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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 superannuation of Zeus 743

at some Thessalian1 cult-centre where Zeus and Thetis chanced to
be worshipped side by side2.

Different in origin, but similar in development, was the myth of
Metis, which may be regarded as a Boeotian doublet of the
Thessalian story. The Hesiodic, like the Homeric, Zeus is metietaz,
ntetideis*, the 'Magician5.' But, whereas metis in Homer was merely
abstract 'prudence' or concrete 'counsel6,' Metis in Hesiod is a
full-blown personality. She ranks as one of the many daughters
borne by Tethys to Okeanos7, for supernatural wisdom belongs to
the deities of the deep8. If now we ask how Zeus came to be so
full of Metis, Hesiod9 is ready with a naive explanation. Metis, the

1 On Thetis as 'Thessalische Seegottheit' see M. Mayer in Pauly—Wissowa Real-
£,tc- vi a. 206—208.

Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. t i68 n. 3! 'Auf eine andere Kultverbindung weist
vielleicht die Sage von der Liebe des Zeus zu Thetis.'

Hes. o.d. 104, theog. 56, 520, 904, 914, sc. Her. 33, 383.
Hes. o.d. 51, 760, theog. 286, 457.
" Supra i. 14 n. 1, ii. 1147.
H. Ebeling Lexicon Homericum Lipsiae 1885 i. 1101. The formula Aii lajfriv
araXoi.Tos is used of Odysseus (//. 2. 169, 407, 636, 10. 137) and Hektor (//. 7. 47, 11.
2o°) in the Iliad, but does not occur in the Odyssey.
I theog. 3S8.

'b- 352 'Idvia as another of the 'QKeavlvai. Cp. ii. 233 ff. Xripea 8' dipevSea Kal
Te ,a ^e^aT0 IT6fTos [ irptafivraTov iralbicv avrap KaX^ovat ytpovra, \ ouveKa vrip.tpT-qs
^ Ka ijTtos, ov5t dtjAiffTiwv j Xtfderai, dWd Sluaia Kal ij-ma drjvea oldev. See further, on
^ereus, Proteus, and the like, Preller—Robert Gr. Myth. i. 5540"., 6090"., Gruppe Gr.
j£n^' PP- 4'5> 429 n- 2, and especially M. Ninck Die Bedeutung des Wassers im

una Leben der Allen Leipzig 1921 pp. 47—99 ('Wasserund Weissagung').
of ■ 1 ''le same '('ea underlies the negro plantation-song Old Man Ribber, the refrain
'mch runs: 'Old Man Ribber, | He must know somethin', ] But don't say nothin', |
e J«st keeps rollin' along.'
e. '^es- theog. 886 ff. See also the fragment of an epic Theogony quoted by Chrysipp.

s- 908 von Arnim ap. Galen, de Hippocratis et Platonis placitis 3. 8 (v. 351 f. Kiihn)
^€iT^1'S {*us. R. Peppmiil!er)> ZpiSos i] fi^v t4kc (pa.i5Lp.ov vibv j "HtpaitTTov t^xvVjlv
0^ ,S aLyLOXoto 1 irdvTicv ira\dfj.r]LTi KcKaa/j.e'i'ov (so D. Kuhnken for k^kXtju^pov cod.)
Ka\\ Vlav. 1 avrdp # y 'QKeavou Kal Tijdbos rjuKop-oio | kouptj vbaip' "Hprjs irapeXi^aTO
Kqfa 7rctP?JV (so D. Ruhnken for Kdpr}p...irape8ei)aro KaXXiwaprjov cod.) j i^anatptop Mtfrty
X^palt, ^"^^"^ eovaav (so T. Bergk for troXii Sivevovaav cod.). | <rvp.u.dp\pas d' 0 ye
y '* tyKardeTo vr)5vv | Seicras p.y rit^ri KparepJirepov aXXo Kepavpov (so H. Weil and
'cti7r7rt Cner ^"0r K€Pavv°v'. supra ii. 12). j ToGveKd fuv Kpopidijs v*pl£vyos aldtpi vatwp j
0f£>i» e4("ru'i)s> 7j 5' avrUa HaXXdfi' ' ktHjvqp \ Kvaaro- tt)v p.ep Itlktc iraT-qp dvSpUp re

iroTap.oio. MijTts 0 avre Vjr}vb$ vtto airXdyXPOts
v\e:0.Ta J ^aro' '^Vair/s (so D. Ruhnken for iBr/valri cod.) fiyr-iip, rexraiva Sinaltov,
k.t,\ j, (WV Te (so G. F. Schoemann for elSvla cod.) KaTadvyTuip t dv$p<iirwv. \

attribut \ Usener 'Eine Hesiodische Dichtung' in the Rhein. Mus. 1901 lvi. 174 — 186
^auly~!w- S excerIn t0 an earlier form of Hesiod's Theogony. But see A. Rzach in
U. v0n wSS°Wa Real-Enc- viii- "92 and G. Kruse ib. xv! i4o9f. The latter follows
Classg^ llam°witz-Moellendorn" (Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin Phil.-hist.
Jies. f/^2' P' ^' Die Heitnkehr des Odysseus Berlin 1927 p. 190 n. 1) in rejecting
^Wsin as an '"terpolation and regarding the epic fragment cited by

°s as 'eine ganz spate Dublette,' both being condemned as the products of mere
 
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