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19. This is the cornu copiae (horn of plenty). Amalthea is the name of a goddess of Plenty
and of the goat that suckled the infant Zeus. Ovid says that the horn of Acheloiis became
the cornucopia when the Naiads picked it up and filled it with fruit and flowers.
20. Walter Burkert, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1979), p. 94.
21. Xenophon, Memorabilia 2. 21-34; Cicero, De Officiis 1. 118. The parable has been very
important in Western art: see E. Panofsky, Hercules am Scheideweg (Leipzig, 1930).
22. For further discussion, see L. R. Farnell, Greek Hero-Cults and Ideas of Immortality (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1921), Chapters 5-7, and G. Karl Galinsky, The Herakles
Theme (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972). The best discussion is that of Burkert,
Structure and History. For Heracles in art, see Frank Brommer, Herakles, 2 vols. (Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972-1984); vol. 1 has been translated by
Shirley J. Schwarz as Heracles: The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature
(New Rochelle: Caratzas, 1984). See also Jane Henle, Greek Myths: A Vase Painter's
Notebook (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973), pp. 231-238.
23. For the different versions of her myth, see J. G. Frazer's notes on pp. 181-182 and 303
in vol. 1 of his edition of Apollodorus (Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard
University Press, 1961 [1921]).