Zeus : a study in ancient religion . nari, director of the Museo Arqueologico Nacional at Madrid, and F. A. Ossorio,keeper of the Greek and Roman antiquities, reports (Sept. 21, 1923) that both theseauthorities regard, and always have regarded, the fragment as a mere fabrication. ii. 7 n. I. Add Eunap. v. Aedesii 37 (p. 20 Boissonade) to tCov oixi\t]tQ>v dpiarov TrpbsfivaTTipuJo^rj Tiva aLwrrrjv /cai Upo<pavTLKriv ex^lJ-vdiav eTnppeirks t]v Kal (rvveK€KK(.TO. ii. 31 n. 7. So also Loukian. somn. 2 cS ZeO Tepdarie, cp. Aristoph. pax 41 f. ouk ^crd^Sttws I tout earl to T^pas ov Aids aKaTai^
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . nari, director of the Museo Arqueologico Nacional at Madrid, and F. A. Ossorio,keeper of the Greek and Roman antiquities, reports (Sept. 21, 1923) that both theseauthorities regard, and always have regarded, the fragment as a mere fabrication. ii. 7 n. I. Add Eunap. v. Aedesii 37 (p. 20 Boissonade) to tCov oixi\t]tQ>v dpiarov TrpbsfivaTTipuJo^rj Tiva aLwrrrjv /cai Upo<pavTLKriv ex^lJ-vdiav eTnppeirks t]v Kal (rvveK€KK(.TO. ii. 31 n. 7. So also Loukian. somn. 2 cS ZeO Tepdarie, cp. Aristoph. pax 41 f. ouk ^crd^Sttws I tout earl to T^pas ov Aids aKaTai^oTOv {supra p. 15 n. i) and Eustath. in 1885, 8 f. Atos Se Tiipas dWriyopiKCos fxev to i^ dipos toioOtov yap i), ws eppedrj, 5ixav^<povs PpouTTj. aXXws 8^ 8id to irdv r^pas dvayecrdai eh iKeivov, Kadd /cat irdcyav ofxtprju dibKai 7ravo/ji<paTos iXeycTo Zei^s. See further O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. v. 369. ii. 32. The relief of Zeus KpaTaL^dT7)s is now figured by Svoronos Ath. 219, 8 (=my fig. loio).. ig. loro. ii. 38 n. 5. Mr A. D. Nock points out to me (Oct. 4, 1921) that Paulin. Nolan, carm,5. 37 ff. is transplanted from Auson. ephem. 3. 37 ff. See M. Schanz Geschichte derromischen Litteratur Milnchen 1904 iv. i. 33, 238 f. ii. 44. Platons comparison of the Galaxy with the undergirders of triremes perhapsrests on another folk-belief. W. Gundel Sterne und Sternbilder im Glauben des Altertu?nsund der N^euzeit Bonn—Leipzig 1922 p. 46 says that the Milky Way is sometimes con-ceived as ein gewaltiges Seil. This would explain, not only the Platonic cable, but alsothe yet more famous aetprjv XP^<^^-W of //. 8. 19 ff. A golden rope hung from heaven toearth may well have been a popular conception of the Galaxy. And, if Zeus bound itTTcpt piov Ov\v/xiroLo {ib. 25), we recall that the stars came down at night on Olympus(supra p. 905 n. o). ii. 44 n. 4. The late Mr H. G. Evelyn White kindly supplied me (Sept. 23, 1921) witha Coptic parallel to the M
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