Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

3i6 Zeus Didymaios
Chthonia, and Eros\ but in a passage of profound significance
declared 'that Zeus had transformed himself into Eros, when about
to create' the world^. The cosmogonic Eros, as G. F. Schoemann^
called him, figures also in Orphic literature both early and late*:
the Rhapsodies represent ' delightsome Eros ' as contained in and
issuing from ' ' the great body of Zeus' ; \\i& Hymns make '
Eros
' a
synonym of 'Bakcheus,' whom they invoke as 'Sire of the gods and
Son"'—a manifest echo of the old Thracian creed".
V. The Double Zeus.
(a) Zeus Didymaios.
If now we set the principal types of Father and Son over against
the principal types of Twin Brethren, we might fairly expect to find
Diels a/>. Plat. sy;//p. 178 B, Aiistot. wef. i. 4. 984b 25 ff., Simpl. in Aristot. p/iys. p. 39, 18
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