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)

142 Zeus Ourios, ikmenos^ Eudnemos^ Boreios

tradition, recognises Zeus as natural lord and master of the winds.
The Odyssey speaks of ships 'delighting in the fair breeze of Zeus'1
or 'driven by the fair breeze of Zeus2,' and tells how 'Zeus sent a
fair breeze' to certain Phoenician mariners3. Similar expressions
occur in later poetry4, sometimes with special reference to a westerly
gale5 or to the etesian winds6.

Again, Zeus as sender of the fair breeze {otiros) bore the cult-title
Otlrios at least as early as 475 B.C. For, writing about that date,
Aischylos makes the suppliant Danaides appeal to Zeus Otlrios1.
They had travelled far and would fain reach the haven of their
desires. Who should waft them on their way, if not the great Argive8
god from whom through Epaphos they traced their descent9?

Zeus Otlrios had a sanctuary on the Asiatic side of the Thracian
Bosporos10. This was known to the Greeks as Hieron, the' Sanctuary'
par excellence11. The tabula Peutingeriana at Vienna, a road-map
of the Roman world drawn and painted at the beginning of the

because the evolving of such an artificial language is a slow process. We have further to
admit that this formation of a traditional epic language took place twice, first in Aeolic
dialect and for a second time in the Ionic dialect, the creation of the fundamentally Ionic
language of Homer with an Aeolic admixture.' Etc.

1 Od. 5. 176 aya.Wbp.cvai. Atds otipip.

2 Od. 15. 297 eiretyopAvri Aids ovpip. Strab. 350 quotes the passage as reading ayaWo-
p.ivT] Aids oilpip, in which form the line recurs in h. Ap. 427.

3 Od. 15. 475 i-rrl Si Zeds ovpov laWev.

4 Ap. Rhod. 4. 1223 f. ij\v8e 8' ovpos | anpaijs rjwdev vwiK Aids, Tzetz. antehom. 97 es
^jTrdpTTjp iirayaWbfievos Atds ijXvOev ovpoLS.

5 H. Ap. 433 f. Tj\0' dve/xos fi<pvpos piyas atffpws, iK Aids aim;s, | \aj3pos iiraiylfav
aWepos, k.t.X.

6 Ap. Rhod. 2. 498 f. rjpi 8' irr)<nai (so G. W. Mooney with one of the Paris codd.
erijo-ioi vulg.) avpai iirixpaov, t' avd Traaav \ yaiav 6/J.cD? TOirjoe Aids irvelovaiv apuyV
(A. H. Matthiae's cj. ivuyv can claim the support of four Vatican codd.), 2. 524 ff- TOl°
8' 'tic-qTi I yaiav iTri\j/6xovcriv tr-qo-iai (so G. W. Mooney for fr-qo-wi vulg.) e/c Atds avpai I
ijpaTa TeaaapaKOVTa.

7 Aisch. suppl. 591 ff. aiiTbs 6 irarrip (pvrovpybs airbxeip aval;, \ yivovs TraXaibtppW
/xiyas I tcktwv, to TTav p.rjxaP, oiSpios Zeis.

8 The word p-ijxap in Aisch. loc. cit. hints at the Argive cult of Zeus 1A.t(xaveis (supra
ii. 1144 n. 2).

9 So the context definitely asserts. For detailed proof see the stemma/a in Gerhard
Gr. Myth. ii. 234.

10 Arrian. peripl. Pont. Eux. 37 (Geogr. Gr. min. i. 401 Mtiller) £k 8e Kvaviav ^l
To'lepbv tov Aids tov Ovplov, tvairep Tb ffrb/na tov XUvtov, araSioi Teao-apaKovra.

11 Marcian. Heracleens. epit. peripl. Menipp. 7 f. (Geogr. Gr. min. i. 568 f. MUller)
mTCL tov Qp^Kiov Bbo-iropov Kai Tb <XTbp.a tov T&vtjelvov YUvTOV iv tois Seifiois rijs 'Ao~tas
p.ipeaiv, airep iarl tov Bidvvwv iBvovs, /cet-rat xwpioj' 'lepbv nakovnevov, iv ij5 veiis io~Ti Aios
Ovplov irpoaayopevoficvos. tovto Si to x^plov dtpeT-f/pLbv ecrri twv els rbv Xlbvrov ir\ebvToiv..•
curb 'lepov Aids Ovplov eis "P-qftav woTap.bv elcrl <tto.8loi ^= anon. peripl. Pont. Eux. 1 and 3
(Geogr. Gr. min. i. 402 f. Mtiller). See further E. Oberhummer in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Ene. iii. 752 f. with large-scale map ib. 749^