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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 227

Herodotos1, quoting Hekataios2, tells how the Pelasgians, who had
built the wall round the Akropolis at Athens, on being driven out
by the Athenians went and settled in Lemnos. And Thoukydides3
in his description of the Chalcidian peninsula Akte says: 'Most of
inhabitants are Pelasgians, belonging to the Tyrsenians who
°nce dwelt in Lemnos and Athens, together with Bisaltai, Krestones,
ar>d Edones.' I agree, therefore, with L. R. Farnell4 who in 1909
e*pressed himself as follows: 'It is a reasonable hypothesis...that
^he presence and prominence of Hephaistos in Attica and Lemnos
*s due to the settlement of a Pelasgic population in those localities.'
A- Pick5 in the same year had independently reached the same
Cor>clusion: 'Hephaistos from first to last belongs to the pre-Greek
Pelagonian-Pelasgian-Tyrsenians. Centres of his cult are Lemnos
and Attike....His name Hephaistos too is certainly Pelasgian.'
Further, I accept the common view that Hephaistos was essentially
a fire-god. When Agamemnon and the Greek leaders sacrificed an
°x to Zeus, Homer6 relates how—

Piercing the entrails with spits they held them over Hephaistos.
This is no late rhetorical trope7 or academic allegory8, but an early
ariimistic usage9. It meets us again rather unexpectedly in Aris-

1 Hdt. 6. 137 with the critical analysis of J. L. Myres in the /own. Hell. Stud. 1907

2 Hekat. frag. 362 (Frag. hist. Gr. i. 29 Miiller) =frag. 127 (Frag. gr. Hist. i. 24
JaCoby).

Thouk. +. 109 with J. L. Myres in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1907 xxvii. 204 f.
5 Farnell Cults of Gk. Stales v. 388 f.
A. Fick Hattiden und Danubier in Griechenland Gottingen 1909 p. 46 cited supra
P' >9t n. o.

2. 426 cr7r\d7X"a b" dp dfiTreipavrei vweipexo" H0aicrroio.
j. Apollon. lex. Horn. p. 85, 11 ff. Bekker "H^aioros-...eiri Se toD mp6s ' air\dyx"a-
jr. ^"reipBiret inrelpcxov "B(pat<rToio' ■ 0 oe rpbiroi fieTwvv/ila, Hesych. s.v.'E<paiaTos-...

« Herum/uKus T}, Later examples (Archil, frag. 12 Bergk4= 12 Hiller—Crusius
p 10 Diehl, Soph. Ant. 123, 1006 f., Kallim. (?) frag. anon. 84 Schneider ap. et. mag.
rj 2+I> 55 ff., etc.) are collected by L. Malten in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 329.
ad' Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Der Glaube der Hellenen Berlin 1931 i. 20 is in-
^ird ^'6-1 'Wenn Hephaistos schon in der Ilias B 426 metonymisch fur Feuer gesagt
der s S° 1St er kein hellenischer Gott, iibrigens auch eigentlich nicht das Feuer, sondem

8 ^lmied, der es zu seiner Kunst braucht.'
Min pped- fraS- 98 Diels followed by Zenon frag, m Pearson =169 von Arnim ap.
<W °CL IO cited $nPra '• 29 4' Chrysippos frag. 1076 von Arnim ap. Philo-
siPPo*ep! flVc'3efas 12 (H- Diels Doxographi Graeci Berolini 1879 p. 546 b 2of.)( Chry-
\vrit°S JraS' l°79 von Arnim ap. Philon. dc provid. 2. 41 p. 76 Aucher, and many later
nat..erS: see L- Malten in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 338 ff. ('Allegorische und

J symbolische Mythendeutung*).
-•nicht' CaUer Gr""JfraSen der Homerkritik3 Leipzig 1923 p. 351 ' So ist <p\<>$ ,H<pal<rTOto
Sella* u dle dem Hephastos heilige Flamme, sondern die Flamme, in der Hephiistos
Uit brennt' etc.

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