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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 651

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numen fuisse marinum circa Salaminem cultum' (H. Steuding in the Woch. J. klass.
Philol. Okt. 9, 1908 p. 1105 applauds: O. Gruppe in the Berl. philol. Woch. Mai 30,
■9°8 p. 686 ff. is also, with some reservations, favourable). A useful sequel to this work
ls J- J- G. Viirtheim Teukros und Teukrer Rotterdam 1913 pp. 1—44 (summarised by
J- Schmidt in Roscher Lex. Myth. v. 427—429). The same author here argues that the
Teukroi were a historical folk, probably of Lelegian stock. Pushed southwards by tribes
Altering Greece from the north, they occupied both Troas and Lokris, left traces of
themselves here and there on the coast of Asia Minor, and passed from Kilikia to Kypros.
Their eponym Teukros, according to one tradition, came to Troy from Crete; according
to another, from Attike. Again, a Teukros who wandered from Troy to Kypros was
later confused with Teukros son of Telamon. Teukros' son Aias founded the cult of
^eus and a priestly dynasty at Olbe in Kilikia. Teukros is the Hellenised form of Tarku,
a S°d of the Leleges in Asia Minor, whose name was borne by his priests likewise. The
°'dest stratum of the Iliad was Locrian-Thessalian in origin and recognised a triad of
ocrian heroes, the two Aiantes and Teukros. Homer knows nothing of Teukros'
anishment to Kypros; but later writers extend his wanderings to Egypt (Eur. Hel.
9 "•)> Phoinike (Verg. Aen. 1. 619 ff. and Serv. ad loc), and even Spain (Asklepiades
°f %rleia frag. 5 (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 301 Muller) ap. Strab. 157; lust. 44. 3. 2 {., Sil.

' 3- 368, 15. 192 f.; Philostr. v. Apoll. 5. 5 p. 167 f. Kayser). Of this and other such
^constructions F. Schwenn in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v A. 1124 remarks rather
grimly. 'das meiste bleibt hier stark hypothetisch.' Cp. Oldfather ib. xiii. 1172. It is,
^ouever, commonly admitted that, at least in Asia Minor, Tetlkros was the Hellenised
^<n of Tarku, the name of a native (?Hittite) deity. Frazer Go/den Bouglfi: Adonis
™ Osiris1 p. 62 f. says : ' Teucer (Teukros) may be a corruption of Tark, Trok, Tarku,
roko, all of which occur in the names of Cilician priests and kings. At all events,
•j,ls Worthy of notice that one, if not two, of these priestly Teucers had a father called
Pilaris, ar)d 'hat in a long list of priests who served Zeus at the Corycian cave, not
y miles from Olba, the names Tarkuaris, Tarkumbios, Tarkimos, Trokoarbasis, and
'ornbigremis, besides many other obviously native names, occur side by side with
i8UCer.and other purely Greek appellations [E. L. Hicks in the Joum. Hell. Stud.
' 9 xii. fj- no }[ichei Recuen d'luscr. gr. no. 878]. In like manner the
Vfey?^8' w'10 traced their descent from Zeus and reigned at Salamis in Cyprus, may
days 'i6en a nat've dynasty, who concocted a Greek pedigree for themselves in the
think^ Greek civilisation was fashionable.' Id. ib.x p. 65: 'If, as many scholars
tjm '.Tavk or Tarku was the name, or part of the name, of a great Hittite deity, some-
l"entified as the god of the sky and the lightning, we may conjecture that Tark or
the WaS "le native name °f the god of Olba, whom the Greeks called Zeus, and that
theirPneStly k'ngs wll° bore tlle name of Teucer represented the god Tark or Tarku in
narne°o*n Ders°ns.' Id. ib.1 p. 78 : 'On that hypothesis the Olbian priests who bore the
the So° ^ax embodied another native deity of unknown name, perhaps the father or
**'v a" }! Tark'' Similarly E. Herzfeld in the fahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1909
Gtottor. Anz- P- 435 observes that the names of priests in the list from the Corycian
ersteri 'tj0'1"'6 "IaPKUllPlVS, Eiav^iTjs, TpoKofaptias, Toyfdp/iot, and comments: ' Dass die
2ugnin(]eaIften clieser Namen, Tarku und Jan, auch den Namen Teukros und Aias
^Uher' 6 lle8en' ist deutlich.' H. Hirt Die Indogermanen Strassburg 1905 i. 56, 5°9
c°»'ius C°mpares the Etruscan Tarcna, Tarchna, Tarquenna, Tarchu, Tarauitus, Tar-
j348 sa *e La,in Tar?""""s- E. Schachermeyr in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ivA.
a2aisci,eS °I Tar9*inius: ' Der Name geht letzten Endes zuriick auf den des kleinasiatisch-
ischer, N Ues Tarku <so im ostlichen Kleinasien; vgl. fj.] Sundwall Die einheim-
[Leipzi a"len der Lykier nebst einem Verzeichnisse kleinasiatischer Namenstamme
aUf Kreta'9,'3-' '"KIi° Beiheft '9'3] 2i3 ff-)> der uns in Lydien als Zetfj Tapyin)vbs,
^"Wkerr s ^I'kohv entgegentritt. Von den aus Kleinasien nach Italien einwandernden
*eht 2urn *urde der Gott nach Etrurien verpflanzt... Hier trat er als Tarchon...immer
atte«erl k U"d wurde schliesslich nur mehr als Heros verehrt' etc. Zeus Tapywvbs is
y two inscriptions of s. i a.d. (J. Keil—A. v. Premerstein in the Denkschr. d.
 
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