Editing Cercopes (section)

==Mythology==
They were proverbial as liars, cheats, and accomplished knaves.<ref>[[Lucian]], [http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/lucian/lucian_alexander.htm ''Alexander the false prophet''].</ref> They once stole [[Heracles]]' weapons, during the time he was the penitent servant of [[Omphale]] in [[Lydia]].<ref name="Bibliotheke">Pseudo-Apollonius, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheke]]'' ii.6.3.</ref>  He seized and bound them at [[Ephesus]]<ref name="Bibliotheke" /> and punished them by tying them to a [[shoulder pole]] he slung over his shoulder with their faces pointing downwards, the only way they appear on Greek vases. Their mother, Theia, begged Heracles to let her sons go.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sudias |editor1-last=Whitehead |editor1-first=David |title=Suda |url=https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-html/ |access-date=9 August 2020}}</ref> This particular myth is depicted on a [[metope (architecture)|metope]] at Temple C at [[Selinus]]. According to [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]], the Cercopes were turned to stone.<ref>{{ cite book |author-link=James George Frazer |first=James George |last=Frazer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eFmQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT134 |title=The Library of Apollodorus |date=13 February 2016 |publisher=Delphi Classics |isbn=9781786563712 |at=Footnote 176 |quote=See ''Scholiast on Lucian, Alexander 4'', ed. H. Rabe.}}</ref>