Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergUniversitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Metadaten

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

DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14697#0292

DWork-Logo
Overview
Facsimile
0.5
1 cm
facsimile
Scroll
OCR fulltext
1130

Appendix M

Secondly, the buried chieftain was Epopsios because he kept an eye on
his descendants and watched over their interests1. The title was, however,
susceptible of a wider meaning. So Zeus Epopsios'1 came to be revered as the
guardian of suppliants3, the observer of right and wrong4, the avenger of
impious deeds5. Like Zeus Panoptes6, he readily took on a solar complexion7.
And it may be that the story of Zeus transforming himself into a hoopoe (epops)

1 Cp. the important passage Hes. o. d. 121 ff. avrap eVet Sy tovto yevos /card you'
e/cdXui/'e, I rol fxev Sai/xoves eiat Aids ixeydXov 8id fiovXds \ e'adXo't, eivixdbvioi, (pdXaKes dvqrthv
dvdpiCTrwv, I [01 pa (pvKdacrovaLv re <5i'/cas /cat axerXia 'ipya \ ~f]epa eacrafxevoi tyomtt) (poiruivTes
e7r' alcLv,~\ I Tr\ovTo8oTaL- /cat tovto yepas fiaaiXrjLov 'io~xov- For apparatus criticus see
A. Rzach ad loc. Infra Append. M fin.

The adjective eirb-fyios is used in this sense by Soph. Phil. 1040f. dXX', co warpiia 777
deot t iwbipLoi, I Teiaacrde /c.r.X., the substantive eVoi^is by Strab. 676 elr' 'AfupLXoxov...
o~vfij3aXeiv els p.ov ojj. ax<-av Trpds t8v Moi/'Of, TreabvTas 5' dfupoTepovs Tacprjvai p.ij iv eirb^ei
dXXrjXois, the verb eiroirTevoj by Aisch. cho. 489 of the buried Agamemnon c3 7a!', aves p.01
irarep' eiro-WTedaai fidxyv, cho. 1 of Hermes Chthdnios "Epp-f/ Hdbvie iraTpui' eiroTTTevuv
KpaTt) cited by Aristoph. ran. 1126, 1138 ff., Eum. 220 of the Eumenides to jxrf Tiveadai
fxr;5' eirowTeveiv k6tu, cho. 984 ff. of Helios tl>s tSy waTrjp, | oix oii/xbs, dXX' 6 ■wdvT etroTTTevuv
TaSe [ "HXios, dvayva p.7]Tpbs gpya tt/s epr/}s, Ag. 1270 of Apollon errovTevcras Se fxe, Eum.
224 of Athena S'iKas Se IlaXXds tQivo' eiroTrTevcrei ded, cho. 1064 b of God /cat a' iironTevwv
irpbeppwv I debs (pvKdaaoL /c.r.X., Ag. 1578 b of the gods in general (paiyv dv tjSt? vvv j3pOTU)v
TL/xabpovs I Oeovs avudev 777s iwoTrreveLv d%V (see further F. H. M. Blaydes on Aristoph.
ran. 1126). Similarly e<popav is used of Zeus in Od. 13. 213 f. (cited supra p. 1097 n. 1),
Archil, frag. 84 Hiller—Crusius ap. Stob. eel. 1. 3. 34 p. 58, nff. Wachsmuth (Clem.
Al. sfrom. 5. 14 p. 412, 3 ff. Stahlin, Euseb. praep. ev. 13. 13. 54) w ZeO, irarep Zev, gov
p.ev ovpavov /cpdros, | cru 5' epy iw' dvdpdnruv bpas | Xecopya /cat defxiffrd (so Liebel for
KaPe'/Aio-Ta or the like), croi 8e Orfpiuv | iJ/3/hs re /cat Siktj fxiXei, Soph. El. 174 f. eri /xeyas
ovpavqi | Zeus, cis etpopa irdvra Kai Kparwet. For Zeus"Ec/>opos see supra i. 737 n. 8.

2 Supra i. 737 n. 9.

3 Ap. Rhod. 2. 1123 avrbfieda Trpbs Zyvbs 'JZiroxptov with schol. Paris, ad loc. '~&irb\jjios
Se 6 eVoTTTos (J. Alberti corr. eVoTTrT??), 1131 ff. (cited supra p. 1097 n. 2).

4 Kallim. h. Zeus 81 ff. i'feo 5' avrbs \ d/cpTjs ev woXieo-ffiv, eirb\pios o'i re St/cTjut | Xadi'
i;7t6 aKoXirjs, o'i t 'IfXTvaKiv IBiivovaiv.

5 Orph. Arg. 1035 dXXd ot ovtl \ddov At eirbxpiov oiiSe defiio~Tas.

6 Supra i. 459 ff.

7 A stone pillar (height i'o™, breadth o"23m), found on the site of Itanos {Erimopoli)
in E. Crete and now serving as a lintel in a cottage near the lighthouse on Capo Sidero,
bears the following inscription in letters of j\ iv B.c. or earlier: HdTpwv Ait | 'E7r[o]i/'i[w]i |
dvi\_6\rjKe. | Tpo7ra[t] xei|(aepi!'at. j et rift tov twv : eTTipiejXes : /card | tt\v : xoi^pdSa : tt\v j
/niKpdv I Kai tt]v <7Trj\\riv : 6 ?7\tos j TpeTrerai (F. Halbherr in the Museo Italiano di antichita
classica 1890 iii. 585 b no. 4 = Michel Recueil d'Inscr. gr. no. 1181 = Dittenberger Syll.
inscr. Gr? no. 1264). The original position of the pillar was such that a line drawn
from it to a certain small rock visible at sea, and prolonged thence to the horizon, would
mark the precise spot where the sun rose at the winter solstice. Halbherr ad loc. cp.
schol. Aristoph. av. 997 <pr\al Se KaXXtoTparos iv KoXwvcp avadri/xd tl elvai avTOv (sc.
MeTwvos) daTpoXoyiKov and Ail. var. hist. 10. 7 6'rt MeTwv 6 AevKovoievs do-rpoXbyos
avio-TTjae (nrfXas Kai rds tov ijXiov Tpoirds KaTeypdxpaTo. The rosette or star, which figures
so frequently on coins of Itanos (J. N. Svoronos Numisinatique de la Crete ancienne
Macon 1890 i. 201 ff. pi. 18, 21 ff., pi. 19, 5, 16, 19, 22 (., 25 ff., id. in the Bull. Corr.
Hell. 1894 xviii. 115, 117 b, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete etc. p. 51 f. pi. 12, 6fb, pi. 13,
4, 7 f., Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 3. 895b. pi. 244, iff., 20, pi. 245, 3, 7 ff., Anson
Num. Gr. vi. 11 no. 114 pi. 1, Head Hist, num.? p. 469 f.), was in all probability a solar
symbol. And Zeus on Cretan soil tended to become a sun-god (supra i. 545 ff.).

For "Eirb^pios as a title of Apollon see supra i. 737 n. 9.
 
Annotationen