HESIOD
καρπαλίμως δ’ ἄρ’ ἔπειτα μένος καὶ φαίδιμα γυῖα ηὔξετο τοῖο ἄνακτος· ἐπιπλομένου δ’ ἐνιαυτοῦ, Γαίης ἐννεσίῃσι πολυφραδέεσσι δολωθείς, 495ὃν γόνον ἂψ ἀνέηκε μέγας Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης, νικηθεὶς τέχνῃσι βίηφί τε παιδὸς ἑοῖο. πρῶτον δ’ ἐξήμησε λίθον, πύματον καταπίνων· τὸν μὲν Ζεὺς στήριξε κατὰ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης Πυθοῖ ἐν ἠγαθέῃ, γυάλοις ὕπο Παρνησσοῖο, 500σῆμ’ ἔμεν ἐξοπίσω, θαῦμα θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι. λῦσε δὲ πατροκασιγνήτους ὀλοῶν ὑπὸ δεσμῶν, Οὐρανίδας, οὓς δῆσε πατὴρ ἀεσιφροσύνῃσιν· οἵ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χάριν εὐεργεσιάων, δῶκαν δὲ βροντὴν ἠδ’ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνὸν 505καὶ στεροπήν· τὸ πρὶν δὲ πελώρη Γαῖα κεκεύθει· τοῖς πίσυνος θνητοῖσι καὶ ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνάσσει.
κούρην δ’ Ἰαπετὸς καλλίσφυρον Ὠκεανίνην ἠγάγετο Κλυμένην καὶ ὁμὸν λέχος εἰσανέβαινεν. ἡ δέ οἱ Ἄτλαντα κρατερόφρονα γείνατο παῖδα, 510τίκτε δ’ ὑπερκύδαντα Μενοίτιον ἠδὲ Προμηθέα, ποικίλον αἰολόμητιν, ἁμαρτίνοόν τ’ Ἐπιμηθέα· ὃς κακὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆς γένετ’ ἀνδράσιν ἀλφηστῇσι· πρῶτος γάρ ῥα Διὸς πλαστὴν ὑπέδεκτο γυναῖκα παρθένον. ὑβριστὴν δὲ Μενοίτιον εὐρύοπα Ζεὺς 515εἰς ἔρεβος κατέπεμψε βαλὼν ψολόεντι κεραυνῷ εἵνεκ’ ἀτασθαλίης τε καὶ ἠνορέης ὑπερόπλου.
- 492-506 secl. Arth. Meyer, Jacoby (492–500 Guyet, 501–6 Wolf)
- 493 ἐπιπλομένου δ’ ἐνιαυτοῦ BkΣ: ἐπιπλομένων δ’ ἐνιαυτῶν a
THEOGONY
(492) Swiftly then the king’s strength and his splendid limbs grew; and when a year had revolved, great crooked-counseled Cronus, deceived by Earth’s very clever suggestions, brought his offspring up again, overcome by his son’s devices and force. First he vomited up the stone, since he had swallowed it down last of all; Zeus set it fast in the broad-pathed earth in sacred Pytho, down in the valleys of Parnassus, to be a sign thereafter, a marvel for mortal human beings.
(501) And he freed from their deadly bonds his father’s brothers, Sky’s sons, whom their father had bound in his folly.26 And they repaid him in gratitude for his kind deed, giving him the thunder and the blazing thunderbolt and the lightning, which huge Earth had concealed before. Relying on these, he rules over mortals and immortals.
(507) Iapetus married Clymene, Ocean’s beautiful-ankled daughter, and went up into the same bed with her. She bore him Atlas, a strong-hearted son, and gave birth to the very renowned Menoetius and to Prometheus (Forethought), shifty, quick-scheming, and to mistaken-minded Epimetheus (Afterthought)—he who turned out to be an evil from the beginning for men who live on bread, for he was the one who first accepted Zeus’ fabricated woman, the maiden. Far-seeing Zeus hurled down outrageous Menoetius into Erebus, striking him with a smoking thunderbolt because of his wickedness and defiant