Tityos

Asterius and Amphion, sons of Hyperasius, came from Achaean Pelene, which once Peleus, their grandsire, founded on the brows of Aegialis.

After them from Taenarus came Euphemus, whom most swift-footed of men, Eurybe, daughter of mighty Tityus, bare to Poseidon.

He was wont to skim the swell of the gray sea and wetted not his swift feet, but just dipping the tips of his toes was borne on the watery path.

Yea, and two other sons of Poseidon came, one Erginus, who left the citadel of glorious Miletus, the other proud Anchias, who left Parthenia, the seat of Imbrasian Hera.

Now there was a sturdy stump of vine that grew in the forest, a tree exceedingly old; this they cut down, to be the sacred image of the mountain goddess, and Argus smoothed it skillfully.

And they set it upon the rugged hill beneath a canopy of lofty oaks, which of all trees have their roots deepest.

And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice; invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Tityus and Silenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother, the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale as she grasped with both hands the land of Oixus bare in the Dictæan cave.

And with many prayers did Æson's son beseech the goddess to turn aside the stormy blasts, as he poured libations on the blazing sacrifice.

Asterius and Amphion, sons of Hyperasius, came from Achaean Pylae, which once Peleus, their grandsire, founded on the brows of Aegialus.

After them from Taenarus came Euphemus, whom, most swift-footed of men, Europe, daughter of mighty Tityus, bare to Poseidon.

He was wont to skim the swell of the gray sea and wetted not his swift feet, but just dipping the tips of his toes was borne on the watery path.

Yea, and two other sons of Poseidon came: one, Erginus, who left the citadel of glorious Miletus; the other, proud Ancaeus, who left Parthenia, the seat of Imbrasian Hera.

The latter class are generally kings and potentates; meaner persons happily for themselves have not the same power of doing injustice.

Sisyphus and Tityus, not Thersites, are supposed by Homer to be undergoing everlasting punishment.

Not that there is anything to prevent a great man from being a good one, as is shown by the famous example of Aristides, the son of Lysimachus.

But to Rhadamanthus the souls are only known as good or bad; they are stripped of their dignities and preferments; he despatches the bad to Tartarus, labelled either as curable or incurable, and looks with love and admiration on the soul of some just one, whom he sends to the Islands of the Blest.

For they are the authors of the greatest and most impious crimes, because they have the power.

And Homer witnesses to the truth of this, for they are always kings and potentates whom he has described as suffering everlasting punishment in the world below.

Such were Tantalus and Sisyphus and Tityus.

But no one ever described Thersites or any private person who was a villain as suffering everlasting punishment or as incurable.

Yeah, yeah

... and, and it's Tityus or Tityus who is getting his liver-

Oh, whose liver is eaten.

Yeah, yeah.

Homer, Pope's translation.

Beyond Sisyphus lies Tityus, a giant whose huge body covers nine acres of ground.

He was condemned to the blackness of Tartarus because he dared to affront a goddess with his addresses, and so was doomed to suffer, like Prometheus, by being chained to a rock while a vulture tears at his liver.

Near him is Ixion, who was promised the hand of a certain maiden in marriage on condition that he would give her father a large sum of money.

The latter class are generally kings and potentates; meaner persons, happily for themselves, have not the same power of doing injustice.

Sisyphus and Tityus, not Thersites, are supposed by Homer to be undergoing everlasting punishment.

Not that there is anything to prevent a great man from being a good one, as is shown by the famous example of Aristides, the son of Lysimachus.

But to Rhadamanthus the souls are only known as good or bad; they are stripped of their dignities and preferments; he dispatches the bad to Tartarus, labelled either as curable or incurable, and looks with love and admiration on the soul of some just one, whom he sends to the Islands of the Blest.

For they are the authors of the greatest and most impious crimes, because they have the power.

And Homer witnesses to the truth of this, for they are always kings and potentates whom he has described as suffering everlasting punishment in the world below.

Such were Tatalus and Sisyphus and Tityus.

But no one ever described Thersites or any private person who was a villain as suffering everlasting punishment or as incurable.

Observe how the great and sublime Homer acts on these occasions.

As great a poet as he is, he says nothing about Tantalus, Ixion, Tityus, and the rest of them.

But if Parthenius, Euphorion, or Callimachus had treated this subject, what a number of verses they would have spent in rolling Ixion's wheel, and bringing the water up to the very lips of Tantalus! Mark also how quickly Thucydides, who is very sparing of his descriptions, breaks off when he gives an account of any military machine, explains the manner of a siege, even though it be ever so useful and necessary, or describes cities or the port of Syracuse.

Even in his narrative of the plague, which seems so long, if you consider the multiplicity of events, you will find he makes as much haste as possible, and omits many circumstances, though he was obliged to retain so many more.