Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

PART I. CHAPTER II

ZEUS AS GOD OF THE WEATHER

PAGES

§ 1. Zeus lightens, thunders, rains, etc....... i—4

§ 2. The Diosemia or 'Zeus-sign'....... 4—10

§ 3. Zeus and the Lightning........11—826

(a) Lightning as a flame from the Burning Sky .... 11

i. Zeus Keraunos .......... 11

ii. Zeus Kataibdtes ......... 13

(a) The altars of Zeus Kataibdtes ...... 15

(j9) The dbata of Zeus Kataibdtes ...... 21

(y) The Didbletos or 'Zeus-struck' man in Elysium . . 22

(8) Death by Lightning as euthanasia ..... 23

(e) The Tarentine cult of Zeus Kataibdtes .... 29

(£) Zeus Krataibdtes ........ 32

(77) Survivals of the foregoing beliefs..... 32

iii. Zeus and the Sky-Pillar ........ 36

(a) The Elysian Way ....... 36

03) The Sky-Pillar in Italy....... 45

(y) The Sky-Pillar in the ' Minoan ' area. .... 47

(8) The Irttiinstd ......... 50

(e) Iupiter-Columns......... 57

(£) The Column of Mayence ....... 93

(77) Commemorative Columns ....... 100

\ff) The Trophy......... 108

(t) The Pillar of Light and the Soul-Ladder . . . . 114

(k) The Sky-Pillar in Sardinia ...... 140

(X) Diana-Pillars . ■....... 143

(/i) Agyieiis-Y'iWsirs ......... 160

(v) Omphalos and Pillar........ 166

(|) The Delphic Omphalos...... . 169

(o) The Delphic Tripod ........ 193

(77) The Pythia as Bride of Apollon ..... 207

(p) The Pythia and the Caldron of Apotheosis . . . 210

(cr) Dionysos and the Caldron of Apotheosis .... 218

(r) Pythagoras as Apollon reborn...... 221

(v) Zeus at Deiphoi......... 231

(</>) Dionysos at Deiphoi........ 233

(x) Dionysos displaced by Apollon at Deiphoi . . . 243

The stratification of Delphic Cults..... 266

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