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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits) — Cambridge, 1940

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(ii. 470 no. 4), Treves (iv. 293 no. 3), Troyes (ii. 470 no. 2), in marble at Mantineia
(ii. 469 no. 11), Munich (vi. 110 no. 1), in stone at Nimes (vi. no no. 2), and even in
amber at Oedenburg (iv. 293 no. 6). The type is further discussed by J. Schmidt in
Roscher Lex. Myth. v. 315 ff., H. Herter De Priapo Giessen 1932 p. 193 ('Priapus
agricolarum potius exemplo hoc vestimenti genere uti videtur'), R. Egger 'Genius
Cucullatus' in the Wiener priihistorische Zeilschrift 1932 xix. 311—323 (two altars
inscribed Genio Cuatllato in a small Celtic temple at Wabelsdorf in Carinthia: this
deity, worshipped throughout the Romano-Celtic area, was introduced into Greece by
the Galatians from Asia Minor, and under the Greek name Telesphoros travelled far
and wide during the early centuries of our era), K. Kerenyi 'Telesphoros' in Egyctemes
Philologiai Koezloeny Budapest 1933 tvii. 7—11 (the cult of Telesphoros was essentially
Graeco-Roman), F. J. de Waele in the Am. Joiirn. Arch. 1933 xxxvii. 446 n. 2 (two
figurines from Corinth 'may represent a similar small divinity, a predecessor of Teles-
phoros, as Euamerion...in Titane (Paus. II, 11, 7)'), F. M. Heichelheim ' Genii Cucullati'
in Archaeologia Acliana Fourth Series xii. 187—194 ('among the Celts of the Danube
region, Gaul, and Britain, native deities who wore the cucullus were assimilated not only
to the Roman genius and the eastern Telesphorus...but also to the Cabiri....A survival
of the genii cucullati in the similar representations of dwarfs, hobgoblins, and the like, in
the post-Roman period...does not seem unlikely').

ii. 1089 Grabphalli. Paus. 8. 34. 2 (near Megalopolis) yrjs X"Ma...e;r/0?7/ia ix°v XWou
TteTToi-qixivop 86.ktvS.ov, Kai Si) Kai &vop.a ti2 xti/xaW ean AavrvXou /j.vi]p.a is interpreted by
C. Belger in the Berl. philol. Woch. Mai 14, 1892 p. 640 as a phallbs. But see the facts
collected by Frazer Pausanias iv. 354—357.

ii. 1090 Zeus Hbrios. On Zeus "Opios see also H. J. W. Tillyard in the Ann. Brit.
Sch. Ath. 1904—1905 xi. 65, S. Eitrem Beitriige zur gricchischen Religionsgeschichte
Kristiania 1920 iii. 33, and E. Fehrle in Roscher Lex. Myth. vi. 648. It must be borne
in mind that Zeus "Opios was not merely the Greek rendering of Iupiter Terminus or
Terminalis, but also a genuine Hellenic deity, the natural protector of boundaries. Plat.
legg. 842 e Aids opiov fjitv irpu>Tos vbp.os tide eipTjirBoj- p.77 KtveiTco yrjs opia fxr]5els jc.t.X.
implies the sanction of long-standing usage. The calendar of the Attic tetrdpolis found
at Koukounari, which dates from the earlier part of s. iv B.C., prescribes for Skirophorion
the sacrifice of a sheep to Zeus "Opios (R. B. Richardson in the Am. Joum. Arch. 1895
x. 209 ff. col. 1, 11 =j. de Prott Leges Graecorum Sacrae Lipsiae 1896 Fasti sacri p. 46 ff.
no. 26, A 11 [Ta.Se 6 apxw 6b?]ef Aii 'Opiwt ols Ahh). And the northern boundary of
the Thracian Chersonesos was marked by an inscribed altar of the same god ([Dem.]
de Halonnes. 39 f. koXtoi ^.eppovqaov oi bpoL eiaiv, ovk 'Ayopd, dXXa ffitifibs rod Aids tov
'Opiov, os €<rri p,era£() IlreXcoO Kai AevKrjs 'Aktt)s, rj t\ Siopvxv fyieXXe Xeppovrjaov Haeadai,
ws ye to eiriypafxfxa to irl tov [3<i}p.ov tov Atos tov 'Opiov 5r]\oi. to~Ti hi tovtL ■ tovSe
KaOiSpvo-avro deip irepiKaWia fiuixbv \ AevKTfs Kai IlreXeoD pJaaov bpov ddfjicvoi J ivvaeTai,
X&pTjs o-qix-q'Cov • dp.txoplr}s de [ avTos avat; /j.aKapc*)i' ecrH fxdo-os KpofiS-rjs (J. H. Vince
translates 'Zeus is Warden of our No Man's Land.' F. Blass had cj. fiolprjs ai)p.i\iov
afifioplijs Te on the strength of Od. 20. 75 f.)). Hence Scholl—Studemund anecd. i. 265
'Riri'Sera Ai6s... 71 opiov, ib. i. 266 '\ZirideTa Albs... 66 bplov. Cp. a dedication of the
Abderites to Hadrian as tpaiavCb ' AdpiafU [ 2e/3a<77-ii ZtjW 'E<popiui (G. Bakalakis in
BpaKtKa 1937 viii. 2Cj = Bev. Arch. 1937 ii. 386 no. 170).

ii. 1091 ff. Zeus Meilichios. Short studies of this cult in H. Sjovall Zeus im alt-
gricchischen Hauskult Lund 1931 pp. 75—84 ('Zeus Philios und Zeus Meilichios') and
M. P. Nilsson 'Die Gotter des Symposions' (E Symbolis Philologicis O. A. Danielsson
octogenario dicatis seorsum expressum) Upsaliae 1932 pp. 224—227. G. Blum ' MeiXf^'os'
in Le Music Beige 1913 xvii. 313—320 held that the appellative meant '"maitre des
abeilles," c'est-a-dire des ames' (A. Plassart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1926 1. 423 n. 4):
cp. Journ. Hell. Stud. 1895 xv. 19.

ii. 1095 Kvpfiets. M. Guarducci '"Axones" e "kyrbeis"' in the Rendiconti della
Pontificia Accademia romana di Archeologia 1929—1931 vii. 101 —107 distinguishes Hooves,
three or, more probably, four tables of wood set at an angle to each other and revolving
on a common axle, from Kiipjiets, prismatic or pyramidal blocks of stone tapering towards
the top but not made to move: both forms of monument were inscribed boustropheddn.
She publishes the limestone fragment of a \a.\v-Kiipf3is from Prinias (Rhizenia ?) and
compares with it the inscribed tapering stone from Dreros (Michel Recueil d'/nscr. gr.
no. 23, F. Blass in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. iii. 2. 239 ff. no. 4952, Dittenberger
Syll. inscr. Gr? no. 527) and a similar inscription on a block of red trachyte from Chios
(U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Nordionische Steine (Abh. d. berl. Akad. iqog Phil.-
hist. Classe ii. 64 ff. pi. 2 no. 25), E. Schwyzer Dialectorum Graecarum exempla
epigraphica potiora Lipsiae 1923 p. 337 f. no. 687, M. N. Tod A selection of Greek

C. III.

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