Other Figures — Minor Figures

276 figures from Hesiod and Homerica who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Arcas

first appears The Astronomy

The Astronomy · parent: Callisto “Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas.”
The Astronomy · parent: Zeus “The story goes that he is Arcas the son of Callisto and Zeus, and he lived in the country about Lycaeum.”

first appears The Great Eoiae

The Great Eoiae · parent: Zeus “Argos the son of Zeus was father of Epidaurus.”
The Great Eoiae · child: Epidaurus “Argos the son of Zeus was father of Epidaurus.”

Muse · first appears Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios

Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios · parent: Zeus “O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing”
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 1 · child: Orpheus “From Pierus and the nymph Methone sprang Oeager; and from Oeager and Calliope Orpheus; from Orpheus, Dres; and from him, Eucles.”

first appears The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · child: Macareus “Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Achaean.”
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · parent: Zeus “Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Achaean.”

first appears The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40 · parent: Zeus “For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of Cronos, and from him sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies.”
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40 · parent: Earth “Huge Earth bare these to Epaphus—soothsaying people, knowing seercraft by the will of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance might be subject to the gods and suffer harm—Aethiopians and Libyans and mare-milking Scythians.”

first appears The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20 · parent: Zeus “Pandora the daughter of noble Deucalion was joined in love with father Zeus, leader of all the gods, and bare Graecus, staunch in battle.”

river · first appears Homer’s Epigrams

Homer’s Epigrams · parent: Zeus “heavenly water of the divine stream, eddying Hermus, whom deathless Zeus begot.”