Dionysiac traits in the cult of Zeus 105
were found by Monsieur P. Perdrizet at Amphipolis1. Again, not
only in the Muse-mother Mnemosyne, but also in the prominence
originally accorded to one of the Muses, Kalliope2 or Thaleia'', we
may detect a trace of the ancient goddess, whose glory had paled
before the rising light of Zeus. Kalliope was said by some to have
borne children to Zeus4. And as to Thaleia we have evidence both
monumental and literary. A red-figured vase-painting from Nola
Fig. 76.
1 Bull. Corr. Hell. 1895 xix. 534, Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2906 f.
2 O. Bie in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 3243 notes that in lies, theog. 79 Kalliope is
7rpo(pepeaTdT7]...a.7raaewp, and that on the Francois-vase (600—550 B.C.) she is distinguished
from the other Muses by her full-face position and her syrinx (Furtwangler-—Reichhold
Gr. Vasenmalerei i. 5 pi. 1—2 KAUIOPE). She is not named by Homer (h. Hel. 1 f.
is late), though Eustath. in II. pp. 10, 9 f. and 161, 32 ff. cp. II. I. 604 oirl K<x\rj.
3 Infra p. 105 f.
4 Strab. 472, infra p. 106.
were found by Monsieur P. Perdrizet at Amphipolis1. Again, not
only in the Muse-mother Mnemosyne, but also in the prominence
originally accorded to one of the Muses, Kalliope2 or Thaleia'', we
may detect a trace of the ancient goddess, whose glory had paled
before the rising light of Zeus. Kalliope was said by some to have
borne children to Zeus4. And as to Thaleia we have evidence both
monumental and literary. A red-figured vase-painting from Nola
Fig. 76.
1 Bull. Corr. Hell. 1895 xix. 534, Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2906 f.
2 O. Bie in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 3243 notes that in lies, theog. 79 Kalliope is
7rpo(pepeaTdT7]...a.7raaewp, and that on the Francois-vase (600—550 B.C.) she is distinguished
from the other Muses by her full-face position and her syrinx (Furtwangler-—Reichhold
Gr. Vasenmalerei i. 5 pi. 1—2 KAUIOPE). She is not named by Homer (h. Hel. 1 f.
is late), though Eustath. in II. pp. 10, 9 f. and 161, 32 ff. cp. II. I. 604 oirl K<x\rj.
3 Infra p. 105 f.
4 Strab. 472, infra p. 106.