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)

Zeus Asklepios

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with schol. ad loc. p. 305, 31 Stahlin naprj AaKedalpovos, Lyd. de mens. 4. 142
p. 164, 8 ff. Wiinsch 8evrepos 'l<T)(vos tov 'eXcitov kol Kopa>vl8os,<Cos iv rols Kvvoo~-
ovpidos suppl. C. B. Hase> Splois ird(pr], cp. Acta Sajictomm edd. Bolland.
Octobris ix. 546 ('Passio S. Philippi episc, Severi presb. et Hermae diac.' 1. 8)
ignis ille d.ivinus...et Scolapium medicum in monte Cynozuridos fulminatum
consecrationem mereri in gentibus fecit, where cod. Bodecense rightly reads
JEsculaftium and the Bollandist editors wrongly (?) comment : 'apud Cynozurim
Thessaliae urbem sepultus' {ib. ix. 549). Cic. de nat. deor. 3. 57 tertius, Arsippi
et Arsinoae,...cuius in Arcadia non longe a Lusio flumine sepulcrum et lucus
ostenditur, Lyd. de mens. 4. 142 p. 164, 10 ff. Wiinsch rpiros ''Apo-'nnrov nai
'Ap&Lvorjs rrjs AevKLinrov •. ..kol Ta(f)os avra iv 'ApKaSia. Clem. Rom. horn. 6. 21
(ii. 213 Migne) 'Ao-kX^ttlos iv 'Eiri8avpa> (sc. neirm), Rufin. recog?iit. 10. 24 in
Epidauro Aesculapii {sc. sepulcrum demonstratur). Cp. Tert. ad nat. 2. 14
Athenienses. ..Aesculapio et matri inter mortuos parentant with Mommsen Feste
d. Stadt Athen pp. 217 n. 4, 218, 222 and F. Kutsch Attische Heilgotler und
Heilheroen Giessen 1913 p. 16 ff.).

(7) Telesphoros.

Such an one might even be called Zeus TeXeto? (cp. the dedication 'A<Tn\r]7riS>i
Ait TeAei'coi supra p. 1076). Further, the title reXeo-fpdpos. 'bringing the end,bringing
to maturity'(see Stephanus Thes. Gr.Ling.vW. 1971 c ff.),appropriate to the divine
monarch {Jl. Zeus I. f. Zrjva 8ewv tov apicrTov deiaopai rj8e pLeyiumv,\evpvo7ra, Kpeiovra,
re\eo-(p6pov, k.t.X.) and actually found on a Phrygian altar as his appellative
{supra p. 838 n. 1), was a likely epithet of his human counterpart. And here it
will be remembered that antiquity often associates with Asklepios a subordinate
deity Telesphoros, who has been the subject of much speculation (L. Schenck
De Telesphoro deo Gottingen 1888, W. Wroth ' Telesphorus' in the Joum. Hell.
Stud. 1882 lii. 283—300, ib. 1883 iv. 161 f., ib. 1884 v. 82 n. 2, Frazer Pausam'as
iii. 70 f., S. Reinach ' Telesphore' in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1901 xiv. 343—349=/^.
Ctiltes, mythes et religions Paris 1906 ii. 255—261, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1455
n. 1, alib., id. Myth. Lit. 1908 p. 622, Harrison Themis p. 382 f.). We shall not
be far wrong', if we regard him as the procreative power of Asklepios, split
off from the god, to whom he at first belonged by way of appellative, and
endowed with a separate and secondary personality. The existence of Grabphalli
{supra i. 53 n. 1) and the birth-myths of Romulus and Servius Tullius {supra
p. 1059) lead us to suppose that the buried ancestor in hts procreative capacity
might take the form of a simple phallos (with this interchange of human
and phallic shapes cp. the statue of Nabu at Calah figured in two aspects by
C. F. Lehmann-Haupt in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 685 f.). Accordingly we some-
times meet with representations of Telesphoros as a phallos draped to look like
a man or a boy. C. M. Grivaud de la Vincelle Recueil de mominie?ts antiques,
la plupart ine'dits, et decouverts dans Pancie?ine Gaule Paris 1817 i. 86f, ii. pi. 10,
1—5 (of which 1, 3 = my fig. 931) and pi. 11, 5 (Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 75 no. 1,
J. A. Dulaure Histoire abregee de differens cultes'1 Paris 1825 ii. 242 f.) published
a bronze statuette, found some forty years earlier in a tomb near Amiens, which
shows a bearded male figure clad in a short tunic, a cape with a peaked hood
{bardoaicullus), and boots {caligae): the upper part—head, hood, and cape—can
be lifted off, revealing a body that consists in an erect phallos. Similarly T. Panof ka
'Asklepios und die Asklepiaden' in the Abh. d. berl. Akad. 1845 Phil.-hist.
Classe pp. 324, 357 pi. 6, 5 and 5 a (=my fig. 932, C. O. Miiller—F. Wieseler
Denkm. d. alt. Kunst Gottingen 1856 ii. 4. 4 pi. 61, 789, Reinach Rep. Stat. ii.

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