Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 202 fig. ( Weihrelief an Zeus Meihchios), Reinach i^^/). Reliefsii. 14 no. I ( Hommage au serpent dAsklepios), Harrison Proleg. Gr. Rel? p. 20 f. fig. 5and Themis p. 282 f. fig. 73. I am indebted to Miss Harrison for the photograph, fromwhich my fig. 967 was drawn. Height 0*265, breadth 0-495 to 0-505. ^ So Harrison Thetnis p. 282. 1° C. O. Miiller—A. SchoU loc. cit., Ant. Skulpt. Berlin loc. cit. II52 Appendix M place of Oidipous in the sanctuary of work on Theban Marvels wrote as follows^: Lysimachos of Alexandreia ^ in When Oidipous died, his
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 202 fig. ( Weihrelief an Zeus Meihchios), Reinach i^^/). Reliefsii. 14 no. I ( Hommage au serpent dAsklepios), Harrison Proleg. Gr. Rel? p. 20 f. fig. 5and Themis p. 282 f. fig. 73. I am indebted to Miss Harrison for the photograph, fromwhich my fig. 967 was drawn. Height 0*265, breadth 0-495 to 0-505. ^ So Harrison Thetnis p. 282. 1° C. O. Miiller—A. SchoU loc. cit., Ant. Skulpt. Berlin loc. cit. II52 Appendix M place of Oidipous in the sanctuary of work on Theban Marvels wrote as follows^: Lysimachos of Alexandreia ^ in When Oidipous died, his friends thought to bury him in Thebes. But theThebans, holding that he was an impious person on account of the misfortuneswhich had befallen him in earlier times, prevented them from so doing. Theycarried him therefore to a certain place in Boiotia called Keos and buried himthere. But the inhabitants of the village, being visited with sundry misfortunes,attributed them to the burying of Oidipous and bade his friends remove him. Fig. 967. from their land. The friends, perplexed by these occurrences, took him up andbrought him to Eteonos. Wishing to bury him secretly, they interred him bynight in the sanctuary of Demeter—for they did not know the locality. Whenthe facts transpired, the inhabitants of Eteonos asked the god what they shoulddo. The god bade them not to move the suppliant of the goddess. So Oidipousis buried there, and—adds Lysimachos—the sanctuary is called the Oidipodeion.^ Demeter at Eteonos bore the surname Eiiryodeia^ and was certainly an earth-goddess*. Oidipous, buried in her precinct with the honours due to a suppliant^,would naturally be viewed as a beneficent chthonian power. In this capacity hewould almost certainly be anguiform. Indeed, P. Kretschmer has argued thatthe name Oidipous^ Swell-foot, actually denoted a snake, being a euphemistic ^ W. Christ Geschichte dergriechischen Litteratur^ Miinchen 1911 ii. i. 184. ^ Lysimachos y9<7^. 6 {Fra
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