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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 birth of Erichthonios 181

which they brought back, we should recognise a new-born babe,
the fruit of that momentous union. Dare we call him Erichthonios
'very child of the Ground1'?

i. The birth of Erichthonios.

Where the texts are silent the monuments may be allowed to
speak. A terra-cotta relief of the 'Melian' type, said to have been
°und in a grave beyond the Ilissos on the road to Halimous and now
at Berlin2 (fig. 93)* shows the head and shoulders of Ge emerging
r°m the ground. She presents the infant Erichthonios to his foster-
mother Athena, who, wearing a helmet but no aigis, approaches from
le left. Kekrops, with snaky tail, faces her on the right: he raises the
rennger of one hand in token of respect4 and with the other holds
spray of olive. Stylistic considerations would refer the relief to
e first half of the fifth century, while the four olive-leaves in
hena's helmet suit some date after the fight at Marathon6. The

Chth'^°t ,gewaltiSer Erdherr' (L. Malten Kyrene Berlin 1911 p. 83 n. 4), der 'gewaltige
Chtl °m,°S. ^ m Pauty—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 351), or der 'gewaltige Herr der
Myc°n' ''le fa^rb- d- kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1914 xxix. 190): see Nilsson Min.-

Qr p" 491 n. r. Nor 'Genius des fruchtbaren Erdbodens' (Preller—Robert

jt j- ^ 20°- Id. ib. n. 1 observes that Hermes too is 4ptx06vios in et. Gud. p. 208,
feti °i"''os **P/*?J xai xQbvios 'Epp-iji Kai ipix6l>vLos = et. mag. p. 371, 51 f. (pioivios 'Ep/iajj
Rose ^'°S ^P^bvLos 'Epjnjs). Nor yet 'good earth'—an unhappy rendering of H. J.
Q q Handbook of Greek Mythology London 1928 p. 129, apparently borrowed from
»«ius Grundziige der griechischcn Etymologic*1 Leipzig 1879 p. 144 'Gutland.' Still

le

3o/f°*^OUrSe' etymo'°gically akin to Erechtheus (J. B. Bury in the Class. Rev. 1899 xiii.
from ',; EpeX-®°x8uv>*'Ep<!xeu>v (short form 'EpexBtis)>'Epix66vios (1 by false derivation
Conf P.l' + 'x-el""-m))- see Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1320 n. 8, supra ii. 793 n. 10.
p 3^ °n,ar0Se early and lasted late [ft. Gud. p. 207, 26 'Epe%6e(it, 6 "EpixBbvios, et. mag.
Epevfl feX^«Ji, 6'Epixdovtos (so F. G. Sturzfor'E?rix^o>'ios) KaXovpievos, Zonar. lex. s.v.
persoriar' ° 'Ep'xe<5,"os XeYiWos. Harrison Myth. Man. Anc. Ath. p. lix 'the double
Canib * I Frecnt'leus—Erichthonios,' ead. Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides
in pft . ge '9°6 p. Co 'The name of Erechtheus or Erechthonios' (sic), j. Escher-Blirkli
440 ' 1/ ,lssowa Real-Enc. vi. 406 'der Doppelganger des E[rechtheus], Erichthonios,'

P lscne E[richthonios] ist die sekundare Nebenfigur zu Erechtheus').

Te7r0 ' arpokr- s-v- a-Mxdofes- 6 Si JlbSapos (frag. 253 Bergk4) Kai 6 rrfv AamtSa
(frag. 2 Kink el) <pa™ 'Bp.

I3!! Endlthonios is Kovpot...Tar,
WO. IRa7<

3 E r •

( = my fi us 'Die Geburt des Erichthonios' in the Arch. Zeit. 1872 xxx. 51—57 pi. 63
Gipsabirf' 93'' A" Flasch in the Ann- d- Inst- l877 xlix- 425 f-> Friederichs—Wolters
ib. f^"e P- 6» f- no- 120, E. Kuhnert in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1578 fig. 2, O. Immisch
h- 63. 19 8-' Harrison Myth. Mon. Anc. Ath. p. xxix f. fig. 2, ead. Themis'1- p. 263 f.

4 c s'

73"; fi l\cD'e Gebiirdcn der Griechm und Rbmer Leipzig 1890 pp. 162, 179. Cp. supra

6 C.T s 1 736 f'g- 667'
'924 p*,' c^man Athens: its History and Coinage before the Persian Invasion Cambridge

Elates ! °3' F" Hil1 in T/" Cambridge Ancient History Cambridge 1926 iv. 130 with
5 304, a, r.

27, . p - 2 Kinkel) jxurip 'EpixSbviov Kai"H<paiiTToy eV 7775 (pavrivai. In Norm. Dion.

No hthonios is w8p,w—r«*«.
 
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