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Helene are elsewhere termed the children of Tyndareos1, it seems
reasonable to conjecture that the original consort of Nemesis was
a king who bore the part of Zeus. Be that as it may, Nemesis
was already associated with Zeus in epic times2. The myth was
localised at Rhamnous by the comedian Kratinos in his Nemesis* \
and it is a curious coincidence, if no more, that the same poet in

Fig. 206.

the same play spoke of Perikles as a human Zeus4. The fact that
this myth first emerges in the Kypria recalls a famous stater of

doublet of Nemesis—discovers it with a gesture of surprise. To the right stand the
Dioskouroi, brothers of the unborn Helene ; to the left, Tyndareos, reputed father of all
three. See further R. Kekule Ueber ein griechisches Vasengemdlde im akademischen
Kunstmuseum zu Bonn Bonn 1879 pp. 1—26 with tigs, and pi.

1 Roscher Lex. Myth. i. T158 ff.

2 Were Zeus Ne^eios and Ney^a [infra ch. i § 6 (g) viii) originally an analogous pair
of woodland deities ?

3 Kratinos ap. pseudo-Eratosth. catast. 25 and schol. Caes. Germ. Aratea p. 405, 9 ff.
Eyssenhardt, cp. schol. Kallim. h. Artem. 232 : see A. Meineke Frag. com. Gr. ii. 81,
H. Posnansky op. cit. p. 16 ff.

4 Kratinos Nemesis frag. 10 ap. Plout. v. Per. 3 fio\', w Zed ^hie koI uaKapie (v.I.
K&pLe, Meineke cj. napaie, Sintenis cj. Kapcue: Append. B).