The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

by Roberto Calasso

  This page Fragmenta Orphicorum, 210 (Kern).

  This page Euripides, Bacchae, 139.

  This page Ibid.

  This page Aristophanes, Ranae, 1032.

  This page Theophrastus, On Devotion, fr. 18 (Pötscher), quoted in Porphyry, De Abstinentia, II, 29–30.

  This page Pindar, fr. 133, 1 (Snell).

  This page Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, 418 c.

  This page Strabo, Geography, X, 3, 9.

  This page Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, 417 e.

  This page Ibid., 415 a.

  This page Clement of Alexandria, Hortatory Address to the Greeks, II, 19, 2.

  This page Aristides, Eleusinian Oration, XXII, 8 (Behr).

  This page Herodotus, Historiae, I, 57, 3.

  This page Ibid., II, 52, 1.

  This page Ioannina Museum, M 34, M 42.

  This page Ibid., M 21, M 31, M 12–2941.

  This page Hymn of Palaikastro, 2.

  This page Ibid., 3.

  This page Etymologicon Magnum, 223, 47–48.

  This page Ibid., 223, 48.

  This page Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, I, 526.

  This page Ibid., II, 129.

  This page Ibid., II, 446–47.

  This page Ibid., IV, 429.

  This page Hyginus, Fabulae, XXV, 2.

  This page John 8: 48–49.

  This page Nonnus, Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel, VIII, 158–59.

  This page G. B. Marino, Letter to Signor Claudio Achillini, in Epistolario, Bari: Laterza, 1911, vol. I, p. 260.

  This page S. Ouvaroff, Nonnos der Dichter, in Etudes de philologie et de critique, Saint Petersburg: Imprimerie de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1843, p. 248.

  This page Giorgio de Santillana, Les grandes doctrines cosmologiques, in Reflections on Men and Ideas, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968, pp. 281–82.

  This page Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, I, 902–3.

  This page Kypria, fr. 1 (Kinkel).

  This page Euripides, Helen, 34.

  This page Ibid., 43.

  This page Iliad, XVII, 647.

  This page Ibid.

  This page Ibid., XX, 75.

  This page Ibid., XX, 30.

  This page Ibid., XXI, 370; II, 164; XIX, 86; XIX, 410.

  This page Ibid., XXIV, 756.

  This page Ibid., XXI, 518; XXIV, 99; Odyssey, I, 263; I, 378; II, 143; III, 147; IV, 583.

  This page Iliad, XXIV, 130–31.

  This page Philostratus, Heroics, 11.

  This page Ibid.

  This page Odyssey, II, 82.

  This page Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIII, 37–38.

  This page Odyssey, XI, 246.

  This page Kypria, fr. 1, 3 (Kinkel).

  This page Euripides, Helen, 38–41.

  This page Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 255.

  This page Ibid., 253.

  This page Iliad, VI, 344, 356.

  This page Ibid., VI, 357–58.

  This page Odyssey, VIII, 579–80.

  This page Ibid., VIII, 249.

  This page Ibid., IV, 183.

  This page Ibid., IV, 225–26.

  This page Ibid., IV, 239.

  This page Ibid.

  This page Ibid., IV, 260–61.

  This page Ibid., IV, 266.

  This page Tryphiodorus, The Capture of Troy, 103.

  This page Odyssey, IV, 293.

  This page Ibid., IV, 295.

  This page Tryphiodorus, The Capture of Troy, 534.

  This page Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica, XIII, 412.

  This page Euripides, Phoenissae, 391.

  This page Ibid., 392.

  This page Pausanias, Description of Greece, IX, 16, 4.

  This page Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV, 538.

  This page Odyssey, I, 52–53.

  This page Ibid., V, 179.

  This page Ibid., V, 182.

  This page Ibid., V, 181.

  This page Lycophron, Alexandra, 770–71.

  This page Ibid., 771–73.

  This page Odyssey, XXIII, 172; IV, 293.

  This page Ibid., XXIII, 109–10.

  This page Ibid., XXII, 114.

  This page Ibid., XVIII, 347–48.

  This page Ibid., XXII, 237.

  This page Ibid., XXIII, 162.

  This page Ibid., XXIII, 162.

  This page Ibid., XXIII, 248–50.

  This page Ibid., XXIII, 286–87.

  This page Ovid, Metamorphoses, II, 846–47.

  This page Lucian, Charidemus, 8.

  This page Nonnus, Dionysiaca, IV, 295.

  This page Ibid., IV, 267.

  This page Pindar, Hymns, fr. 2 (Puech).

  This page Nonnus, Dionysiaca, I, 385.

  This page Ibid., I, 396–97.

  This page Ibid., III, 42.

  This page Ibid., III, 319.

  This page Ibid., III, 440–41.

  This page Ibid., III, 376.

  This page Ibid., IV, 191–96.

  This page Ibid., IV, 293–306.

  This page Ibid., V, 127.

  This page Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, IV, 516.

  This page Nonnus, Dionysiaca, IV, 260.

  This page Ibid., IV, 263.

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  fm1 Ibid.

  1.1 Ibid.

  2.1 W. H. Roscher, Ausfürliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig, 1884–1937).

  3.1 de Montfaucon.

  4.1 Roscher.

  5.1 de Montfaucon.

  6.1 Ibid.

  7.1 O. Jahn, Die Entführung der Europa auf antiken Kunstwerken (Vienna, 1870).

  8.1 A. B. Cook, Zeus (Cambridge, England, 1914–1940).

  9.1 de Montfaucon.

  10.1 Ibid.

  11.1 Ibid.

  12.1 Ibid.

  12.2 Ibid.

  bm1 Ibid.