With golden necklace, which was set in amber.”[82]
And among the gifts which Penelope received from the suitors he has represented Eurymachus giving her a necklace.
“Eurymachus brought her a splendid necklace,
Golden and set in amber, like a sun.”[83]
But he does not speak of Eriphyle’s necklace as adorned with gold and precious stones. So it is probable that this sceptre is the only work of Hephæstus still extant.
Above Chæronea is a crag called Petrachos. They say that it was here that Cronos was deceived by Rhea with a stone instead of Zeus, and there is a small statue of Zeus on the summit of the mountain. At Chæronea they make unguents by boiling down together lilies and roses narcissuses and irises. These unguents relieve pain. Indeed if you anoint wooden statues with unguent made from roses, it preserves them from rottenness. The iris grows in marshy, places, and is in size about as big as the lily, but is not white, and not so strong-scented as the lily.
[81] Odyssey, xi. 327.
[82] Odyssey, xv. 459, 460.
[83] Odyssey, xviii. 295, 296.