est la vie.

[checkpleaselibrary]

Idiot (derek nurse, spoken word, 2016) by Euphorion

mature

no archive warnings apply

23 050 words

completed

derek nurse/william poindexter

Dex sat up fully, crossing his feet at the ankles and giving him a wry look. “You wanna come pretend to be my boyfriend, Nurse?”

There were a lot of reasons Nursey was glad he wasn’t white. Subtle blushing ranked really high up there. “I, uh,” he started.

Dex shook his head at him. “It’s okay, I was kidding. I appreciate the suggestion but I know you weren’t offering—“

“I would,” Nursey heard himself saying. Which he’d always thought was a dumb literary convention, but here he was, words coming out of his mouth without his useless fucking brain’s influence at all. “If you actually want me to, I would.”

[nardialrose]

The Tragedy of Niobe

In the Classical Greek literature and plays, Niobe was presented as a sympathetic figure as someone who rose to the top like many heroes, but fallen due to her hubris of boasting her fertility superior to Leto, leading to the death of her children by Artemis and Apollo on Leto's behalf, thus Niobe's eternal sorrow and loss.

According to reception of these plays that survived by reception, "Sophocles had high excitement and terror, Aeschylus had stillness and sorrow." Aristotle praised Aeschylus' work for containing portion of Niobe's life instead of condensing all in one. From Matthew Wright's The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy on what we have about Aeschylus' and Sophocles' version:

To Sappho, she viewed Leto and Niobe's relationships as a model of friendship.

"Aulus Gellius refers to Sappho's version of the story of Niobe (fr. 205), where she apparently put the number of Niobe's children as nine of each sex, rather than the six of each found in Homer. This poem may be connected with fr. 142, which describes the friendship between Leto and Niobe, and is usually thought to have been a personal poem that used the myth to reflect upon one of Sappho's own friend- ships. The detail that Leto and Niobe were friends adds poignancy to the myth, as this friendship turns sour and leads to terrible consequences. Niobe's friendship with the gods, and her acceptance on equal terms by Leto may also be part of the moral, as it leads Niobe to overstep the mark."

-Laura Swift, The Gods In Sappho, The Cambridge Companion to Sappho