Note 1309 — Chapter XIV · HEROIC LEGENDS
Reading edition
The only literary source for these stories (before Roman times) is in the tragic poets. But subjects from the Septem of Aeschylus are not found on vases; and it is not until the Hellenistic period that any real references to the Sophoclean and Euripidean plays occur. On some of the Megarian bowls (Vol. I. p. 500) the subjects adhere very closely to the text.