When Athena and Hera plot to help the Argonaut Jason to find the Golden Fleece, Hera recommends recruiting Aphrodite to elicit Eros' aid.
“Juno, Father Jupiter bore me to be inexperienced with [Cupid’s] arrows,
Nor do I know any way to manage desire.
If you like this idea, then of course I will agree with it;
But you will have to do all of the talking
When you meet [with Venus].
Juno, insciam me
pater genuit huius ictuum,
nec rem aliquam
novi quae vim habeat demulcendi amorem.
Si autem tibi
ipsi haec sententia arridet, certe ego
assensum
praebitura sum; tu vero compellandi vicem geres,
ubi conveneris.
‘Ἥρη, νήιδα μέν
με πατὴρ τέκε τοῖο βολάων,
οὐδέ τινα χρειὼ
θελκτήριον οἶδα πόθοιο.
εἰ δέ σοι αὐτῇ μῦθος
ἐφανδάνει, ἦ τ᾽ ἂν ἔγωγε
ἑσποίμην: σὺ δέ
κεν φαίης ἔπος ἀντιόωσα.’
APOLLO
Little is known of this Hellenistic poet,
but what is clear is that his surviving epic, the Argonautica, was
wildly influential to later epic poets. According to the Suda, he was
the Director of the Library of Alexandria and was a contemporary of the poet
Callimachus (α.4319).
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