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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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Pyre-extinguishing rain

rather than to Apollon: lifting his hands to the high heaven the
king exclaims—

O Spirit of surpassing might,
Where is the gratitude of the gods,
And where is Leto's lordly son?1

In the event it is Zeus who sends the saving storm:

He spake, and bade a softly-stepping thrall
Kindle the wooden pile. The maidens shrieked,

And up they threw their hands

To pray their mother's aid,
A fate foreseen being bitterest of all.

But, when the shining strength
Of that dread fire
Would spread apace,
Zeus brought a black cloud over it

And quenched the yellow flame2.

After which we are told that Delos-born Apollon carried off *
aged king to the Hyperboreoi and there caused him to dwell
his daughters as a reward for his generous gifts to Pytho3. So, e
in the earlier version of Bakchylides, Apollon plays a notevvo
part, as was but fitting in view of the previous relations be ^.
Kroisos and the Delphic oracle4. Yet the actual rain-sender is ,g
—a fact remembered for centuries5. The famous amphora at
attributed to the painter known as Myson (fig. 328)6 carries the s

1 Bakchyl. 3, 37 ff. buipfiie Sai/xov, \ trod de&v iaTiv | tou oe AarolSas «

2 Id. 3. 48 ff- 3 Supra ii. 465. hist. Gr-
4 Hdt. i. 46—55, 92, 8. 35 f., Diod. 16. 56 (PTheopomp. frag. 184 (.Frag- ^ ^

i. 309 Mailer)), Strab. 420 f., Plout. v. Solon. 4, v. Sull. 12, de Pylh- orac'1 ',. 45. 2
num. vind. 12, Paus. 10. 8. 7, Athen. 231 E—F, pseudo-Kallisth. hist. Al- MS' j^r0jsoS
(p. 52. 10 ff. Kroll), Anth. Pal. 6. 60. 3 f. (Palladas), 14. 12, Tzetz. chil- i- 19 g). 0°
also made valuable gifts to the oracle of Apollon at Branchidai (Hdt. t- 92> ^ gr&
the recognition of Apollon by the Persian kings see G. Radet La Lydie et U »
au temps des Mermnades (687—546) Paris 1893 p. 256 f. t M"

s Liban. or. 60. 9 (iv. 318, 2 ff. Foerster) dXX' ov8e 6 Zeds o^pav ¥Las (cited

acpriKtv iirl ttjv (p\6ya koX Tama. Kvh&v irore ftacnXei Svarvxilo-avTi "ftaaS u"? ,Eor"
by Io. Chrys. or. de S. Babyla c. Julian, et gentil. 19 (xlix. 563 Migne)^scho '^^th
165 bv {sc. tov Upoio-ov) el /u.7] 6 Zeis oUrelpas a<pyKev iidoip iirl tt)V cb\6ya, ra% ^siuri regeIfl
ipyov Trvpbs yevop.evos. Cp. Boeth. de cons, phil. 2. 2 pros. 34 ff. nesciebas Cro ^to*
Lydorum Cyro paulo ante formidabilem mox deinde miserandum rogi ,n^ot^a (2-
misso caelitus imbre defensum ? Myth. Vat. 1. 196 subito tanta pluvia e
facta) est, ut ignis extingueretur. Q r„y ph 1

0 E. Pottier Pases antiques du Louvre 3me Serie Paris 1922 p. 201 f- n°' ^ ^s/.
(obverse and reverse). See also the due de Luynes 'Cresus' in the -d""' yasesl- 'g
v. 237—251, Mon. d. Inst, i pis. 54 (obverse) and 55 (reverse) = Reinach anfJ 32

(obverse) and 87, 1 (reverse), Inghirami Vas. fitt. iv. 3off. pis- 3J9 }° 'TaUfen') P1' 3*
(reverse), Welcker Alt. Denkm. iii. 481—487 ('Krosos auf dem Scheitei
 
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