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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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78 The Clouds personified in Cult and Myth

Stesichoros now asserted that Greeks and Trojans fought one
another for the sake of a mere wraith {eidolon), in ignorance of the
genuine Helene1. What, in his reconstruction, the genuine Helenewas
doing all the time, we do not know: perhaps she never left Sparta2.
Herodotos3 gives a different turn to the story. According to him,
Helene was stolen from Menelaos at Sparta by Alexandras, driven
by a storm out of the Aegean to Egypt, and there taken from her
paramour by Proteus and kept at Memphis for the coming of her
lawful husband. Euripides in his Helene combines the two versions.
Like Stesichoros, he preserves the innocence of Helene by making
the truant a wraith {eidolon), fashioned of ouranos or cloud or aither
and substituted by Hera for the faithful wife4. Like Herodotos, he
sends the real Helene to Egypt, whither she is conducted by Hermes

rijs 'ArXafTlSos, Kai (pKovn ?.apo9 pdtcrjv rr)v vt\Gov. aXX 0 piv 'Xaaiov ipaapa A-qp-qTpos
ai<rxv"o.i /3ov\7]8els iKepavviidr/, AdpSavos Si k.t.X.

8 Stes. frag. 32 Bergk4, 11 Diehl, 18 Edmonds ap. Plat. Phaedr. 243 A—B. The
Platonic passage is expounded on allegorical lines by the neo-Platonist Hermeias of
Alexandreia in Plat. Phaedr. p. 75 ff. P. Couvreur.

1 Plat. rep. 586 C uo-irep rb rys 'EXivvs el'SwW M tu>v iv Upola 2r?jcrJxop6s </>7j<n
yevivOai irepipaxwrov dyvola rod a\y]9ovs.

' The passages relating to Stesichoros' TtaXivipSla are collected and discussed by
T. Bergk in his note on frag. 32 (Poet. lyr. Gr. iii. 217—219 Bergk4). To his biblio-
graphy add R. Hirzel 'Die Homonymie der griechischen Gotter nach der Lehre antiker
Theologen' in the Ber. sacks. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1896 xlviii. 290 f.
(the resolution of a self-contradictory mythical figure into self and shade goes back
to Homer, cp. Od. n. 601 ff. for a similar treatment of the ijpus debs (Plnd. Nem. 3. 22)),
W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur* Miinchen 1912 i. 212 ('Den Helenastoff
hat er zuerst in der 'EXeVa auf Grund der rein asthetischen, religicis indifferenten
homerischen Vorlage, dann in der IlaXivipSla mit Rlicksicht auf die tjberlieferung und den
Glauben der Dorer dargestellt, denen Helena eine Kultgottin war').

That the genuine Helene never left Sparta may be inferred from Dion Chrys. or. 11
p. 323 Reiske Kal rbv piv 'Sr-qo-lxopov TV vvrepov <pdrj Xiyew on to Trapdnav oiSi
TrXevaetev i]'EXivi] oiSapbcre' dXXoi Si rices (sc. Herodotos) us apwao-dei-q piv'EXivr) biro
rod 'AXefaxSpou, SeOpo Si wap i]pas eh Af7U7rroc dqW/coiro. The schol. Aristeid. iii. 150
Dindorf (A. C. 27~>/<rfxo/>os iv rrj irorfaei Xiyet ihs rjpwaKws ri)t> 'EXivi)v ' AXi^avSpos Kal Sia
rijs ^dpov epxbpevos atpypiBi) piv Tadrrjv irapa Wpwriws, iXafte Si irap avrov (irap airov om.
C.) iv irtvaKi rb etSwXov avTijs yeypappivov, iVa opdv irapapvdotTO rbv airov ipura.
B. D. els "ZTTjalxopov alvlrrerai • Xiyet yap iKelvos on iX8iiv b 'AXi£av8pos iwl rairris ttjs
vrjaov, rijs 'tapou, drp-gpiOrj irapa rod Upwrius tt)v EXivijv Kal eiSaXov abrijs iSi^aro 1 k.t.X.)
and Eudok. viol. 43 = 753 {ZT-qolxopos Si (pijaiv on, Siepxopivov 'AXe&vSpov 81! Alyvwrov, 6
Uparevs 'EXivijv arpeXbpevos etSuXov 'EXivrjs aiVw iSaxe, Kal oCtws iirXevaev els Tpolav) are
attributing to Stesichoros the Herodotean version phis sundry rationalising additions of
their own. 3 Hdt. 2.^112—115.

4 Eur. Hel. 31 ff. (EA.)"B>a Si pep<p8e1<r ovveK oil vik$ Seas \ ifrvipwaer&p' 'AXe£deopw
\iX-q, I SISwo-i 8' ovk ip.', dXX' bpoulxrao-' ipol [ elSwXov tpirvovv oipavou £vvdeia' airo (so
J. J. Reiske for (bro codd.), | TJpidpov rvpivvtp iraiSl, 582 ff. EA. owe rjXOov is yrjv TpipdS',
dXX' etSuXov rjv. | ME. Kai rls pXiirovra aijipar i^epya^erai; | EA. aldi)p, SBev aii 6eoTrbvqT
ixei-i MXV- I MB. t/cos TKdtravros dewv; aeXirra yap Xiyets. \ EA. "Upas (so Scaliger for
ijpa codd.) SidXXayp.', us Ildpts pe pi] Xd/3oi, 1135 f. vecpiXav itrl vavolv ayav, \ e'iSaXov ipbv
(so K. W. Dindorf for Upbv codd.) "Hpcts, [218 f. 9E. 7roD Si] rb Tvep<p$iv dvrl <roD Tpola
 
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