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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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612 Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios

Ombrios in Elis1, that of Zeus Lykaios in Arkadia2, and that of
Zeus Eilapinastes or Splanchnotomos in Kypros3 look ominously
like it. ...

: A further point of doubtful significance may here be set down.
Pausanias4, describing the statues on the Akropolis, says:

' There is Athena rising from the head of Zeus. There is also a bull dedicated
by the council of the Areiopagos for some reason or other: one might make
many guesses on the subject, if one cared to do so.'

This ' bull on the Akropolis' was of bronze and passed into a
proverb for a thing to be admired5. It has, as Pausanias anticipate >
given rise to a whole crop of more or less plausible explanation5'
none of which however can pretend to certainty6. More ad rem lS
a possible, indeed probable, vase-painting of the bull itself. The
facts are as follows. E. Gerhard in 1858 published a black-figu'e
hydria of c. 500 B.C., which he had found in possession of ^e

The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the light of Archaeology London 1930 p. 29 nV js
the phrase 6 dip' cartas fivrjOeis would take on a very sinister meaning. But
obviously an unjustifiable assumption. .^g »

Nor can human sacrifice be invoked to account for the BaXAij-nis or 'Stone-thro
by which the Athenians commemorated Demophon (Hesych. BaXK-rirds- iopri] Aoi]
iirl A-quacpGivn r$ KeXeoO iyofUiitj, cp. Atheh. 406 D rh 8' avrrj 17 \Mwi Pa ' J ^
'EAeucnVi yap rri ifirj olSd riva iravrjyvpiv dyop.ivrjv Kal Ka\ov/j.evr]V

dv tl e'iiroip.1 p,i) irap' eKaarov /xiadbv \a^ij>v),—a 'Scheinkampf' (cp. h. DeW' '^^t
resembling the Ai6>o/36Xia of Damia and Auxesia at Troizen (Paus. 2. 32. 2 _.•„{,
Pausanias iii. 266f.) or the stone-throwing on the Nonae Caprotinae at Roffle g 0f;,
■v. Rom. 29, v. Cam. 33). See further O. Kern in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. a- - _ ^
Scherling id. xiii. 769 f., Nilsson Gr. Feste p. 413 ff., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel- V- 9

Supra p. 525 f. 2 Stipra i. 70 ff. 3 Infra p. 652 f. n. o.

T«»f"

■■ Paus. I. 24. 2 'A6t}v3. ri laTiv.aviovaa 4k tt}s /ce0aXi}s roO Aids. 4ari °e * , ^v tiS
dvdQ-qp.a ttjs (3ov\t}s ttjs iv 'Apeiy irdyu, i<p' ot^j 5t) dvid-qKev i] /3ouX?)" fto^a
i8i\av eiVctfoi. 369 "

5 Heniochos Polyeuct. frag. 1 (Frag. com. Gr. iii. 560 f. Meineke) af. •^■t'ie"'J, r,X.f
"Rvioxos HoXveijKTip ■ '6 /3o0s <6 (ins. Porson) > xaX/coOs tjv 'dv iipffbs SeKairoM'1

iv

cttI twv 8av/j.afafj.4voiv, Apostol. 5. 15 /3ous iv irSXet- 4x1 tQv 8avfia^op.ivav. Ave~'ai '^cb

Hesych. /3oCs iv irbXei- x<*XkoOs inrb t?}s /3ov\ijs dvaredds, Diogeneian. 3- (>1 PoV% " i„ if

\vfflas 7 f

d.Kpoir6\ei §ovv tB-qnev ( = Arsen. viol. p. 146 reading dviB-qKev)—a curious addit>°n ^pje
Hitzig—Bliimner in their commentary on Paus. loc. cit. successfully explain a. ^ abef
Frov. Bodl. et Vatic, bieten den Zusatz Avtravlas yap dviBijKe podv, der

Cod-Co*""^

Avaavlas Si dire jSoDs, wofiir Meineke (Exerc. philol. I 29) conjicirte Aviravl"-^ ^(e\\\d^
§ovy, besser Bergk (Ztschr. f. d. A. W. 1845, 980): llawavias Si eUt- /3o0s, wo'^^oiis,
nicht der Perieget, sondern der Grammatiker Pausanias, derVf. eines attischen^ ^ in
gemeint ware'). The proverb is Latinised by Lucilius frag. 286 Baehrens n
arce bovem descripsi magnifice !' inquit.

In Plat. coxa. fab. incert. frag. 24 (Frag. com. Gr. ii. 688 with v. 50) ap. IIesy^ ^
d<re\y6Kepios * rjv iv rrj d/cpo7r6Aa Kptbs dvaKel/ievos fiiyas %aX/foOj. d<re\y^KeP^oJ/
dire IWdruiv 6 Kia/uicbs Sid rb p.iyav elvat, Kal truvapcdfiei avT<£ t6v re Sovptov iV.^c^te tba
Meineke plausibly fills the blank by inserting </cai rbv xaXKoft/ fiouv>, & con'
has been well received.

c See Hitzig—Bliimner on Paus. loc. cit.
 
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