About the Greek philosopher the mythological characters called HippasusHippasus mythology Hippasus lang grc , H ppasos 5th century BC of Metapontum in Magna Graecia , was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher . Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery ... to have been shocking to the Pythagoreans, and Hippasus is supposed to have drowned at sea apparently ... either do not mention Hippasus by name or alternatively tell us that Hippasus drowned because ... ascribed to Hippasus by any ancient writer. Some modern scholars though have suggested ... the time that he lived. Life Little is known about the life of Hippasus. He may have lived in the late ... of Hippasus as holding the element of fire classical element fire to be the cause of all things ref ... Diogenes La rtius tells us that Hippasus believed that there is a definite time which the changes ..., Hippasus left no writings, ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 84 ref according to another he was the author ... Scholium on Plato s Phaedo , 108D ref Irrational numbers Hippasus is sometimes credited with the discovery ... numbers is said to have shocked them. However, the evidence linking the discovery to Hippasus ... account he tells how it was Hippasus who drowned at sea for betraying the construction of the dodecahedron ... the discovery of irrationals to Hippasus, but whether he did or not is uncertain. ref Wilbur Richard ... , page 459. Harvard University Press ref Some modern scholars prefer to credit Hippasus with the discovery ... evolved into a much more emphatic and colourful tale. Some writers have Hippasus making his discovery ... Press ref while one writer even has Pythagoras himself to his eternal shame sentencing Hippasus to death ... magnitudes External links http scienceworld.wolfram.com biography Hippasus.html Hippasus of Metapontum ... VIII Hippasus Life of Hippasus , translated by Robert Drew Hicks 1925 Presocratics Greek mathematics ... ko id Hippasus is Hippasos it Ippaso di Metaponto he nl Hippasus ja pl Hippazos ... more details
In Greek mythology , Hippasus is the name of fourteen characters. Hippasus , name shared by fathers of several heroes of the Trojan War of Hippomedon by the nymph Ocyrrhoe ref Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy , http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus11.html 11. 36 ref of Charops mythology Charops and Socus ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad11.html 11.426 . ref of Agelaus the Miletus Milesian ref Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy , 1. 279 ref of Coeranus mythology Coeranus the Lycia n ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 13. 257 ref of Hypsenor ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad13.html 13.411 . ref of Demoleon the Lacedaemon ian ref Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy , http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus10.html 10.126 . ref of Apisaon the Paeonia kingdom Paeonia n ref Homer. The Iliad , http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad17.html 17.348 . ref of two nameless only known by the patronymic Hippasides charioteers the charioteer of Pammon ... , 9. 150 ref Hippasus , son of Eurytus . He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar . ref Ovid ... Theoi Project Calydonian Boar . ref Hippasus from the Pellene district of the Peloponnese , father ... . Thebaid , http www.theoi.com Text StatiusThebaid7.html 7.340 . ref Hippasus , a Centaur . Killed ... Kentauroi Thessalioi ref Hippasus , one of the sons of Priam . ref Hyginus. Fabulae , http www.theoi.com Text HyginusFabulae2.html 90 . ref Hippasus , a Thessaly Thessalian killed by Agenor, son of Antenor Agenor in the Trojan War. ref Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy , 11. 87 ref Hippasus , son ... . ref Apollodorus. The Library , http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html 2.7.7 . ref Hippasus ... , 10 ref Hippasus from Phlius opposed his fellow citizens, who wished to accede to the wishes ... Island Samos . Hippasus is the ancestor of the philosopher Pythagoras , Pythagoras being the son of Mnesarchus , the son of Euphranor , the son of Hippasus. ref Pausanias. Description of Greece , http ... more details
Not to be confused with Ceyx , husband of Alcyone. See also Ceyx disambiguation . In Greek mythology, Ceyx was a king of Trachis in Thessaly . He received Heracles , ref Pausanias geographer Pausanias http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus 2e 1 2e32 2e6 1.32.6 , Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Apollod. http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e6 2.7.6 , Apollod. http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e7 2.7.7 ref and Herakles s sons later fled to him. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Apollod 2e 2 2e7 2e8 Apollod. 2.7.8 ref Some accounts make him Amphitryon s nephew, with Heracles building Trachis for him. ref Apollod. ii. 7. 6, &c. ref Muller supposes that the marriage of Ceyx and his connection with Heracles were the subjects of ancient poems. ref Dor. ii. 11. 3, comp. i. 3. 5 ref This Ceyx is father of the Hippasus mythology Hippasus who died fighting as an ally of Heracles. ref Apollod. 2.7.7 ref Notes references External links http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.04.0004 3Ahead 3D 232125 Perseus Encyclopaedia SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Ceyx Father Of Hippasus Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub ru uk ... more details
Ceyx may be In Greek mythology Ceyx , son of Eosphorus , husband to Alcyone . After whom is named Ceyx Neopaganism , son of Lucifer and the goddess Diana Ceyx kingfisher , a genus of kingfisher Halcyon is also a genus of kingfisher Ceyx father of Hippasus disambig ru uk ... more details
unreferenced date July 2009 Agrionia was an Ancient Greece ancient Greece Greek religious festival in honor of Dionysus Agrionius . It was celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus Boeotia Orchomenus in Boeotia . According to Plutarch , agrionia was celebrated at night with only women accompanied by the priests of Dionysus, who often wore black garments. Women pretended to search for Dionysos and then declared that he has fled to the Muses and hidden there. After that they feasted and begun to present and solve riddles. According to legend, oleaia, the daughters of king Minyas of Orchomenus, who had despised the Dionysian rites, were seized with a desire to cannibalism eat human flesh . They cast lots to decide which of their children they would eat and selected Hippasus mythology Hippasus , son of Leucippe . Plutarch also explains that the festival included a human sacrifice . The priest pursued virgin s, descendants of Minyas, who had gathered for the festival, captured one and killed her with a sword. This practice was later discontinued after the occurrence of bad omens. External links Cite EB1911 W1EC 1 wstitle Agrionia Category Festivals in ancient Boeotia Category Greek festivals of Dionysus ca Agri nia fr Agrionies ka pt Agrionia uk ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Naubolus may refer to Naubolus of Phocis , son of Ornytion Ornytus or of Hippasus mythology Hippasus ref Statius , Thebaid , 7. 354 ref , and King of Tanagra . By Perineike, daughter of Hippomachus, he became the father of the Argonauts Argonaut Iphitos , ref Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 1. 207, with scholia for the mother s name ref ref Argonautica Orphica , 144 ref and also of Antiphateia, who married Crisus . ref Scholia on Euripides , Orestes play Orestes , 33 ref Naubolus, father of Pylon, king of Oechalia . The latter s daughter Antiope was the mother, by Eurytus , of Iole , Didaeon, Toxeus, Clytius and another Iphitos, of whom the last two are also counted among the Argonauts. ref Hesiod , Catalogue of Women fr. 26.31a fragment 79 in the Loeb edition, 1914 ref ref Hyginus , Fabulae, 14 ref Naubolus of Argos , who belonged to the lineage that linked the two figures of the name Nauplius Nauplius I Proetus Lernus Naubolus Clytoneus Nauplius II the Argonaut . ref Apollonius Rhodius , Argonautica , 1. 135 139 ref Naubolus, a Phaeacian , father of Euryalus . ref Homer , Odyssey , 8. 116 ref References reflist DEFAULTSORT Naubolus Mythology Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Charops or Charopus bright eyed may refer to King of Syme , father of Nireus by Aglaea . ref Homer , Iliad , 2. 672 ref ref Bibliotheca Pseudo Apollodorus Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4, 3. 13 ref ref Diodorus Siculus , Library of History , 5. 53. 2 ref ref Tzetzes on Lycophron , 1011 ref A Thracia n, father of Oeagrus . He warned Dionysus of Lycurgus of Thrace Lycurgus plotting against him, and was granted in reward with the knowledge of secret rites the kingdom of Thrace was also handed over to him after the defeat of Lycurgus. ref Diodorus Siculus , Library of History , 3. 65 4 6 ref A defender of Troy , son of Hippasus mythology Hippasus and brother of Socus . Was killed by Odysseus . ref Homer , Iliad , 11. 426 ref ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 13. 260 ref Husband of Oia, the daughter of Cephalus and eponym of the deme Oia, Attica . ref Suda s. v. Oi th n ref One of Actaeon s dogs. ref Hyginus , Fabulae , 181 ref A surname of Heracles , under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from Hades . ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 9. 34. 5 ref References reflist Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category Greek mythology of Thrace Category People of the Trojan War Category Epithets of Heracles es C rope ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Demoleon Ancient Greek may refer to Demoleon, son of Antenor mythology Antenor and Theano , killed by Achilles ref Homer , Iliad , 20. 395 ref . Demoleon, son of Hippasus from Lacedaemon , fought under Menelaus and was killed by Paris mythology Paris ref Quintus Smyrnaeus , Fall of Troy , 10. 119 ref . Demoleon, a Centaur killed by Theseus at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia wife of Pirithous Hippodamia ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 12. 355 ref . Demoleon, a son of Deimachus of Tricca , same as Deileon ref Plutarch , Life of Lucullus , 23. 5 ref . Demoleon, one of the would be sacrificial victims of Minotaur ref Servius on Aeneid , 6. 21 ref . References reflist Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category People of the Trojan War Category Trojans ... more details
In Greek mythology , the name Hypsenor may refer to Hypsenor, son of the Troy Trojan priest Dolopion, killed by Eurypylus . ref Homer , Iliad , 5. 76 ref ref Tzetzes , Homerica , 60 ref Hypsenor, son of Hippasus , fought under Antilochus and was killed by Deiphobus . ref Homer , Iliad , 13. 411 ff ref Hypsenor, a son of Neleus and Chloris . ref Scholia on Iliad , 11. 692 ref References reflist Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category People of the Trojan War Category Trojans ... more details
In Greek mythology , Ocyrhoe or Ocyrrhoe lang grc refers to at least five characters. Ocyrhoe was a daughter of Chiron and Chariclo . Ocyrhoe was transformed into a horse because she told her father Chiron his exact fate. She revealed that he would forsake his immortality to be spared the agonizing pain of a serpent s poison. For this transgression, Ocyrhoe s ability to speak was taken. One might assume that she turned into a horse because her father was a centaur, and because she had long, auburn hair. ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 2. 636 675 ref Ocyrrhoe, one of the Oceanids . ref Hesiod . Theogony , 360 ref ref Homeric Hymn to Demeter , 420 ref ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 4. 30. 4 ref Mother of Phasis by Helios ref Pseudo Plutarch , On Rivers , 5. 1 ref Ocyrrhoe or Ocyone , a nymph . She was the mother, by Hippasus mythology Hippasus , of Hippomedon a defender of Troy , to whom she gave birth on the banks of River Sangarius . Her son was killed by Neoptolemus . ref Quintus Smyrnaeus . The Fall of Troy , 11. 37 ref Ocyrrhoe or Ocroe , the nymph daughter of the river god Imbrasus and Chesias, a noble maiden. While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis , she became an object of Apollo s desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home. Pompilus took her on board the ship, but Apollo caught up with them, snatched the girl and then changed the ship into stone and Pompilus into a fish. ref Athenaeus , Banquet of the Learned , 7. 283 E citing The Founding of Naucratis by Apollonius Rhodius ref Ocyrrhoe, a nymph of Mysia , mother of Caicus by Hermes . ref Pseudo Plutarch , On Rivers , 21. 1 ref Modern references The Centaur planetoid 52872 Okyrhoe is named after this figure. A character in The Mongoliad is named http mongoliad.com pedia Ocyrhoe Ochyroe . References reflist Greek deity stub Category Oceanids Category Nymphs Category Greek mythology Category Metamorphoses in Greek my ... more details
In Greek mythology, the name Socus may refer to Socus, a defender of Troy , son of Hippasus mythology Hippasus and brother of Charops mythology Charops . The brothers were killed by Odysseus . ref Homer , Iliad , 11. 428 456 Quintus Smyrnaeus , Fall of Troy , 7. 444 ref Socus of Euboea , father of the seven Corybantes Prymneus, Mimas, Acmon, Damneus, Ocythous, Idaeus, Melisseus by Combe mythology Combe . He expelled his wife and sons from the island, and was ultimately killed by Cecrops , in whose kingdom the Corybantes sought refuge. ref Nonnus , Dionysiaca , 13. 135 ff ref His name is also mentioned by Hesychius of Alexandria in the form Sochus . Socus, an epithet of Hermes ref Homer , Iliad , 20. 72 ref of obscure etymology. According to a scholia st on the Homeric line where the epithet appears, there was an adjective which meant strong . The ancient authors linked the epithet to the Greek stem whole, safe . ref Realencyclop die s. 803 Roscher s. 1136 ref Despite the attempts of modern scholars to elaborate on this etymological suggestion, no satisfactory explanation has been provided as of 1977. ref Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire tymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots. Tome IV 1 . Paris, ditions Klincksiek, 1977. p. 1083 ref References reflist Sources Realencyclop die der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis Sparsus 1927 , s. 803 u. Sokos Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher ed. Ausf hrliches Lexikon der griechischen und r mischen Mythologie , Band IV Q S , Hildesheim, 1965, ss. 1136 1137 u. Sokos Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category People of the Trojan War Category Trojans Category Epithets of Hermes ... more details
Agelaus or Agelaos is, in Greek mythology , the name of various individuals. Agelaus , or Agelaos , son of Damastor was a suitor of Penelope , killed by Odysseus . Agelaus was a common herdsman or slave of Priam who saved the life of the Trojan prince Paris , exposed as an infant on Mount Ida , owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of Troy , and brought him up as his own son. Agelaus , son of Maion . He was a Troy Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War , by Ajax mythology Ajax . ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus3.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 3.247 ref Agelaus of Miletus , son of Hippasus mythology Hippasus . He fought against the Greeks as part of contingent of Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by Meges . ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 1.300 ref Agelaus , son of Phradraon , and a Trojan warrior. He was killed during the war by Diomedes . ref http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad8.html Homer, The Iliad, 8.253 ref Agelaus , son of Evanor , and one of the attendants of Acamas during the Trojan War. ref http www.theoi.com Text QuintusSmyrnaeus4.html Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 4.365 ref Agelaus , a Greek warrior slain by Hector during the Trojan War. ref http www.theoi.com Text HomerIliad11.html Homer, The Iliad, 11.299 ref Agelaus , son of Heracles and Omphale , and ancestor of Croesus . In other sources this son is instead called Lamus ref http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html Apollodorus, The Library, 2.7.8 note 228 ref ref http www.theoi.com Text Ap2b.html 228 Classical E Text NOTES ON APOLLODORUS, BIBLIOTHECA 2b Bot generated title ref Agelaus , son of Temenus and descendant of Heracles. Agelaus, along with his brothers Eurypylus and Callias , hired men to kill his father, since he gave his favour to their sister Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes. When this was discovered, the people gave the throne to Deiphontes and Hyr ... more details
Ceyx father of Hippasus Ceyx was a king of Trachis in Thessaly, and a nephew of Amphitryon , stepfather ... King Eurystheus . Ceyx s son Hippasus accompanied Heracles on his campaign against King Eurytus of Oechalia , during which Hippasus was slain in battle. Ceyx of Trachis also had a daughter named ... more details
Lysis of Taranto Taras lang el floruit fl. c. 5th century BC was a Magna Graecia Greek philosopher . His life is obscure. He was said to have been a friend and disciple of Pythagoras . After the persecution of the Pythagoreanism Pythagoreans at Crotone Croton and Metapontum he escaped and went to Thebes Greece Thebes , where he became the teacher of Epaminondas , by whom he was held in the highest esteem. ref Pausanias, ix. 13. 1 Aelian, Varia Historia , iii. .17 Diodorus, Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 556 Plutarch, de Gen. Socr. 8, 13, 14, 16 Diogenes La rtius, viii. 39 Nepos, Epam. 2 Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth. 35. ref There are, however, serious chronological difficulties with him being both a disciple of Pythagoras and the teacher of Epaminondas. Lysis was credited as the actual author of a work which was attributed to Pythagoras himself. ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 7 ref Diogenes La rtius quotes from an undoubtedly spurious letter from Lysis to Hippasus as an authority for some statements concerning Damo philosopher Damo . ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 42 ref References reflist Category 5th century BC Greek people Category 5th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Ancient Greek political refugees Category Ancient Tarantines Category Ancient Thebes Boeotia Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia ca Lisis fil sof de Lysis Pythagoreer el es Lisis de Tarento eu Tarentoko Lisis fr Lysis de Tarente it Liside he pt L sis de Tarento ru ... more details
Notability Astro date February 2012 Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Hippasos symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer F. Borngen discovery site Tautenburg discovered December 10, 1991 designations yes mp name 17492 alt names 1991 XG1 named after Hippasus mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 5.4505677 perihelion 4.7495083 semimajor eccentricity 0.0687308 period 4206.8646215 avg speed inclination 29.27095 asc node 89.13489 mean anomaly 297.57978 arg peri 216.40998 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 10.7 17492 Hippasos 1991 XG1 is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on December 10, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg . External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 17492 Hippasos JPL Small Body Database Browser on 17492 Hippasos Reflist Minor planets navigator 17491 1991 UM3 17493 Wildcat Small Solar System bodies DEFAULTSORT Hippasos Category Jupiter Trojans Trojan camp Category Asteroids named from Greek mythology Category Discoveries by Freimut B rngen Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1991 Jupiter Trojan stub de 17492 Hippasos fa it 17492 Hippasos pl 17492 Hippasos vi 17492 Hippasos ... more details
The Minyades lang el were three sisters in Greek mythology who were daughters of Minyas mythology Minyas , and the protagonists of a myth about the perils of neglecting the worship of Dionysus . ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Schmitz first Leonhard authorlink title Alcithoe editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 97 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0106.html ref Their names were Alcathoe or Alcithoe , Leucippe and Arsippe although instead of Arsippe , Claudius Aelianus calls the latter Aristippa , and Plutarch Arsino Ovid uses Leuconoe instead of Leucippe . ref Claudius Aelianus , Varia Historia 3. 42 ref ref Plutarch , Quaestiones Graecae 38 ref ref Ovid , Metamorphoses , 4. 168 ref Mythography At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia , and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchanalia Bacchic joy , these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god. Dionysus punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. ref Ovid , Metamorphoses iv. 1 40, 390 415 ref Plutarch , Claudius Aelianus Aelian , and Antoninus Liberalis , though with some differences in the detail, relate that Dionysus appeared to the sisters in the form of a maiden, and invited them to partake in the Dionysian Mysteries . When the sisters declined the invitation, the god metamorphosed himself successively into a bull, a lion, and a panther, and the sisters were driven mad. In this state of madness, they were eager to honor the god, and Leucippe, who was chosen by lot to offer a sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son Hippasus, whom the sisters tore to pieces. The sisters afterwards roamed over the mountains in a frenzy, until at last Hermes changed th ... more details
In mathematics , ideas are supposedly not accepted as fact until they have been rigorously proved. However, there have been some ideas that were fairly accepted in the past but which were subsequently showed to be false. This article is meant to serve as a repository for compiling a list of such ideas. The idea of the Pythagoreanism Pythagoreans that all numbers can be expressed as a ratio of two integer whole number s. This was disproved by one of Pythagoras own disciples, Hippasus , who showed that the square root of two is what we today call an irrational number . One story claims that he was thrown off the ship in which he and some other Pythagoreans were sailing because his discovery was too heretical. Euclid s parallel postulate stated that if two lines cross a third in a plane mathematics plane in such a way that the sum of the interior angles is not 180 then the two lines meet. Furthermore, he implicitly assumed that two separate intersecting lines meet at only one point. These assumptions were believed to be true for more than 2000 years, but in light of General Relativity at least the second can no longer be considered true. In fact the very notion of a straight line in four dimensional curved space time has to be redefined, which one can do as a geodesic but the notion of a plane does not carry over . It is now recognized that Euclidean geometry can be studied as a mathematical abstraction, but that the universe is not Euclidean. Euclidean geometry is then an approximation to reality, just like Newton s law of universal gravitation Newtonian gravity . The Chinese Who date August 2008 believed that all numbers of the form math 2 2 m 1 math what we call Fermat number s were prime. Fact date August 2008 The reference is http fr.wikipedia.org wiki Histoire de la fonction Zeta de Riemann but somebody took it out saying that Wikipedia is not a reliable source Fermat also conjectured this. However, this was disproved by Euler , and in fact probably only the firs ... more details
numbers is usually attributed to a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean possibly HippasusHippasus of Metapontum , ref cite journal title The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum author .... However, Hippasus, in the 5th century BC, was able to deduce that there was in fact no common .... Hippasus, however, was not lauded for his efforts according to one legend, he made his ... that Hippasus was merely exiled for this revelation. Whatever the consequence to Hippasus himself, his ... more details
italictitle NOTOC The Wedding of Ceyx lang grc , K ykos g mos is a Lost works fragmentary Ancient Greek dactylic hexameter hexameter poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The fragments that survive imply that the subject of the poem was not simply the wedding of a certain Ceyx disambiguation Ceyx , but Heracles arrival at, and involvement in, the festivities. For this reason Merkelbach and Martin Litchfield West West suppose that the poem should be regarded as a member of that group of epics and epyllia that dealt with exploits of Heracles, like the Shield of Heracles Aspis and the Capture of Oechalia . ref harvnb Merkelbach West 1965 p 302 . ref The identity of the Ceyx whose marriage was the titular scene of the poem has been a matter of dispute. Merkelbach and West initially identified him with the Ceyx ill fated groom of the similarly ill fated Alcyone they were turned into birds for the hubris they showed in referring to one another as Zeus and Hera . ref harvnb Merkelbach West 1965 p . ref Given the poem s apparent focus upon Heracles, however, it is more likely that this Ceyx father of Hippasus Ceyx was actually the king of Trachis who was a nephew of Amphitryon , the great hero s stepfather. ref harvnb D Alessio 2005 pp 183 5, 192 5 . ref The poem appears to have been popular for the witticisms and riddles uttered at the banquet. One famous riddle is preserved, although incompletely so, by a papyrus scrap and ancient quotations style border 0px margin left 100px white space nowrap scope col width 400px border 0 Valign top lang grc br lang grc lang grc br lang grc br lang grc then when they had put away their desire for equal banquet br mother s mother they led to the childen, br dry and roaste ... more details
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