Tiryns

Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose primary

Idyl IV presents a dialogue where Megara mourns the madness-driven killing of her children by Heracles, recounting her grief in Thebes and Tiryns, and speaking of ominous dreams.

* * * * * MY mother, wherefore art thou thus smitten in thy soul with exceeding sorrow, and the rose is no longer firm in thy cheeks as of yore? why, tell me, art thou thus disquieted? Is it because thy glorious son is suffering pains unnumbered in bondage to a man of naught, as it were a lion in bondage to a fawn? Woe is me, why, ah why have the immortal gods thus brought on me so great dishonour, and wherefore d…