off topic request
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Sep 21 10:28:52 EDT 2002
At 9:25 AM -0500 9/21/02, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>
>> At 1:05 PM +0000 9/21/02, jwest at highland.net wrote:
>> >what is the oldest source of the "Labors of Heracles"?
>>
>> Jim, have you ever heard of the Perseus web-site? It's a good place to get
>> answers to questions like that. My understanding is that one of the oldest
>> pieces of evidence for the "canonical" twelve labors is the pediment of the
>> Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which showed what had evidently already become
>> traditionally the twelve PONOI or AQLA or whatever; I think the usual
>> dating of that temple is 6th century b.c.
>
>I find that besides the Perseus site, one of the best sources for things
>mythological
>is Timothy Gantz's book _Early Greek Myth_. Here's what he has to say on
>the (off)
>topic at hand.
Gantz is really a very good resource for finding out what can be known of
earliest sources and early development of mythic traditions. Alas, one of
the books I gave away when doing the triage of my office library!
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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