ABSTRACT
Two young Argive brothers. Their mother, a priestess of Hera at Argos, had to go to the temple for a festival. As the oxen were late, her sons pulled her to the temple in the oxcart, a distance of about five miles. On her arrival, the priestess thanked Hera for her dutiful sons, praying that they might have whatever was best for mortal men. They slept that night in the temple, expecting to take their mother home the next day; but they never awoke again. The Athenian statesman Solon described them as the happiest of mortals, and statues dedicated to them by the Argives have been discovered at Delphi.
