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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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The birth of Athena

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tradition followed by the vase-painters of the sixth and fifth
centuries B.C.1 Others, including Euripides, ascribed the blow to
Prometheus2—the first, according to Pliny, who ever felled an ox3.
A poem that passed under the name of Eumolpos4 or Mousaios5
called the striker Palamaon. Lastly, Sosibios, a Lacedaemonian
scholar of the third century B.C., spoke of him as Hermes6; and
s°me early artists, as might be seen for example in the sanctuary
f Athena Chalkioikos at Sparta, represented Hermes, axe in hand,
landing beside Zeus7.

But, whatever name we give to the axe-bearer on the Madrid
Puteal, it is clear that the Athenians even of the Periclean age were
Prepared to tolerate the conception of Zeus as struck on the head
y an axe—a 'holy axe8' said some, an 'ox-striker9' said others.
ls "ley would never have done, unless behind the myth there

1 Man. d. I„st. ut pi. 55 OT^IAI*3B . »• vi pi. 56", 3 A* -H, Lenormant-de
Witte fit

E<t>A ^ ' Pl' 65 A ^°T^A4>3H (black-figured vases); ii. i pi. 64

no ' 0< (red-figured vase, attributed to Hercnonax (Hoppin Red-fig. Vases ii. 31
•SiS&T-i? a near,v a">ed painter (J. D. Beazley Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen

2 gubln8en I9»S P- 304 no. ,)).

TiTj1([ ' 452.ff- <ri top tidivwv Xoxia." | aveiXclBvtav, ifiav | 'AO&vav inertia, \ Jlpo/xadet
cos 5' ^ 0Xc"8eiaav kut aKpordras \ Kopv<pas Ai6s, (5 irbrva N//ca, k.t.X., Apollod. i. 3. 6
aiVoO T>,S ^f''''^l7eus (yevtoeus epit. followed l)y R. Wagner) ivtarr\ xpt"">s> TrX^facros
'^0aiV ll'f^a^'7>' TreXiKd Ilpofi7)8(us 7) Kaddirtp dXXoi Xiyovaiv 'W(paiaTO\i (Xiyowri Kai
eitller del * ' ^leri<lue f°"owea' by A. Westermann), « kopvQfjs (R. Hercher would
^""Wr tnese two words or write t?)s Kopv<prjs aiVoO), <hri woTa/iov TplTwvos
^P°lt»8i \ G' He>'ne)» 'AlVS » SxXois ave$opev, schol. Find. CV. 7. 66 a fr'ioi 8^ rip

3 a Myovai, 66 b oi 5e Ilpo/inWa.

593) ' 4 9 +• But see wnat is s1'1' °f Sopatros (j-«/>v; p. 590), Diomos (supra

4 . and Tliaulon (j«/ra p. 597 n. 2).

*aT^ 8i t4 b"' 'rf'>' tl'<re0e'at 59 P- 3' Gomperz ■riji' «t/>aXV i);ro 'H0ai<r7OD diaipeiTai,

5 Schol pMOA7ro" ^ T°" cvvdivTa tt)v Ttoa\aiv inri UaXap.dovoi.

^ia^J^" 'Ae'','5'' htw* {Mous. frag. 8 (£>/V. 6V. frag. i. 225 Kinkel)), 66 b oi
j,er'laPs told"" ^~*0l"n P^ai *V T0" "0a\V ore 'A0>?><a iyevvaro. The story was
^olpos c"1 tlle EiS/»X*-ia of Mousaios: this would account for its attribution to

6 Schol p° GrUppe Gr- My'h- Rel- P- "13 n. 4.

i 27 duller)) T?' °1' ?' 66a 2w<rl'3")s W 'E/y»j> 0i)<" (Sosib. /ra^. 7 (/<>'«.?. Wrf. G>. ii.
1,1 S°sibi0s' ', ^ 01 5*'EPM>>. The statement may have occurred, as C. Miiller supposes,
P' l31), or 'rf'"' 7""" f" AaxtSaiAioyi euaiuii' (on which see Tresp Frag.gr. Kultschr.

'fepi A?^'uS,aS Schneider dcr Athena Wien 1880 p. 5 n. 24 suggests, in his

T," "P^alcoj, ttotPeias 59 p. 31 Gomperz ft>ioi 5' 'Ep/xoPs Trapadediok-amv. Kai

* ^s ^aXKcoi- S °'?M'0l''r>'"'/ T"S''o>' FopeoruTa t(p A(i iroovai viXtnvv (xovra, KaSdirep iv
»tX r''ncl- aWusion is very possibly to the work of Gitiadas (I'aus. 3. 17. 2).

Aj-*ei. 34 Bergk4, 3^ Schroeder (cited p. 200 n. 3, cp. p. 605) 07^^

*<a, ^0nnos etc I

without ' Pra P* 300 3) use /Joi'irXijf apparently as a mere synonym for
any further mythological significance.
 
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