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LINOS (HELIKON) Pausanias 9.29.6

As one approached the grove of the Muses one came first to a re- lief depicting Eupheme, and next, to Linos, in a stone worked into the shape of a small cave. To~'T~KCXT~ ?TO< EKCXGTOV rp'o ~iiqBuafaq T~VMouaGv tvay<~ouai. Hesiod is quoted as having made Linos the son of the Muse Ourania'. This, and his musicianship, would be enough to explain Linos' pres- ence on Mount Helikon. See MUSES (THESPIAI).

[LINOS (THE~ES)3 Pausanias 9.29.8-9 The Thebans told Pausanias that Linos' bones had been removed from Thebes by Philip after Chaironeia and lat r returned by him, both actions resulting from dreams. All traces of the tomb had disappeared. This story is not to be taken seriously it depends on the literary tradition of Linos as the unfortunate mus c teacher of Herakles'. There is no evidence for a cult.

Hesiod, fr. 305 M-IJ. (Schol. T Homer, IZiad 18.570). See also Lobon of Argos, fr. 305 Lloyd-Jones and Parsons (Diogenes Laertios, Prooim. 1.4; Anth. Palat. 7.616). Linos' father was either Hermes (Diogenes Laertios) or Amphimaros son of Poseidon (Pausanias). See also note 2.

The story was known in Athens at least as early as the second quarter of the fifth century B.C.: see the Attic red figure skyphos by the Pistoxenos Painter, ca. 470 B.C., CVA Deutsche Demokratische Republik 1. Schwerin, Staatliches Museum (Berlin 1972) plates 24-28 (ARV2 862.30). See also P. E. Arias, M. Hirmer, and B. B. Shefton, A History of Greek Vase Painting (London 1962) plate 166 (A: a surly Herakles accompanied by an aged nurse carrying a lyre; B: Linos and Iphikles). A satyr play on the subject was written by Achaios I of Eretria, TrGF 20F26 (Athenaios 15 [668A]), a comedy by Alexis, fr. 135 Edm. (Athenaios 4 [164B]). Diodoros Siculus 3.67.2 and pseudo-Apollodoros 2.4.9 allude to his murder by Herakles (killed by his lyre, obviously part of the tradition). There is another version, in which Linos was killed by Apollo and buried at Thebes: Lobon of Argos, fr. 505 Lloyd-Jones and Parsons (cited above note l), fr. 506-507 (Schol. T Homer, Iliad 18.570). Diogenes Laertios locates Linos' death on Euboia. An attempt was made to reconcile the two traditions by inventing a second Lin- os, son of Ismenios, who WQS killed by the young Herakles (Pausanias 9.29.9, who relates it as a Theban tradition; at 9.29.6, he refers to what he obviously ac- cepts as the canonical version, that Linos was killed by Apollo).

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