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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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128 The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis

re-interpretation, a commonplace of classical mythology, is not
expressly recorded till the Graeco-Roman period, though there are
stray hints of it as early as the fifth century B.C.1.

Whether the same confusion of Trito- with Trito- ever brought
the Tritopatores or Tritopatreis into relation with the water-powers
seems to me more problematic. M. Budimir, who claims that the
Tritopatreis had something to do with wells, quotes from the
Epakria calendar certain 'priestly dues on account of the well for
the Tritopatreis2.' Unfortunately—as may be seen from J. von
Prott's edition of the text3—the priestly dues and the well belong
to one clause, the Tritopatreis to another. The two are juxtaposed,
but not connected. Apart from this, Budimir has to fall back on
the somewhat remote analogy of the Vedic god Trita, who sits in
wells and presses soma^.

No doubt, the deities of wind and water do draw together in
late classical belief. Horace5 describes the South-wind as the
Mightiest power that Hadria knows,
Wills he the waves to madden or compose.

Minyer" Breslau 1844 p. 349 ff. argued that the 'Ursitz' of Athena T/HTOYeVeiei was
Boiotia, whence the myth spread with the Minyai to Libya. Similarly Farnell Cults of
Gk. States i. 266 ff. holds that Athena Tpiroyiveia originated in Thessaly or Boiotia, and
thence passed to Kyrene.

7 Schol. Paris. Ap. Rhod. 1. 109 cited supra p. 126 n. o. There are traces of the
name even further north, cp. Steph. Byz. s.v. Tplruvos- iroXlxviov Ma/ceSoWas.

1 Aisch. Eum. 292 ff. dXA' e'ire xiipas iv rbnois Ai/3ucmK?js (so Auratus for Ai/3wm-o(s
codd.) I Tplrcovos a/j.<pl xeD^a yeve8\iov irbpov | rldijaiv opdbv r) Karripe<p7j trbba {sc. 'Af?7jcS), I
(c.r.X., Hdt. 4. 180 rovruv be ^x0"™ ™" MaxXiiwc Aiaies • ovroi 5e Kal oi Ma^Aues irtpti;
tt]v TpiriwlSa Xlpu/rjv oUtoVffl, to p-iaov be a<pi otiplfei 6 Tplruv...bprrj be eviavaly ' AOijvalys
al ■xapOe'voi avr&v blxa biacrrairai /idxovrai irpbs dX\r)\as \W01al re Kal fiiXoici, rip aiBiyevii
deip Xeyovcrai ra irdrpia dTroreXeeiv, rr)v 'Adyval-qv KaXtop-ev. rds be dirodvyiTKOviTas rwv
irapdevwv eK t&v rpio/xdrwy \pevboirap8evovs KaXeovai. irpiv be dveivai auras p.dxe<j8ai, rdbe
iroievaL Kotvfj- Tapdevov rrjv KaWiarevovaav eKdcrore Koo-p.7}0-avres KWe'rj re KopivBty
iravoirXiri 'EAAtjpikjj Kai eV dp/xa dfafSi^daavres irepidyovci rty \lp.vt]v Kli/cAy. breoiiri be rb
ird\ai eKbap.eov rds irapdivovs irpiv ij cnp^'EWrjuas TrapoiKi(r8fji>ai, ovk e'xw elireiv, SoKe'a 5' W
Aiyvirrioiai birXoitri Koo-p.ieo-8ai avrds- ...rrjn be ' Adrjvalrju (paal JlocreiSiavos elvai Bvyarepa
Kal rrjs 'tpnwvibos Xlfivrji, Kal p.iv p.e/j.<pdeia-dv ri rep irarpl Souvai iionrriv rip Ad, rbv be A'a
euvrnv p.iv TTOirjaauBai duyaripa, Eur. Ion 871 ff. Kal rr\v lir ep.o'is (TKOiriXoiai deav | Xl/tvys
t' ivvbpov Ipiriovidbos \ irbrviav dnrav, Aristoph. Lys. 346 ff. Kal ae KaXw cinf-aX01'»
i5 I Tpiroye'vei', ijf tis iKel\vas vtroTrinirpriaiv dvqp, \ (pipeiv iibwp p.eb" t)p,G>v.

2 M. Budimir reported by L. Radermacher in the Bcrl. philol. Woch. Marz 4, 1922
p. 202 'lepdicvva (ppearos TpiroirarpeviTi.'

3 The text is given supra p. 115 n. 4.

4 J. Escher Triton und seine Bekdmpfung durch Herakles Leipzig 1890 pp. 9—'3
('Vorgeschichte des Triton und Ableitung des Namens,' dealing fully with Vedic Trita<
Zend Thrita, etc.), E. W. Hopkins The Religions of India Boston etc. 1895 pp. i°4> 431
n. 3, M. Winternitz A concise Dictionary of Eastern Religion Oxford 1910 p- 5^9'
A. A. Macdonell in J. Hastings Encyclopcedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1921
xii. 604 b.

5 Hor. od. 1. 3. 15 f. trans. J. Conington.
 
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