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)

Myths of the Dipolieia: Diomos 595

Seems to me to be essentially sound1. Indeed, I am disposed to go
a step further in the same direction. Bearing- in mind that the

°uphonia-tale shows traces, on the one hand of vegetarian
, 0ctrine, on the other of Kynosarges tradition, I would infer that
l* emanated originally from Antisthenes or some other teacher of
jhe Cynic school2. The inference becomes stronger still, when we
°°k into the parallel case of sheep-sacrifice connected with the

heopropoi3. For Menedemos of Eretria, a member of that noble
£jan*i w^s scorned by his fellow-citizens as a Cynic5 and, like the

ynics, was a free-thinker in matters of religion6.

au on, and that the Diomeies gave up the cult of Zeus to the Thaulonidai at a com-
ively late date, when they themselves took over the cult of Herakles. But this
jj.1 "esis involves more than one improbable assumption, notably that the cult of
cult*^65 at ^-)'ome'a was °^ recent importation, and that a long-standing and popular
L r>SUCk aS t^lat of Zeus n°^te^s could be transferred from clan to clan. See further

' eubner Attische Feste Berlin 1932 p. 162.
ty; * Von ProU in the Rhein. Mus. 1897 lii. 191 ff. (followed by G. Wissowa in Pauly—
told ^eal~Enc- v- 832) denies the resemblance between the two aetiological tales
her °^ ^>'omos- In his view Diomos is the rightful priest of Zeus IloXietfs and the original
Sacrifi° ^ouP'1onia-story, which marks the change from a bloodless to a bloody
n„t, Ce at the Dipolieia. The name Ai'ouos, a derivative of ZeiJs, Ai6s, suits the connexion

'■Wggn fVi • • • •

by g e priest and his god. The derivation here propounded was already recognised

see jjzantine scholars: Cramer attecd. Oxon. i. 83, 1 ff. (Ofiripov iirifiepiopol, on which
erfy^ Cohn in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 180) avr\p avtpos avdpds, &v5pofi6s} Kai £v
'^PaK\a^a"lU>^ KTyrucy avSpofieos, lis napa tt)v Aios yevurijc Ai6p.os [sic) 6 ijpws 6 itarrip
lis fa^ "S; "0' °" Ai6,neia eoprrj- K.T.X., et. mag. p. 102, 44 ff. dird toS avdpos av6po/j.os,
p. 2-jj S ^toMos, Kvpltas 6 7raTT]p 'Hpa/cX^oi/s, Kai iv eT^pq. irapayuyrj kt^tlkti av8pb[i€os, ib.
y^iichp 2\^' ^°Mos* ovofxa Kijptov ijpojos ' ASyvalov a<p' ov Aio/xcias eopr-q. irapa rr]v Aws
p, ty ^ '^Mos, lis avSpbs avSpo/xeos (A. Meineke Analecta Alexandrina Berolini 1843
n. jj ' CJ- "'ai's, in the sense of iraiSiicd, for Tari/p). Further Usener op. cit. p. 213
^'o/ie^j^"1^^5 tnat there was a cult of Zeus Aio/xet/s (Eustath. in H. p. 444, 21 Ik tov

1): 6US At°Mews to. Atoueia).
10rneia ft, j ' '

V' 83o f) 1 me la>'' not 10 the east (A- Milchhofer in Pauly—-Wissowa Real-Enc.

P- I6Q c .Ut 10 the south of Athens (W. Judeich Topographic von Athen2 Miinchen 1931

1 WheT'1 fig' H map)-

^0rPh. J^' Wever, Toepffer proposes to substitute QavXuw for Alopos in the text of

l°c-cit n oiSt' 2" 10 (s"Pra P- ;77 n- i)> I can no longer follow him: see E. Maass

2 P- 028.

and took'Stjenes not on'y taught in the gymnasium of Kynosarges (Diog. Laert. 6. 13)
trans. 0, t ^ral;les for his 'patron-saint' (E. Zel'ler Socrates and the Socratic Schools3
°n a sinipi hel London 1885 p. 307), but also—like other Cynics—lived ordintrily
C°nsi(lerabie fe8etarian diet »<*-3 P- 318 n. 3) and treated the popular religion with
°ur tale. e reedo'n (id. id.3 p. 328 ff.). Such an one may well have been the author of

rther eit- 2- 125 K\cio-6evovs tov twv QeoirpowtSSip Ka\ovp.ivuv vi6s k.t.X. See

ritzinPaul°n WUamowitz-Moellendorff Ind. schol. Gott. a. 1884 p. 15 and K. von

Hill u J/IU.

5 Di0g L^~~Wissowa Real-Enc. xv. 788 ff.

t1""' «.T \ 6rt' 2' 1+0 Ti °"v 'rpwra KaT«ppov(iTO, Kiuv Kai Xijpos M twv 'EpeTpituv

E' Zell^A*P. 284.

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