The case of Salmoneus is highly significant. He too belongs to the old order, as indeed do all the Aeolid figures connected with the group of dead heroines, and more, in his life he was in violent opposition to the new gods. To Hesiod[871] he is ‘the Unjust One’ (ἄδικος). He even dared to counterfeit the thunder and lightning of Zeus, and Zeus enraged slew him with a thunderbolt. The vase-painting already discussed (p. 60) is the very mirror of the picture drawn by Vergil[872] of the insolent king: ‘Through the Greek folk, midway in Elis town In triumph went he; for himself, mad man, Honours divine he claimed.’ To every worshipper of the new order his crime must have seemed heinous and blasphemous, but among his own people he was glorious before death and probably ‘Blameless’ after. The case of Tityos, Son of Earth, presents a close parallel, though Tityos never bore the title of ‘Blameless.’ To the orthodox worshipper of the Olympians he was the vilest of criminals; as such Homer[873] knew him: ‘For he laid hands on Leto, the famous bride of Zeus, What time she fared to Pytho through the glades of Panopeus.’ And for this his sin he lay in Hades tortured for ever. This is from the Olympian point of view very satisfactory and instructive, but when we turn to local tradition Tityos is envisaged from quite another point of view. Strabo[874], when he visited Panopeus, learnt that it was the fabled abode of Tityos. He reminds us that it was to the island of Euboea that, according to Homer[875], the Phaeacians conducted fair-haired Rhadamanthys that he might see Tityos, Son of Earth. We wonder for a moment why the just Rhadamanthys should care to visit the criminal. Homer leaves us in doubt, but Strabo makes the mystery clear. On Euboea, he says, they show a ‘cave called Elarion from Elara who was mother to Tityos, and a hero-shrine of Tityos, and some kind of honours are mentioned which are paid to him.’ One ‘blameless’ hero visits another, that is all. Golden-haired Rhadamanthys found favour with the fair-haired Achaeans; but for Tityos, _the son of Earth_, there is no place in the Northern Elysium. * * * * *