The primary sources
Apollodorus (Pseudo-Apollodorus) | I or II century AD | The Library | Greek mythographer |
Apollonius Rhodius | circa 295 - 215 BC | Argonautica | Greek poet |
Diodorus Siculus | 80-29 BC | Bibliotheca historica | Greek historian-compiler |
Euripides | circa 484 - 407 BC | Alcestis, Herakles (Madness of Hercules), Children of Herakles (Heraclides) | Greek playwriter |
Hyginus | II century AD | Fabulae | Roman Mythographer |
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) | 43 BC - 14 AD | Metamorphoses | Roman poet |
Pausanias | II century AD | Description of Greece | Greek historian and geographer |
Pindar | circa 521-441 BC | Olympian Odes, Isthmian Odes, Nemean Odes, Pythian Odes | Greek poet |
Plato | 427-347 BC | Symposium | Greek philosopher |
Strabo | 63 BC - 24 AD | Geography | Greek historian and geographer |
Virgil // Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) | 70-19 BC | Aeneid, Georgics | Roman poet |
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