The Cult of Zeus Lykaios at Kyrene 89
Fig. 57
(e) The Cult of Zeus Lykaios at Kyrene.
The cult of Zeus Lykaios spread from Arkadia to Kyrene.
There appears, indeed, to have been some ancestral link between
these two places; for more than once Arcadians were called in to
settle with authority political disputes that had arisen at Kyrene1.
1 Hdt. 4. 161 (Demonax of Mantineia, shortly after 550 B.C.), Polyb. 10. 22. 2 f. and
Plout. v. Philopoim. 1 (Ekdemos and Demophanes, or Megalophanes, of Megalopolis, in
the third century B.c). See also Archiv f. Rel. 1906 ix. 42 n. 1.
Fig. 57
(e) The Cult of Zeus Lykaios at Kyrene.
The cult of Zeus Lykaios spread from Arkadia to Kyrene.
There appears, indeed, to have been some ancestral link between
these two places; for more than once Arcadians were called in to
settle with authority political disputes that had arisen at Kyrene1.
1 Hdt. 4. 161 (Demonax of Mantineia, shortly after 550 B.C.), Polyb. 10. 22. 2 f. and
Plout. v. Philopoim. 1 (Ekdemos and Demophanes, or Megalophanes, of Megalopolis, in
the third century B.c). See also Archiv f. Rel. 1906 ix. 42 n. 1.