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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 stone of Kronos

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took on metallic forms1. But to the last a memory of the old
thunderstone lingered in the by-ways of Greek mythology and
odd corners of Greek folklore. The sky-dynasty comprised three
successive sovereigns—Ouranos, Kronos, Zeus2. Of these, Ouranos
was reckoned as the son of Akmon3, if not as Akmon himself4.
Kronos too was equated with Akmon5. And Zeus himself (as we
shall see in the next two sections) exhibits certain features of both
cult and myth strongly reminiscent of the same tradition.

(h) The stone of Kronos.

The stone siderites or oreites, wrapped in swaddling bands and
treated as a babe6, recalls the stone swallowed by Kronos as
a substitute for the infant Zeus. If the one myth was connected
with Kybele and Mount Ide in the Troad, the other concerned
Rhea and the mountains of Crete.

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\)). See also J. Schlemm Wbrterbuch zur Vorgeschichte Berlin 1908 p. 105 f.
figs. a, b.

1 Supra ii. 764 ff. 2 Supra p. 739 f.

3 Hes. frag. fals. 6 Rzach ap. schol. Palat. in Simiae alas Amor. 1 p. 266 Diehl
A-K/xovlbav oV (prjaL rbv ovpavbv. 'Hffiodos' Taia [lev "AKfj-ova ZriKTev, dirb 8' "Anp-ovos 6
Vvpavbs. T. Bergk Poetae lyrici Graeci* Lipsiae 1882 iii. 68 f. acutely conjectured that
this hexameter Tola /j.ev "Ak/jlov (tikt, dird 5' "Ak/xovos Ovpavbs < tanev (add. Natalis
Comes?)> was taken from the Tilanomachia (cp. Cramer anecd. Oxon. i. 75, 11 ff. oi 8e
"■Kfiova rbv aWepa.' Aifftpos 8' vibs Ovpavbs, u>s 6 Tiravo/xaxiav ypd\pas [frag. 1 Kinkel)), a
Cyclic poem ascribed by some to Eumelos or Arktinos (Athen. 277 D) and by others very
Possibly to Hesiod.

Antim. Theb. frag. 44 Wyss ap. Plout. quaestt. Rom. 42 Xexp'S ^ Speirdvtp ri/wav
Vo A»}5eo. ivarpbs \ Ovpavov ' AnpoviSew Xdcrios Kpbvos avrirervKro ('was represented as a
Pendant figure' on some work of art: see B. Wyss ad loc).

^ Kallim. frag. 147 Schneider ap. et mag. p. 49, 47 ff. "Ak/iwv 0-q/j.alvei rbv re al8-qpov
^0 oh oi ^aX/cets rvirrovcri, /cat rod Ovpavov rbv irarepa- ovtojs yap avrbv yeveaXoyovai.

aMi£/iax<>5 ■ r$ repl Sw^err' 'AKiiovtSrjv ZfiaXev (so Schneider for to) irepl Sivrjevri
"■KHoviSrjv ZfjaXev. Bentley had proposed rip irepi8tvr}evT' aK/iovlSriv IfiaXev).

Cornut. theol. 1 p. 1, 1 ff. Lantr 6 ovpavbs...rices Se tuiv ■Koi-qrSiv"'Ak/jlovos ZQaaav avrbv

K.T.\. .

Hesych. s.v. 'AK/xovtSrjs- 6 Xdpuv. Kai b Ovpavbs. "Ak/j-ovos yap irais = Bekker anecd.
307, 12f. M. Schmidt ad loc. notes: ' Possis us Xapwv sc. Lampsacenus; editum
^araen tuetur Bekk. 367, 12.' Charon with his hammer (supra ii. 627 n. 3, 641 fig. 557)
n'ght be dubbed 'Son of Anvil' (cp. T. Bergk op. cit.1 iii. 69).

Alkm. frag, in Bergk4, 103 Edmonds ap. Eustath. in II. p. 1154, 24 ff. "Aicfiwv 8e
' />a' ° Tov Ovpavov, us eppedrj, Xeyerat vaTT\p...Kai 8rt 'AKfiovldai oi OCpavlSai, 8r}Xovaiv
Viol at0^' Si "Aic>i0'"'s ° Ofy""*5 ° AXx/id") <paeiv, Urropet. But in view of Eudok.
• 29 us 3e"Ai<nuv 6 Ovpavbs, b 'AXk/iclv iaropeT and, indeed, of Eustath. in II. p. 1150,
v 0 toC KpoKou TTaT7]p"AKfiwv eKaXeiro k.t.X. it seems certain that Alkman used"Ak/xuv as
^equivalent of Ovpavbs.

Hesych. annuv aTraffris (Kallim. h. Artem. 146 with O. Schneider ad loc). Kpbvos.
0"cs" o-lb-qpov, i<£ £ 6 xaXiceis xaXwMi. leri be Kal yevos aerov.
s"pra p. g2Q ff.
 
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