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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 99

Phantoms were in fashion. The Platonic Phaidros, perhaps
taking a hint from Stesichoros1 or Euripides2, tells how the gods,
indignant that Orpheus was unwilling to die for love, sent him
back empty-handed after showing him a mere phantom of his wife,
not her very self3.

In this connexion the design on a red-figured liydria in my
possession is deserving of notice (pi. xvi)4. It is Attic work
dating from the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. In the centre
stands a slender, youthful Apollon. He wears a bay-wreath on his
flowing locks and a chlamys with weighted corners over his left
arm. In his right hand he holds a long bay-branch; in his left,
a lyre. Both hands are lowered, and the god looks downwards at
the head of Orpheus, which with parted lips and upturned face is

zusammen [Hesych. s.v. 'Axvpu ('Axei-ow cod.)].' G. J. Vossius De tlieologia Gentili, et
physiologia Christiana- Amsterdami 1668 i. 224 = lib. 2 cap. 28, F. Creuzei' Synibolik und
Mythologies Leipzig and Darmstadt 1842 iv. 330, Gerhard Gr. Myth. i. 452, Preller—
Robert Gr. Myth. i. 781 n. 3 take the appellative to describe Persephone as a goddess of
birth. E. Maass De Acschyli Supplicibus commentatio Gryphiswaldiae 1890 pp. xix,
xxxvi f. suggests that Xeip<>7oWa must be daughter of a Zeus *Xeipoy6i>os, 'qui ut infans
nascatur manu efficit.' He compares, not only the Zeus Aexearris of Aliphera in Arkadia
(Paus. 8. 26. 6 kcu Alos re idputravTo Aexedrou fiwiiov, are evravBa tt)v 'ABr}va.v TeKbvros) and
the Zeus evwbiv of Nonnos (Dion. 48. 974 f. nol Beits afnre\beis ira.Tpwwv aiBtpa fiaiviov j
irarpi avv evwbivi /u?)s tyavae rpaTefas. See further Stephanus Thes. Gr.Ling.\\\. 2532 li),
but also (Zeus) Agamemnon *'Opcr(\oxos assumed to account for Iphigeneia 'OpinXoxla.
(Ant. Lib. 27) and Zeus *'Eira<pos assumed to account for Dionysos 'Eircupios (Orph.
h. Lys. Len. 50. 7 and h. triet. 52. 9 cited supra p. 4 n. o). Id. Aratea Berlin 1892
p. 349 adds : 'Ac fortasse de Dactylorum etymo hac eadem ratione edocebimur quid sibi
velit. Quid? si x(LP0~t0V0<- credebantur et digitis placide ventri immissis contrectando

efficere, ut parerent parturientes? Essent igitur AaKTvXoi = Aan7v\oy6voi____Coniectura

haec est, nihil amplius.' Gruppe Gr. Myfh. Kel. p. 860 n. 2 concludes: 'Orsilocheia und
Persephone Cheirogonia ...sind selbst Geburtsgottinnen gewesen, nicht nach (Zeus)
Agamemnon *Orsilochos oder Zeus * Cheirogonos...genannt.' F. Liebrecht locc. citt.
would bring Persephone into line with Prithu (supra (2)): 'Persephone heisst die
Fingergeborene (xeipoyovia) und deshalb audi wieder aus den Fingern Gebarende.' This
is attractive, but cannot claim the support of any actual myth. The preceding statement
'die Paliken erscheinen als Fingergeburten' is erroneous, the whole context being pre-
sumably copied from J.J. Bachofen Versuch liber die Grabersymbolik der Allen Basel
1859 P" '74 'Darum erscheinen die Paliken auf bekannten Vasenbildern als Finger-
geburt; darum heisst auch Persephone selbst Xeipoyovia, die Fingergeborne, und deshalb
auch wieder aus den Fingern Gebarende.'

1 O. Kern in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 1323, citing A. Hug's commentary on
Plat, syrnp. p. 43-

2 O. Gruppe in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 1158.

y Plat, syrnp. 179 d 'Op0e'a 5t tov Olaypov aTe\?i aTreirep-^jav e^'Atdov, <p6.pp.a dettjavTes
tt)s yvvaiKOS e<p rjv ^nev, p.vtt]v de ov dbvTes, otl p.a\BaKi£eo~Bai eddKei, are wv KiBapcpdds, nat
01) To\p,av k'veKa tov e'pwros airoBvrioKeiv wairep "Aryans, dXXa diap.r}xavao-Bai £G>v eia^vai
els"At5ov.

4 The vase (height 8} inches) was found in Attike, and was acquired by me in
'933-
 
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