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Appendix B
Halos1.
Mount Pelion2.
Mount Ossa(?)3.
Mount Homole (?)4.
Mount Pindos5.
Makedonia
Mount Olympos6.
the accommodation of priests and pilgrims opened into a colonnade (401" long) with octa-
gonal columns. Sundry tiles of this stod are inscribed I H PAH or 11 \ POCH = iepd, tepos
'Hpa/cXeous (N. Pappadakis in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1920 xliv. 392 f., 192 1 xlv. 523).
1 Halos at the foot of Mt Othrys was founded by Athamas (Strab. 433). There was
here a sanctuary and grove of Zeus KacpvuTLos. Tradition said that Athamas, son of Aiolos,
had together with Ino plotted the death of Phrixos. The Achaeans were bidden by an
oracle to enjoin that the eldest of Athamas' descendants should never enter the Prytaneion.
They mounted guard over it, and their rule was that, if any such person entered it, he
might leave it only in order to be sacrificed. Many fearing the rule had fled to other lands.
If they returned and entered the Prytaneion, they were covered all over with fillets and
led out in procession to be slain. The reason given for this strange custom was that once,
when the Achaeans in accordance with an oracle were treating Athamas as a scape-goat
for the land and were about to sacrifice him, Kytissoros, son of Phrixos, came from Aia in
Kolchis and rescued him, thereby drawing down the wrath of the god on his own
descendants (Hdt. 7. 197, cp. Plat. Min. 315 c). When Phrixos came to Kolchis, he was
received by Dipsakos, son of the river-god Phyllis and a local nymph. Phrixos there sacri-
ficed the ram, on which he had escaped, to Zeus A.a<pv<xrios, and it was a custom for one
of his descendants to enter the Prytaneion and sacrifice to the said Zeus (so schol. vulg.
Ap. Rhod. 2. 653 kcu ixexPL T°v vvv vo/uos eva tlov $>p[i;ov awoybvuv eiaievai els to irpvTavelov,
teal dveiv ti2 eiprifxevu Ad. But there is an important variant in schol. cod. Paris, kcu /xexp'
vvv vb^os elaekdbvTO. els to irpvTavelov eva twp Qpiijov airoybvwv dveiv eiprjfxivix} Ad. The
accusative eiaeXObvTa.. .eva is ambiguous. It might be the subject of dveiv and mean that
the man sacrificed to Zeus. It might be the object of Oveiv and mean that the man was
sacrificed to Zeus. In view of the custom at Halos, the latter alternative is more probable
than the former. If so, amend Frazer Golden Bough3: The Dying God p. 165 n, 1).
Supra i. 416, ii. p. 899 n. 1.
Coins of Halos show the head of Zeus AatpvaTios, sometimes filleted, sometimes
laureate {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Thessaly etc. p. 13 pis. 2, 6, 31, 1). On occasion a
thunderbolt is added in front of the head on the obverse (W. Wroth in the Num. Chron.
Third Series 1899 xix. 91 pi. 7, r) or below Phrixos and the ram on the reverse (Brit. Mus.
Cat. Coins Thessaly etc. p. 13 no. 3). The coins are coppers of two periods, 400—344 B.C.
and 300—200 B.C. (Head Hist, num.2 p. 295 f.).
2 Zeus 'A/cpcuos (supra p. 871 n. 3 no. (1)) and 'A/rrcuos (supra p. 869 n. 2). A cloud
on Pelion meant rain or wind (Theophr. de sign'is tempest. 1. 22).
3 Zeus "Oaaaios (Scholl—Studemund anccd. i. 265 'JiirideTa Aibs (76) oaaaiov, 266
'E7rt#eTa Aios (68j oo-aaiov) is not necessarily to be taken as the god of Mt Ossa (1950™).
He may be the sender of Rumour ("Oacra) the 'messenger of Zeus' (//. 2. 93 f. /neTa de
o~<piaiv "Ocraa deS-qei | oTpvvovcr' ievai, Aios <x77tXos, cp. Od. 1. 282 f., 2. 216 f., 24. 413).
1 Homole or Homolos, one of the northern spurs of Mt Ossa in Magnesia, on which
stood the town Homolion (Stahlin in Pauly—Wissowa Keal-Enc. viii. 2259 ff.), was ' the
most fertile and best watered of the Thessalian mountains' (Paus. 9. 8. 6, cp. Strab. 443).
The 'OytioAwid'es 7ri;Xat of Thebes were said to have been called after it (Paus. 9. 8. 6f.;
but see supra p. 900 n. 1). It is possible that the Theban cult of Zeus 'O/xoXdiws had spread
southwards from Mt Homole (Nilsson Gr. Feste p. 12 f., supra p. 900 n. 1).
5 Zeus 'A/v-patos (supra p. 871 n. 3 no. (2)).
0 The cult of Zeus on Mt Olympos has been discussed at some length supra i. 100—
Halos1.
Mount Pelion2.
Mount Ossa(?)3.
Mount Homole (?)4.
Mount Pindos5.
Makedonia
Mount Olympos6.
the accommodation of priests and pilgrims opened into a colonnade (401" long) with octa-
gonal columns. Sundry tiles of this stod are inscribed I H PAH or 11 \ POCH = iepd, tepos
'Hpa/cXeous (N. Pappadakis in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1920 xliv. 392 f., 192 1 xlv. 523).
1 Halos at the foot of Mt Othrys was founded by Athamas (Strab. 433). There was
here a sanctuary and grove of Zeus KacpvuTLos. Tradition said that Athamas, son of Aiolos,
had together with Ino plotted the death of Phrixos. The Achaeans were bidden by an
oracle to enjoin that the eldest of Athamas' descendants should never enter the Prytaneion.
They mounted guard over it, and their rule was that, if any such person entered it, he
might leave it only in order to be sacrificed. Many fearing the rule had fled to other lands.
If they returned and entered the Prytaneion, they were covered all over with fillets and
led out in procession to be slain. The reason given for this strange custom was that once,
when the Achaeans in accordance with an oracle were treating Athamas as a scape-goat
for the land and were about to sacrifice him, Kytissoros, son of Phrixos, came from Aia in
Kolchis and rescued him, thereby drawing down the wrath of the god on his own
descendants (Hdt. 7. 197, cp. Plat. Min. 315 c). When Phrixos came to Kolchis, he was
received by Dipsakos, son of the river-god Phyllis and a local nymph. Phrixos there sacri-
ficed the ram, on which he had escaped, to Zeus A.a<pv<xrios, and it was a custom for one
of his descendants to enter the Prytaneion and sacrifice to the said Zeus (so schol. vulg.
Ap. Rhod. 2. 653 kcu ixexPL T°v vvv vo/uos eva tlov $>p[i;ov awoybvuv eiaievai els to irpvTavelov,
teal dveiv ti2 eiprifxevu Ad. But there is an important variant in schol. cod. Paris, kcu /xexp'
vvv vb^os elaekdbvTO. els to irpvTavelov eva twp Qpiijov airoybvwv dveiv eiprjfxivix} Ad. The
accusative eiaeXObvTa.. .eva is ambiguous. It might be the subject of dveiv and mean that
the man sacrificed to Zeus. It might be the object of Oveiv and mean that the man was
sacrificed to Zeus. In view of the custom at Halos, the latter alternative is more probable
than the former. If so, amend Frazer Golden Bough3: The Dying God p. 165 n, 1).
Supra i. 416, ii. p. 899 n. 1.
Coins of Halos show the head of Zeus AatpvaTios, sometimes filleted, sometimes
laureate {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Thessaly etc. p. 13 pis. 2, 6, 31, 1). On occasion a
thunderbolt is added in front of the head on the obverse (W. Wroth in the Num. Chron.
Third Series 1899 xix. 91 pi. 7, r) or below Phrixos and the ram on the reverse (Brit. Mus.
Cat. Coins Thessaly etc. p. 13 no. 3). The coins are coppers of two periods, 400—344 B.C.
and 300—200 B.C. (Head Hist, num.2 p. 295 f.).
2 Zeus 'A/cpcuos (supra p. 871 n. 3 no. (1)) and 'A/rrcuos (supra p. 869 n. 2). A cloud
on Pelion meant rain or wind (Theophr. de sign'is tempest. 1. 22).
3 Zeus "Oaaaios (Scholl—Studemund anccd. i. 265 'JiirideTa Aibs (76) oaaaiov, 266
'E7rt#eTa Aios (68j oo-aaiov) is not necessarily to be taken as the god of Mt Ossa (1950™).
He may be the sender of Rumour ("Oacra) the 'messenger of Zeus' (//. 2. 93 f. /neTa de
o~<piaiv "Ocraa deS-qei | oTpvvovcr' ievai, Aios <x77tXos, cp. Od. 1. 282 f., 2. 216 f., 24. 413).
1 Homole or Homolos, one of the northern spurs of Mt Ossa in Magnesia, on which
stood the town Homolion (Stahlin in Pauly—Wissowa Keal-Enc. viii. 2259 ff.), was ' the
most fertile and best watered of the Thessalian mountains' (Paus. 9. 8. 6, cp. Strab. 443).
The 'OytioAwid'es 7ri;Xat of Thebes were said to have been called after it (Paus. 9. 8. 6f.;
but see supra p. 900 n. 1). It is possible that the Theban cult of Zeus 'O/xoXdiws had spread
southwards from Mt Homole (Nilsson Gr. Feste p. 12 f., supra p. 900 n. 1).
5 Zeus 'A/v-patos (supra p. 871 n. 3 no. (2)).
0 The cult of Zeus on Mt Olympos has been discussed at some length supra i. 100—