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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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Significance of the birth of Athena 727

a philosopher from Seleukeia on the Tigris1, born c. 240 B.C.2,
Wentified Zeus with the universe or the universal soul and Athend
W[th its highest part, the aither, and was thus enabled to work in
the Stoic cliches ' from the head' and ' Zeus male and female.'
Lastly Cornutus3 in his Compendium of Theology offered a blend of
Chrysippos and Diogenes.

Aristokles4 the historian, presumably in his Theogonyh, went off
0n a different tack. He declared that Athena was born in Crete,
where she lay hidden in a cloud till Zeus cleft it and so brought her
to light. This mention of the cloud recalls the Theogony of the
Orphic Rhapsodies, in which the cosmic egg containing Metis was
called 'the cloud'6; and it maybe that Aristokles was here indebted
to Orphism.

Where the ancients left off, the moderns began. P. Buttmann7,

Pa'tum Iovis ortumque virginis ad physiologiam traducens disiungit a fabula, Min. Fel.
. • '9' 12 Babylonio etiam Diogeni disciplina est exponendi et disseiendi (K. F. Halm
CJ- discip]ina eadem est exponenti et disserenti), Iovis partum et ortum Minervae et hoc
£enus cetera reruin vocabula esse, non deorum.

W. Christ Geschichtc der rriechischen Lilteratur* Mlinchen 1020 ii. [. 106.
' n- von Arnim in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 774.
„ t Cornut. theol. 20 p. 35, 6ff. Lang t) bk 'Ad-qva iartv ij tov Aids avveffis, 17 o.vtt) ovffa
B if airy Trpovola, xaBb Kal Upovolas 'ABrivas IbpvovTai (A. Nauck cj. 'idpvm-ai) vaol
g(n ^P°"oia as a tendentious alteration of the cult-title Upovala see Farnell Cults of Gk.
0 i"1' 3o(>—3°8. Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. pp. 103, 1074 n. 6, 1096 n. 2, 1214 n. 4,
^ dfer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 3114, 3119 ff.J. yeviadai 0' ck rrjs tov Aios Ke<pa\ijs
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ap ^nstokl. frag. 4 (Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 330 Midler = Frag. gr. Hist. i. 258 Jacoby)
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7 ^"Pra ii. I024_

sic» seh Buttmann My'hologus Berlin 1828 i. 7 ' Einige Haupt-Abstrakta jedoch, die
fast ^C.lr run in der Sprache bilden, werden auch frith personificirt, und kommen daher
Grie h a"Cn ^°lliel"n als alte Gottheiten vor: A'h/gheit, Sprache, Matmheit, Liebe. Die

nun

!en haben daftir Pallas, Hermes, Ares, Afrodite,' 9 'Pallas, Klugheit,' 28 '1st es

Und d'0 ' natiir''cn' dass die Nation vvelche den Verstand in der Pallas personificirte,
Hess r|eSe' a'S S^'^'chen Verstand, aus dem Haupte der obersten Gottheit entstehen
rSurnte?^S S'e' Sa^C 'C'1' e^en ^'eser r"a"as den hochsten Rang nach Juppiter ein-
 
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