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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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Zeus Ourios, ikmenos, Eudnemos^ Boreios 147

in the British Museum (fig. 61)1. It once supported a votive statue
of Zeus Ourios, and still sings his praises in passable elegiacs:

The mariner who sets his sail
For the Blue Eddies, where the gale
Rolls a big breaker on the sand,
Or backward bound for fatherland
Would cross the Aegean—let him call
From poop to Pilot of us all,
Zeus of the Fair Breeze, aye and put
His cakes before this statue's foot;
For here above the watery waste
Antipatros' son Philon2 placed
The god who meets us as we roam
With promise of safe voyage home.

OYPIONEK PPYMNHZTIZOAHr HTH PAKAAEITft
IHNAKATArrpoToNflN I ZT I o N EK V ET A ZA Z
EITEFIKYANEAZAIN AZAPoMoZENQAFoZEl AHN
KAMHYAoNEIAIZZEIKYMAFAPAYAMAeolZ
EITEK ATAI rAIHNFoNToYFAAK AN0ZT0NEPEYNAI
NEIZOnTniAEBAAnNYAlZTAPAPAIoANni
nAEToNEYANTHTONAEIOEoNANTinATPoYHAIZ
ZTHZE(j)l AilNATAOHZZ YM BOAONEYfTAOIHZ

Fig. 61.

As to the foundation of this popular cult, tradition was twofold.
Polyb ios (c. 201—c. 120 B.C.) describing the Asiatic shore of the
Oospores begins with ' Hieron, at which place they say that Iason

1 Corp. inscr. Gr. ii 110. 3797 = Kaibel Epig. Gr. no. 779 = Cougny Anth. Pal.
append. 1. 108 = F. H.Marshall The Collection ofAncient Greek Inscriptions in the British
'tseum iv. 1. 156 f. Oxford 1916 no. 1012 with fig. ( = my fig. 61) OBpiov ck Trpbp.vi]i tis
Vy^TTjpa, tcaXefru \ 7jj)va Kara. Trporbvwv iariov iKTrerdaas- | dr' iirl Kvave'a.s Sbas 5p6,tios,
h"" ^0<m^" I KaitirSkov eiXiWei Kvp.a rrapa if>ap.ddoa, \ ("ire xar' Alyalljv tt6vtov ir\a.Ka
'\T°V ^el"'^t' i v^c7§tiJ t&tde (3a.\wv i/'atcrra Trapd %odvui. j w5c tov eva.vr'qrov del debv

"T"rdTpou Trah \ aryae ■J'lXwi', dytx8ris avp.fioXov ei57rXoi'?;s.
p^. Bticheler in the Rhein. Mus. 1881 xxxvi. 338 ff. identifies this Philon with the
"on Antas of a sepulchral inscription at Brundisium published by G. Fiorelli in Not.
avi [8s0 p 2..^ a , ph;ion j Antas Antipatri | Tyri filius v(ixit) a(nnos) LX | h(ic)
g' us) I Marcia C. 1. Syntyche. His father, Antipatros of Tyre, was presumably the
philosopher who died at Athens shortly before 44 b.c. (H. von Arnim in Pauly—
SicjSS0Wa ^ea^'Enc. i. 2516). He in turn appears to have been descended from Antipatros of
50(l ?' tne epigrammatist, who was born at Tyre (Anth. Pal. 7. 428. 11 f. Meleagros) and
lg2|)1S!lec* 150—120 b.c. (W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur" Mlinchen
end f" ^2^' <~)n tn's sh°wing tne inscription from Chalkedon may be dated at the
per^ s' 1 b-c. or the beginning of s. i a.d. Hence too the poetic merits of Philon, who
accou'3S~~aS ^ucne'er conjectured—chose to describe Zeus by the rare epithet evavrriros on
nt of his own name'Ai'TSs.

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