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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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34 Zeus and the Clouds in Literature

it as meaning 'the rain-maker1,' yet the title itself calls up no such
primitive picture, nor has it quite the same claim as nephelegereta
to be recognised as a poetic heirloom of fixed and unalterable pattern2.
A point deserving of notice is its constant association with Kronion
or Kronides. It is seldom, if ever, used of Zeus pure and simple till
long after classical times. Normally Zeus is kelaineplies as being the
son of Kronos; or, more rarely, both the divine names are dropped
and kelainephes stands as an independent appellative. It looks as
though this particular title had been attached to Zeus in early
Homeric days as affiliated successor of the 'Minoan' storm-god
Kronos3.

According to the Iliad, the three sons of Kronos divided the
world between them and

Zeus' portion was
Broad heaven in the aither and the clouds4.

Zeus sits on the peak of Mount Olympos and, when he is visited by
Hera and Athena, the Horai fling wide a ckmdy portal to admit
them:

Then Hera with the lash swift smote the steeds,
And of their own accord the gates of heaven
Groaned, held by the Horai. These are they who keep
Great heaven and Olympos; theirs the task
To ope the thick cloud or to close the same.
So through the gateway guided they their steeds
Patient o' the goad, and Kronos' son they found
Sitting apart from all the other gods
On the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympos5.

1 Schol. D. //. i. 397 ntkawefyti' tuS ras ve(pe"\as p.e\a.lvovTi, dfifUpowo^. Cp. Orion
p. 83, 12 f. k£\atve<pi]s' 6 Zei/s. 6 to. v4<py] k\ovG)V Kal kivwv, yj p.e\a.voiroiCov ev veil*.

2 At the end of a hexameter we find K<fkaive<p£'C Kpoviavi (II. 1. 397, 6. 267, 24. 290
(cp. Tzetz. alkg. II. 24. 162), Dem. 91, 468, h. HeraM. Leont. 15. 3, h. Diosk. 17. 4)
h. Diosk. 33. 5, lies. sc. Her. 53), Ke\awe(p<=a Kpoviuva (II. 11. 78, Aphr. 220),
Ztj« Ke\aive<pei Kpoviiovi (h. Dem. 316), -warpl Kehatveipi'C ~&povluvi (h. Dem. 396).

At the beginning of a hexameter the formula is 7itp>\ /ce\cuce0<5i K/)oW5?j (Od. 9. j52,
13. 25, but never in the Iliad). Kpovldrj is not omitted except by late authors (Maximus
wepi KaTapx&v 605 Z-qvl Kekaivetpi'C refers to the planet Zeus and is followed immediately
by a lacuna (see A. Ludwich ad he), Tzetz. alleg. Od. 9. 118, 13. 7 (in P. Matranga
Anecdota Graeca Romae 1850 i. 277, 293) Zr;W Keha.wt$t'i is more ad rem).

After the caesura KeXatvecpts occurs either in conjunction with other vocatives (II. 2. 412
Zeu KtjSicrTe, ptyLO-Te, Ke\aif€<ph, 22. 178 u irarep ipyiKipavvn, Kehaivetpis) or standing
by itself (//. 15. 461 Od. 13. 147 where Nikanor read Siorpecpis of Artemis (schol. L.T.
//. 9. 538), Anth. Pal. 6. 332. 7 (Adrianos) cited supra ii. 982 n. o). //. 21. 520 ko.5
b" X^ov wapa. Ttarpl Ke\aive(pei (with variants Trap 'L-qvl Ke\aive<peT and Ke\aive<pei wap Z-qvi)
is an isolated dative.

3 Supra ii. 554 ff., 601, 845.

4 //. 15. 192 (cited supra i. 25 n. 5), cp. //. 15. 20 (supra i. 25 f.).

6 77. 5. 748 ff. The first half of the passage is repeated in //. 8. 395 ff.
 
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