Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

The Mountain as the Burial-place of Zeus 159

of course anxious,' he says1, 'to hear something of the sepulchre of
Zeus ;. but it was in vain that I inquired of my host...for any cave
on the mountain. He knew of nothing of the kind ; and all that
I could learn from him was that, about a mile off, there is a foun-
tain with an inscription on it. When I had thus failed in obtaining
any information about the cave, I said, rather meaning to tell him
an old story, than supposing that I should learn any thing, that
one Zeus, a god of the Hellenes, was said to have been buried
there; and that it was his tomb that I wished to see2, I had

Fig. 130.

pronounced the very name by which a place on the summit of the
mountain is known to all the people in the neighbourhood, although
only a few shepherds have ever seen it. My host had never heard
it called by any other name than the tomb of Zeus, and therefore
had not understood me at first, when I inquired after a cave.... I
found, as a guide up the mountain, a shepherd, who had become
acquainted with the tomb of Zeus in tending his flock. A good
hour was spent in reaching the summit, towards the northern

1 R. Pashley Travels in Crete Cambridge 1837 i. 211 ff.

2 Id. ib. i. 211 11. 2 says: ' ToO Aids to jJLvriixeiov, or rod Aids to ixvrjixa, were my words.'
N. G. Polites llapadoaets Athens 1904 i. 97 no. 174 gives the name in actual use as 's
rod Ala to /LLvrjfxa.