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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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The myth of Danae and analogous myths 477

Be that as it may, two similar epiphanies of the sky-god are
recorded by Pindar, whose knowledge of the details of mythology
Was equalled only by his appreciation of their beauty. The poet in
an Isthmian ode1 asks his native town of Thebes on what local scene
her memory most delights to dwell. On the birth of Dionysos (at
whose nativity Zeus rained ambrosia2)?

Or when at midnight in a snow of gold
Thou didst receive the greatest of the gods,
What time he stood

Before Amphitryon's door

And wooed Amphitryon's wife

To bear him Herakles.

^gain, in an Olympian ode3 Pindar speaks of Rhodes—

Where once the mighty king of the gods,
With golden snow-flakes rained upon the town,
When by Hephaistos' craft
The crown of the Father's head
Was cleft by a bronze-wrought axe,
And lo, Athena leapt to light
And cried aloud with a far-carrying cry—
Whereat Heaven shuddered, ay and Mother Earth.

lndar does not expressly assert that Zeus was in this wondrous
^ Wer. But- ^hat such was the original concept is almost certain;
jj. anor-her Rhodian tale made Zeus consort with the earth-born
Irnalia ' by means of rain4.'

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eriandrog ^r this favourite theme Strab. 655, Aristeid. or. 43. 546 (i. 807 Dindorf),
i°Sy»in. 9 ^Cpi "r'oeiKTiKwi, 3. 2 (ix. 200 Walz), Liban. or. 31. 6 (vii. 10 Foerster),
^j34' ioul./"^' 6' 3 ^viii- Foerster), epist. 351. 11 (x. 330 Foerster), Himer. eel.

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Probably drawing upon Zenon of Rhodes (W. Christ Gcschichte der
 
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