Diodorus Siculus, gives a slightly different version of the story, saying that an oracle had been given to Althaemenes which said that he was destined to kill his father.Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.4. Another tradition involving Catreus' daughter Aerope, followed by Euripides in his lost play Kressai,Hard, p. 355; Gantz, p. 271. Euripides' treatment of the story is according to the scholiast on Sophocles, Ajax 1297, citing Euripides' Cretan Women, see: Collard and Cropp, pp. 520, 521; Webster, pp. 37–38; Jebb's note to Ajax 1295 Κρήσσης. and possibly by Sophocles in his play Ajax,Gantz, pp. 554–555; Jebb's note to Ajax 1296 ὁ φιτύσας πατήρ. was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.
Diodorus Siculus, gives a slightly different version of the story, saying that an oracle had been given to Althaemenes which said that he was destined to kill his father.Diodorus Siculus, 4.60.4. Another tradition involving Catreus' daughter Aerope, .followed by Euripides in his lost play Kressai,Hard, p. 355; Gantz, p. 271. Euripides' treatment of the story is according to the scholiast on Sophocles, Ajax 1297, citing Euripides' Cretan Women, see: Collard and Cropp, pp. 520, 521; Webster, pp. 37–38; Jebb's note to Ajax 1295 Κρήσσης. and possibly by Sophocles in his play Ajax,Gantz, pp. 554–555; Jebb's note to Ajax 1296 ὁ φιτύσας πατήρ. was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.