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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Zeus and the Earthquakes 13

pelago at Thera1. The meaning of the epithet has been the subject
of much discussion2; but there can nowadays be no doubt that
it denotes the 'earth-bearer,' just as aigwchos is the 'az^/j-bearer3.'

' Afljjvatos 'EpeX0et Uoaeid&in dim K.r.X., A. N. Skias in the 'E0 'Apx- 1897 p. 62 ff. no. 49
i=id.ib. 1895 p. 107 f. no. 21 + P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1882 vi. 436 ff., two
portions of a marble block, which records the dedication, under M. Aurelius or Corn-
modus, of a statue representing the granddaughter of Claudius Demostratos, one of the
enemies of Herodes Attikos and his accuser before Aurelius), 21 ff. Bvyaripa ^Mir^ys
KX(auSiou) A^ocrrpdrou ' Ae-qvalov, fip|axTos i v tt)[i irarpiSi] \ tt)v iirthvvixov dpxn", CTparnyn-
oavTos eir[i ra 6VXa,] | yv/xi'a(yiapxri<">-»Tos, KijpvKeOtravTOi riji [e£ 'Apetov] \ nayov /SoiAtjs,
a-yuvoeeT-riaavTos liai<[a0?;xaiwi<] \ KaVEXevaemuv, ifyynTov juwttij/h|>i', iepius] \ 'EpexStus
nouei5uj/[osl).

The fact that Poseidon at Athens bore the cult-title Taiijoxos gives special point to
Soph. O.C. 1070 ff. o£ rav iTTirlav \ n^aaiv 'AOavav | Koi tov Tvbvrmv yauwxov | 'P<?<"
' <j>i\ov vlbv.

1 A rough stone, about a foot long, dug up a little below the great wall which supports
the eastern side of the agord at Thera, is inscribed in lettering of s. vi (?) B.C. [r]cudoxos
(F. Hiller von Gaertringen in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1899 xiv Arch. Anz.
P- 183, id. in Inscr. Gr. ins. iii Suppl. no. 1371 with fig. = niy fig. 2, F. Blass in
Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. iii. 2. 169 no. 4723).

10 15 20 25Cm-

Fig.

On the Poseidon-cults of Thera see Preller—Robert Gr. Myth. i. S75 n. 1, Gruppe
<*r. My1

States

Myth. Rel. pp. 246, 247, 268, 583 n. 7, 1139 n. 2, 1144 »• *> Farnell Cults of Gk.
'es iv. 90 n. 77, F. Hiller von Gaertringen Thera Berlin 1904 iii. 57 f-> 63> 97'
E- H. Meyer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2842 f.

" Ancient and modern opinions are listed by Welcker Gr. Gbtterl. i. 627, Preller—Robert
Gr. Myth. i. 572 n. ,, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1139 n. 2 sub fin., O. Jessen in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. vii. 486. For a fuller discussion leading up to the right derivation,
*°ugh not to the right interpretation, see A. Goebel in the Zeitschrift fiir die oster-
re'chischen Gymuasien 1876 xxvii. 243—246.

. 3 In view of the form TaiafoXos [supra p. 11 n. 1), philologists are all but unanimous
» deriving the compound from yata + -/oXos and in-referring the second element to
%<» = Lat. veho (A. Bezzenberger in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. i. 367 ff- no- l2b-
*4 (Sillyon in Pamphylia) text™ 'let him bring,' R. Meister Die griechischen DtetUMe
^ottingen ,889 ii. 168 f. no. 14b, 2.(cp. p. 24+ 'darbringen') = 0. Hoffmann Die
^echischen Dialekte Gottingen 1891 i. 46 no. 66, 2 (Chytroi in Kypros) ififr 'he brought
at» offering), SXos neut. (for V<!Xos, cp. Hesych. fxe<r0i»- Sp/*c«wx, with 6- under the
'"nuence of 6X0S msi;ic., 6Xw6at). See J. Schmidt in the Zeitschrift fiir vergleuhende
*>Pr«chforschung ^95 xxxiii. 456, Prellwitz Etym. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 88 'die Erde
 
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