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ZEUS

Oh, no! I want my women, but I want success with them without so much trouble. Promise me just that, and I’ll let you go.

Zeus And Hermes

Hermes, do you know Inachus’ daughter, the one that’s so pretty?

HERMES

Yes. You mean Io, For Io see pp. 217-219. don’t you?

ZEUS

She’s not a girl, but a heifer now.

HERMES

Wonders will never cease! How this change?

ZEUS

Hera did it out of jealousy. But that’s not all. She’s played another nasty unheard-of trick on the poor girl. She’s put a herdsman called Argus with ever so many eyes in charge of her. He keeps an eye on her as she grazes, and he never goes to sleep. 5

HERMES

Well, what are we to do about it?

ZEUS

You must fly down to Nemea—Argus is on his beat thereabouts—and kill him. Then take Io over the sea to Egypt, and make her into Isis. Hereafter let her be goddess of the folk there, raising the waters of the Nile, sending them their winds, and preserving seafarers from harm.

Zeus and Hera

HERA

Since you’ve brought this lad Ganymede. Cf. p. 281. up here, Zeus, this Phrygian you carried off from Ida, you’ve been neglecting me.

ZEUS

What, Hera? Jealous already? Of him too, though he’s so simple and harmless? I thought you were only down on my various lady friends.