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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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714<br />

The sword of <strong>Zeus</strong><br />

tolerably certa<strong>in</strong> that the old sky-god with his double axe {Idbrys)<br />

has been modernised <strong>in</strong>to a war-god with a handier blade^<br />

At Stratonikeia, not twenty miles away from Mylasa, <strong>Zeus</strong> was<br />

CJirysaoreus- or Chrysaorios^. The town, <strong>in</strong>deed the whole district,<br />

had <strong>in</strong> early days been called CJirysaoris*. Its <strong>in</strong>habitants, the<br />

Chrysaoreis^, were members of a league specially devoted to the cult<br />

of <strong>Zeus</strong> Chrysaoreiis^. There was also a Carian hero Chrysaor,<br />

^ Supra p. 590 f. Similarly the Babylonian <strong>Zeus</strong> bore a dagger as well as a double<br />

axe for warlike purposes (Baruch 6. 15 ^x" ^^ eyxfipiSiov de^i^ Kai ireXeKvi', iavrov de e/c<br />

iroXifiov Kai Xt/cttwv o^uk i^eXtlrai): W. H. Roscher Die Gorgonen unci Verwandtes Leipzig<br />

1879 P- 78 n. 158.<br />

^ Strab. 660 'i(JTi. 5' iv rrj X'^P^ '''^^ "ZTpaToviKiwv dCio iepd, ev fiev Aayivoii to ttjs<br />

FjKaTTjs imcpaviaTaTov , iravr)yvp€i^ fxeyaXcLS crvvayov Kar' iviavrbv 6771)5 5e t^s irb\iwi rb<br />

Tov Xpujaopeojs Aios koivov aTravTuiv KapSiv, eZs 8 avvia

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