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22 THE TWOFOLD GODS hero turned his bondage to good account by killing monsters and robbers, after which the queen, by whom he had had one or more children, sent him back to Tirynthus laden with presents. Late authors dwell complacently on the shameful nature of his servitude; like the painters, for whom this arresting subject was a favourite theme, they show Heracles at the feet of the queen, dressed in his flowered tunic, while she wears the lion skin, forces him to spin and strikes him with her sandal when she is dissatisfied with his work.

12. 13. 14. 15. Plato, Symposium, 178 B Hesiod, Theogony, 124-32 Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 315 Cf. Charles Picard, Manuel d'archeologie grecque, sculpture, IV, 2,1954, p. 75, n. 2 Herodotus, V, 119 Plutarch, 45th Greek Question Charles Picard, Ephdse et Claros, p. 530 Ibid. p. 531 Revue des Etudes grecques, XXVIII (1915), p. 341 Revue archeologique, XXII (1913), II, p. 336 Statius, Achilleidy 263 Plutarch, 58th Greek Question John the Lydian, De Mensibus, IV, 46 Lampridius, Commodus, 8 and 9 Ibid.

17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Valerius Maximus, II, 6, 13 Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius, 22 Plutarch, Lycurgus, 15 Plutarch, Virtue of Women, p. 245 Plutarch, 58th Greek Question Oppian, Hunting, I, 138 Pindar, frag. , p. 220, ed. Puech Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 41, 4 Pausanias, VIII, 20, 2 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 17 Hyginus, fable 190 Parthenius, Erotica, 5 Anton. Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 10 H. Jeanmaire, Couroi et Couretes, pp. 153 and 321 Ibid.

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