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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 Aphrios

old as Hesiod1, reappears in fifth-century science2, and quite con-
ceivably accounts for the existence of Aphrios as an appellative of
Zeus.

On the whole, I incline to accept Hommel's hypothesis that 'A(ppodhri (F. Blass in
Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. iii. 2. 239 ff. no. 4952 A, 27 ' A<pop(b~)lTav = Ditten-
berger Syll. inscr. Gr.s no. 527 a, 27 'A<ppoSlrav in an oath from Dreros in eastern Crete,
c. 220 b.c., quoted supra i. 729 n. 2) really was a Greek attempt to pronounce AstSreth
and at the same time to make sense of a foreign name by assimilating the first part of it to
acppos. G. Meyer Griechische Grammatik^ Leipzig 1896 p. 246 n. 1 summarises the
process: 'F. HoMMEL...nimmt die Entwickelung Astdreth * ABtSretk (slidarab. ABtar)
* Aftdreth und daraus mit Metathesis im Anklang an d<ppos Aphroteth an.'

See further V. Costanzi 'Zeis "Atpptos e il nome 'Atppodirr]' in the AM d. r. accad. di
set. di Torino 1913—1914 xlix. 315—321.

1 Hes. theog. 190 ff. (supra ii. 447 n. 8). This and many other literary allusions are
collected by L. Stephani in the Compte-rendu St. Pet. 1870—1871 p. 11 ff.

Late chroniclers, by way of providing an eponym for the Africans, personified the
Hesiodic dippos and put together the following pedigree:

Kronos = Philyra

Aphros = Astynome Cheiron
forefather of the I
Aphroi

Aphrodite

So Sex. Iulius Africanus (c. 200 a.d.) ap. Kedren. hist. comp. 15 d (i. 28 Bekker), Io.
Antioch. (i.e. Malalas, s. vij/rag. 4. 4 (Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 542 Mtiller), cp.the Chronicon
Paschale (early in j. vii) 36 d—37 a (i. 66 Dindorf) which speaks of 6 " A<ppaoi, bans
£yy]p.e tt\v ''Aarvvofn-qv {k ttjs Aaneptas vrjaov (K. Ttimpel in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc
i. 2796). On this whole genealogy see supra ii. 693 n. 4.

2 Diogenes of Apollonia frag. 6 Diels ap. Aristot. hist. an. 3. 2. 512 b 8 ff. avrai 5e
(sc. al 0Xe/3es) 07rep/j.aT hides KaXovvrai. to 5' aXp.a rb p.&v iraxvrarov uirb t&v ffapKwbCii1
inwlveraf virepfidWov de ei's tous tottovs tovtovs \eirTOV Kal depfibv Kal d<pp&Ses yherai, cp.
Clem. Al. paed. 1. 6 p. 119, 2 ff. Stahlin rices 5e Kal rb o-iripfio, rod fyov atppbv elvai rod
aip.aros kcit' ovviav viroTidevrai, 8 di] ry e[up6r(p rod dppevos deppirj irapa ras tjvp.ir\oKas iKTapaX'
6h eKpnvL'£bpLtvov i^acppovrai k&v rais Girepp.aTlo'iv (L. Dindorf cj. (nreppiarirLO'iv) Traparld-
erat 0Xei^t'f evTevdev yap 6 'ATroXXwmar^s Atoye^s ra atppobloia KeKXrjadai (3o6\eTai. The
same idea is found in the medical writers, e.g. Galen. 7rep! x/ie/as twv ev dvBpihwov aiip.an
[xopltov 14. 9 (iv. 183 Kuhn) atirb de rb airepfxa irvevp.aT&de's eari Kal olov d(ppu)5es, id. irepl
cnrep/J-aros 1. 5 (iv. 531 Klihn) <rii yap (sc. Aristotle) efs 6 raXcSs eUaaas d<pptp rb tnripua,
Vindician. frag. Bruxell. de semine 1 (in M. Wellmann Fragmentsammlung der griech-
ischen Arzte Berlin 1901 i. 208, 1 ff.) Alexander Amator veri (sc. <bi\a\r)0T)s) appellatus,
discipulus Asclepiadis, libro primo De semine spumam sanguinis eius essentiam dixit
Diogenis placitis consentiens... 3 (ii. p. 210, 8ff.) Diogenes autem Apolloniates essentiam
< seminis > similiter spumam sanguinis dixit libro physico: etenim spiratione adductus
spiritus sanguinem suspendit, cuius alia pars carne bibitur, alia superans in seminaleS
cadit vias et semen facit, quod < non > est aliud quam spuma sanguinis spiritu collisi. It
occurs also in theological and exegetical authors such asCornut. theol. 24 p. 45, 3 IT. Lang
'AcppoUri) di iariv rj avvdyowa rb dppev Kal to drfkv diva/us, Ta\a Sid rb d<ppiiidt] ri airif
fiara twv &av elvai ratirriv eaxvKvia tt)v bvop.ao-'iav, schol. Eur. Tro. 990 ttjv 'Aippodir^
eTvp.o~hoyod(Tiv ol fiiv Trapd Tbv dcppbv tov iv rrj arvvovcrla., ol 5e k.t.X., Isid. orig. 8. 11.77 quo<^
autem Saturnum fingunt Coelo patri genitalia abscidisse et sanguinem fluxisse in mare,
atque ex spuma maris concreta Venus nata est, illud aiunt quod- per coitum salsi humorlS
substantia est, et inde 'A<ppodlT-qv Venerem dici, quod coitus spuma est sanguinis quae ex
succo viscerum liquido salsoque constat.
 
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