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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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44<br />

The effem<strong>in</strong>ate Tw<strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>Zeus</strong>^, or that of <strong>Zeus</strong> by Typhon^, as mean<strong>in</strong>g merely that the<br />

called Meliai. The genitals toss<strong>in</strong>g on the deep caused the white foam, aphrSs, amid<br />

which Aphrodite was reared), 472, K-n'i\m. frag. 35 K<strong>in</strong>kel ap. Plout. quaestt. Rom. 42,<br />

Apollod. I. r. 4, Ov. Ibis 273 f. with schol. ad loc, Cornut. theol. 7 p. 7, 17 ff. Lang,<br />

Tert. ad nat. 2. 12, Arnob. adv. nat. 4. 24, Aug. de civ. Dei 7. 19, Macrob. Sat. i. 8. 6 ff.<br />

alib. The Phaiakes were sprung from the drops let fall by Ouranos (Alkaios frag. 116<br />

Bergk* and Akousilaos /ra_o. 29 {Frag. hist. Gr. i. 103 Muller) ap. schol. Ap. Rhod. 4.<br />

992, where T. Bergk cj. 'AXk/xciv for 'AXkoIos). Phaiakia or Korkyra is called Apewavri<br />

(Aristot. yrflt^. 469 Rose ap. Steph. Byz. s.v. Sxep^a, op. schol. Ap. Rhod. 4. 983<br />

/rag. 554 Schneider ap. Pl<strong>in</strong>. nat. hist. 4. 52) or ApiTravov (Tzetz. <strong>in</strong> Lyk. At. 762 and<br />

869) or "ApTT-r) (Lyk. Al. 761 f. with schol. ad loc.) because the Spiiravov used by Kronos<br />

; Kallim.<br />

to mutilate Ouranos, or by <strong>Zeus</strong> to mutilate Kronos, lies buried beneath it (Timaios/ra^.<br />

(Frag. hist. Gr. i. 203 Midler) ap. schol. Ap. Rhod. 4. 983 : Ap. Rhod. 4. 982 ff. and<br />

54<br />

et. mag. p. 287, 31 f. make Kronos the agent, Lyk. Al. 761 f. and Tzetz. <strong>in</strong> Lyk. Al. 762,<br />

869 make him the patient), though others referred these names to the Spiiravov (schol.<br />

Ap. Rhod. 4. 983, et. mag. p. 287, 33 ff.) or dp<strong>in</strong>] of Demeter (Ap. Rhod. 4. 986 ff.).<br />

ZdyKXr] (Steph. Byz. s.v.) or Api-wavov <strong>in</strong> Sicily {et. tuag. p. 287, 35 ff., Serv. <strong>in</strong> Verg.<br />

Aen. 3. 707, cp. Macrob. Sat. 1. 8. 12. Lyk. Al. 869 calls it a,pTT]s Kp6vov n-qS<strong>in</strong>fj.a : see<br />

C. von Holz<strong>in</strong>ger ad loc.) and Apiiravov <strong>in</strong> Achaia (Paus. 7. 23. 4) were likewise con-<br />

nected with the sickle of Kronos ; Apiiravov {et. mag. p. 287, 38 f ) or Aparavy] <strong>in</strong> Bithynia,<br />

with that of <strong>Zeus</strong> (Steph. Byz. s.v. Apiiravr\, cit<strong>in</strong>g the anonymous l<strong>in</strong>e Apewdv-qv KXeiovaiv<br />

dirb 'K.poviSao cndripov). On the fish irofiTiKos, which together with Aphrodite sprang ek<br />

Tov ovpaviov a'ipLaroi (Athen. 282 F: cp. pervig. Ven. 9 cruore de superno), see Gruppe<br />

Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1351 n. i.<br />

1 Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the Rhapsodic theogony of the Orphists {c. 500 B.C.?), <strong>Zeus</strong> at the<br />

advice of Nyx made Kronos drunk on honey, bound him beneath the tall oaks, and gelded<br />

him on the spot {<strong>in</strong>fra § 3 (

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