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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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Men believed to control the winds 103

in order to lure Turnus from the fight1. The Roman poet probably
based his figment on a passage of the Iliad, in which Apollon rescues
Aineias from Diomedes by carrying off his protege and substituting
a phantom resembling him in person and equipment2. We are not,
however, told that the Homeric phantom was made of cloud; indeed,
!t would appear that in genuine Greek myth, as distinct from the
inventions of a Euripides or a Virgil, the cloud-effigy was always
female, since the cloud itself was feminine.

§ 7. Zens and the Wind.

(a) Men believed to control the winds.

The Greeks, like other imperfectly civilised nations3, credited
certain persons with the power of controlling the winds. At Athens
the Heuddnemoi or 'Lull-winds' had an altar near the Metroon4:
they seem to have been a clan tracing their descent from an
eponymous founder Henddnemos, who was revered as an angel in
Christian times5. At Eleusis too there was a well-known altar of

1 Verg. Aen. 10. 633 ff. haec ubi dicta dedit, caelo se protinus alto [ misit agens
hiemem nimbo succincta per auras, | Iliacamque aciem et Laurentia castra petivit. | turn
'lea nube cava tenuem sine viribus umbram | in faciem Aeneae (visa mirabile monstrum) |
Dardaniis ornat telis, clipeumque iubasque | divini adsimulat capitis, dat inania verba, |
dat sine mente sonum gressusque eftingit euntis; | etc. After enticing Turnus to follow him
on board the ship of Osinius, the phantom disappears: ib. 663f. turn levis haud ultra
latebras iam quaerit imago, | sed sublime volans nubi se immiscuit atrae.

2 //. 5. 449 ff. avrap 6 eidw\ov reP|' dpyvporo^os 'AiroWwp (interp. Serv. in Verg. Aen.
2. 601 says inadvertently: Aeneas a Xeptuno opposita nube liberatur) | airy j kivdq,
tfeXoy koX Ttv\<iGi Toiov, | afx(pi 5' dp' ei'oujXcp Tpwes Kal S?oi 'Axatot j drjovi* d\\i]\o)v dfx(pi
0"nj0e<rcri ^oeias | d<7-7rt'5as (vkvkXovs Xaio-Tjia re irrfpUvTa. W. Leaf adloc. comments: 'The
mention of the " wraith" is not like Homer, nor does it appear on other occasions when
a hero is snatched away by a god. It plays no further part in the action, nor does there
seem to be the least surprise shown at the reappearance of the original Aineias in the
field, 1. 514. Thus 449—453 are probably interpolated; the last two lines come bodily
from M 425—6.'

On heroes etc. wrapped in a cloud and carried off by god or goddess see F. von Duhn
E>c Menelai itinere Aeg)ptia Bonnae 1874 p. 38, A. von Premerstein in Philologus 1896
lv- 636, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. pp. 996 n. 1, 1153.

3 Frazer Golden Bough3: The Magic Art i. 319—331 ('The Magical Control of the
Wind'), The Scapegoat pp. 176, 178 ff., Balder the Beautiful ii. 232 f.

4 Arrian. an. 3. 16. 8 Koi ravras {se. Antenor's group of Harniodios and Aristogeiton)
Adyi/aiois oiriau iripirtL 'WQavdpos, ca2 vvv Ketvrai 'A.6rjvqaiv tv Kepap-ei/cy al clubves,
V tiviixcv it ttoKiv, KaravTiKph p-dXiora rod Mrjrpyov, <oil (ins. N. Blancarduspost B. I'acu
'non procul') > /xaKpdv tCjv EvoavefAW rod /Jw/zoD- ogti% 5t fiefwrjTat to.1v Beatv ev 'KXeffflvc
(G. Loeschcke, followed by J. Topffer, cj. b 'EXei'crixiv. But K. VVachsmuth in Pauly—
Wissowa Keal-Ene. v. 2335 notes other examples of 'E\ev<rwi wrongly altered to 'EXw-
«W*), olSe toO (so A. G. Boos for rbv cod. A.) EiSast/iov rbv /3up.6x (B. Vulcanius reads
rov Et''5a^p.ot' fiuj/AOv) Ctrl tov 5a7rc'5ou 6vra.

6 Hesych. Eviavt/xos- dfryeXos, xapa 'A^xaiois. H. Usener Gotternamen Bonn 1896
P- 259 n. 28 cj. ytvos for iyytXos. Alii aliter: see C. Wachsmuth Die Stadt Athen im
 
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