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*(hraklh=s
Adler number: eta,475
Translated headword: Herakles, Heracles, Hercules
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Alcmene's son. They give an account of him as a philosopher and they depict him wearing the skin of a lion, carrying a cudgel, and possessing three apples;[1] which are the three apples the mythology says he took when he conquered the multifaceted argument of his base appetite with his cudgel of philosophy, having his spirit as a covering, like the skin of the lion. And thus having killed the dragon of his appetite with his club, he took the three apples, which are the three virtues: not to be angry, not to love money, not to be wanton. For through the cudgel of his enduring soul and the skin of most courageous and sound-minded argument, he conquered the offspring of his base appetite and was a philosopher until death.
Greek Original:*(hraklh=s, *)alkmh/nhs ui(o/s. tou=ton filo/sofon i(storou=si kai\ gra/fousi dora\n le/ontos forou=nta kai\ r(o/palon fe/ronta kai\ tri/a mh=la kratou=nta: a(/per tri/a mh=la nikh/santa to\n polupoi/kilon th=s ponhra=s e)piqumi/as logismo\n dia\ tou= r(opa/lou th=s filosofi/as a)fele/sqai e)muqolo/ghsan, e)/xonta peribo/laion fro/nhma, w(s dora\n le/ontos. kai\ ou(/tws foneu/sas tw=| r(opa/lw| to\n dra/konta th=s e)piqumi/as a)fei/leto ta\ tri/a mh=la, o(/ e)sti ta\s trei=s a)reta/s: to\ mh\ o)rgi/zesqai, to\ mh\ filargurei=n kai\ to\ mh\ filhdonei=n. dia\ ga\r tou= r(opa/lou th=s karterikh=s yuxh=s kai\ th=s dora=s tou= qrasuta/tou kai\ sw/fronos logismou= e)ni/khse to\n ui(o\n th=s fau/lhs e)piqumi/as, filosofh/sas a)/xri qana/tou.
Notes:
John of
Antioch fr.6.6 FHG (4.453), now 6.2 Roberto. The substance of this allegorical interpretation is attributed to Herodoros (FGrH 31 F14), probably early 4th century BCE, who along with
Prodicus and
Antisthenes is one of the earliest authors to depict Herakles as a philosophical
exemplum virtutis.
See also
eta 454,
eta 458,
eta 464,
eta 467,
eta 474,
eta 476,
eta 477.
[1] Herakles' eleventh Labor was to get the Apples of the Hesperides, whose tree was guarded by a dragon.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 November 2000@00:44:41.
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