Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

1 1 The Pillar of Light
spirits tread ; he shall attend, surely, on none but that Zeus who is named of
Freedom^.'
More definitely Orphic are the gold tablets from CoriglianoS in
which the soul, addressing the Queen of the Underworld together
with Eukles^ Eubouleus^ and the other immortal gods, claims to
1 houkian. Dem. 5odXX' 6 /xh oix^Tai ^iov i^iiov tov iv fxaKapoiv urjaoLi ijpiIiuvXeyofjievov,
t) tixs eh ovpavov \f/vxah vojxi^oixiva's 65oi'/s, owaSSs tis Saiixuv effd^evos 'E\fv6epiou Aids,
K.T.\. trans. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler.
2 Three small plates of gold obtained in i88o from graves in the territory of Thourioi
(near Cori^i^liano). They were first published by G. Fiorelli in the Atti della R. Accadeinia
dei Lincei anno cci.xxvii (1879— 1880). Serie Terza. Memorie della Classe di Scienze
Morali, Storiche e Filologiche. Roma 1880 v. 400—410 pi. 3, i
i = Not. Scavi 1880
pp. 152— 162 pi. 6, I— 3, cp. ib. 1879 pp. 156— 159. See also D. Comparetti 'The
Petelia gold tablet' in ih^ Journ. Hell. Sdtd. 1883 iii. iii— 118, id. Laminette Orfiche
edite ed illustrate Firenze 1910 pp. i— 32 with 4 pis. (reviewed by O. Gruppe in the Berl.
philol. Woch. Jan. 27, 1912 p. 103 ff.), G. Kaibel Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 641, A. Dieterich
de hymnis Orpliicis Marpurgi Cattorum 1891 p. 30 ff. { = Kleiiie Schrifleii Leipzig and
Berlin 1911 p. 91 ff.), O. Hoffmann in CoUitz— Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. \\. 161 f.
no. 1654, Harrison Froleg. Gk. Rel? p. 585 ff., G. Murray ib. p. 667 ff., L. Radermacher
'Orphica' in the Rheiti. Mus. 1912 Ixvii. 472—477, H. AUene 'Leparadis orphique et la
formule 'ipupos is ydy iireTov ' in S^i'ta Hommage Internationale a P Universite Nationale
de Grece a I occasion du soixante-qtiinzieme Anniversaire de sa foiidation {18jy — 79/^)
Athens 191 2, A. Delatte 'Inscriptions orphiqucs sur tablettes d'or' in the Miisie Beige
1912 p. 125 ff. (noted by L. R. Farnell in The Year's Work in Class. Stud, igij
P- 135)) J- H- Wieten De iribtis laminis aureis quae in sepulcris
Amstelodami 1915 pp.
Thurinis sunt inventae
1— 172. Supra i. 650 n. o, 675 f.
^ Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 641 i, 2 f. EukXi?? Eu;8oi;Xei/s re Ka.1 a.\Q6.va.Toi deoi &\\oi.,
cp. ib. ii, 3 f. EB/cXe Kal Ei;/3ouXeO Kal 6eol 8aiixo[v]\e{s) dWoi, iii, 2 ff. (E)i;A:Xeiia Ka{i}
Ei;j/3o(ii)XeO Kal dtol &