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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bolt. But this time he is grouped with a younger god on horseback,
recognisable by his effeminate limbs and abundant hair. G. Seure
does not hesitate to name him Dionysos, a hypostasis or by-form
of the Thracian rider. He points out that the relief was dedicated
by one Dionysios (nomen omen) ' to the god Zberthourdos and to
Iambadoules'—a title which recalls the horse-riding Dionysos, ' the

Fig. 786.

god Asdoulesl of the Brussels relief1. I may add2 that the curious
tradition of Idmbe the doi'tle3 or ' slave,' who beguiled Demeter by
her jokes and is herself described as a Thracian4 or a Bacchant"',
was not improbably founded on a misunderstanding of this cult-
epithet.

The coins of Serdike and Pautalia in Thrace adduced by Seure"
are only variants of a wide-spread numismatic type7 and do not

1 Supra p. 270 n. 3.

2 Since this paragraph was penned I find that I have been anticipated in the sugges-
tion by Seure himself {Rev. Et. Gr. 1913 xxvi. 257 n. 4).

3 Schol. Eur. Or. 964 = schol. Nik. alex. 130 'Id/x^ri 5e tis 5ov\t] rrjs Neraveipas k.t.X.

4 Nik. alex. 132 with scholl. ad loc. (cited supra i. 681 n. 4), schol. Eur. Or. 964,
Prokl. ap. Phot. bibl. p. 319 b 17 f.

0 Et. mag. p. 463, 28 f. rj cltto rrjs evpovarj? ywaiKos B<xkx?js tlv6s, 'Id^i/3?;s KaXov/xevris-
6 G. Seure in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1913 xxvi. 240. 7 Supra p. 743 n. 7.