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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 285

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Phoenicians with their Esmun-Kadmilos. The name Kadm(il)os coversa Semitic word for gold—Kadmos discovered the gold-mines of Mt Pangaion (Plin. nat.hist. 7. 197, Clem. Al. strom. i. 16 p. 49, 6ff. Stahlin, cp. Aristot./ro^. 459 Rose; Strab.680, Steph. Byz. s.v. IWvpia)—and the names ^iXoKTriTrjs… … Hephaistos and Athena 191 {supra ii. 314 n. o) == Philoktetes : Chryse= Hephaistos (Chrysor) : Aphrodite (xpi^o^Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1367 n. 2). A. Fick as a great philologist merits a more patient hearing. In his VorgriechischeOrtsnamen Gottingen 1905 p. 66 he quotes with approval Steph. Byz.…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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