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—How, exactly, did the Orphist 'enter upon the lovely Crown'?
We have seen reason to believe that, with a view to apotheosis1, he
had 'fallen as a kid into milk2.' Now Attic vase-paintings of the
fifth century B.C. represent the Thracian women that slew Orpheus
as tattooed with various symbols including a small goat and a
ladder (fig. y6)3. And Attic vases of the late fifth or the fourth

)

Fig. 76.

(see Athen. 102 A Kal [xzto. ravra Atos jjyero Tro/jLTrr] kclI aWwu 7nx/x7r6\\wj' Sewv, /c.r.X.),
and Wieten's interpretation of the Pythagorean precept is confessedly different from
that of Porph. loc. cit. Neither objection is necessarily fatal, but the whole hypothesis
is frail.

1 M. Radin 'Apotheosis' in the Class. Rev. 1916 xxx. 44—46 acutely remarks that
'the term [aTrodeuais] was intended to denote not merely the elevation of a mortal to
divinity [e/c^ewcris], but to assert of such an elevation that it was a movement in the
Orphic cycle, a restitutio in pristinum station?

- Supra i. 675 ff.

3 (1) A fragmentary kylix with white ground, found in 1888 on the Akropolis at
Athens (J. E. Harrison ' Some fragments of a vase presumably by Euphronios ' in the
Joum. Hell. Stud. 1888 ix. 143—146 pi. 6, part of which = my fig. 76, G. C. Richards
ib. 1894 xiv. 381 f., W. Klein Die griechischen Vasen mit Lieblingsinschriften Leipzig
1898 p. 154 f., O. Gruppe in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 1184 fig. 9, Furtwiingler—Reichhold

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