1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 211 



and denounced Stranguillio and Dionysias, who were thereupon 

 stoned to death by the people, who would also have slain the slave 

 Theophilus had not Tharsia interposed, and at whose intercession 

 his life was spared. After three months the family departed for 

 Cyrene, where they were received with great joy. The old king, 

 Archistrates, died in the arms of his children ; the fisherman who 

 had befriended the naked ApoUonius was richly rewarded, as was 

 also Hellenicus, who had brought to him the news of the malice of 

 Antiochus. So ApoUonius reigned over Antioch, Tyre and Cyrene, 

 and in happy union with his wife reached a great age. The history 

 of his adventures he wrote in two volumes ; one he sent to the Tem- 

 ple of Diana at Ephesus and the other he placed in his own library 

 (Oxon. Magdal., 50). 



The Origin of the Story. 



It is clear that the narrative exhibits the familiar mannerism of 

 the Greek sophistic romance. The circle of adventures in the 

 Babylonian histories of lamblichus, the Ethiopian histories of 

 Heliodorus,^ the Ephesian histories of Xenophon, the history of 

 Leucippe and Klitophon, etc., is the same in all instances. The 

 writers of this cycle had contrived a universal apparatus of romance 

 upon which they drew liberally and upon equal terms — pirates, 

 sea-storms, dreams, apparent death, reunited lovers, etc., were the 

 materials out of which the romances were made. 



No Greek original of the ApoUonius story has been discovered, 

 but it is hardly believable that no such original existed. Riese 

 {Histona Apollonii regis Tyri)^ Rohde {Der griechische Rojnari), 

 W. Christ {Sitzungsberichte der Miinchen. PhiloL CL, 1872, S. 4), 

 W. Teuffel (^Rh. Mas., xxvii, 104), VV. Meyer ('' Abhandlung 

 ijber den lateinischen Text der Geschichte des ApoUonius von 

 Tyrus," in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch., philolog. u. histor- 

 ischen Classe d. Konig-Bayer. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu 

 Milncheft, 1872, Heft i, S. 3-29), E. WiXwews {Fleckeisens /ahr- 

 biich, 103, pp. 856-858), W. Hartel {Oestreich. Wochenschrift f, 

 Kunst und IVis sense haft, 1872, pp. 161-172), and J. G. von Hahn 

 (^Griechische und Albanesische Mdrchen, ii, 250), have searched 



^"HsXtodwpou AiOto7:f/.rj?'I(7Topta<s Bt^Ua di/.a, Heliodori Historise ^thio- 

 picse libri decern, nunquam antea in lucem editi (ed. by V. Obsopaeus). Ba- 

 siliae, 1534. 



