Hesiod, Catalogue of Women

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Descendants of Dionysus

180 (238 MW) Schol. in Hom. Od. 9.198 (II pp. 421.33–422.4 Dindorf)

ταῦτα σημειοῦνταί τινες πρὸς τὸ μὴ παραδιδόναι Ὅμηρον Διόνυσον οἴνου εὑρετήν, τὸν δὲ Μάρωνα οὐ Διονύσου ἀλλ’ Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερέα . . . ἡ δ’ ἀπότασις πρὸς Ἡσίοδον λέγοντα τὸν Μάρωνα εἶναι <Εὐάνθους τοῦ> Οἰνοπίωνος τοῦ Διονύσου.

<Εὐάνθους τοῦ> Sittl Dodona

181 (240 MW; 115 H) Schol. in Soph. Trach. 1167a (p. 243 Xenis); Strabo 7.7.10

“Σελλῶν”· τὴν γὰρ χώραν οὕτως Ἡσίοδος ὀνομάζει ἐν Ἠοίαις λέγων οὕτως·

ἔστι τις Ἑλλοπίη πολυλήϊος ἠδ᾽ εὐλείμων ἀφνειὴ μήλοισι καὶ εἰλιπόδεσσι βόεσσιν· ἐν δ᾽ ἄνδρες ναίουσι πολύρρηνες πολυβοῦται πολλοὶ ἀπειρέσιοι φῦλα θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων· 5ἔνθα δὲ Δωδώνη τις ἐπ᾽ ἐσχατιῇ πεπόλισται· τὴν δὲ Ζεὺς ἐφίλησε καὶ ὃν χρηστήριον εἶναι τίμιον ἀνθρώποις < > ναῖον δ᾽ ἐν πυθμένι φηγοῦ·7–8 lac. stat. Lehrs

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CATALOGUE OF WOMEN

Descendants of Dionysus

180 Scholia on Homer’s Odyssey

Some people mark this line (i.e., Od. 9.198) with a critical sign, since Homer does not report that Dionysus was the discoverer of wine and since Maron was the priest not of Dionysus but of Apollo . . . The reference is to Hesiod, who says that Maron was the son <of Euanthes the son> of Oinopion, the son of Dionysus.

Dodona

181 Scholia on Sophocles’ Trachinian Women; Strabo, Geography

“Selli”: Hesiod names the place this way (i.e., Hellopia) in the Ehoiai, speaking in this way:

There is a certain Hellopia, with its many cornfields and meadows, rich in sheep and rolling-footed cattle; in it dwell men with many sheep and many oxen, many of them, countless, tribes of mortal human beings. 5There is a certain city, Dodona, built at the edge; Zeus loved it, and that it be his oracular seat, honored by men < > they dwelt in the stump of an oak tree;

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DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.hesiod-catalogue_women.2018