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Headword:
Σαλμωνεύς
Adler number: sigma,56
Translated headword: Salmoneus
Vetting Status: low
Translation: This man was a son of Aiolos, and king of Thessalians; grown impious, by means of a contraption 'he hurled lightning-bolts, thundered, confounded'[1] the souls of his subjects. Hence he paid the penalty for his impiety and was struck by a thunderbolt from heaven.
Greek Original:Σαλμωνεύς: οὗτος Αἰόλου μὲν υἱός, βασιλεὺς δὲ Θετταλῶν: ὃς ἀσεβὴς γεγονὼς διὰ μηχανῆς ἤστραπτεν, ἐβρόντα, συνεκύκα τὰς τῶν ὑπηκόων ψυχάς. ὅθεν καὶ δίκην ἔδωκε τῆς ἀσεβείας, θεόθεν κεραυνόβλητος γεγονώς.
Notes:
(For a possible variant verion of his name see already
sigma 50.) The present material is attributed by some scholars to
Aelian. See generally OCD s.v.: Salmoneus is 'blameless' in
Homer (Odyssey 11.235ff; web address 1) but becomes the hybristic figure depicted here in post-Homeric traditions. See esp.
Diodorus Siculus 4.68.1-2 and (on the 'contraption') 6.6.4-6.7.3.
[1] This phrase echoes
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 531, quoted (via
Ephorus FGrH 70 F196) in
Diodorus 12.40.6: 'the Olympian Pericles hurled lightning-bolts, thundered, and confounded Hellas'.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; historiography; mythology; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 February 2004@10:18:35.
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