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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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The Clouds personified in Cult and Myth 83

boreisch-romische Studien fiir Archdologen Berlin 1833 i. 105—107, written from Rome
on Oct. 8, 1823 after careful inspection of the original) and by F. Lenormant (in Darem-
berg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 6or fig. 677 (=my fig. 26), on the strength of Gerhard s
testimony), was doubted by F. Wieseler (in C. O. Midler Dcnkmalcr der alten Kunst
Gottingen 1835—1856 ii. 2. 13 pi- 34. 390 and L. Stephani (Nimbus und Strahlenkram
St Petersburg 1859 p. 14 no. 3 (extr. from the Mimoires de FAcadJmie des Sciences A
St.-Petersbourg. vi Serie. Sciences politiques, histoire, philologie. ix. 361 ff.), id. in the
Compte-rendu St. Pit. 1861 p. 13), and decisively rejected by J. Overbeck {Gr. Kunstmyth.
Zeus p. 4I8 with n.e 'Man beachte nur den einen Umstand, dass Zeus' Haar und Bart
grau gemalt sind und vergl. Anmerkung 71 zu S. 68.' Yet see infra §9 (h) ii (k) The
superannuation of Zeus) and H. Heydemann (he. cit. p. 4).

Long. past. 4. 3 €tXe Si iral ivSoBev 6 vews AiovmiaKas ypacfrds, J.ep.i\riv tIktowov,
k.t.X. may or may not be purely imaginary, and in any case says nothing of Zeus.

4 (1) A marble frieze, found in front of the Porta Portese at Rome and now preserved
in the Vatican (W. Helbig Ftihrer dnrch die offentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Alter-
ti'mer in Rom3 Leipzig 1912 i. 168 f. no. 259), has the following scene (Visconti Mits.
Pie-CUm. iv. 165 ff. pi. 19 ( = my fig. 27), A. L. Millin Galerie Mythologiipie Paris 1811
5i no. 223 (wrongly described) pi. 53, H. Brunn in the Bull. d. Inst. 1858 p. 128,
Welcker Gr. Gbtterl. ii. 58o n. 20, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus pp. 171 no. X, 178,
H- Heydemann Dionysos' Geburt und Kindheit (Winckelmannsfest-Progr. Halle 1885)
P- '5 f-, Baumeister Denkm. iii. 1289 vignette, F. Hauser Die neu-altischen Reliefs
Stuttgart 1889 P- ~r- no. 102, id. in the fahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1903 vi. 103 n. 22,
Reinach Rip. Reliefs iii. 362 no. 2). Zeus, with bent head, is seated on a rock. He leans
heavily, not to say painfully, on his right hand and grasps a long sceptre with his left.
His himdtion is so arranged as to leave bare the further leg, from the upper part of which
emerges the infant Dionysos and leaps with outstretched arms towards Hermes. That
god (pt'tasos, chlamys, boots, but no caduceus) advances with a panther-skin in which to
wrap the babe. Behind him are three stately female figures bearing long sceptres and
variously interpreted as Eileithyia, Kore, and Demeter (E. Q. Visconti, A. L. Millin, and
s- Reinach locc. citt.), as the Charites (H. Brunn loc. cit.), as Nymphs (H. Heydemann
loc. cit.), or as the Fates (F. Hauser locc. citt.). The identification of the third female with
Demeter is borne out by the bunch of corn-ears held stiffly in her right hand. Heydemann's
conjecture that all three are the Nymphs of Nysa ready to receive their nursling might
claim the support of Nonn. Dion. 9. 16 ff. Kai pitv ft"* Apaicdxoio (E. Maass in Hermes 1891
xxvi. 189 n. 2 equates Apdraxox here with to Apiicavov in the south of Kos (Strab. 657, cp.
Agathem. geogr. r8 (Geogr. Gr. mm. ii. 479 Muller), L. Btirchner in Pauly—Wissowa
Xeal-£„Ci v. l6+6> xj I47Ij> and loc_ ciL p_ j-g ff. explains in like manner h. Dion. 1
ApaKdwft Theokr. 26. 33 h ApaKdvy vi<p6evn. Others have supposed that Nonnos was
alluding to Ap6.Ka.vov a town and promontory (now Cape Phanari) at the north-east end
of Ae island Ikaros (IViiaria) (R. Kohler Uber die Dionysiaka des Nonnus von Panopohs
Halle 1853 P- 17 f., Preller—Robert Gr. Myth. i. 677 n. 5), or to Apiirovov (Trapani) the
Promontory in the north-west of Sicily (B. Graef De Bacchi expeditione Indica moitu-
mentis expressa Berolini 1886 p. 10 f. n. 15)) Xexw't* apupl KoXiiv-qv | vfait Ko\*o8hri
Xa/3wx Marios 'Epp.ijt I T,(p66ev irtTrbrtrro- \oxevopJvV Si Avaty | Trarpyyv fcrtfflM*
^uvvfd-qv tokctoio | kik\ti<jkuv Albvvoov, iirei iroSl (pbprov delpav \ -tjie xwXa/xwc KpoWSijs
PcPpmri I vvoos Sn y\u><xoy Zvpa.Koa<rlSi x">X°s 4">k« 'hobbled' (?) might be

akin to Schnur etc., cp. Walde Lat. etym. Wbrterb? p. 530 f. s.v. 'nurus')- | Kai 0eov
aPT'\6xevTov iip-qixiaav Eipacpiumjx, \ OTTt fiiv eviiSwi iraT7)p ippa\pa.t0 HVPV (l,nes *7t
' 9~24 are quoted in et. mag. p. 280, 13 ff.). | koI puv dxirXwToio SiaUaovTO. Xox«fS I
«°"Pov &SaKpvv iKoiupio-e ovyyovoi "Epfiijs, | Kai Ppi<pos ewcepdoio <pm?s USaXp.a SeXijxT/s (sc.
hofned like the Moon) | u!ira<re e^aripeooi Adp.ov toto^l Ni5m0«»is ( = the Hyades: see
H- W. Stoll and W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1822, Gruppe Gr. Myth- R#.
P- '435 n. 1), I TcaSa A(0S K0flhlv <TTa<l,v\yIKbp.ov 0.1 Si \a.poujai \ BdKX°" i^vavro, kai

(7t°mo ircuoos Udarr, \ Wnfiim y\aybeoaav dWjSXuex i\-p-d6a M^- But the corn-ears
"e dl-suited to Nymphs. Besides, Hauser rightly insists on the points of similarity
between this relief and that of the Madridpuleal (infra § 9 (h) ii (*))■ Dionysos springs

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