Shakespeare's Myths
Apollodorus. The Library, I, ix, 23-24.
Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, III, 240-42; IV, 212-25; 303-481.
Cicero. De Natura Deorum, III, xix.
Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History, IV, xlv, 5.
Euripides. Medea, 1334-35 [Medea had already killed Absyrtus in her father’s palace before stepping on board the Argo]
Hyginus. Fables, XIII, XXIII.
Justin. Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, XLII, iii.
Ovid. Heroides, XII, 113-18.
Ovid. Metamorphoses, VII, 51-54.
Ovid. Tristia, III, ix, 1-34.
Seneca. Medea, 131-33; 452-53; 473; 911-12; 963-64.
Sophocles. Women of Colchis [According to a scholion on Apollonius’ Argonautica, IV, 223, in this lost play, Absyrtus was a child and murdered in Aeetes’ palace]
Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica, VIII, 136; 259-468.
Zenobius. Proverbia, IV, 92 [repeats Apollodorus’ version]
How to cite
Yves Peyré. “Absyrtus.” 2014. In A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/1/absyrtus/classical+sources
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