HeraclesDeathANCIENT_Hyginus

HeraclesDeathANCIENT_Hyginus

ogcma HeraclesDeath1.0000_Reid
Classical Sources:
OGCMA s.v. "Death of Heracles"
Classical Sources:
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1407-51
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.38.1-5
Ovid Met. 9.134-272
Ovid Heroides 9.3-6, 11-48
Apollodorus Libr. 2.7.7
Hyginus Fab. 36
Seneca Hercules Oetaeus
Lucian Dial. Deorum, 13, "Zeus, Asclepius, and Heracles"

The Latin text at right is derived from the Packard Humanities Institute Latin Texts but adapted to P.K. Marshall's 2nd Teubner edition (Leipzig 2002) ; the translation is provided by Roger Macfarlane

Hyginus reports events surrounding Heracles' death.

... (Fab91, 107-11):

For further reading, consider:
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed.

M. Simpson (1976), Gods & Heroes of the Greeks: the Library of Apollodorus (Amherst, UofMass Press), note 1.9.3 (p. 50).

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.