The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
627 Scholiast on Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 1050; Scholiast on Pindar,
_Olymp._ xii. 25; Suidas and Hesychius, _s.v._ Ἡράκλεια λουτρά;
Apostolius, viii. 66; Zenobius, vi. 49; Diogenianus, v. 7; Plutarch,
_Proverbia Alexandrinorum_, 21; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 23. 1, v. 3.
4. Another story was that Hercules, like Moses, produced the water
by smiting the rock with his club (Antoninus Liberalis, _Transform._
4).
628 Apostolius, viii. 68; Zenobius, vi. 49; Diogenianus, v. 7; Plutarch,
_Proverbia Alexandrinorum_, 21.
629 Lucian, _Dialogi Deorum_, 13.
M160 Hot springs of Hercules at Thermopylae.
630 Strabo, ix. 4. 13, p. 428.
631 Herodotus, vii. 176; Pausanias, iv. 35. 9; Philostratus, _Vit.
Sophist._ ii. 1. 9.
632 Scholiast on Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 1050.
633 I have described Thermopylae as I saw it in November 1895. Compare
W. M. Leake, _Travels in Northern Greece_ (London, 1835), ii. 33
_sqq._; E. Dodwell, _Classical and Topographical Tour through
Greece_ (London, 1819), ii. 66 _sqq._; K. G. Fiedler, _Reise durch
alle Theile des Königreichs Griechenland_ (Leipsic, 1840-1841), i.
207 _sqq._; L. Ross, _Wanderungen in Griechenland_ (Halle, 1851), i.
90 _sqq._; C. Bursian, _Geographie von Griechenland_ (Leipsic,
1862-1872), i. 92 _sqq._
M161 Hot springs of Hercules at Aedepsus.
634 Thucydides, iii. 87 and 89; Strabo, i. 3. 20, pp. 60 _sq._; C.
Neumann und J. Partsch, _Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland_,
pp. 321-323.
635 Aristotle, _Meteora_, ii. 8, p. 366 A, ed. Bekker; Strabo, ix. 4. 2,
p. 425. Aristotle expressly recognized the connexion of the springs
with earthquakes, which he tells us were very common in this
district. As to the earthquakes of Euboea see also Thucydides, iii.
87, 89; Strabo, i. 3. 16 and 20, pp. 58, 60 _sq._
636 Plutarch, _Sulla_, 26.
637 Plutarch, _Quaest. Conviviales_, iv. 4. 1; _id._, _De fraterno
Amore_, 17.
638 As to the hot springs of Aedepsus (the modern _Lipso_) see K. G.
Fiedler, _Reise durch alle Theile des Königreichs Griechenland_, i.
487-492; H. N. Ulrichs, _Reisen und Forschungen in Griechenland_
(Bremen, 1840—Berlin, 1863), ii. 233-235; C. Bursian, _Geographie
von Griechenland_, ii. 409; C. Neumann und J. Partsch,
_Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland_, pp. 342-344.
639 Strabo, i. 3. 20, p. 60.
640 Athenaeus, iii. 4, p. 73 E, D.
M162 Reasons for the association of Hercules with hot springs.
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