Pleiades wrote:This does seem to be the case.From Apollomius Rhodius Argonautica 3.1214 the Chorus is;
Lord sun and holy fire,sword of Hekate of the roads
which she carries over Olympus as she attends
as she traverses the sacred crossroads of the land
crowned with oak and the woven coils of snakes,falling on her shoulders
Daniel Ogden assumes the Chorus was made up of Medea's witch attendants.Plant Drug magic was their speciality including prescriptions for the aversion of the eyes during the cutting of animals throats being sacrificed= -Magic,Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Oxford 3009
Have you seen Magika Hiera by Faraone and Oblink?
You know I've been looking at multiple copies of the Argonautica now and especially book section 3.1214 trying to find a copy that includes the chorus section and can't find one. The Perseus Digital Library project doesn't have a copy with the chorus included in either it' Latin or Greek copy.
I figured the Apollonius Rhodius - The Argonautica (R.C. Seaton) Loeb Classical Library 1919 would have it as it's a Hellene & English page to page translation but it doesn't have it either.
So really wondering where it came from now. It's not in 3.1214 from what I can find. Jason is alone in the meadow at that point and making his offerings and calling upon her and she's rising up from the fire. Yet the serpents are coiling about the oak boughs not upon her shoulders.
Just as an aside thing but here is one of the transcribed original Hellene texts from Sophocles, which shows it was Enodia
Helie despota kai pur hieron,
tes Einodias Hekates egchos,
to di Oulumpou polousa pherei
kai ges naious' hieras tridous
stephanosamene drui kai plektais
omon speiraisi drakonton
(Text: A. Nauck, Tragicorum Gracecorum Fragemnta 2 Vols. (Leipzig 1889) Fr, 492, cf. T. Kraus, Hekate Heidelber 1960, p.87) The Goddess Hekate, Edited by Stephen Ronan, 1992, CHTHONIOS books, pg 75