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Dionysos and the
seat in or on the caldron. I infer that the Pythia, like the Orphist,
pretended to be boiled.
(cr) Dionysos and the Caldron of Apotheosis.
The inference here drawn with regard to the Pythia may seem
rash, or even grotesque ; but the Orphic ritual cannot be separated
from the Orphic myth, which—if I am not mistaken—came to
locate the caldron of apotheosis at Delphoi and to identify it with
the mantic tripod.
Clement of Alexandreia, an excellent authority in such matters,
after quoting Orpheus for the attack of the Titans upon the infant
Dionysos, continues :
'The Titans, who had torn him in pieces, set a certain caldron upon a tripod,
and dropping the limbs of Dionysos into it began by boiling' them. After that,
they pierced them with spits and " held them over Hephaistos." Zeus then made
his appearance (being a god, he presumably had soon got a whiff of the roast
flesh—your gods admit that they get that "as their guerdon"), struck the Titans
with a thunderbolt, and entrusted the limbs of Dionysos to his son Apollon for
burial. Apollon, obedient to the commands of Zeus, took the body in pieces to
Parnassos and there deposited the same1.'
8k irapa. to rrjs Aiyaiwv yrjs fxiaov dvai. Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 102 n. 12 reads
6/j.<pa\bs AiyaTos, but would connect the epithet with Ai£ ; and O. Hofer in Roscher Lex.
Myth. iii. 3379 ff. apparently reverts to 6fA<pa\ds Aiyos in the same connexion. But Aiyaios,
which implies an a-stem, cannot be legitimately derived from Aff; and the existence of
a stream called Aiyas and a plain called Aiycuov close to Delphoi (Steph. Byz. s.v.
Aiyalov Tre\ayos citing Hes. frag. 193 Flach 42 Rzach, Eustath. in Dionys. per. 132)
strongly supports the reading 6fj.<pa\6s Aiyaios. The people of Elyros in Crete dedicated
at Delphoi a bronze she-goat suckling Phylakides and Philandros, children of Apollon by
the nymph Akakallis (Pans. 10. 16. 5). Small silver coins of Delphoi struck c. 520—
500 B.C. have as their reverse type the head of a goat to right in an incuse square
(J. N. Svoronos in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1896 xx. 19 f. pi. 25, 7 f.), or the heads of two
goats facing each other, sometimes with* a dolphin to right above them, in an incuse
Fig. 150. Fig. 151. Fig. 152. Fig. 153. Fig. 154.
square (id. ib. p. 21 pi. 25, 20—22 and 23 f.); others, struck c. 500—480, have rev.
a goat's head facing in an incuse square, with or without A A (id. ib. p. 21 f. pi. 25,
25—28, 32 f. and 29 f.) ; others, c. 480—460, a goat's head facing, between two dolphins,
in an incuse square (id. ib. p. 24 pi. 25, 36—43 and p. 25 f. pi. 26, 1—6, 7, 8—13, 14) ;
others, c. 460—448, the same type with DA A above it (id. ib. p. 26 pi. 26, 15—20) ;
others, c. 421—355, the same type with AAA above it, but in a circular incuse (id. ib.
p. 27 b pi. 26, 22—24, 25) ; others, c. 355, a goat's head facing, between two dolphins
and two ivy-leaves, with AEA above it (id. ib. p. 28 pi. 26, 22—31) : see also Brit. Mus.
Cat. Coins Central Greece p. 24 ff. pi. 4, 1—3, 6—12 (my figs. 150—154 are from casts of
nos. 1, 2, 10, 11, 12), Head Hist, num.2 p. 340 b
1 Clem. Al. protr. 2. 18. 1 f. p. 14, 17 ff. Stahlin (quoted by Euseb. praep. ev. 2. 3.
Dionysos and the
seat in or on the caldron. I infer that the Pythia, like the Orphist,
pretended to be boiled.
(cr) Dionysos and the Caldron of Apotheosis.
The inference here drawn with regard to the Pythia may seem
rash, or even grotesque ; but the Orphic ritual cannot be separated
from the Orphic myth, which—if I am not mistaken—came to
locate the caldron of apotheosis at Delphoi and to identify it with
the mantic tripod.
Clement of Alexandreia, an excellent authority in such matters,
after quoting Orpheus for the attack of the Titans upon the infant
Dionysos, continues :
'The Titans, who had torn him in pieces, set a certain caldron upon a tripod,
and dropping the limbs of Dionysos into it began by boiling' them. After that,
they pierced them with spits and " held them over Hephaistos." Zeus then made
his appearance (being a god, he presumably had soon got a whiff of the roast
flesh—your gods admit that they get that "as their guerdon"), struck the Titans
with a thunderbolt, and entrusted the limbs of Dionysos to his son Apollon for
burial. Apollon, obedient to the commands of Zeus, took the body in pieces to
Parnassos and there deposited the same1.'
8k irapa. to rrjs Aiyaiwv yrjs fxiaov dvai. Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 102 n. 12 reads
6/j.<pa\bs AiyaTos, but would connect the epithet with Ai£ ; and O. Hofer in Roscher Lex.
Myth. iii. 3379 ff. apparently reverts to 6fA<pa\ds Aiyos in the same connexion. But Aiyaios,
which implies an a-stem, cannot be legitimately derived from Aff; and the existence of
a stream called Aiyas and a plain called Aiycuov close to Delphoi (Steph. Byz. s.v.
Aiyalov Tre\ayos citing Hes. frag. 193 Flach 42 Rzach, Eustath. in Dionys. per. 132)
strongly supports the reading 6fj.<pa\6s Aiyaios. The people of Elyros in Crete dedicated
at Delphoi a bronze she-goat suckling Phylakides and Philandros, children of Apollon by
the nymph Akakallis (Pans. 10. 16. 5). Small silver coins of Delphoi struck c. 520—
500 B.C. have as their reverse type the head of a goat to right in an incuse square
(J. N. Svoronos in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1896 xx. 19 f. pi. 25, 7 f.), or the heads of two
goats facing each other, sometimes with* a dolphin to right above them, in an incuse
Fig. 150. Fig. 151. Fig. 152. Fig. 153. Fig. 154.
square (id. ib. p. 21 pi. 25, 20—22 and 23 f.); others, struck c. 500—480, have rev.
a goat's head facing in an incuse square, with or without A A (id. ib. p. 21 f. pi. 25,
25—28, 32 f. and 29 f.) ; others, c. 480—460, a goat's head facing, between two dolphins,
in an incuse square (id. ib. p. 24 pi. 25, 36—43 and p. 25 f. pi. 26, 1—6, 7, 8—13, 14) ;
others, c. 460—448, the same type with DA A above it (id. ib. p. 26 pi. 26, 15—20) ;
others, c. 421—355, the same type with AAA above it, but in a circular incuse (id. ib.
p. 27 b pi. 26, 22—24, 25) ; others, c. 355, a goat's head facing, between two dolphins
and two ivy-leaves, with AEA above it (id. ib. p. 28 pi. 26, 22—31) : see also Brit. Mus.
Cat. Coins Central Greece p. 24 ff. pi. 4, 1—3, 6—12 (my figs. 150—154 are from casts of
nos. 1, 2, 10, 11, 12), Head Hist, num.2 p. 340 b
1 Clem. Al. protr. 2. 18. 1 f. p. 14, 17 ff. Stahlin (quoted by Euseb. praep. ev. 2. 3.