Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Appendixes and index (Cambridge, 1925)

The Mountain-cults of Zeus

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Between Selenigrad and Miloslavci1.
Thrace

Anchialos2.

Perinthos3.

Selymbria4.
Troas

Mount Ide5.

1 Qebi"T\pL(TT0S (supra p. 878 n. o no. (11)).

2 Zeus"Ti/'i(rros "Ettoittijs (?) (supra p. 878 n. o no. (10)).

3 Zeus Ao<pelTT]s (supra p. 874 ri. 1).

4 0e6s"A7ios"Ti/'i(rTOS (stipra p. 878 n. o no. (10)).

5 Mt Ide, a long range with numerous foot-hills (Strab. 583 uKokoirevdpibd-qs) and
springs (TroKvTrtda^ eight times in the II., cp. Plat. legg. 682 b), derived its name (supra
p. 932 n. 1) from abundant woods of pine (schol. II. 12. 20), pitch-pine (Plin. nat. hist.
14. 128), terebinth (id. ib. 13. 54), larch (id. ib. 16. 48), ash (Theophr. hist. pi. 3. 11. 4,
Plin. nat. hist. 16. 62), bay (id. ib. 15. 131, Dioskor. 4. 145 (147) p. 624 f. Sprengel),
fig (Plin- nat. hist. 15. 68), and raspberry (id. ib. 16. 180). Its inhabitants were familiar
with silver fir, oak, plum, filbert, maple, ash, Phoenician cedar, prickly cedar, alder,
beech, and sorb (Theophr. hist. pi. 3. 6. 5). Here grew the magic herb aithiopls (Plin.
nat. hist. 27. 12, Dioskor. 4. 103 (105) p. 597 Sprengel) and flowers galore (//. 14. 347 ff.).
So well-wooded was the mountain that Homer even speaks of a silver fir on its summit
reaching through air to aithSr (II. 14. 286 ff.). A conflagration of the forests on Ide in
1460 b.c. was remembered as an epoch-making event, which led to the discovery of iron
by the Idaean Daktyloi (Thrasyllos of Mendes frag. 3 (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 503 Miiller)
ap. Clem. Al. strom. 1. 21 p. 85, 2 ff. Stahlin. Cp. the Phorotiis frag. 1 Kinkel ap. schol.
Ap. Rhod. 1. 1129). Here too the herdsman Magnes discovered the loadstone, to which
his hobnails and ferule stuck fast (Nikandros frag. 101 Schneider ap. Plin. nat. hist.
36. 127).

Diod. 17. 7 (after Kleitarchos (?): see E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v.
683 f.) gives an interesting account of Mt Ide: 'There is a tradition that this mountain
got its name from Ide daughter of Melisseus. It is the greatest of the ranges near the
Hellespont and has in the midst of it a sacred cavern in which, they affirm, the goddesses
were judged by Alexandros [Cp. bronze coins of Skepsis, struck by Caracalla, which
show the judgment of Eros in place of Paris on Mt I AH (F. Imhoof-Blumer in the
Zeitschr. f. Num. 1883 x. 155 f. fig., id. in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1888
iii. 291 f. pi. 9, 20, Head Hist, num? p. 549)]. It is said that the Idaean Daktyloi too
were born here, the first workers of iron, who learnt their craft from the Mother of the
Gods. A peculiar phenomenon attaches to this mountain. When the dog-star rises, on
the topmost summit so still is the surrounding air that the peak soars higher than the
breath of the winds, and the sun is seen coming up before night is over. Its rays are not
rounded into a regular disk, but its flame is dispersed in diverse directions so that several
fires appear to touch the earth's horizon. A little later and these gather into a single
whole, which grows until it becomes 300 ft in diameter. Then, as day increases, the
normal size of the sun is completed and produces daylight as usual.' Cp. Lucr. 5. 663 ff.,
Mela 1. 94 f. The Cretan Ide too (? by confusion with this mountain) was said to see the
sun before the sunrise (supra p. 932 n. 1).

Coppers of Skamandria struck in s. iv b.c. have obv. head of Ide wreathed with fir,
rev. (variously arranged) fir-tree or fir-cone (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Troas, etc.

p. 79 pi. 14, 12—14, Head Hist, num.2 p. 548). One specimen names the head [l]AH
(Imhoof-Blumer in the Zeitschr. f. Num. 1874 i. 139 no. 1 pi. 4, 15 and in his Klei7ias.
Mibizen i. 42 no. 2 pi. 2, 2).

One of Mt Ide's summits was known as Tdpyapov or Tdpyapa—probably a Lelegian
name, for the Leleges are said to have occupied the district Tapyapis (Strab. 610) and the