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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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162 Zeus Ourzos, ikmenos, Eudnemos, Boreios

lost his wife Annia Regilla (160 A.D.), he constructed a precinct

a | j known as the Triopion on the Appian Road1,

n n r i an<^ there set up the ambitious inscription in

O r E 1 Q. which Marcellus of Side2 described the lady,

9 E O A ? neither a mortal nor a goddess3, as dwelling
AI N E O Y i O Y with the heroines in the Islands of the
OEOAO-TOY Blest1:

E Y X IN Zeus bade the Elysian breezes of the West

Fig. 71. Bear that proud consort to her ocean rest6.

Scattered allusions to Zeus as a power controlling the winds may
be found throughout Greek literature, even as late as Byzantine
times. Eumathios Makrembolites6 in his Romance of Hysmine and
Hysminias makes the lovers, eloping from Eurykomis7, pray both
Zeus and Poseidon to favour their voyage:

' So to the harbour we came, and stretching our hands toward the bright sky
said—"Father Zeus, yielding to thee and thy mystic omens we embark on this
journey. Thy son Eros has laid siege to our hearts and is dragging us as his
booty away from our fatherland. And do thou, Poseidon, blow from our back,
not in our face. Oppose not with thy breath the calm breath of Zeus, oppose not
the west wind of Eros, whose well-tempered help has brought us to the haven3-"'

Finally, there is some slight reason to suppose that whirlwinds
{strobiloi by land and dinoi by sea9) were specially connected with
Zeus. His approach at the close of Aischylos' Prometheus Bound10
is heralded by an earthquake, a roar of thunder, spiral flashes of
lightning, spinning dust-storms11, and a windy warfare that confuses

1 K. Miinscher in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 936 ff.

2 W. Christ Geschichte dergriechischen lAtteratur* Mlinchen 1924 ii. 2. 678 n. 6.

3 /user. Gr. Sic. It. no. 1389 Marcell. 1. 43 = Cougny Anlh. Pal. Append. 1. 264- 43
ou p.ey yap dvyrr}, drdp ovde dtatva t£tvktcu.

4 Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 1389 Marcell. I. 8 f. = Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. I. 264- 8f-
avTT) Se p.ed' i)pu>vriUL ve'vaaTai \ ev ixaK&pwv vqaoicriv, 'Lva Kpovos ev^aaiXeiieL.

6 Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 1389 Marcell. 1. 21 f. = Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. I. 264-
2if. Zeis fxev es Loneavbv 8aXepriv fareiXe yvvaiKa \ aSp-Qcri Zetyvpoio KOfuft/iev 'HAw'??0'"''
Marcellus is thinking of Od. 4. 563 ff. Cp. also Hyg. fab. 140 at Latonam lovis iussu
ventus Aquilo sublatam ad Neptunum pertulit.

6 Eumalh. 7. 6. ' Supra ii. 1141.

8 The passage ends thus: crv 8', w XlocreiSov, <k iieraippivov irvevaov, ixt] /caret p.irait°v^
fj.r] irpbs ttp€v/j.a iraveihiov avTiirvebaois (sic) Aids, jlitj irpbs "Epuiros $icpvpov, ols riptels evKpaus
irepl tov Xi/ueVa yeybvapiev. The sequel shows that Poseidon is not so accommodating:
7. 9 "Epuis aXXrjXovs (an dXXljXois legenduvii) 7]fias eiovXoypdtpTjae, Kal Zeds iv 86/j.aci tw
c\pirayijv virrjvi^aro' 6 8£ ye dpaavs Kal aypios UoctclSw^ bprj kv/xdrwi/ eyelpei Kal irpbs alvW^
Aids avriirveL Kal oXov bovhoypacpeiov epwrtKbv eKirXifeL rots Kijiacriv.

u Epikour. epist. 2. 105 Kal 'iois yris rod vp-qcrTripos KaSiejiivov orpd/SiXoi ylyvovTa\'
g&jj Se 6a\drT7is Slvoi airoreXovvTai. With the context cp. Lucr. 6. 423 ff., O. Gilbert D*<-
meteorologischen Theorien desgriechischen Altertums Leipzig 1907 pp. 564, 632.

10 Aisch. P.v. 1080 ff.

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11 Id. id. 1085 crTp6fj.j3oi Se kovlv e'Mcrcrovcnv. Nikephoros Basilakes progj'/nn. /•
(i. 489, 12) crrp6p.fSos irvevixaTwv is a Byzantine (c. 1150 A. D.) echo.
 
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