Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

290 Dios and Dios Nysos
and Bishoprics of Phrygia Oxford 1897 i. 1. 736 f. with pi. Beneath the inscription
'A^lpKtos I
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TTpenLi] Kf Toli t^kvois stands the Saviour between two heads representing the souls of
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Abirkios and Theuprepia.
The conception of the head as the seat of the soul (E. Bethe in the Rhein. Mus. 1907
Ixii. 465 n. 62, L. Radermacher in the Archiv f. Rel. 1908 xi. 412 ff., A. E. Crawley
The Idea of the Sotd London 1909 p. 239) is responsible for much in ancient literature (the
epic veKiiwv d/xevrji'd KdpT]va, the tragic (piXoy Kcipa, the colloquial u /j.iapa K((pa\ifi, etc.), art
(the herni, the mask, the bust, the medallion, etc.), and custom {e.g. separate burial of the
head (Korybantes supra \. 107 ; ffeovpyoi Prokl. in Plat, theol. 4. 9 p. 193 Portus Kai (8
irdvTuiv iari davfj.aaTbTa.Tov) oti tCjv deovpyuiv ddineiv rd o'w/j.a KeXevuvTUiv, wXijv rijs KecpaXrjs,
iv Trj fiiiffTLKiOTaTrj tC}v TeXeTwv, 6 llXaTWV (P/iaedr. 250 C) Kal tovto wpoeiXriipev, inr' avrwv
Ktvov/xevos tCiv deuv ; Battos Herakleides Pontikosyra^. 4. 4 [Frag. hist. Gr. ii. 212 Miiller)
on Capitol at Rome Varr. de ling. Lat. 5. 41, Liv. i. 55, 5. 54, Dion. Hal. ant. Kom. 4. 59,
Plin. nat. hist. 28. 15, Arnob. adv. nat. 6. 7, Aur. Vict, de vir. ill. 8. 4, interp. Serv. in
Verg. Aen. 8. 345, Isid. orig. 15. 2. 31, cp. E. Babelon Collection Pauvert de la Chapelle:
hitailles et Cam^es Paris 1899 p. 44 f. no. iii fig. and pi. 7, iii, Furtwangler Aut.
Ge?nmen iii. 451 f. fig. 233, and Class. Rev. 1904 xviii. 371 n. 20 : archaeological evidence
from Egypt is cited by Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen iii. 252 n. 3 and especially by Sir W. M.
Flinders Petrie Ancient Egypt Part iv 1916, from Megara Hyblaia, Syracuse, the Aeolian
iVIyrina, etc. by A. Mau in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 341 f., from the Scandinavian
area by P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye The Religion of the Teutons Boston-London 1902
P- 303)5 and divination by means of a severed head (head of Osiris floats to Byblos Loukian.
de dea Syr. 7 ; head of Orpheus floats to Lesbos—see Furtwangler Ant. Geminen i pis. 22,
I— 9, 13 f., 61, 51, ii. 107 f., 277, iii. 245—252 with figs. 138 f., and O. Gruppe in Roscher
Lex. Myth. iii. 1069, 1 168 ff., 1177 f. fig. 3 ; head of Archonides preserved in honey and
consulted by Kleomenes i (?) of Sparta Ail. var. hist. 12. 8; head of Publius prophesies
after victory at Thermopylai in 191 B.C. Antisthenes the Peripatetic (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 182
Miiller, but see E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 2537 {,) op. Phleg. mir. 3 ;
head of priest of Zeus' OwX6(r/xios in Arkadia (?) reveals the name of murderer Aristot. de
part. an. 3. lo. 673 a 1 7 ff. irepl 8e Kapiav {Kap..av E. Kap P. dpKaSlav Z.) ovtw to
tolovtov ditwlcxTevaav uiaTe Kai Kplaiv ewoiriaavTO irepi tivos twv iyxi^piuv. roS yap lepews
ToD'OirXoapiiov Aios dirodavbvTos, v