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Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως

Περὶ Ὀρχήσεως Lucian of Samosata
52 and Thessaly affords still more—Pelias, Jason, Alcestis, the expedition of the fifty youths, the Argo and her talking keel, the incidents at Lemnos, Aeétes, the dream of Medea,Apollonius of Rhodes (III, 616-682) describes at some length a dream of Medea’s, shortly after the arrival of Jason, to the effect that he came to win her, that she helped him with the oxen; that she was chosen to arbitrate the strife that arose, and decided in Jason’s favour; whereupon her parents clamoured, and she awoke. Since this dream is not traditional, its inclusion in Lucian’s list is perhaps to be explained by assuming that he knew of its actual use as a pantomimic theme. the dismemberment of Apsyrtus, the happenings of the cruise,
53 and after that, Protesilaus and Laodameia.

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