This play contains a section in which a woman sings about Apollo's graphic rape of her.
This work opens with Hermes narrating his descent from Atlas, through Maia. A character in this play proves her honesty by describing an unfinished weaving of a Gorgon, and an evergreen wreath crafted from Athena's original olive tree. Xuthus assumes he conceived its title character at a Dionysiac festival. This play contains a section in which a woman sings about Apollo's graphic rape of her. This drama shares its name with a text in which the title figure is chastised for "twisting and turning" like the god Proteus; that text also compares artistic inspiration to a lodestone magnet. Creusa abandoned the title character of, for 10 points, what tragedy by Euripides that shares its name with a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates converses with a rhapsode about the power of poetry?
This work opens with Hermes narrating his descent from Atlas, through Maia.
Ion