Plato [in book] 2 of
Republic [uses the phrase].[1] It should be written thus; for in
Pindar [it is written] "she is bound by Hephaestus in the chair built by him";[2] which some ignorantly write as "[she is bound] by Zeus." And they say that she was bound for plotting against Heracles.[3] Klemes [recounts this].[4] The story [is found] also in
Epicharmus, in [his]
Revellers or
Hephaestus.[5]
Hêras de desmous hupo huieos: Platôn Politeias b#. houtô grapteon: para Pindarôi gar hupo Hêphaistou desmeuetai en tôi hup' autou kataskeuasthenti thronôi: ho tines agnoêsantes graphousin hupo Dios. kai phasi dethênai autên epibouleusasan Hêraklei. Klêmês. hê historia kai par' Epicharmôi en Kômastais ê Hêphaistôi.
Also in
Photius.
[1] In (as here) a generic accusative plural:
Plato,
Republic 378D (one of the unedifying mythological episodes which will be excluded from the curriculum in the ideal state).
[2]
Pindar fr. 283 Maehler. For the legend, see
Pausanias 1.20.3 (cf. 3.17.3). See also note 3 below.
[3] According to
Libanius, Narration 7 (Foerster vol. 8, pp. 38-39), Hephaestus built a chair to bind his mother Hera in return for her having hurled him from heaven (cf.
Homer, Iliad 18.394-405). Ares tried to release her and failed. Then Dionysus made Hephaestus drunk, compelled him to release his mother, and thus became one of the Olympian gods.
[4] This authority is unlikely to be either of the well-known Christian bearers of the name Klemes/
Clement, i.e.
Clement of Alexandria (OCD(4) s.v.; cited under
lambda 257) or
Clement of Rome (OCD(4) s.v.), but instead a relatively obscure Platonic commentator. On him see generally A.R. Dyck , "Notes on Platonic Lexicography in Antiquity,"
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 89 (1985) 75-88, at 84-86, where the present entry is F2,
zeta 13 is F1, and
pi 89 is F3. (The historian
Clement,
kappa 1778, may or may not be the same person.)
[5] For the fragments with additional bibliography, see Kassel-Austin p.50 (Kaibel p.106).
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