Note 137 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD

H. Stein on Herodotus, iv. 33; O. Crusius in W. H. Roscher’s Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie, i. 2813, 2831; Preller-Robert, Griechische Mythologie, i. 298 sq.; Wernicke, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der class. Altertumswissenschaft, ii. coll. 1355, 1356, 1357, 1358, 1359, 1380, 1383, 1393, 1402. The names of the maidens were variously given as Hyperoche and Laodice (Herodotus, iv. 33), or Hekaerge and Opis, (Pausanias, i. 43. 4, v. 7. 8; Servius on Virgil, Aen. xi. 532), or Upis, Loxo, and Hekaerge (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 292). Herodotus further mentions (iv. 35) another pair of Hyperborean maidens, Arge and Opis by name, who came with Apollo and Artemis to Delos, and were buried behind the sanctuary of Artemis in the island. They are clearly the equivalents of the Hekaerge and Opis or Upis of the other writers. For Hekaerge as an epithet of Artemis see Servius, loc. cit.; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. 8. 49, p. 674, ed. Potter, quoting Apollodorus of Corcyra: μέλπετε ὧ παῖδες ἑκάεργον καὶ ἑκαέργαν. For Opis or Upis as a name of Artemis see Macrobius, Saturn. v. 22. 3–6; Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis, 204; Palaephatus, De incredib. 32.