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)

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Zan an older Zeus

' over against Palodes,' a muddy lake at the outlet of which
stood the town Bouthroton or Bouthrotos1. Neither place had
anything whatever to do with Pan. Both may be readily connected
with Zan. For at the Acherusian Lake was the tomb of Plouton,
which the author of the Clementine Homilies expressly compares
with the tomb of Zeus in Crete2. And a copper coin of Bouthroton,
struck when the town had become a Roman colony, has for obverse
type the head of Zeus wearing a wreath of oak, for reverse an
ox3. Other coppers of the same town show either a standing ox
or an ox-head4. The ox indeed played a part in the foundation-
legends both of Boucheta (Bouchetos, Boucheton, Bouchetion) near
the mouth of the Acheron5 and of Bouthroton too';, being com-
parable on the one hand with Europa's bull, on the other with

1 Strab. 324. Ptol. 3. 14. 4, cp. Appian. de bell. civ. 5. 55. See further E. Oberhummer
in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 1084 f. and H. Kiepert Formae orbis dntiqui Berlin
1894 Map 15 (inset of ' Corcyra Insula').

2 Clem. Rom. horn. 5. 23 (ii. 192 Migne) dXXd /cat tov daeXyovs Aios, tov [xvOlkov
(fxvdov sic O.), tov opoiojs T7)v 6vya.Tepa Mrjriv KartnriovTos, iv KprjTrj deupeiTai racpos' /cat
iv Trj 'AxfP0LI<T'a 5e Xip-vy YLXovtwvos. Rohde Psyche*>z i. 134 n. r, followed by Gruppe
Gr. Myth. Rcl. p. 1501 n. 2 and others, refers the passage wrongly to the less famous
Acherusian Lake near Hermione (Paus. 2. 35. 10).

3 Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 139 no. 30, cp. D. Sestini Descrizione d'alcune medaglie
Greche del Museo del Signore Carlo d' Ottavio Fontanel di Trieste Firenze 1822 p. 35
no. 1 (obv. P. DASSIDIVS. CORNELL, caput Jovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens M. 3),
no. 2 (obv. p. DASSIDIVS CORNELivs caput Iovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens M. 2 p.),
id. Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano dalla Libumia jino
a tutte le isole dell' arcipelago Parte Europea Firenze 1830 ii. 24 no. 2 (obv. p. DASSIDIVS.
CORNELivs. caput Jovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens JE. 3 p.), J. de Witte Description
des medailles et des antiqnite's du cabinet de M. Vabbi H. G. [ = Greppo de Montellier]
Paris 1856 no. 566.

4 Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 139 f. nos. 31 (ox), 32 (ox), 33 (ox-head), 39 (ox-head),
40 (ox).

5 Philostephanos frag. 9 a (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 30 Midler) ap. Harpokr. s.v. Boi^era-
...ir6\is eVri tt)s 'Hweipov.. .7jv QiXoo~Te<pavos (QiXoxupos sic cod. Heidelberg.) iv rots
'RweLpicriKois tbvo[ia.<rdai (prjeri 5td to ttjv Qep.iv eVt (Sods 6x°vp.ivqv eXdelv e/cetcre /caret tov
AevxaXiuvos ko.To.k\vo-p.bv = Souid. s.vv. Bovx^ra and Qipiv (in both passages reading
<Pt\6xopos for $iXoffTetpavos)=et. mag. p. 210, 34 ff. (reading <f>tX6xopos and 5td to ttjv
AtjtQ ijTOL Qep.iv k.t.X.) = Favorin. lex. p. 385, 31 ff. (reading QiXoffTi<pa.vos ev rots
<I>iXt7r7rt/cots sic).

6 Teukros of Kyzikos frag. 1 (Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 508 Midler) ap. et. mag. p. 210, 2T ff.
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BovTpwTov avTriv ihvop.a<ye, cp. Steph. Byz. s.v. BovdpuTos' xePPovrlLT0^ nepi KipKvpav.
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BovOpwTov ovopa, ws <pT]o~i TevKpos 6 K-v^lktjvos.