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)

260 The Daughters of Kekrops

had by Eos a son Memnon; and here too the dew-connexion re-
appears. When Memnon was slain by Achilles, his mother Eos
wept for him, and in the morning dew-drops we still see her tears1.

Aglauros, Pandrosos, and Herse were alike associated with Zeus.
Their mother was the daughter of Aktaios2; and Aktaios is a cult-
epithet of Zeus3. Possibly Zeus Aktaios, Zeus 'of the Point,' was
at one time worshipped on the high ground of Akte overlooking
the harbours of the Peiraieus4. More probably he drew his title
from Akte, the old name for the whole promontory of Attike6, which
indeed represents an earlier Aktike6. Pandrosos, again, stood m
close relation to Zeus. In the Pandroseion was his altar7; and,
though we must not with O. Gruppe8 assume the existence of a
Zeus Pandrosos, yet we may feel sure that here Zeus the sky-father,

to 'AxdWiov. On this showing tindun was the god or godlike hero of Hittite-speakmg
Cappadocians. Memnon as son of Tithonos implies that Tithonos was known in Anatolia-
Tithonos founded Sousa on the Choaspes (Strab. 728, Diod. 2. 22, cp. Hdt. 5. 53, 7-
Paus. 4. 31. 5) and was worshipped as a god by the Susians (Souid. s.v. 2oi)<rior ovopa
ZQvovs. rbv vetzpbv Kcujaavres ol 2otV«u ret dtrrd KOfilfrvGL rQ irarpl Tt^wy^)* Further»
Tithonos was a personification of the day (et. mag. p. 758, 27 f. Ttduvdi, t) r\p.kpa-' ^"■P"'
t6 TiOacrds rb ai\jj.aXvov t<J tffiepos [Etymology at its worst! a. b. c.]). Now' it seems tn
the Etruscan stem tin- denoted both the 'day' and the 'daylight-god' tinia or tina, ">
equivalent of Zeus or Iupiter (S. Bugge op. cit. p. 190 f.). Accordingly, TWai'Ss p'e
supposes an Anatolian form in which in before 6 became a nasal i (f). The Etruscan
inscription on the wrappings of the Agram mummy speaks of the Dawn of the Day-6".
(G. Herbig in C. Pauli Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum Lipsiae 1919—1921 SupP •
(liber linteus Zagrabiensis) col. v, 19 Desan-tinS with pi. 5 : see further C. Pauli in R°sC
Lex. Myth. v. 676 f.). This makes it certain that tinOun associated with desaii, the " ,
(supra fig. 171), involves the syllable tin- 'day.' The termination -Bun is of dou' ^
origin, but may be a combination of 8 the enclitic article with the suffix -tin (cp. -lJV°
Ti0wi/<5s). The schol. A.L. //. 11. 1 equates Ti8av6s with Tit&v and both with Ap°' 0
'TLrav [«V]...scheint mir ebenfalls vorgriechischen Ursprungs und auf dieselbe *-'rUnj.e
wurzel wie Ti0aw<5s zuriickzugehen.' C. Pauli in Rpscher Lex. Myth. v. 971 f- is $
inclined to accept an original connexion between Tindun, *Ttr^cif, TWiovbs, TUun°^
the one hand and Tinia, Tignia on the other. But the whole edifice is a house of ca ^

1 Ov. met. 13. 621 f., Stat. silv. 5. 1. 34 f., interp. Serv. in Verg. Aen. !• 4^9'
O. Puchstein Epigrammata Graeca in Aegypto reperta Strassburg 1880 no. 18.

2 Supra p. 242 n. 3. 3 Supra ii. 869 n. 2, 904 n. 2.

4 Supra p. 238 n. 3. . ux.

5 Eur. Hel. 1673, Lyk. Al. 1339, Strab. 391, 397, Harpokr. s.v. 'Akt^ (Favorm-

p. 102, 43 ff.), Apollod. 3. 14. 1, Steph. Byz. s.v. 'Akt-tj, et. mag. p. 167, 51. jgjch

6 Preilwitz Mtyjtt. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr.2 p. 22 ''Atti/c?j = *'A/cti/oj.' But W. J0^j,
in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 2184 f. had already derived 'Attikti

'offenbar ^

'Aktikti' from 'Akt-q and had cited in support, not only the lexicographers (sUf ^0fa of
but also the marm. Par. ep. 1 p. 3 Jacoby and Strab. 397 (cp. Paus. 1. 2. 6), 111
which the precise form ' Aktlk-q occurs.

7 Supra p. 243 n. 5. says -

8 Gruppe Gr, Myth. Rel. pp. 29 n. 6, irir n. 1, 1217 n. 3. Id. id- P' ^jve »s
' urspriinglich wohl " Allbetauer.'" But irdvdpoa-os is at least as likely to be p
active in meaning.