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)

The Delphic Tripod

Apollon in the customary garb of Zeus, seated as his prophetes1 on
the tripod and divining with uplifted phidle in the presence of
Artemis and Leto. The tripod itself, for those that know its history,
is tantamount to a celestial seat2. The god seated upon it is for the

1 Aisch. Eum. 17 ff. rex^V^ Zeds 'ivdeov Kriaas <ppiva \ iffet reraprov rbvbe pdvriv
ev dpbvois (so A. Turnebe for \pbvoicr M.)- | Atds -Kpo<p7}rt)s 5' iarl [early M.) Ao£ias
irarpbs (Macrob. Sat. 5. 22. 13 has warpbs irpotprjTTjs earl Aortas Atos). The same thought
is expressed in h. Ap. 132 xp-^crw 5' dvdpibiroiai Aids vr}p.eprea (3ovXriv, h. Herm. 471 f. Kai
Ti/J.as ae ye (be M.) <paai bar/p-evai e/c Aids bp.(prjs \ p.avreias d\ eKaepye, Aids irdpa, Oeacpara
irdvra with E. E. Sikes ad loc, ib. 531 ff. ...iwiwp re Kai fpyuv \ rS>v dyad&v, baa <pi)fxl
bar)p.evai e/c Aios bp.<p?is. | p.avreirp/ bi, (peptare, biorpe(pes (biap.Trepes M.), rjv epeeiveis (G. J.
Hermann cj. rjv epeelvys), \ ovre ae deacparbv eari ba.rjp.evai ovre riv dXXov (aXXwv M.) |
ddavdrwv • rb yap olbe Atds vbos' avrdp eyib ye (this line is omitted in E.) | iriarwdels
Karevevaa Kai difxoaa naprepbv bpKOv, \ p.rj nva voa<piv epelo (ep.010 M.) de&v aieiyeverdcov |
dXXov 7' eiaeadai '/j-qvos irvKivbfppova (3ovXr)i>. k.t.X., Find. 01. 8. 58 f. tus epol <pda/j.a Xeyei
Kpoviba I Trep<p6ev fiapvybovirov Aids with schol. vet. 55 b ws ep.ol rb arjp.eiov rb yeyevypevov
eV rod Atds SrjXoi and schol. rec. 57 ourws ep.ol Xeyei, avrl rov voeiv bLbwcn, rb irepcpdev
<pdap.a, rjyovv i] Trepcpdeiaa bxpLS rod Atds rod viov rov Kpdvou rod ruiv f3apvrjxuv fipovrwv
airiov, Aisch. Eutn. 616 ft. ovttwttot' elirov pavriKolaiv ev dpbvois, j ovk dvbpos, ov yvvaiKos,
oil TrbXeojs irepi, \ 0 p.r] KeXevaai (/ceAedcet M. G. J. Hermann cj. KeXevaai, G. Wakefield
KeXevaoi, R. Porson 'ictXevae, N. Wecklein KeXevoi) Zeds 'OXvpnr'iwv (F. H. M. Blaydes cj.
OXvpnrios) irarrjp, ib. 713 f. k&ywye (/cd-ycb re M. corr. R. Porson) xpfju/xods rods ep.ovs re
Kai Atds I rapfteiv /ceXedw pn)b' aKapirdirovs Kriaai, Aisch. hiereae frag. 86 Nauck2 ap.
Macrob. Sat. 5. 22. 13 arkXXeiv dVcos rdxiara • ravra yap irar-qp | Zeds eyKaOiei Aoijia
Oeairiap-ara and ap. schol. Soph. 0. C. 'jgi, boKei yap b'ArrbXXwv -rrapd Atds Xap(3dveiv robs
XP^tr^oi's (lis Kai iv '\(f>iKXelq (Soph. frag. 292 Nauck2, where W. Schneider cj. 'l<piyeve'iq,
W. Hippenstiel 'I0t«-Xet?, W. Dindorf OtVXet) <p7]at, Kai AlaxvXos ev Tepetats 'areXXeiv
onus rdx^ara' ravra yap irarrip \ Zeds eyKadiet (eyKadiei corr. P. N. Papageorgius) Aofta
< deairLap-ara > ,' Kai 'ApiarcxpdvrjS Hpwaiv {frag. 19 (Frag. coin. Gr. ii. 1074 Meineke)),
Soph. O. T. 498 f. dXX' b p.ev ovv Zeds 6' r 'AwbXXuv ^vverol Kai rd /3poru>v | etSdres, O. C.
4Qi ff. dp' ovk dp.eivov 7) av rdv 0?7/3ats <ppovQi; \ TroXXip y, batpirep KaK (/cat A. R. Aid. e/c
L. cett. J. L. C. W. Doderlein cj. k&k) aacpearepuv /cXdw, | $ol/3ov re Kavrov Ttrjvbs,
8s Ke'ivov warrip, Kallim. h. Ap. 28 f. rbv x°?ov <i>TrbXXwv, drt oi Kara 8vp.bv deibei
(O. Schneider cj. ore—deiby, J. A. F. A. Meineke 6're—cletcrg), [ np.-qaeL' bvvarai yap,
eirel Ad 5e£ids varai, anon. h. Ap. 7 (E. Abel Orphica Lipsiae—Pragae 1885 p. 285)
fyoyovov, fadeov, 'g^vbeppova, frvoborripa (Brodaeus cj. faXoborrjpa), Verg. Aen. 3. 251 f.
quae Phoebo pater omnipotens, mihi Phoebus Apollo | praedixit with Serv. ad loc.
notandum Apollinem quae dicit a love cognoscere, id. in Verg. Aen. 1. 20 ne ipse
quidem Apollo sua sponte divinat. etc.

2 Ennius (frag. 416 Baehrens) ap. Varr. de ling. Lat. 7. 48 appears to have spoken
of the sky as cava cortina on account of its likeness to the lebes of Apollon. The passage
is thus printed by G. Goetz—F. Schoell (1910) : apud Ennium (Ann. 9 V.2): 'fquaeque
in corpore cau[s]a c<a>eruleo f eglo cortina receptat.' cava cortina dicta, quod est inter
terram et caelum ad similitudinem cortinae Apollinis ; ea a corde, quod inde sortes
primae existimatae. C. O. Mueller (1833), followed by I. Vahlen1 (1854) and L. Mueller
(1884), restored the extract from Ennius as quae cava corpore caemleo cortina receptat;

Ae. Baehrens (1886), as quaeque in corpore--| — cana caeruleo caelo cortina receptat.

Probably Ennius was thinking of the sky as an inverted caldron. It should, however,
be borne in mind that the \xvpoc\-lebes was sometimes fitted with a hemispherical lid (e.g.
supra i pi. xiii), and that this lid might on occasion be banded with the astronomical
zones and spangled with stars (F. Wieseler Ueber den delphischen Dreifoiss (extr. from the
Abh. d. go'tt. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe xv) Gottingen 1871 pp. 33, 59 n.,
81 n. 55, 93 n. 61, 95 fig. 7 after R. Garrucci Vetri ornati di figure in oro trovati nei