---
title: Fragments on Theban and Trojan Myths
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Θηβαϊκῶν καὶ Τρωϊκῶν Μύθων
author: Sosiphanes of Syracuse
eul_wid: heo-aa
eul_aid: heo
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/sosiphanes-syracuse-theban-trojan-myths-heo-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Doric
domain: Drama
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Theban and Trojan Myths

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Θηβαϊκῶν καὶ Τρωϊκῶν Μύθων*

**Author:** Sosiphanes of Syracuse

**eul_wid:** `heo-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/sosiphanes-syracuse-theban-trojan-myths-heo-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

[ln_1]μάγοις ἐπῳδαῖς πᾶσα Θεσσαλὶς κόρη

### book 1.2

ψευδὴς

### book 1.3

σελήνης αἰθέρος καταιβάτις

### book 2.1

νῦν

### book 2.2

σοι

### book 2.3

πρὸς ὄψιν θυμὸς ἡβάτω, γέρον· νυνὶ δεῖ γ’ ὀργήν, ἡνίκ’ ἠδικοῦ, λαβεῖν

*[crux: δεῖ]*

### book 3.1

ὦ δυστυχεῖς μὲν

### book 3.2

πολλά, παῦρα δ’ ὄλβιοι βροτοί, τί σεμνύνεσθε

### book 3.3

ταῖς ἐξουσίαις, ἃς ἕν τ’ ἔδωκε φέγγος ἕν τ’ ἀφείλετο; ἢν δ’ εὐτυχῆτε μηδὲν ὄντες εὐθέως[ln_5]ἴς’ οὐρανῷ φρονεῖτε, τὸν δὲ κύριον Ἅιδην

### book 3.4

παρεστῶτ’ οὐχ ὁρᾶτε

### book 3.5

πλησίον

### book 4

ὑπὸ τοῦ Λαΐου ... τεθνηκέναι τὸν Μενοικέα

### book 5?

Μενελάου ... καὶ Ἑλένης ... παῖδες ... Νικόστρατος καὶ Ἴολμος ...

*[crux: Ἴολμος]*

### book 7

ἐξ αὐτῆς (sc. Ἑρμιόνης) Νεοπτολέμῳ Ἀγχίαλον γενέσθαι

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