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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 161

stood a shrine of the hero Pleuron1, eponym of Pleuron in Aitolia2,
and infers that the cult of Zeus the wind-god had been brought from
Pleuron, a town adjoining the Calydonian Gulf, to Sparta. I accept
Wide's explanation, but go one step further. When we remember
that Pleuron stood in a district called Aiolis3, it becomes at least
possible that the original 'Giver of a Good Wind' was, in accordance
with Aeolian thinking4, none other than Pleuron the local hero. It
is tempting, though perhaps over-venturesome, to suppose that his
very name meant, or was taken to mean, the 'Wind-Blower5'. Be
that as it may, a happy coincidence led Theokritos, writing in the
Aeolic dialect, to say of his journey from Syracuse to Miletos:

For hither we pray Zeus grant the way with a capful of good wind

{eu&nemos)*.

Zeus Endnemos, then, like Zeus Oilrios, was on this showing an
Aeolian god evolved out of an Aeolian hero. But though Zeus as
a wind-god thus presupposes the primitive conception of wind as
the soul of a tribal ancestor, we must not imagine that the civilised
Greek of the classical period was mindful of origins. He thought of
Zeus as a sky-god. The wind blew in the aerox lower sky'. Clearly
therefore Zeus was responsible for the wind. Accordingly the
rock-cut inscription from Thera which commemorates Boreaios% may
Well be understood of Zeus Boreaios, god 'of the North Wind.'
Indeed, an altar dedicated to Zeus Bdreios has actually come to
h'ght near Seleukeia in Kilikia (fig. 71)9. When Herodes Attikos

1 Pans. 3. 13. 8 toD Liovbaov Si ov /lakpiw Aios Upbv iartr Evaviptov, toijtov Si iv 6V£ia
HXeupui/os Tfpipov, yey6va.cn Si oi IvvSapew vaiSes to irp&s fnjTpos awb tov H\evpwpof Biffnov
>op top Aijoas iraripa"Aaids (so Palmerius for "ApetSs codd. = Asios frag. 6 Kinke!) 07jo-ic
Tots ZiTeGiv 'Ayrjpopos iraiba elpat tov XlXevpwvos.

■ Dai'machos of Plataiai (on whom see E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Rcal-Enc. iv.
-008 I.) frag. 8 (Frag. hist. Gr. ii. 442 Muller) ap. schol. //. 13. 218, Apollod. 1. 7. 7.

Thouk. 3. 102, cp. Strab. 464 f. See further G. Hirschfeld in Pauly—Wissowa Rcal-
Enc. 1. IOj5 aml U1. 4 Supra pp. 106 ff., i4of., 148, 157.

UXevpuy is certainly a cognate of irXevpop, irXevpa, 'side', and tr\evpbv, irXeupa are
Possibly related to ir\evp.w,t\ung\{Pre\hvilz£tym. IVorttrd. d. Gr.Spr.-y>. 374f., F. Muller
'ttalischts Worterbuch Giittingen 1926 p. 345. Boisacq Diet. (tym. de la Langue Gr.
P- 794 disagrees: 'Un rapport avec xkebfnm..JSe. justifie mal'). Presumably in the first
^stance llXevpup meant 'Seitler' (W. Pape—G. E. Benseler Worterbuch der griechisehen
lgtnnamen* Braunschweig 1875 ii. 1211), but it is conceivable that the name was re-
lnt«preted as'Wind-Blower.'

Theokr. 28. 5 rviSe yap ir\6op eiiive/xop airrip.(6a trap Aids.
de Pr'1 101 ff- For philosophical views see O. Gilbert Die meteorologischen Theorien
s griechisehen Altertums Leipzig 1907 pp. 511—539 (' Windgenese').
„ S"Pr" i- 142 n. 10.

no. Heberdey and A. Wilhelm in the Denkschr. d. Akad. Wicn 1896 vi. Abh. p. 102
at>out 2 °" a roun<1 altar (ne'ght 1 "i/™, circumference 2-27m) in the village of Budshukli,
9«d8 r t"1'6 fr°m Seleukeia UP stream on the right bank of the Kalykadnos Ad | Bopdip \
Jahr k ' Al^ov Mo" I BcoSotov I cvx[v]p with facsimile = my fig. 71, E. Maass in the
"A. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1910 xiii. 121.
 
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