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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 19

probable that Platon's picture combining a straight axis of light with a curved periphery
of light (supra ii. 44) was derived from the Pythagorean doctrine, which combined a fire
at the centre of the universe with a fire girdling the sphere of the universe, and further
that Platon's phrase olov ra u7rof(i/iaTa tup rpi-f/pup presupposes the Pythagorean 6X/cds
(Class. Quart. 1926 xx. 113—133).

Georgios the Pisidian, who was deacon of St Sophia and record-keeper at Byzantion
wider the emperor Herakleios (610—641 A.D.), has introduced the same conception into
15 tieiT/^epo!/ ij koo-fiovpyia, a philosophico-theological poem in iambics on the creation of
re world (K. Krumbacher Gesckichte der byzantinischen Litteraturvon Justinian bis gum
'nde des Ostrdmischen Reiches* Munchen 1897 p. 710). The passage is as follows: 01 777s
v^oaT-fiplyfla Topvtiav iiltop, | UrCjv Si tt)p [SpWovcrap dcrra-nj) jSairei, | rj $6.6povairy Tvpoax^f
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y v tov fier avTbp irvdp.4pos, | aapaii Si p.a\\op rrypor]p.4pais 6'Xois | toiwp Kpe/j.a<ttt}p ttjp
Tavopp.0,, 6X/cd5a | (ij yij yap oXxris iarip ehiiSaprdxa | io-Toiaa Kal (pipovaa tt)p okovfiiPTjp), I
V>au.u.op Si Tei^os rrj dakaaari avWiyup, \ Kal Xeirrbp dpTl<ppayp.a Trj fdXg irXiKap, | ktI£oip
$poPTr\p, duTpairrjp Si 6e<nriaas \ 4k tSip ipiypup eKTpix^p TrvpeKp&Xup (Georg. Pisida
lexaemeron 498—512 Hercher (printed in R. Hercher's ed. of Ail. var. hist. ii. 618 f.), a
better text than xcii. 1474 A 1475 A Migne).

ales held that the earth was afloat like wood upon water (Aristot. de caelo 2. 13.
^94 a 28 ff. ot 3 60' ildaros Keiadai (sc. tt\p y9\p <paai). tovtop yap dpxai6TaT0P 7rapeiX?)0ap.ep
£i\ ^7°"' <Patrip ehreip OaXijp top MiXijcrioj', us Sid to ttXwttip elpai piivovcrap oiffirep
v n TotoCT-oi/ eVepov (Kal -yap to6twp be dipos p,ip ovffip Tri<j>vk€ fiiveip, dXX' icj! Metros),
g.^"6'3 °^ T^v abrbp Xdyop 6Vra irepl t?}s yrjs Kal rod vdaTos tov Sxovptos tt)P yijp- /c.r.X.,
tU^ '" ^r'stot- caelo p. 522, 14 ff. Heiberg eV abrrj Si tt\p OaXoO tov MiX-qalov
^S^ap) itf vSaros XiyoPTot &xeio-8ai t7]P yf/p iiairep fbXop fj dXXo ti tup ewip-qxea^al
' 7rc<pvKOTwp. Trpbs Tatjrrjp Si ttjp 56£ap 6 ' ApiaTOTiXrjS dpriXiyei p.aWop tam

P Toucrap did t6 Kal wap Ai^ra-rans ovtus (p /xiidov trxvP-ciTi XiyeaOat Kal t&p Qo\t}p
e«i0e„ top \6yop KeKOfuitfrai, cp. Aristot. met. 1. 3. 983 b 20 ff. dXXd GaXiJs fiep 6 ttjs
^ ^PWiyos (pi\o(To<pLas vdwp eipal (prjaip (5i6 Kal ttjp yijp 4<f vSaros dire<pa.lpeTO elpai),

»irt\ ' M Anstot.//ij/i. p. 23, 28 f. Diels Sid wdpnop dpxyp bir4\apop (codd. D. E. have
ct/iey but the reference is to Thales and Hippon) elpai t6 SSup nai ttip yijp ed> BSaTos
^Mphpto Ktio-Bai).

utjjA.rtem'^oros of Ephesos, who c. 100 b.c. issued his Yeuypa<povp.epa in eleven books,
WisSlnS r£Sults of the Peripatetic Agatharchides and others (H. Berger in Pauly—
l9*o r"* Real'Enc' '329 f-. W. Christ Gesckichte der griechischen Litteratur* Munchen
1 2 ' *2^' seems to have described the earth as floating on the ocean (Plin. nal. hist.
;n * fars nostra terrarum, de qua memoro, ambienti, ut dictum est, oceano velut
Gar^ lo"glss"ne ao ortu ad occasum patet, hoc est ab India ad Herculis columnas
liber Sa°ratas ' LXXXV | . LXXVIII p., ut Artemidoro auctori placet, etc., Dicuilus
in terti "!jthtra 0rbis terrae 5- 1 (ed- G- Parthey Berolini 1870 p. 18, 1 ff.). Jdem dicit
ut dictu cj- sec'*ndo): pars nostrarum terrarum de qua commemoro, ambienti

a(j tt 1 ^st oceano velut innatans, longissime ab ortu ad occasum patet, hoc est ab Jndia
[simplicit COlumnas Gadibus sacratas, centum mil. sexagies et sexies et XXXta
But it 61 tr'g.'nta (u""s inclusi a.b.c.)] milia passuum, ut Artemidoro auctori placet),
to Arte M C'U'te ce,ta'n tnat the phrase 'floating on the ocean' goes back beyond Pliny

So oros> nor, if it does, that we should see in it more than a rhetorical flourish.
I2- 2 (liiiVlat sirmlar m expression, though diverse in origin, is Io. Chrys. horn, in Genes.
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iSdrtav ttjh y*" ^°-TUV iOeiteKluae, Ka$ws 0 irpo<jy/rn)S <j>i}alv, '6 0e/ieXici<ras iiri tUp

Sen. iiat • ■

terrarum o h ' J"aesiL 3- [4' 1 quae sequitur Thaletis inepta sententia est. ait enim
dicitur tr ^ &<1Ua sustineri et vehi more navigii mobilitateque eius fluctuare tunc, cum
Pragmente t^' CSt erS° mirum' si ab«ndet humorc (so F. Haase. H. Diels Die

humor) ad ft* VorsokratikerZ Berlin 1912 i. it, 7 follows Gercke in reading si abundat
tmina profundenda, cum in humore sit totus.

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