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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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Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios

prose-writers1 also. And I suggest that its long-lived appeal implies
a deep-seated belief among the Mediterranean peoples that the
sky-god could and on occasion did take shape as a bull. If s0>
it may well be that—as we conjectured above2—the ox of the
Dipolieia was originally held to be the visible form or embodiment
of Zeus Polieils himself.

Here we may pause to note a partial parallel from northern
Greece. A stele of Proconnesian marble, found at the village of
Kavak between Panderma (Panormos near Kyzikos) and Gunett
and acquired in 1908 by the Imperial Ottoman Museum, is shaped
like a chapel with gable and akroteria (fig. 42j)3. The gable is
adorned with an ox-head, round which is a garland tied between
the horns. In the chapel stands Zeus Olbios*. He wears a chiton

They are found first in Hes. frag. 209 Flach, 52 Kinkel, 30 Rzach af. schol. A. B- H-
292 Evpiiw^ tt)v QoIvikos Zeis 6ea<raiievos tv nvi Xet/iwpi piera pv/x<pwv avQi) avahh0V^V
■fipda-erj Kal Kare\6b)v ^XXafex eavrbv els ravpov Kal airb rod crrbixaros KpUov iicvei' ^ ovr^
re T7jx "Zipdnrriv airaT-qaas ipdo-raee Kal biaTrop6fJ.ebcras els Krinjp taly-q avrij- W °vTUS

cvvuKLcev avrr\v ' Aareplwvi ru> Kprjrwv fiaffikei' yevopLtvq be iyKVos eKelvf] rP'
eyivvrjo-e, iilvwa Xapirrjbbva Kal 'Pabd/j.av8vv. i] laropla irap' 'Ho-ibby Kal BaKX

hoi.

cp. schol. T. //. 12. 292 'HcrioSos be Evpilnrys Kal Aios abrbv (sc. Hap-n-qSbva) <^"'<"'''c[jcavit
Eur. Rhes. 28 6 be "Ralobos Evpilnnjs fitv (p-qo-iv airbv (sc. "Zapir-qbbva: lacunani m ^ ^
Schwartz) us 'EXXdxi/cos (frag. 94 (Frag. gr. Hist. i. 131 f. Jacoby)): supra \> 54
Eumelos of Corinth, whose floruit (supra i. 738) should have been fixed later ^
c. 740 B.C. (W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratu>x> Miinchen 1912 ' jv
W. Schmid—O. Stahlin Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur Miinchen 1929 ^ n0t

wrote a Evpairla dealing with the tale of Europe, but the three extant fragment <
ad rem (Epic. Gr. frag. i. 192 f. Kinkel). Other Greek poets that

handled the

include Eur. Kprjres frag. 472 Nauck2 (cited supra i. 648 n. 1) cp. Io. Malal- C ^
p. 31 Dindorf KaBbis Kal Hvpiirlbrjs b croQiiraros 7roii;ri/fcDs avveypaxj/aro, bs <P'llff ^4 p,
/xeraplXijOels els ravpov tt)v Evpdirriv Tfpirao-ev, Mosch. 2. 1—166, Anacreont, 52 Berg
Hiller, [Horn.] Batr. 78 f., Nonn. Dion. i. 46 ff., 320 ff. . _ jj0r.

Among Latin poets treating of the same subject the following deserve notice.
od. 3. 27. 25 ff., Ov. met. 2. 836 ff., fast. 5. 603 ff., Germ. Arat. 536 ff., Anth. ^ ■
Salmas. 14. 1—34 (i. 1. 49 f. Riese). \-frag- ^

1 First in Akousilaos of Argos frag. 20 (Frag. hist. Gr. i. 102 MUllel) —j g^r*
(Frag. gr. Hist. i. 55 Jacoby) ap. Apollod. 2. 5. 7 gfibofiov entrafyv aO^ov t°v^ - ^s
a7a7eiV ravpov. rovrov' A.KOval\aos fibv etval tp-rjai rbv SiaTropSp.eiio'avTa TSvpu'W g^e rb
be rbv virb Ho&etbwvos avaboOe'vra eK da\ao-<rr]S, bre Karadvaeiv

<pavev eK rfjs 6a\do-ai]S: supra i. 544 n. 6. Then follow Theophr. hist, pi- r- 9^ ^ 2p,
supra i. 526 n. 4), Apollod. 3. r. 1, Loukian. dial. mar. 15. 1—4, Apt"- m
Ach. Tat. 1. 1. 1— 1. 2. 2.

2 Supra p. 606. 2y) and

3 Edhem Bey in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1908 xxxii. 521—528 pis. 5 ( = »>y ^' a"„d if'
6 (lower part of stile on larger scale), Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii. ro8 no. 1 (wh° jjarrisoB
no. 1 (lower part), Mendel Cat. Sculpt. Constantinople iii. 39 ff. no. 836 fig-'
Themis2?. 148 f. fig. 26. fect he*9'

4 The inscription at the foot of the stile, apparently composed in impe ^^£v\^
meters, runs: Evobluiv lepebs Aibs 'OX/S/ov | virtp rSiv Ibtwv iravrav Ka9"Sjjen. St1"1'
aviOrjKa evxapto-r-fipiov $. Others, listed by F. W. Hasluck in the Jotirn- ^ saItie
1905 xxv. 56 f. and in his Cyzicus Cambridge 1910 p. 272, all came from
 
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