Shakespeare's Myths
Dictys of Crete (Dictyos Cretensis). De Bello Troiano. IV, xxii. [4th c.]
Dares of Phrigia (Dares Phrigius). Excidio Troiae Historia. iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xi, xvii, xix. [6th c.]
[The Loeb edition is not available for Dictys and Dares. The references are to the Bibliotheca scriptorvm Graecorvm et Romanorvm Tevbneriana ed., 1991]
Giovanni Boccaccio. De claris mulieribus (1361-1362), XXXVII, “Helen, Wife of King Menelaus”.
Giovanni Boccaccio. Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, VI, vi, “De Laomedonte Ylionis filio” [“Of Laomedon, son of Ilion”]; viii, “De Hesyona Laomedontis filia et Teucri matre” [“Of Hesione, daughter of Laomedon and mother of Teucer”].
William Caxton. Metamorphoseos (1476), XI.
Arthur Golding. Metamorphoses (1567) (STC 18959), XI, 231-43:
[Neptune’s revenge on Laomedon’s ingratitude]
Thou shalt not mock us unrevenged (quoth Neptune.) And anon
He caused all the surges of the sea to rush upon
The shore of covetous Troy, and made the country like the deep.
The goods of all the husbandmen away he quite did sweep,
And overwhelmed their fields with waves. And thinking this too small
A penance for the falsehood, he demanded therewithal
His daughter for a monster of the Sea. Whom being bound
Unto a rock, stout Hercules delivering safe and sound,
Required his steeds which were the hire for which he did compound.
And when that of so great desert the king denied the hire,
The twice forsworn false town of Troy he sacked in his ire.
And Telamon in honour of his service did enjoy
The lady Hesione daughter of the covetous king of Troy.
Natali Conti. Mythologiae (first published in 1567), II, viii, “On Neptune”.
How to cite
Atsuhiko Hirota. “Hesione.” 2013. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/258/hesione/secondary+sources
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