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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 god of the Dark Sky 949

but also the confessed patron of law and order. For as husband of
Ge Th4hiisx he was the natural guardian of themistes or ' precedents2'
and the parent of Dtkez 'the Right Way of Things,' that is
'Justice4.' It was his to judge between the lawful and the lawless,
whether human or otherwise. Archilochos of Paros as far back as
the middle of the seventh century5 could say:

Zeus, Father Zeus, thou reign'st in heaven above

Watching the works of mortal men,
Knavish or just; yea, all the beasts that move

Have rights and wrongs within thy kenc.

There are grounds for suspecting that the laws inscribed on Solon's
kyrbeis and dxones were held to be the very voice of Zeus7.
Aischylos8 makes Dike a close ally of her father. Sophokles9
speaks of her as seated at his side10. Euripides in the Melanippe

VJrojU&qsschol. Aristoph. thesm. 973. Cp. Dion. Hal. ars rhet. 2. 2 Zeus yap Kai "Rpa,
Tp&Toi fevyvvvres re Kai avvivd^ovre^' oiirui roi 6 p.ev Kai Harijp KaXeirai vdvTUv, i] de
Jivyla, dwb rod frvyvivai rb Orj\v rip appevi (Poll. 3. 38 mentions Hera TeXe/a, but omits
Zeus). U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Der Glaube der Hellenen Berlin 1932 ii. 143
n- 2 cites Inscr. Gr. sept, i no. 3217 (a fragment of white marble from Orchomenos in

Koiotia) [........Ail TeXJeiV, "Hpa TeXei'? as an inscription relating to a marriage. See

further A. Klinz TEP02 TAMOS Halis Saxonum 1933 p. 109 ff.

1 Supra ii. 37, 267, 841. Hence, presumably, Plutarch's Zeus Qeixla-rios (infra
P- 964 n. 2).

2 //. 1. 237 ft'. a"T^ P-1" u^es '^xai&v I ""^"/"S5 <popiovai SiKa<rir6\oi, of re
QtfittTTas I 7rp6s Aios elpiarai, Od. 16. 403 et p.iv K alvJiawai Ai6s p.eyd\oio Biiuaret.

3 Supra i. 755 n. 10. See Hes. o.d. 256 ff., Aisch. s.c. Th. 662, cho. 949 f., Eur. frag.
'5o Dindorf= 151 Nauck- ap. Stob. eel. I. 3. 23 p. 56, 19 ff. Wachsmuth.

4 H. Usener GStternamen Bonn 1896 p. i8of., O. Waserin Pauly—Wissowa Real-Ene.
v- 574. R. Hirzel Themis, Dike und Verwandtes Leipzig 1907 pp. 56—227 (the fullest
treatment), Harrison Themis1 p. 516 ff.

6 W. Christ Geschichte dergriechischen Litteraiur* Mttnchen 1912 i. 184.
0 Archil./rag-. 88 Bergk4, 88 Edmonds, 94 Diehl2 ap. Stob. eel. 1. 3. 34 p. s8, n ff.
Wachsmuth (cp. Clem. Al. strom. 5. 14 p. 412, 3 ff. Stahlin (Euseb. praep. ev. 13. 13. 54))
u ZeO, irdrep ZeO, cbv /tec ovpavov Kpdros, | <rb S' fpy' eV avdpwiruv opgis \ \einpyd Kai
^Mard, <roi Si 6r]plwi> | u/3pis Te Kat SIktj /ieXei' with R. Hirzel op. cii. p. 218 n. 5.
S' Shorey in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh igr8 x. 801
*n a fable of Archilochus there is an appeal to Zeus who regards both the Hybris and
the Dike of beasts. This may be little more than the literary tone of Kipling's "law of
. Pack" and Aristophanes' "laws of the birds" [av. 1343 ff.]. Pindar echoes Hesiod
wUh the compound beasts "unwitting-of-justice"' [Arem. 1. 63 eijpas iXSpoSUas]. Anaxi-
"landros even spoke of all individual things as paying the penalty for their injustice
^ a<f- 9 Diels3 ap. Simplic. phys. 24. 13 (Theophrast. phys. opin. frag. 2 in H. Diels
AXofraP,li Graeci Berolini 1879 P- 47^> 8 ff-) ^ "r " ' ytvtais iari roit ovai, Kai tt)p
d5°'-C"' ^S Ta"Ta ykecOtU Kara to xpeiiv diSovai yap aura 5lm)v Kai riaiv dXXiJXois rijs
7'as Kara ttjv tou xpbvov ra^iv).

^"pra ii. 1093 n. 1. 8 Aisch. cho. 244 f.

w Soph. Troth. 279, O.C. 1381 f.
he ?' ^ern Orphicorum fragmenta Berolini 1922 p. 196 thinks that Sophokles was
re fo»°wing Orphic doctrine (infra p. 950 n. 4).
 
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