Editing Ibycus (section)

==Reception==
*In book four of [[Apollonius Rhodius]]'s ''[[Argonautica]]'', the goddess Hera reveals that [[Achilles]] is destined to marry [[Medea]] in the Elysian Fields (''Argonautica'' 4.811–15). A [[scholiast]] on the passage comments that this account was first put forward by Ibycus, and that it was also taken up by [[Simonides of Ceos]]. In another scholium, it is said that the Argonautica's account of [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]]'s abduction by an amorous Zeus (''Argonautica'' 3.114–17) was also modelled on a version by Ibycus (in Homer's earlier account, Zeus abducted the youth to be his wine-pourer: ''Iliad'' 20.234), and that Ibycus, moreover, described the abduction of [[Tithonus]] by Dawn ([[Eos]]).<ref>fr. 289 and 291, D. Cambell, ''Greek Lyric'' III, Loeb Classical Library (1991) page 259</ref> Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite (''Argonautica'' 3.25–6) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which [[Sappho]] made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of&nbsp;...? The section is lost, but it has been suggested that he made Eros the son of Aphrodite and [[Hephaestus]]<ref>fr. 324, D. Campbell, ''Greek Lyric'' III, Loeb Classical Library (1991), page 279</ref>
*[[Parmenides]] seems to have admired Ibycus's work because he cites him in [[Plato]]'s [[Parmenides (dialogue)|dialogue of the same name]].
*[[Friedrich Schiller]] based his 1797 ballad [[Die Kraniche des Ibykus]] (The Cranes Of Ibycus) on the rendition of the poet's murder.