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Acusilaus

fr. 34 Fowler (Fowler 2001, p. 22; Freeman, p. 17 fragment 33) (= FGrH 2 F 34?) (apud Schol. Od. 10.2)

Ἡσιόνης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ

Aeschylus ?

Prometheus Bound

552–560

Weir:

Chorus [of Oceanids]

I have learned this lesson from observing the luck, Prometheus, that has brought about your ruin. And the difference in the song stole into my thought [555] —this song and that, which, about your bridal bed and bath, I raised to grace your marriage, when you wooed with gifts [560] and won my sister Hesione to be your wedded wife.

Somerstein:

[Chorus of Oceanids:]

I learned this from seeing

your wretched fortune, Prometheus;

and this song that has flown to my lips is very different

from the wedding-song I sang in honour of bath and bed

on the occasion of your marriage, when you wooed and won

my sister Hesione ⁶⁷

⁶⁷ The wife of Prometheus (and mother of Deucalion, the Flood hero) is variously identified in various sources; the fifth-century mythographer Acusilaus of Argos (FGrH 2 F 34) names her as Hesione the Oceanid, as here. Hesione is not mentioned in Hesiod’s list of forty-one daughters of Oceanus.

Modern

Fowler 2013

p. 13

Hesione, wife of Prometheus and mother of Deukalion (Akous. fr. 34)

p. 113

Akousilaus' candidate [for Deukalion's mother] (Akous. fr. 34) is an Ockeanid Hesione, which might be taken as free invention did it not recur in PV (560); if the latter is not dependent on the former, one may speculate that their common source was the Titanomachy, which perhaps mentioned the flood (see below), and which has long been thought to lie behind the PV (->§1.5). Another possibility ...

Freeman

p. 17

33. (The mother of Deucalion was Hesione daughter of Ocean, and his father was Prometheus).

Most 2007

pp. 46, 47, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 (= fr. 4 M Merkelbach—West)