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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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Hephaistos and Athena

from his pursuit Erichthonios is born1. Elsewhere he insists that
the pantomime must be familiar with the whole range of Attic
mythology—'all that is told of Athena, all that is told of Hephaistos
and Erichthonios2,' etc. The attempt of Hephaistos on Athena
might no doubt shock those who worshipped the Virgin goddess,
and that sufficiently accounts for the evasive versions of Euripides3
and Kallimachos4. But mythological apologists had facile answers
to all questionings. Athena had been given to Hephaistos but had
vanished at the critical moment5. Athena was Hephaistos' reward
for freeing Hera from the magic throne that he had made6. Athena
was the price paid by Zeus to Hephaistos for his manufacture of
the thunderbolt7, or for his services in cleaving the celestial head8.

1 Loukian. de domo 27 elra /u.era. Tavryv dXXi] ' A8r)va, ov Xidos avTi] ye d\Xd ypa<pv
ttoXlv "H0at£rros o.vtt)V bi&Kei ep&v, -i] de tpevyei, kclk tt)s 5iu>£ews 'Epix#6j>ios ylyveTat.

2 Loukian. de salt. 39 Kal baa irepi 'Adyvas Kal baa irepi 'H<palaTov Kal ' EpLX^ovlov,
k.t.X. 3 Supra p. 220. 4 Supra p. 218 ff.

s Amelesagoras (on whom see supra p. 157 n. 9) frag. 1 (Frag. hist. Gr. ii. 22 Miiller)
ap. Antig. hist. mir. 12 <pr]alv yap 'H(palaT0i boOetaris rrjs 'Adyvas avyKaTaKXiBelaav
avT7)v dtpaviaOijvai, rhv 5e "Htjtaiarov els yijv ireabvTa irpo'teadai to airipixa, ttjv 5e yVv
VBTepov aiiT(p dvabovvai 'Epixdbi'iov, k.t.X. (cited infra p. 237 n. 5).

6 Hyg. fab. 166 Vulcanus Iovi c[a]eterisque diis solia aurea (so J. Scheffer for soleas
aureas cod. F. T. Muncker cj. also sellas anreas) ex (J. Perizonius cj. nexa) adamante euro
fecisset, Iuno cum sedisset subito in aere pendere coepit. quod cum ad Vulcanum missuro
esset, ut matrem quam ligaverat solveret, iratus quod de coelo praecipitatus eral- negat se
matrem ullam habere, quem cum Liber pater ebrium in concilio (B. Bunte cj. conciliuDH
deorum adduxisset, pietati negare non potuit: turn optionem a love accepit, si quid ab US
petiisset, impetraret. tunc ergo Neptunus, quod Minervae erat infestus, instigavit Vulca-
num Minervam petere in coniugium. qua re impetrata in thalamum cum venisset, Minerva
monitu Iovis virginitatem suam armis defendit, interque luctandum ex semine eius quod in
terrain decidit natus est puer, qui inferiorem partem draconis habuit; quem Erichthoniurn
ideo nominarunt, quod Spa Graece certatio dicitur, x^^v autem terra dicitur. etc.

7 Fulgent, myth. 2. 11 Vulcanus cum Iovi fulmen efficeret, ab love promissum accept
ut quidquid vellet praesumeret. ille Minervam in coniugium petivit; Iuppiter imperavit
ut Minerva armis virginitatem defendisset. dumque cubiculum introirent, certando
Vulcanus semen in pavimentum iecit; unde natus est Erictonius (ericthonius codd. R- D. G-)
[cum draconteis pedibus (only in cod. Marc.)]; eris enim Grece certamen dicitur, rtoi«s
vero terra nuncupatur. etc. Cp. Serv. in Verg. eel. 4. 62 and georg. 3. 113, Myth. Vat. I'r
128, 2. 37, 2. 40, 3. 10. 3.

8 Et. mag. p. 371, 35 ff. #7-1 6 Zeis povXbfievos diroKvijaai eV tov tyKe(pdXov airov Tip
' Ad-qvav edeho avvepyov tov itXtjJovtos tt\v Ke<paXriv Iva dwoKvijari (so F. Sylburg for diroKvyOV
codd.)- Kal by] Xbyovs irpoatpe'pei Tif 'Htpalary irepi toijtov. 0 be"R<paiOTos ovk dXXus e'iXeTO
crxi'fai TTjc Ke<paXr\v tov Ai6s, el p.t] ttjv yevvoip.iv-r\v bia-wapdevebaei- Kal r)vt<rxeT0 ° ^e"s'
Kal Xafiiov ttjc ^ovirXrrya Ti/j.vei tt)v KeqiaXr/v airov, Kal e^ipxeTat t\ ''A6t\vd, Kal eire5li>"iev
avTT\v 6 "KtpaiVTOs 'iva ovyyivqTai- Kal iiribiJiKuv aireairipixrivev eh tov ix-qpbv Tip 'AOW1^
r) de 'Adrjva Xafiovaa Ipiov e£e/j.ai;e to airippia Kal eppifev ev Trj yrj- Kal iyiveTO Ik rfjS Y^s
Kal tov eplov dvOpwwos bpaKovrbirovs, Ss eVaXeiTo 'EpixBbvios dird tov tplov Kal ttjs x^ov0^
Xa§wv t& dvofia ToOro = Nonnos Abbas in Greg. Naz. e. Julian. 2. 27 (xxxvi. 1050 Migne-
printed as Append, narr. 3 p. 359, 24 ff. Westermann = Eudok. viol. ic. The theme.»
first handled by Loukian. dial. deor. 8 wore, J ZeO, ixalurpd /ioi dwbSos iyyvqaas 1 "
avT-qv. k.t.X.
 
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