by Vatican mythographers

“ Mercury was angry with Pelops for throwing his son Myrtilus into the sea and depriving him of his life by law; he sought vengeance in order to make up for the death. 2. So he incited Pelops' sons, Atreus and Thyestes, to such discord that they smashed the bond of kinship. 3. So, when they were ruling the kingdom in turns, since Thyestes knew that the kingdom was fated to remain in the hands of the one who had the ram with the golden fleece (which Atreus had been in possession of since he had received the kingdom) , he seduced Europa, his brother's wife, in the hope of getting it for himself. ”

“ He secretly sent Phrixus, who was unaware of his impending death, to get the ram with the golden fleece; by the will of Juno, he was warned to escape with his sister and he immediately saved himself from death, along with her. 9. Then they clung onto the ram and swum across the sea, but the girl, Helle fell into the sea giving her name to body of water - the Hellespont is named after her. 10. Phrixus was carried to Colchi, where he sacrificed the ram and dedicated its golden fleece in a temple dedicated to Mars, which was guarded by a monstrous snake. ”

“ But the reason that they are said to be Jupiter's dogs is because they are said to be the Furies; whence greedy men are also made to encounter the Furies, who separate them from their possessions. Properly, they are called Furies and dogs in the underworld, Dire ones and birds in heaven, and in the world between they are actually called Harpies. ”

“ When he whacked the female one, he was transformed into a woman. 2. Eight years later, when he again saw two snakes sleeping together and whacked them again, he was restored to his original form. 3. So when there was a quarrel between Jupiter and Juno on which sex had the most sexual pleasure, he was summoned to be judge, since he had experience of both sexes. When he was asked, he said that the woman's pleasure is three times the man's. 4. Because she was angry about this, Juno removed his sight, so it was as if he had been gratifying to Jupiter and injurious to himself. ”

“ It is said that after humans had been made by him, Prometheus climbed up into the sky with the help of Minerva, held a little torch up to the wheel of the sun, and stole its fire, which he revealed to the humans. 2. Because of this, the gods were angry introduced to bad things into the world: fevers (i.e. poverty) and sickness. 3. They had Mercury bind Prometheus himself to a rock on a mountain in the Caucasus, and an eagle was brought to devour his heart. ”

“ In order to please her enemy, she offered him her father's purple hair off, which she had cut off, which Nisus had made sacred, such that as long as he kept it uncut, he would rule the kingdom. 5. Afterwards, Scylla, who was despised by Minos, was transformed into a bird by grief and the dead Nisus was changed into the form of a bird, as a result of the sympathy of the gods. Today these birds still burn with a great hatred for one another. ”

“ Later, when Tantalus begged the gods to recall his son from the world below and they decided to do so, Ceres, who had eaten one of Pelops' arms at the dinner, while all the other gods abstained, gave him in ivory army as a replacement. 4. This was invented because Ceres is actually the earth, which consumes flesh completely, but preserves the bones. ”

“ Earth (that is Ceres) was angry because ---- who pressed against her, and gave birth to the Titans (giants) with scorn, on her own, against Saturn and later against Jupiter, but also to drive out all the gods in revenge. 2. By carrying and piling mountains on top of mountains up, they wished to climb up into the sky and overthrow them. 3. To fight against them, Jupiter called together all the gods, and Liber Pater, Vulcan, the satyrs, the Sileni, came with the rest, riding on little donkeys. ”

“ King Oeta welcomed Phrixus happily and gave him his daughter as a wife. 12. When he had had children with her, Oeta was afraid that he would be driven out of his kingdom (since he had received an omen to this effect) by a foreigner, a descendant of Aeolis. 13. Fearing death, he killed Phrixus. 14. But when his children boarded his boat in order to travel to their grandfather Athamas, Aeson intercepted and sank them. Later, Jason came to Colchi to take the golden fleece, killed the snake and took the fleece. ”

“ However, another Scylla was the daughter of Nisus, king of the Megarians. When Minos fought against them after he had conquered the Athenians, on account of the murder of his son Androgeus, whom the Athenians and Megarians had ambushed and killed. ”

“ When he started boasting as if he had slept with Juno, he was condemned for this statement to roll a wheel fastened together with snakes against a mountain in the world below forever.
Story of Circe and Ulixes 1. Circe, daughter of the Sun, sat on the island of Maeonia and transformed those who were driven there into wild animals. 2. When Ulixes happened to be driven to this island, he sent Eurylochus with twenty two of his friends, whom she transformed from humans [into animals] , but Eurylochus escaped from there and told Ulixes. 2. ”