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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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Aiolos Hippotades

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Ptolemies married their own sisters is probably to be explained, not
merely as a concession to Egyptian feeling1, but also as a survival
°r revival of a practice proper to an old Macedonian family of
Aeolic extraction. It will be observed that the spelling of the
Ptolemies' name—Ptolemaios, not Polemaios—certifies their Aeolic
descent2. Finally, H. D. Muller sought to prove that Hera was
originally a goddess of the Aeolians3. If so, the conception of her
as sister and yet wife of Zeus may have arisen on Aeolic ground.

Be that as it may, I am disposed to conclude that Aiolos
Hippotades was in pre-Homeric days4 none other than Aiolos

Jacoby) ap. Const. Porphyrog. de thematibus 2. 2 (iii. 48 Bekker) iSXXoi 5' (sc. derive the
name JIaKeSocia) diro MaKtBovos rod Ai6\ov, ws 'EXXdciKos 'lepeiQv Trpwry t&v iv'Apyer
Ka-i McuceSovos <tov (ins. A. Meineke)> AldXov, <&<p' (ins. C. Miiller)> 08 (oi/rw cod.
F., whence C. Muller prints tovvv) vvv MaseSoves KaXoOvrat, /xovoi fiera Mvcrwv Tore
OiKouiTes.'

1 This explanation is advanced by Paus. 1. 7. 1 and defended by Miss R. E. White
(Mrs N. Wedd) in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1898 xviii. 238 ff. For the prevalence of
Geschwisterehe in Egypt see Diod. t. 27, Philon de specialibus legibus 4 (v. 68 Richter);
A- Erman Life in Ancient Egypt trans. H. M. Tirard London 1894 p. 153 {., Sir G. Mas-
Pero The Dawn of Civilization* London 1901 p. 50 f., E. Bevan A History of Egypt
under the Ptolemaic Dynasty London 1927 p. 158. Examples of it there and elsewhere
are collected by Sir J. G. Frazer on Paus. 1. 7. 1 (ii. 84 f.), E. Westermarck The History
°f.Human Marriage* London 1901 p. 290 ft'., P. Wilutzky Vorgeschichte des Rechts Breslau
r9°3 i- 55 ff., F. v. Reitzenstein Urgeschichte der Ehe* Stuttgart 1908 p. 70 f., H. Ploss—

Bartels Das Weib in der Natur- und Volkerkundt1" Leipzig 1913 i. 713, W. H. R.
divers in ]. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1915 viii. 425 b,

LI. Griffith ii. viii. 444 a.

Frazer Golden Bough3: The Dying God p. 193 f. comments: 'On this hypothesis we
Can understand why the custom of marriage with a full or a half sister has prevailed in so
many royal families. It was introduced, we may suppose, for the purpose of giving the
k'ng's son the right of succession hitherto enjoyed, under a system of female kinship, either
by the son of the king's sister or by the husband of the king's daughter; for under the new
rule the heir to the throne united both these characters, being at once the son of the king's
Slster and, through marriage with his own sister, the husband of the king's daughter. Thus
the custom of brother and sister marriage in royal houses marks a transition from female
'0 male descent of the crown1 [JThis explanation of the custom was anticipated by

McLennan____(The Patriarchal Theory, based on the Papers of the late John Ferguson

■McLennan, edited and completed by Donald McLennan (London, 188j), p. 95)]. In this
connexion it may be significant that Cronus and Zeus themselves married their full sisters
■Rhea and Hera, a tradition which naturally proved a stone of stumbling to generations
who had forgotten the ancient rule of policy which dictated such incestuous unions, and
vvho had so far inverted the true relations of gods and men as to expect their deities to be
edifying models of the new virtues instead of warning examples of the old vices'- [2 Compare
Cicero, De natura deorum, ii. 26. 66; [Plutarch], Devitaet poesiHomeri, ii. 96; Lactantius,
"ivitt. Lnst. i. 10; Firmicus Maternus, De erroreprofanamm religionuiu, xii. 4].'

" O. Hoffmann Diegriechischen Dialekte Gottingen 1891 i. 123, 224, ib. 1893 ii. 344 f.i
f., id. Die Afakedonm, ihre Sprache und ihr Volkstum Gottingen 1906 p. I73>

Thumb Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte Heidelberg 1909 pp. 207, 240, K. Brugmann
Griechischc Grammalik* Munchen 1913 p. 174.

H. D. Milller Mythologie der griechischen Stamme Gottingen 1857 i. 2.51 ff.

4 E. Forrer ' Vorhomerische Griechen in den Keilschrifttexten von Boghazkoi' in the
 
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