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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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The Arrhephoroi

embodiment of the goddess (F. Dtimmlerin Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 2765)—witness
Ail. de nat. an. 4. 2 ei*"Epu/a tt}s XcKeXias eoprrj etrriv, r\v KaXovaiv ' Avaydiyta 'EpuKtvoi re
avroi Kai plvroL Kai otjot. ev rr\ SiKeXiq. irdo~7}. r\ be atria, rrjv 'Arppodlryv X^yovcnv evrevdev e$
Atj3tf7]P diraipeiv ev raiabe rats ijp.e'paLS. bo^d^ovat be apa raura ratirrj TeKp.aLpbfi.tvoi. irepiarepcov
7r\7j66s iariv evravda irdpirXeio'rov. oiiKOvv at pev ovx bpwvrai, Xe'yovcri de 'HlpvKLvoi. rrjv debv
bopvtfiopoiicras direXdelv • ddtippara yap 'AcppobLrTjs Trepurrepas elvaL aboval re eKetvot Kai
TTeirLcTTeijKao'i rravres avdpwwoi. bieXdovo~G>v de i)pepQiv evvta plav pev biairpeirrj ttjv wpav %K
ye rod ireXdyovs rod Kopi^ovros £k rrjs At/3d??s opdcrdat eairerophrjv, odx biav Kara, ras dyeXaias
TreXeidbas rds Xoi7rds elvai, iroptpvpdv be", dscTrep odv ttjv 'Acppobiryv 6 T?7iOS ijpiv ' AvaKpttov
abei, Trop<pvperiv irov Xiyoiv (frag. 1 Bergk4, 2 Edmonds, 2 Diehl). Kai XPV<TV <>^ eUaapivn
cpavel-q dV, Kai rovrb ye Kara ttjv 'Oprjpov 8ebv tt)v avTi)v, rjv eKeivos dvaptXirei XPV<JVV
W- 3- 64, 5. 427, 9. 389, 19. 282, 22. 470, 24. 699, Od. 4. 14, 8. 337, 342, 17. 37, 19. 54,
h.Aphr. 93). 'itrerai be aiirrj rwv irepurrepHv rd vi(prj tOiv Xoiwwv, Kai eoprrj wdXLv'rlpvKivoiS
Kai iravf)yvpis rd Karaywyia, eK rod Ppyov Kai rovro rb bvopa.

With Aphrodite was associated a youthful consort, presumably Eryx her son by the
local king Boutas (Diod. 4. 23, 83, Hyg.fai. 260, Serv. in Verg. Aen. 1. 570, 5. 24, 412,
Steph. Byz. s.v. "Epif, Myth. Vat. 1. 53, 2. 156, cp. schol. vet. Theokr. 15. 101) or by
Poseidon (Apollod. 2. 5. 10, Dion Cass. frag. 4. 2 Bekker, Serv. in Verg. Aen. 5. 24,
interp. Serv. in Verg. Aen. 1. 570, Myth. Vat. 1. 94, 1. 107, 2. 156, Tzetz. in Lyk. Al.
866, 958, 1232), rather than Aineias (Diod. 4. 83, Strab. 608, Cic. in Verr. 2. 4. 72,
Verg. Aen. 5. 759 ff., Fest. p. 340 b 3 ff. Miiller, p. 458, 31 ff. Lindsay, Hyg. fab. 260,
cp. Serv. in Verg. Aen. 5. 760): see F. Dlimmler lo c. cit. Kxz.re.Ktra of c. 413—400 B.C.
shows Aphrodite drawing towards herself a naked youth, whom I take to be Eryx
(H. Riggauer in the Zeitschr.f. Num. 1881 viii. 72 f. pi. 1, 2 'Sollten wir hier vielleicht
Eryx zu erblicken haben...oder haben wir hier den Nachklang einer friiheren mytho-
logischen Entwicklungsphase des Eros...?,' Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 17 pi. A, 19
1 figure virile,' Plead Hist, num." p. 138 ' wingless Eros'. Fig. 90 is from a specimen in my
collection). Another, of the same period, turns Eryx into Eros—an easy transformation
(Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Sicily p. 63 no. 13, Weber Cat. Coins i. 275 no. 1311 pi. 50, Plead
Hist, num.? p. 138. Fig. 91 is from a specimen of mine); and this type is comparable
with that of a unique tetradrachm inscribed IRVKAXtIB retrograde (G. F. Hill Coins
of Ancient Sicily London 1903 p. 136 pi. 9, 11 (= my fig. 92), Head Hist, num? p. 138)-

A further point of interest in the cult was its ancient service of hierodules (Strab. 272
oLKeirai Se Kai b"Epvtj Xb<pos v\j/ijXbs, iepbv ixwv 'Acppodirr/sTip.iiiji.evov btatpepbvrws, lepobovXoiv
yvvaiK&v TrXrjpes rb iraXaibv, ds dvideaav Kar evxw di r' eK rrjs ZiiceXlas Kai QuiBev rroXXoi'
vvvi B' oio-irep airy i) KaroiKla Xeiiravdpei Kai rb iepbv (so the second hand in cod, B. 17 T^
iepbv codd. A. Korae's marked the whole phrase as suspicious. PI. L. Jones simply
omits r)), Kai rwv iepiiv aiopdruiv «XAoi7re rb TrXr)8os) and their later equivalents (Diod. 4. 83.
Cic. in Q. Caecil. divin. 55).

Lastly it should be observed that Eryx, who is described as king of the Elym°|
(Apollod. 2. 5. 10, Dion Cass. frag. 4. 1 Bekker, Tzetz. in Lyk. Al. 1232) or Sikanoi
(cp. Paus. 8. 24. 2) or at least of some part of Sicily (Diod. 4. 23, 83, Paus. 4. 36- 4'
 
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