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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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608 Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios

field1 had been borrowed to depict the later discovery of the yoked
oxen. The transference from Demeter to Athena as ploughman s
patroness2 was perhaps eased by a knowledge of such cults as that
of Athena Boarmta in Boiotia3 and that of Athena Boiideia 'n
Thessaly4. The former appellative is said to have meant ' She who
fits the Oxen' to yoke and plough; the latter, ' She who binds the
Oxen ' to plough and yoke.

I pass on to observe that Bouzyges was the eponymous ancestor
of a noble Athenian clan, the Bouzygai5, who dwelt on the

1 Supra i. 224 f.

2 Cp. the curious tale told by interp. Serv. in Verg. Aen. 4. 402: in Attica regi°ne
quaedam puella Myrmix nomine fuit, Minervae ob castimoniam et sollertiam dilecta'
quae postea hoc modo (H. A. Lion prints loco) Minervae in se odium concitavit. namque
cum vidisset Minerva Cererem segetes invenisse, volens ipsa ostendere Atticis qu
expeditius segetes parerent, aratrum dicitur invenisse. quod cum manu ageret, et Myrnl
ei adhaereret, ausa est occulte aratri stivam subripere, et apud homines se iactare,
infructuosum esse Cereris munus, nisi suo uterentur invento, quo terra aratro res0}^

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virginem in formicam convertit eamque, ut proditricem, adversam frumentis, quae sempe

expeditius ederet fructus. quod cum proditum aegre tulisset Minerva, Myrmicern

insequitur et subripit, esse praecepit. quae res cum Iovi miserationem movisset, excog1
avit quemadmodum formicae honorem daret. nam cum Aeacum, (ilium suum ex .
susceptum, Thessalis imponeret regem et agros ipsos videret hominibus indigere, 101 ^
colligi in unum iussit easque in homines commutavit: unde Myrmidones appel'atl s
See further J. Schmidt in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xvi. 1106. ,p.

s Lyk. Al. 518 ff. (Idas and Lynkeus) rotis'Apris e(pl\aro, | Kal 81' 'Ei>vi!>, Kal Ti",1
vtjtos Ota I Boap/j.la Aoyyarts 'O/xoXoils Bla with schol. ad loc. Boapjila 8e Kal gtat
irapa Botwrots /caXeirai Kal tl/xdraL and Tzetz. ad loc. Boapfiia Trapd to ap^So'ai Kal ^
els gvybv Kal dporpov /Sous. This explanation is accepted by K. O. Midler Orchoinen°s
die Minyer* Breslau 1844 p. 181 n. 1, Gerhard Gr. Myth. i. 243, Welcker Gr. Gotte> •
301, Preller—Robert Gr. Myth. i. 222 n. I, O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-E,ic'
575. Gruppe Gr. Myth. Re/, p. 1205 n. 8 is, as usual, helpful : 'der N. bedeutet ge
nicht "den Kampflarm abwehrend" [ = *Bofa-fap/j.la~] [mbiSTBR], sondern j^jjj
anschirrend'; s. Solmsen, Rh. M. Lin 1898 145 [f.]...Athena selbst gilt als Erfin e
des Pfluges, Arstd. I S. 20 Ddf. ; Intp. Serv. VA 4 402.' •s'WL
4 Lyk. Al. 359 f. (Kassandra) 7) iroWa Si] Boudeiav Mdmav Kdpyv | apuyo" ""g^ph.
rappodov ydfiuiv with Tzetz. ad loc. ourw rip.S.Tai BoiSeta i] 'AOijvd iv QerraMa (~~ g^fiji
Byz. s.v. Baihua, who is cited also by Eustath. in II. p. 1076, 28 Bovbaav \eyW ' r^vei
ev QeacraXia)... BoiiSeia yap t) (ppoi/tjins, tin tovs §bas dpbrpip Kal fu-yois iirodfa Kit ~t
ras aifXa/cas. This etymology has found favour, not only with K. O. Muller of- ^
p. 181, Gerhard op. cit. i. 226, 231, 243, Welcker op. cit. ii. 301, Preller—Robert 4? rt
i. 222 rj. 1, O. Jessen op. cit. iii. 988, Gruppe op. cit. p. 1205 n. 8, etc., but wit 1 .fc
philologists such as P. Kretschmer Einleitung in die Geschukte der Griechischen i>P g{
Gottingen 1896 p. 419, who holds that similar place-names are derived from the n ^ ^s
the goddess ('Endete der Name der Gdttin selbst auf -La, so konnte er unvera
Ortsname dienen: Boiheia in Thessalien nach der Athena BoiiSeia der " Rindei a
renden", daneben BoiSeiov (II. n 572).' Cp. F. Stahlin Das hellenische ^k;ng--
Stuttgart 1924 p. 78 n. 2 (4)). It is, however, equally possible and—to my ce_Iianie
decidedly more probable that the goddess drew her appellative from an old p a |
of unknown meaning, the appellative being later re-interpreted as ' Oxen"k'n^in^j6Sotf'a

6 J. Toepffer Atlische Genealogie Berlin 1889 pp. 136—149, id. in Pauly—"
Real-Enc, iii. 1094—1096.
 
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