Hesiod, Theogony 886–906, in Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library 57 (London: William Heinemann, 1914), Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Pindar, Isthmian 8.31–35, trans. Diane Arnson Svarlien, ToposText.
Hesiod also acknowledges eris as a sort of motivational impulse, one that turns stagnant energy into collective resolve, which is best depicted in Homer’s Illiad 11 when Zeus sends Eris to the Achaean ships to rally the troops. Hesiod, Works and Days 11–26, in Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library 57 (London: William Heinemann, 1914), Theoi Classical Texts Library; Homer, The Iliad 11.1–14, trans. A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924), Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Hyginus, Fabulae 92, in The Myths of Hyginus, trans. and ed. Mary Grant, University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960), Theoi Classical Texts Library; Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 5, in The Works of Lucian of Samosata, trans. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905), Project Gutenberg.
Apollodorus, The Library, Epitome 3.2, trans. Sir James George Frazer, Loeb Classical Library, vols. 121–122 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921), Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Hera was also Zeus’s sister as mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Hesiod’s Theogony. Homer, Iliad 18.356; Hesiod, Theogony 453–458.
Apollodorus, Library 3.12.5.
Excidium Troiae, ed. E. B. Atwood and V. K. Whitaker (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1944), 4, lines 11–21.
Apollodorus, Epitome 3.2.
Apollodorus, Epitome 2.16.
Apollodorus, Epitome 3.2–3.
Gitanjali Roy, “Xenia”, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Apollodorus, Library 3.10.9.
Apollodorus, Epitome 3.6.
Proclus, “Summary of the Cypria,” line 1, trans. Gregory Nagy, University of Houston, accessed October, 2026.
Cypria, fragment 3, in Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White, Loeb Classical Library 57 (London: William Heinemann, 1914), Theoi Classical Texts Library.
Hesiod, Theogony 134–138, 453–491.
Hesiod, Theogony 468–491.
Apollodorus, Library 1.1.6–7.
“Metis,” Theoi Project, accessed October 2026.
Hesiod, Theogony 886–887.
Apollodorus, Library 1.2.1. Metis’s drug is Apollodorus’s account. Hesiod describes Cronus being overcome through Gaia’s suggestions and Zeus’s “arts and might,” without naming Metis in that episode. Hesiod, Theogony 492–506.
Apollodorus, Library 1.2.1; Hesiod, Theogony 629–638.
Hesiod, Theogony 383–403.
Hesiod, Theogony 617–686.
Apollodorus, Library 1.2.1.
Hesiod, Theogony 886–900.
Homer, Iliad 14.312–328.
Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20.1, “The Judgement of Paris”.
Homer, Iliad 15.184–199, trans. A. T. Murray, Theoi Classical Texts Library.
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