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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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348<br />

Zan an older <strong>Zeus</strong><br />

' over aga<strong>in</strong>st Palodes,' a muddy lake at the outlet of which<br />

stood the town Bouthroton or Bouthrotos^ Neither place had<br />

anyth<strong>in</strong>g whatever to do with Pan. Both may be readily connected<br />

with Zan. For at the Acherusian Lake was the tomb of Plouton,<br />

which the author of the Clement<strong>in</strong>e Homilies expressly compares<br />

with the tomb of <strong>Zeus</strong> <strong>in</strong> Cretel And a copper co<strong>in</strong> of Bouthroton,<br />

struck when the town had become a Roman colony, has for obverse<br />

type the head of <strong>Zeus</strong> wear<strong>in</strong>g a wreath of oak, for reverse an<br />

ox I Other coppers of the same town show either a stand<strong>in</strong>g ox<br />

or an ox-head*. The ox <strong>in</strong>deed played a part <strong>in</strong> the foundation-<br />

legends both of Boucheta (Bouchetos, Boucheton, Bouchetion) near<br />

the mouth of the Acheron'^ and of Bouthroton too*', be<strong>in</strong>g com-<br />

parable on the one hand with Europa's bull, on the other with<br />

1 Strab. 324, Ptol. 3. 14. 4, cp. Appian. de hell. civ. 5. 55. See further E. Oberhummer<br />

<strong>in</strong> Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 1084 f. and H. Kiepert Formae orbis antiqui Berl<strong>in</strong><br />

1894 Map 15 (<strong>in</strong>set of ' Corcyra Insula').<br />

^ Clem. Rom. horn. 5. 23<br />

(ii. 192 Migne) aXKk koX tov daeXyovs Aios, tov //.vBlkoO<br />

(fivdov sic O.), TOV 0/UOt£js TYjv dvyaT^pa M-^rtc KaraiTLbvTos, iv KprjTrj dewpelraL racpos' Kal<br />

iv T-Q ''Axepovaiq. 5e Xi/u-vr) YlXovToivos. Rohde Psj'cAe^''^ i. 134 n. i, followed by Gruppe<br />

Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1501 n. 2 and others, refers the passage wrongly to the less famous<br />

Acherusian Lake near Hermione (Paus. 2. 35. 10).<br />

^ Imhoof-Blumer i)/(7««. ^r. p. 139 no. y:),z'^.Yi.?ie.s\\TX\Descrizioned''alcunemedaglie<br />

Greche del Mitseo del Signore Carlo d' Ottavio Fontana di Trieste Firenze 1822 p. 35<br />

no. I (obv. p. DASSiDivs. Cornell, caput Jovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens /E. 3),<br />

no. 1 (obv. p. DASSIDIVS CORNELIVS caput lovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens JE. 1 p.),<br />

id. Descrizione delle medaglie. antiche Greche del Museo Hedei-variano dalla Liburnia f<strong>in</strong>o<br />

a tutte le isole deW atxipelago Parte Europea Firenze 1830 ii. 24 no. 2 (obv. P. DASSIDIVS.<br />

CORNELIVS. caput Jovis laureatum, rev. bos gradiens ^. 3 p.), J. de Witte Description<br />

des midailles et des antiqidtis du cab<strong>in</strong>et de M. Vabbi H. G. [ = Greppo de Montellier]<br />

Paris 1856 no. 566.<br />

* Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 139 f. nos. 31 (ox), 32 (ox), 33 (ox-head), 39 (ox-head),<br />

40 (ox).<br />

^ Philostephanos _/ra^. 9 a {Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 30 MUller) ap. Harpokr. s.v. Boi/xera-<br />

...7r6Xcs eaTL t^s '''ilTrdpov...riv ^iXoaTicpavos (tX6xw/3os sic cod. Heidelberg.) e;* toTs<br />

'HTTftpwTi/cors wvofxaadai (pTjai Sta to T7]v Qep-iv eTri /3o6s oxovfxivrjv iXdecv e/ceZcre (cara tov<br />

AevKaXiwvos KaTaKXvcrfxov = Souid. s.vv. Bouxera and Qefj.iv (<strong>in</strong> both passages read<strong>in</strong>g<br />

$iX6xopos for ^iXocT^ipauoi) = et. viag. p. 210, 34 ff. (read<strong>in</strong>g $tX6xopos and 5ia to Tr)v<br />

At]t{o iJTOL Q^/XLv /c.T.X.) = Favor<strong>in</strong>. lejc, p. 385, 31 ff. (read<strong>in</strong>g ^LXocrrecf/avoi iv Toh<br />

^iXiTTTLKoh sic).<br />

^ Teukros of Kyzikos/rag. i {Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 508 Mtiller) ap. et. mag. p. 210, 2t ff.<br />

Boyrpcoros ^ Boi/^p(or6s, 7r6Xis r-^s 'HTre^poi;, cos ^ijcrt TeOKpos 6 Ki'fi/cT7i'6s, 6rt 'EX^voii kK Ty\%<br />

TraTpi5os eis ttjv "}iTreipov Tapayevonevov, dvovTos 8e ewiPaTripia, i] /3oOs ov Kaipiav Xapovaa,<br />

To/ji-qv (pevyei. Kal KdXirov two. ttjs 'HTTf/pou dLavrj^afievr] et's yfjv e^epxerai, kclI KaTaweaovaa<br />

aTridavev, 6 5e "EXeuos, (TVfj,^6Xcij 6elLp XRV^'^f^^''^^^ ktI^sl irbXiv, koX cltto tov avjj.^a.vTOi<br />

BovrpwTbv aiiTTjv iLvb/xaae, cp. Steph. Byz. s.v. Boy^pwr6s- x^PP°''V

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