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)

Apollon and Artemis

was none other than that 'Road of the Birds,' which in Lithuanian
belief led to the celestial country1. In a word, it was the Milky
Way2. Suspicion becomes certainty, when we take into account the
next batch of references to the Hyperborean land. Pindar in a
magnificent passage of his tenth Pythian"0, a poem composed for
Hippokleas of Thessaly in 498 B.C., says of the victor's father:

Babelon—Reinach Monn. gr. d'As. Min. i. 299 pi. 47, 11 Trajan, 300 pi. 47, 16 f.
M. Amelias, 301 pi. 47, 21 Faustina Iunior, 301 no. 70 Lucius Verus, 302 pi. 47,
24 Septimius Severus ( = my fig. 361), 302 no. 79 Iulia Domna, 304 no. 93 Elagabalos,

Fig- 360. Fig. 361.

305 no. 99 Iulia Paula, 306 pi. 48, 20 Iulia Mamaea, 307 no. 115 Tranquillina, Head
Hist, num.'1 p. 512. See further L. Stephani in the Compte-rendu St. Pit. 1863 p. 82).
Similarly Zeus was on occasion conceived as drawn by a team of eagles {Brit. Mus.

Fig. 362.

Cat. Terracottas p. 451 no. E i7o = my fig. 362 a disk from Tarentum : diameter i\ins.),
more often as upborne by a single eagle (supra p. 102 f. figs. 59—64).

1 Supra p. 38. 2 lb. 3 Pind. Pyth. 10. 27—46.