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Arne Sithonis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. L. Huxley
G. L. Huxley
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The Queen's University, Belfast
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In Metamorphoses 1. 461–8 Ovid lists islands visited by Minos and brought into his realm during his journey from Crete to Aigina on the way to avenge the death of Androgeos in Attica.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , May 1982 , pp. 159 - 161
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1982

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2 Auctores Mythographi Latini, ed. Staveren, A. van (Lugd. Bat. and Amstel. 1742), p. 841;Google Scholar Magnus, H., ed. of Met. (Berlin, 1914) p. 671, 18.Google Scholar Compare Anderson, loc. cit. note 1 supra. Concerning the text of the Narrationes see Otis, B., ‘The Argumenta of the so-called Lactantius’, H.S.C.P. 47 (1936), 131–63.Google Scholar

3 Ovid’s Metamorphoses Books 6–10 (Norman, Oklahoma, 1972), p. 294.Google Scholar

4 Naso, P. Ovidius. Metamorphosen Buch VI-VII (Heidelberg, 1976), pp. 315 and 317.Google Scholar

5 Corvus monedula, L. Compare Aristotle, H.A. 9. 24 (617b 16–17). See also Thompson, D’Arcy W., A Glossary of Greek Birds (Oxford, 1895), p. 89 s.v. κολοι⋯ς.Google Scholar

6 5.50.3.

7 5. 51. 3.

8 FGrHist 500 F2 (Parthen. Narr. Am. 19). In Diodoros 5. 50. 6–7 an Agassamenos is mentioned; accordingly Knaack corrected κασσαμενος to Ἀγασσαμεν⋯ς in the text of Parthenius. See app. crit. to Andriskos F2.

9 In Diodoros 5. 50. 6–7 she is called Παγκρ⋯τις.

10 Ovid implies that Arne betrayed the island to Minos; there is no reason to think that her treachery was exercised during an earlier siege, for instance when the Thracians were besieged in Naxos by Otos and Ephialtes (Diodoros 5. 51. 1).

11 Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἂρνη (p. 124, 1–2 Meineke).

12 I.G. 12. 5, p. xxii, no. 1406, note 4.

13 Diodoros 5. 79. 2.

14 459–77 (pp. 88–9 ed. Lyne).

15 See note 8 supra.

16 Schol. Dion. Per. 420 (G.G.M. 2. 295). See also Meineke, A., Analecta Alexandria (Berlin, 1843, reprint Hildesheim, 1964), pp. 269–72Google Scholar and Lyne, R. O. A. M., Ciris. A Poem attributed to Vergil (Cambridge, 1978), pp. 13–14.Google Scholar

17 FGrHist IIIB Komm. Text, p. 420, 13–16.

18 Callimachus F7 Pfeiffer, with Schol. Flor.

19 For other examples of the theme traitress-in-siege see Burkert, Walter, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1979), pp. 76 and 175–6 notes 31–2.Google Scholar