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 cult of Zeus Philios on the mountain at Pergamon was, if I am right in
my conjecture1, derived from the cult of Zeus Philios the 'Mountaineer2' of
Megalopolis. But the original connexion with Orestes had long since been for-

Fig. 9S4.

gotten, or at best left a mere trace 01 itself in the traditional link between
Orestes and Telephos3. It was, however, remembered that Zeus Philios somehow
stood for the founder of the state. This may be inferred from the fact that, when

Cat. Coins ii. 282 no. 57, H. Stiller in Pergamon v. 2. 53 fig. 4, H. von Fritze loc. cit.

p. 84 pi. s, 17: obv. ct pnnA AinNOC tpaia no c or cTPnnAM
hnoctpaia Noceni, rev. avt 0 v ctoc neprA (-obv. m ^par-mos

IiwAAZciwos ■ Tpa'iavds, rev. AihyovffTOS' lJepya/j.rji'wv).

1 Supra p. 11 79.

2 Supra p. 11 78 f.

3 Supra p. 1179 n. 6. Note that T??Xe0os, a clipped form of T^Xe^d^s (F. Bechtel—
A. Fick Die Griechischen Personennamen'2 Gottingen 1894 p. 374) was, like 'OpetTTr]s
(supra p. 1179), a name which would fitly describe a mountain-god (cp. Od. 24. 83, Aristoph.
nub. 281, Menand. AevKadia frag. 1, 4 [Frag. com. Gr. iv. 158 f. Meineke) ap. Strab. 452,
and the like).