Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated.
Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Miraculous punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q551.3.1
“Hesiod also called him Schoeneus (see Apollodorus, below), and the later writers just mentioned ncbably accepted the name on his authority. According to Euripides, as we learn from Apollodorus (see below), the name of the heroine’s father was Maenalus. The suckling of Atalanta by the bear, and the unsuccessful assault on her by the two centaurs, Hylaeus and Rhoecus, are described, with a wealth of picturesque detail, by Aelian (Var.”
— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IX · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan
- GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IXThompson cites: *Frazer Apollodorus I 401 n. 2.