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Astrapatos, Astrdpton 817
the Hellenistic age—the offering of first-fruits, the carrying of the
tripod, and the fetching of need-fire—were doubtless a later revival
of earlier usage. But the only fifth-century evidence is Aischylos'
allusion to ' the road-making sons of Hephaistos' as expounded by
the scholiast, who informs us that sacred processions from Athens
to Delphoi were headed by men bearing double axes1. The weapon,
whatever its precise usage in the ceremony, confirms us in the
impression that we have here to do with an ancient cult of Zeus.
Near Laodikeia Katakekaumene in Lykaonia Zeus was wor-
shipped under the fuller title ' He that Thunders and Lightens2/
The combination of these alternative epithets is unusual, but occurs
again on an oblong altar of Roman date found in Thera3.
(£) Zeus Zbelsourdos.
G. Seure, who during the-last five and twenty years has done
more than any man to help forward the study of Thracian archaeo-
logy, published in 1913 a whole series of monuments relating to
the cult of Zeus Zbelsoiirdos, and added an important discussion of
of the Athenians at Delphoi, relating to the third Pythais, that in the spring of 105 B.C.)
■wvpcpopos i) ey Ae\(pQ[v] ■ | Tifiw. | llvdatarai e£ Ei)7raT[pi5cDi>]• ] four names. | e/c llvp-
paKiSQv I one name (a later addition). | e'/c KrjpvKiov • \ three names followed by a blank
line. I e£ 'EvveiS&v | three names. | iK TerpaTroKewv | one name. | 6 iirl ras d-Trapxds- |
A/j.<pLKpaTT]s E7r[i<TT/)dr]oi;.
L. Couve in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1894 xviii. 87 ff. no. 9, iff. = Michel Recueil
d1 Inscr. gr. no. 1285, 2 ff. = Fouilles de Delphes iii. 2 no. 32, 2 ff. = Dittenberger Syll.
inscr. Gr.3 no. 728 I, 2 ff. (from the wall of the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphoi,
relating to the fouith Pythais, that in the spring of 96 B.C.) e-rri Mevropos apxovTos iv
AeX0o(s, ev 5i 'Adrjuacs j 'Apyeiov, 'i\afi>;v tov iepbv TpiiroSa e/c Ae\0c5e Kal aire Kop.l(xev, Kcd
rrjv wvpcpopov rjyayev 'Ap.(pu<pa.Tr)s 'Yi-rn\arpa.TOV 'Adrjvaios.
The evidence for the Pythais has been collected and discussed by J. Toepffer 'Die
attischen Pythaisten' und Deliasten' in Hermes 1888 xxiii. 321 ff., 633, V. von Schoeffer
De Deli insnlae rebus (Sludien fiir classische Philologie und Archdologie ix. 1) Berlin
1889 p. 11 f., E. Pfuhl De Atheniensium pompis sacris Berolini 1900 p. 104 ff., G. Colin
Le culte d\4pollon Pythien a Ath'cnes Paris 1905 p. 1 ff., W. S. Ferguson ' Researches in
Athenian and Delian Documents, ill' in Klio 1909 ix-. 304 ff., A. Boethius Die Pythais:
Sludien zur Geschichte der Verbindungen zwischen Atlien und Delphi Uppsala 1918
pp. 1—172 (a comprehensive and satisfactory handling of an intricate subject). A con-
venient summary of facts is given by Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr? ii. 298—301, and a
good popular sketch by Frazer Golden Bough'3: The Magic Art i. 32 f. and W. S.
Ferguson Hellenistic Athens London 1911 p. 372 f. (though Sir J. G. Frazer is probably
mistaken in supposing that the need-fire was carried in the tripod : see Boethius ofi. cit.
p. 72 ff).
1 Supra p. 628.
2 Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Ath. Mitth. 1888 xiii. 235 f. no. 1 {Khadyn A'han)
^ly)v65\u}\\\_p~\o<i dpx'e[/>]j[e]us Au Hpov\TwvTL Kal 'A\aTpaTTTo[v]\vTL WA E ^ I [e]^X^IJ'• Meno-
doros, as Sir William remarks, was perhaps high-priest of an imperial cult.
3 Inscr. Gr. ins. iii Suppl. no. 1359 ^'°s UpovrQvTos kol \ 'Aarpa-rrTovTOS. Cp. Orph.
h. Zeus Astrdptos 20. 3 a-arpajnovTO. a£\as ve<pewv TraTayo5p6/j.Li avSrj.
C. II. 52
the Hellenistic age—the offering of first-fruits, the carrying of the
tripod, and the fetching of need-fire—were doubtless a later revival
of earlier usage. But the only fifth-century evidence is Aischylos'
allusion to ' the road-making sons of Hephaistos' as expounded by
the scholiast, who informs us that sacred processions from Athens
to Delphoi were headed by men bearing double axes1. The weapon,
whatever its precise usage in the ceremony, confirms us in the
impression that we have here to do with an ancient cult of Zeus.
Near Laodikeia Katakekaumene in Lykaonia Zeus was wor-
shipped under the fuller title ' He that Thunders and Lightens2/
The combination of these alternative epithets is unusual, but occurs
again on an oblong altar of Roman date found in Thera3.
(£) Zeus Zbelsourdos.
G. Seure, who during the-last five and twenty years has done
more than any man to help forward the study of Thracian archaeo-
logy, published in 1913 a whole series of monuments relating to
the cult of Zeus Zbelsoiirdos, and added an important discussion of
of the Athenians at Delphoi, relating to the third Pythais, that in the spring of 105 B.C.)
■wvpcpopos i) ey Ae\(pQ[v] ■ | Tifiw. | llvdatarai e£ Ei)7raT[pi5cDi>]• ] four names. | e/c llvp-
paKiSQv I one name (a later addition). | e'/c KrjpvKiov • \ three names followed by a blank
line. I e£ 'EvveiS&v | three names. | iK TerpaTroKewv | one name. | 6 iirl ras d-Trapxds- |
A/j.<pLKpaTT]s E7r[i<TT/)dr]oi;.
L. Couve in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1894 xviii. 87 ff. no. 9, iff. = Michel Recueil
d1 Inscr. gr. no. 1285, 2 ff. = Fouilles de Delphes iii. 2 no. 32, 2 ff. = Dittenberger Syll.
inscr. Gr.3 no. 728 I, 2 ff. (from the wall of the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphoi,
relating to the fouith Pythais, that in the spring of 96 B.C.) e-rri Mevropos apxovTos iv
AeX0o(s, ev 5i 'Adrjuacs j 'Apyeiov, 'i\afi>;v tov iepbv TpiiroSa e/c Ae\0c5e Kal aire Kop.l(xev, Kcd
rrjv wvpcpopov rjyayev 'Ap.(pu<pa.Tr)s 'Yi-rn\arpa.TOV 'Adrjvaios.
The evidence for the Pythais has been collected and discussed by J. Toepffer 'Die
attischen Pythaisten' und Deliasten' in Hermes 1888 xxiii. 321 ff., 633, V. von Schoeffer
De Deli insnlae rebus (Sludien fiir classische Philologie und Archdologie ix. 1) Berlin
1889 p. 11 f., E. Pfuhl De Atheniensium pompis sacris Berolini 1900 p. 104 ff., G. Colin
Le culte d\4pollon Pythien a Ath'cnes Paris 1905 p. 1 ff., W. S. Ferguson ' Researches in
Athenian and Delian Documents, ill' in Klio 1909 ix-. 304 ff., A. Boethius Die Pythais:
Sludien zur Geschichte der Verbindungen zwischen Atlien und Delphi Uppsala 1918
pp. 1—172 (a comprehensive and satisfactory handling of an intricate subject). A con-
venient summary of facts is given by Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr? ii. 298—301, and a
good popular sketch by Frazer Golden Bough'3: The Magic Art i. 32 f. and W. S.
Ferguson Hellenistic Athens London 1911 p. 372 f. (though Sir J. G. Frazer is probably
mistaken in supposing that the need-fire was carried in the tripod : see Boethius ofi. cit.
p. 72 ff).
1 Supra p. 628.
2 Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Ath. Mitth. 1888 xiii. 235 f. no. 1 {Khadyn A'han)
^ly)v65\u}\\\_p~\o<i dpx'e[/>]j[e]us Au Hpov\TwvTL Kal 'A\aTpaTTTo[v]\vTL WA E ^ I [e]^X^IJ'• Meno-
doros, as Sir William remarks, was perhaps high-priest of an imperial cult.
3 Inscr. Gr. ins. iii Suppl. no. 1359 ^'°s UpovrQvTos kol \ 'Aarpa-rrTovTOS. Cp. Orph.
h. Zeus Astrdptos 20. 3 a-arpajnovTO. a£\as ve<pewv TraTayo5p6/j.Li avSrj.
C. II. 52