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Hesiod: Arma Herculis
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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionZeus and Amphitryon lay with Alcmena, two sons are born
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionHeracles battles Cycnus, son of Ares
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionHeracles and his charioteer Iolaus
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe fearful Heracles prepares for war
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionHeracles shield is described
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe description of the shield continues
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionAthene supports Heracles
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionHercules and Cycnus speak
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe clash likened to nature
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionHeracles kills Cycnus and Ares comes to avenge him
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionAthene intervenes
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionList of Names
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αὐτῇ μὲν γὰρ νυκτὶ τανυσφύρου Ἠλεκτρυώνης
εὐνῇ καὶ φιλότητι μίγη, τέλεσεν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἐέλδωρ:
αὐτῇ δ᾽ Ἀμφιτρύων λαοσσόος, ἀγλαὸς ἥρως,
ἐκτελέσας μέγα ἔργον ἀφίκετο ὅνδε δόμονδε.
οὐδ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐπὶ δμῶας καὶ ποιμένας ἀγροιώτας
ὦρτ᾽ ἰέναι, πρίν γ᾽ ἧς ἀλόχου ἐπιβήμεναι εὐνῆς:
τοῖος γὰρ κραδίην πόθος αἴνυτο ποιμένα λαῶν.
ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀνὴρ ἀσπαστὸν ὑπεκπροφύγῃ κακότητα
νούσου ὕπ᾽ ἀργαλέης ἢ καὶ κρατεροῦ ὑπὸ δεσμοῦ,
ὥς ῥα τότ᾽ Ἀμφιτρύων χαλεπὸν πόνον ἐκτολυπεύσας
ἀσπασίως τε φίλως τε ἑὸν δόμον εἰσαφίκανεν.
παννύχιος δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔλεκτο σὺν αἰδοίῃ παρακοίτι
τερπόμενος δώροισι πολυχρύσου Ἀφροδίτης. 
35-47 Zeus and Amphitryon lay with Alcmena, two sons are born:
So in one night Zeus shared the bed and love of the neat-ankled daughter of Electyron and fulfilled his desire; and in the same night Amphitryon, gatherer of the people, the glorious hero, came to his house when he had ended his great task. He hastened not to go to his bondmen and shepherds afield, but first went in unto his wife: such desire took hold on the shepherd of the people. And as a man who has escaped joyfully from misery, whether of sore disease or cruel bondage, so then did Amphitryon, when he had wound up all his heavy task, come glad and welcome to his home. And all night long he lay with his modest wife, delighting in the gifts of golden Aphrodite. 
ἣ δὲ θεῷ δμηθεῖσα καὶ ἀνέρι πολλὸν ἀρίστῳ
Θήβῃ ἐν ἑπταπύλῳ διδυμάονε γείνατο παῖδε,
οὐ καθ᾽ ὁμὰ φρονέοντε: κασιγνήτω γε μὲν ἤστην:
τὸν μὲν χειρότερον, τὸν δ᾽ αὖ μέγ᾽ ἀμείνονα φῶτα,
δεινόν τε κρατερόν τε, βίην Ἡρακληείην:
τὸν μὲν ὑποδμηθεῖσα κελαινεφέι Κρονίωνι,
τὸν δ᾽ ἄρα Ἰφικλῆα δορυσσόῳ Ἀμφιτρύωνι,
κεκριμένην γενεήν: τὸν μὲν βροτῷ ἀνδρὶ μιγεῖσα,
τὸν δὲ Διὶ Κρονίωνι, θεῶν σημάντορι πάντων. 
48-56 And she, being subject in love to a god and to a man exceeding goodly, brought forth twin sons in seven-gated Thebe. Though they were brothers, these were not of one spirit; for one was weaker but the other a far better man, one terrible and strong, the mighty Heracles. Him she bare through the embrace of the son of Cronos lord of dark clouds and the other, Iphiclus, of Amphitryon the spear-wielder--offspring distinct, this one of union with a mortal man, but that other of union with Zeus, leader of all the gods. 
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