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Dios and Dios Njsos 281
view must—as it now seems to me—be definitely preferred to the
alternative hypothesis. If so, we have here the old Thraco- Phrygian
Dios Hellenised, as might have been expected, into a Zeus Dios.
Korte remarks that at Dorylaeion there were seven tribes named
after the Mother of the gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Sarapis, Apollon,
Aphrodite, and Augustus respectively'. But, since the tribe of Zeus
was known as Deia'^, its eponymous deity was conceivably the
Phrygian Dcos rather than the Greek Zeils^. Be that as it may,
Zeus Dios was a god of Dionysiac character, for his altar is deco-
rated with grape-bunches^ and a plough"'. He should therefore be
' A. Korte in the Gcitt. gel. Ans. 1897 clix. 401 f.
- Id. ib. 400 f. no. 45 a marble base inscribed deo% riyov. j
a/yaK\ei\rt^ 'LTpaTovei\Kij) (pvXirai !
01
Aeias fl\vai. ayaW6/j.(vot. k.t.\.
elKova
TTjvSe \
arriaav
* The inference is uncertain : et may be for I as in 'SiTpaToveiKijj. But cp. the name
Aeoi/eias in the neo-Phrygian inscription no. 69, 10 f. (W. M. Calder in \}i\& Journ. Hell.
Stud. 1913 xxxiii. 98
fif. cites Aeoi;as from G. I'errot—E. Guillaume—^J. Delbet Explora-
tion archeologique de la Galatie et de la Rithyiiie d'tim partie de la Mysie de la Phrygie, de
la Cappadoce et dtt Pont Vz.u'i 1872 i. 52).
'' Zeus is connected with the vine by an early Phrygian myth. According to Akousilaos
of Argos, one of the older logographers (c. 525 B.C.), Priamos persuaded Astyoche, wife of
Telephos, to send her son Eurypylos from Mysia to Troy by presenting her with a golden
vine (Akousilaos/r(2^. 27 {Frag. hist. Gr. i. 103 Mfiller) ap. schol. Q.V. Od. i 1. 520, cji.
schol. B.(j. Od. 1 1. 521). .Some said that Priamos had himself made the vine (schol. luv. 6.
655 — a notice full of confusions). But others stated that it was the golden vine which Zeus
had given to Tros in exchange for Ganymedes and that it had passed to Priamos by way
of inheritance (schol. T.V. Od. 1 1. 521, Eustath. in Od. p. 1697, 31 ff.). This version was
derived from Lesches of Lesbos (