the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)

Family: unknown · Role: wooed woman · First appears: Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

In Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1, the daughter of Azan is named as the woman wooed by Apollo, alongside Ischys, Phorbas, and Ereutheus. The hymn asks, “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan” and also mentions Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus in the passage.

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• Apollo is described as wooing the daughter of Azan alongside several named rivals.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • With: Apollo Ischys Elatius Phorbas Triops Ereutheus Leucippus the wife of Leucippus (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

• admirer: Apollo “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”
• admirer: Ischys “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus....”
• admirer: Phorbas “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus....”
• admirer: Ereutheus “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus....”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.