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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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268 <strong>Zeus</strong> and Dionysos<br />

which probably once denoted 'She that creates or produces^'—<br />

possible doublet of it be<strong>in</strong>g the name Thetis'^.<br />

Dionysos—as would be admitted by modern scholars^ with<br />

scarcely a dissentient voice^—was a god of Thraco-Phrygian ex-<br />

traction^ And his presence at Delphoi implies that a wave of<br />

Thracian immigrants had early reached Phokis—a fact attested also<br />

by the existence of the Delphian Thrakidai''. Herodotos <strong>in</strong>deed<br />

(prial diCL TO TTjv Qe/jLLv iiri ^obi dxovtt.iv7}v eKe'i(re iXdeiv /card tov AevKoKiiovos KaTaK\va//.6v,<br />

cp. Souid. s.vv. Bovxera and Q^/xiv, et. mag. p. 210, 34 ff., Favor<strong>in</strong>. lex. p. 385, 31 fif.)<br />

with the Cretan Europe, a .vegetative earth-goddess {supra i. 524 ff.), and cites to the same<br />

effect a conv<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>g passage from Clem. Al. protr. 2. 22. 5 p. 17, 9 fif. Stahl<strong>in</strong> /cai Trpoa<strong>in</strong><br />

Vfi% (so Wilamowitz for t^s P. Euseb. praep. ev. 2. 3. 40) ee>i5os (C. A. Lobeck<br />

cj. 66(t/j.o6^tl5os or 'Apr^/ottSos) to. airopp-qra (app-qra Euseb. loc. cit.) CJuix^oKa dplyavov,<br />

\iJXV0i, ^los, KTehyvvaiKelos, (Ss Euseb. /oc. cit. 6 M. P.'' and cod. H. of Euseb. loc.<br />

cit. above the l<strong>in</strong>e) eVrtv, e{!

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