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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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Zeus A r is taws tkmios

Pindar appears to be weaving together a warp and a woof of diverse
origin. The one tradition, which we may call Boeotian since it was
found in Hesiod, equated Aristaios with the pastoral Apollon1.
The other, which is rather Arcadian, identified him with Zeus2.
This is the version accepted by Kallimachos when, wishing to ascribe
a noble pedigree to Akontios of Keos, he makes him descended
'from the priests of Zeus Aristaios fkniios3.' Later writers repeat,
with less precision, this twofold claim to divinity4. We are left
wondering whether Aristaios was a god who had faded into a hero,
or a mortal who had put on immortality.

And here we must take into account an attractive hypothesis
advanced by L.R. Farnell5, who observes that A ristaios means 'sprung
from Arisie' and that Ariste was an appellative of Artemis6: 'His

1 Hes. frag. 98 Flach, 129 Rzach ap. Serv. in Verg. georg. 1. 14 Aristaeum invocat,
id est Apollinis et Cyrenes filium, quem Hesiodus dicit Apollinem pastoralem.

2 Interp. Serv. in Verg. georg. 1. 14 huic opinioni (sc. that Aristaios went from
Thebes to Keos and thence to Sardinia) Pindarus refragatur, qui eum ait de Cea insula
in Arcadiam migrasse ibique vitam coluisse: nam apud Arcadas pro love colitur, quod
primus ostenderit qualiter apes debeant reparari, ut ait poeta de hoc ipso Aristaeo
'tempus et Arcadii memoranda inventa magistri [ pandere' (Verg. georg. 4. 283 f.).

3 Kallim. aitia 3. 1. 32 ff. Mair KoSpeldrjs ai y' dvuBev 0 irevBepbs, airap 6 KeTos | yW
fipbs 'Apurralov [Zi7>6s d0' lep<i>uv \'Ik/j.Iov, olai p.£p\yj]\ev £ir' otipeos ap^divefffffl
irp-nvveiv xa~K[e\irriv 'Maipav dvepxopiv-qv, \ aireiaBai to 5' drjpa rrapal Aids, aT re Bap. <1 ^
vol I irXijo-o-ovrai Xivtais oprvyes iv vetpeXais. In line 33 the papyrus has yap-^pocrapicrraioij ■ •
riocrafi(pi'epuiv with p. of ap.(p apparently crossed through. A. S. Hunt in The Oxyrhynch"s
Papyri London 1910 vii. 27 no. 1011 prints U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorffs CJ'

< tr > os ap.(p' lepwv, but ib. p. 63 admits that Xijiros 'cannot actually be read.' A. y'
Mair did well to prefer A. E. Housman's [Z-q]vbs &<p' lep<4> uv. The form 'Iicplov, in-
stead of the usual 'iKpalov, is inetri gratia.

4 Schol. Pind. Pyth. 9. 112 rbv 'Apiaraibv rives ' AirbWava, rives 5e Kal 'Aypta, i's ,
lartov on rbv ' Apiaraiov Sia rb rr\v KTT]vorpo(piav Kal Kvvrjyeaiav evprjKivai 'Ayp^a h
Nbpiov, Ai'a Kal 'A-a-bWava rrpoaijybpevov, schol. Ap. Rhod. 2. 498 Kal KaraKaXeaat1 ^,
robs erriaias Zeis 'Apiaraios e/cX^fi?; Kal' AttoKKuv 'Aypebs Kal No/Uios (cod. Par. has Sib ^

atriov yeviaBai rwv IrrjtjiSiv (leg. ert]alwv) Zeis'Apiaralos eKKr]8-q Kal' AirbXXwv 'Ayvievs

Kal NojU'os), Athenag. supplicatio pro Christianis \\ p. 15 Schwartz Keioi 'Ap'"'7"0"'^
iSpvvrai Bebv), rbv airbv Kal A(a Kal 'AirbWa vop'^ovres. Cp. Diod. (probably 1
Timaios: see E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 676) 4. 81 Sid Be rvv
lav rrp> £k roirwv rwv evpr]p.dnov robs ebepyerrjBivras dvBpibirovs rtpvrjaai rbv Aplff ^(
iaoBtois npais, Ka0a Kal rbv Aiovvaov, 82 Sib Kal irapa rois Kara. rrjv XiKeXlav »
Siaipepovrus (paal np.-q89jvai rbv 'Apiaraiov iis Beov, Kal pakiaB' v-wb rG>v o-vyKop-ifivrW ^ ^
rijs e\alas Kapwov, Paus. 8. 2. 4 eirel roi Kal Beol rare eylvovro ii; avBpdnrwv, of y'Pa k
rode tri i'xm'TLV &>s' Apiaraios k.t.X.

Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 2364, 2 (Karthaia) rip 'A7r6XXwe[i] 'Apia-ral[tp] was a nusrea
amended ib. p. ioyi=Jtiscr. Gr. his. v. 1 no. 545, 2 rwi 'AirbWuvi SeKaryv.

5 Farnell Gk. Hero Cults p. 49 ff. . 0,

6 Paus. 1. 29. 2 KOTtoDo-i 5' es avrr)v irepiftoXbs eariv''Apripxhos Kal&ava 'A/j ^^gs
KaXKto-Tvs' us ^7" s°k& Kai bp:o\oyei ra. liri] ra Tldptpui (so A. Hecker foi a^a$T&s
codd., cp. Paus.8. 35. 8),rr)s'Apre'pii56s elaiv eviKX^o-eis airai, Xey6p.evov Se Kal oXXo>' ^
\6yov elSws virepf}i]<xop.ai. Perhaps we catch an echo of the other version in Hes)
KaWiar-q-... Kal 7} ev t£ Kepap.(e)iKip iSpvp^vri'EKari], rjv (vioi "Aprep.iv X4yovcriv.
 
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