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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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Nephelokokkygia

effect produced by the ivory arms, the exquisite face, the gorgeous
drapery, the queenly bearing, and the golden throne. Greek and
Roman writers vied with each other in praising the sculptor's
creation. To cite but a single epigram, Martial1 wrote:

Thy toil and triumph, Polykleitos, stands-
Hera, beyond the reach of Pheidias' hands.
Had Paris this sweet face on Ida seen,
The judge convinced, the rivals scorned had been.
Loved he not his own Hera's form divine,
Zeus might have loved the Hera that is thine.

I need not labour the point. The myth was well known, and the
statue immensely famous. What concerns us at the moment is the
fact that the Argive Hera herself was worshipped expressly as Hera
Bastleia2: Aristophanes, true to a long-established tendency of the
mythopoeic mind, has split off the cult-title Bastleia and transformed
it into a new and brilliant personality—the quasi-Hera of Athens3.
This bold stroke of genius4 was necessitated and justified by the

1 Mart. ep. 10. 89.

2 W. R. Paton—E. L. Hicks The Inscriptions of Cos Oxford 1891 p. 88 ff. no. 38,
5 t. =J. de Prott Leges Graecorum sacrae Lipsiae 1896 Fasti sacri p. 25 ff. no. 6, 5f.-
P. Miillensiefen in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. iii. 1. 361 ff. no. 3637, 5f. = Michel
Recueil d'Inscr. gr. no. 717, jfcaDittenberger SyU.imer. Gr.3 no. 1026, sf. a liturgical
calendar on a marble slab in lettering of s. iv—s. iii B.C. SeKdrai- "Hpcu 'Apyetai "EXetai
BctcnXeicu 5d,ujaXis Kpird- k.t.X. (VXeia = iv iXei, 'in the marsh,' cp. Alexis of Samos
frag. 1 {Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 299 Miiller) ap. Athen. 572 F "AXefis 6' 6 2d/uos iv devripip
"Qpwv Xa/xiaKuiv ' ttjk iv Zdfup 'Acppodlryv, r/v oi fiiv iv KaXd^ois KaXouaLV, ol de iv"EXei,'
k.t.X., Paus. 8. 36. 6 at Megalopolis Ai^r/jos KaXov/Mivrjs iv iXei va6s re ko.1 dX<ros.
Hesych. s.v. iXeta [iXeia cod.)'... KaV'Bpa iv Kiirptp. Kal "Ap-re/xis iv Meinrqvri (Mefflvr)
cod.). See further O. lessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vii. 2819).

The title as attached to the Argive Hera appears to be of long standing: Phoronis
frag. 4 Kinkel ap. Clem. Ai. strain. I. 24 p. 102, 23 f. 'OXvpiwiddos (WiXefys, | "HpTjs
'Apyei-qs (context cited supra i. 453 n. 8), Aisch. suppl. 296 f. IIEA. ttCk ovv reXevry
fiaaiXioiv veiny rdSe; | XO. jSouk ttjv yvvalK tB-qKtv' Apyeta Be6s. | k.t.X., Corp. inscr. Att.
iii. 1 no. 172, 5 ff. on a taurobolic altar of Pentelic marble, to be dated c. 361— 363 A.D.
odros KeKpoirl-qv aixei tt&Xiv, ovtos iv "Apyei | vaierdei, /HIotov p.vGTiKbv ev Sidyuiv | avr60i
yap kXciSovxos Itpv fiaaCXtjiSos "HpTjs, I k.t.X., 9f. da8ovx6s K6pr}s, pa(nX[r]t]dos iepd
e-r)KS>v {"Spas KXeWpa <pipav, pup-bv i0T)KC 'Fiji | k.t.X. = Kaibel Epigr. Gr. no. 822, 5 ff.,
9f. = Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. 1. 283. 5 ff., 9 f. (reading 7 avrdBi. yap KXeidodxos i<pv
/3a<rtX7ji'5os"HpTjs but 9 5aSoO%6s p.e Kbpys BairtX^s Aids iepbi tjkuv \ k.t.X.). So in Latin Sen.
Ag. 349 ff-1 Apul. met. 6. 4.

3 There appears to have been no temple of Hera at Athens till the time of Hadrian
(Paus. 1. 18. 9), unless we reckon the ruined temple on the way from Phaleron to Athens,
said to have been fired by Mardonios (Paus. 1. 1. 5, 10. 35. 2).

4 Possibly not so original as we might suppose. I incline to think that Kratinos had
hit upon a very similar idea. He is known to have dubbed Perikles Zeis (supra i. 280, iii.
32 f., cp. ii- 816 n. 1) and Aspasia "Rpa, if not also Hipavvos or VvpawoSaip.uv (Meineke
Frag. com. Gr. ii. 61 f., 147 ff., supra iii. 32 n. 5). When, therefore, we read in schol.
Aristoph. av. 1536 cVri Si Kai wapa KpaHvifi 17 BctcriXeict, it is tempting to conclude that
Kratinos spoke of Perikles and Aspasia as the Zeus and the Hera BaalXeia of Athens.
 
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