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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 157

religious interest of the passage lies in the fact that the wind astern
is distinctly conceived as Zeus or Iupiter in person. The wind is his
spirit, the spirit—let us say—of a tribal chief, long since dead and
buried, but rightly named Aiolos1.

It is possible that some such conception underlies the remarkable
epithet of Zeus ikmenos, 'who follows in our wake '2. The Homeric
poems apply this participle exclusively to the oiiros or 'fair breeze'
sent by Apollon3, Athena4, and Kirke5, which is on occasion per-
sonified and described as 'a good companion'6. But Eustathios goes
further and quotes from an unspecified source the significant
expression 'Zeus ikmenos'1, perhaps the product of some late epic
poet, who had in mind Iupiter Sequndanus or Secunclus.

Again, a parallel may be found in the case of Androgeos.
L. Weber8 has drawn attention to the very ancient character of this
mythical figure, whom he believes to have been originally a Cretan
god, transplanted to Attike and there transformed, first into a hero
possessed of chthonian powers, and last into a human prince
affiliated to Minos. I should prefer to invert the sequence god, hero,
man, and to regard Androgeos as ab initio a mortal, heroified after
death and worshipped in the Kerameikos under the name Eurygyes*.
Such an appellative was, not improbably, employed from the out-
set, as a means of avoiding the actual name of the dead10. After all,

1 Supra pp. 141, 148.

2 On the relation of tepevos to Uu, Ucvfopuu, etc. see Prellwitz Etym. Wbrterb. d. Gr.
Spr? p. i95j Boisacq Did. itym. de la Langue Gr. p. 370f., K. Brugmann Griechische
Grammatik* Mtinchen 1913 p. 365, F. Bechtel Lexilogus zu Homer Halle a. d. S. 1914
P- 175.

3 1. 479. 4 Od. 2. 420=15. 292, cp. 15. 34f.
B Od. ii. 6ff. = i2. 148ff.

6 Od. 11. 7 = 12. 149 Upevov odpov i'fi ir\-r)d'iciTiov, io6\bv eraipov.

7 Eustath. in 11. p. 964, 63 f. o6ev &vep.os ferai, 5s e'| UpdSos nai Toia&rrjs uXtjs rip
ovoTaaiv S0e„ Kai frpevos oipos xai Zeis <paaiv Upevos. It is tempting to infer from the
first sentence that Zeus Up.evos is a mere blunder for Zeus 'Upaios {infra § 8 (c)). But in
view of Iupiter Sequndanus or Secundus the inference would be precarious.

8 L. Weber 'Androgeos' in the Archiv f. Kel. 1925 xxiii. 34—44. 229—251, id.
'Kerameikos-Kulte' in the Ath. Mitth. 1925 L 145.

' Hesych. s.v. iir' Evpvyvy ayoiv yieXriuayipas (Amelesagoras/ra^. 3 (Frag. hist. Gr.

22 Muller)) top 'AvSpbyiuv Evpvyvrjv (so Musurus for avbpbytov eipinjv cod.) elpfjffai
010-1 rbv Mij/uos, i<j> $ rov dywva. rietadaKTOv (i}iserui)> eiriTa<piov 'kefyriaiv iv rip
Kepa/iei/cy. Kal 'HVi'ooos (/rag. 106 Flach, 104 Rzach) • Evpvyvw 5' In /coOpos (K. W.
Goettling cj. irlKovpot, R. Peppmiiller cj. irloopot cp. //. 13. 45°) (so
}• G. Hermann for 'Affqvafor cod.) iepauv (cp. Od. 11. 323). Melesagoras was a legendary
Eleusinian seer (Max. Tyr. diss. 38. 3), on whom was fathered an Atthis perhaps composed
* early as *. v u.c. (E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 1822, W. Christ
Mchichte der griechischen Litteratur* Mtinchen 1912 i. 454". •)•

10 Frazer Golden Bough3: Taboo p. 349ff. ('Names of the Dead tabooed'), E. Clodd
M«gicin Names London 1920 p. 121 ff. ('Mana in Names of the Dead').
 
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