James Frazer - The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)

Herodotus, viii. 41; Plutarch, Themistocles , 10; Aristophanes, Lysistrata , 758 sq. , with the Scholium; Philostratus, Imagines , ii. 17. 6. Some said that there were two serpents ,Hesychius and Photius, Lexicon , s. v. οἰκουρὸν ὄφιν. For the identity of the serpent with Erichthonius, see Pausanias, i. 24. 7; Hyginus, Astronomica , ii. 13; Tertullian, De spectaculis , 9; compare Philostratus, Vit. Apoll. vii. 24; and for the identity of Erichthonius and Erechtheus, see Schol. on Homer, Iliad , ii. 547; Etymologicum magnum , p. 371, s. v. Ἐρεχθεύς. According to some, the upper part of Erichthonius was human and the lower part or only the feet serpentine. See Hyginus, Fabulae , 166; id. , Astronomica , ii. 13; Schol. on Plato, Timaeus , p. 23 d; Etymologicum magnum , l. c. ; Servius on Virgil, Georg. iii. 13. See further my notes on Pausanias i. 18. 2 and i. 26. 5, vol. ii. pp. 168 sqq. , 330 sqq.

Apollodorus, iii. 14. i; Aristophanes, Wasps , 438. Compare J. Tzetzes, Chiliades , v. 641.

W. H. Roscher, Lexikon d. griech. und röm. Mythologie , ii. 1019. Compare Euripides, Ion , 1163 sqq.

O. Immisch, in W. H. Roscher's Lexikon d. griech. und röm. Mythologie , ii. 1023.

Apollodorus, iii. 12. 7; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 72; J. Tzetzes, Schol. on Lycophron , 110, 175, 451.

Pausanias, i. 36. 1. Another version of the story was that Cychreus bred a snake which ravaged the island and was driven out by Eurylochus, after which Demeter received the creature at Eleusis as one of her attendants (Hesiod, quoted by Strabo, ix. 1. 9, p. 393).

Stephanus Byzantius, s. v. Κυχρεῖος πάγος; Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius , 507, in Geographi Graeci minores , ed. C. Müller, ii. 314.

Hesychius, s. v. Ἐρεχθεύς; Athenagoras, Supplicatio pro Christianis , 1; [Plutarch], Vit. X. Orat. p. 843 b c; Corpus inscriptionum Atticarum , i. No. 387, iii. Nos. 276, 805; compare Pausanias, i. 26. 5.

Apollodorus, iii. 14. 1; Herodotus, viii. 55; compare Pausanias, viii. 10. 4.

See above, p. 73.

Apollodorus, iii. 4. 1 sq. ; Pausanias, ix. 12. 1 sq. ; Schol. on Homer, Iliad , ii. 494; Hyginus, Fabulae , 178. The mark of the moon on the cow is mentioned only by Pausanias and Hyginus.

Apollodorus, iii. 4. 2; Euripides, Phoenissae , 822 sq. ; Pindar, Pyth. iii. 155 sqq. ; Diodorus Siculus, v. 49. 1; Pausanias, iii. 18. 12, ix. 12. 3; Schol. on Homer, Iliad , ii. 494.

Proclus, quoted by Photius, Bibliotheca , p. 321, ed. Bekker.

Proclus, l. c.

Pindar, Pyth. iii. 155 sqq. ; Diodorus Siculus, v. 49. 1; Pausanias, ix. 12. 3; Schol. on Homer, Iliad , ii. 494.

Schol. on Euripides, Phoenissae , 7 καὶ νῦν ἔτι ἐν τῇ Σαμοθρᾴκῃ ζητοῦσιν αὐτὴν [scil. Ἁρμονίαν] ἐν ταῖς ἑορταῖς. According to the Samothracian account, Cadmus in seeking Europa came to Samothrace, and there, having been initiated into the mysteries, married Harmonia (Diodorus Siculus, v. 48 sq. ). It is probable, though it cannot be proved, that the legend was acted in the mystic rites.

See The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings , ii. 133. Mr. A. B. Cook has suggested that the central scene on the eastern frieze of the Parthenon represents the king and queen of Athens about to take their places among the enthroned deities. See his article “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review , xviii. (1904) p. 371. As the scenes on the frieze appear to have been copied from the Panathenaiac festival, it would seem, on Mr. Cook's hypothesis, that the sacred marriage of the King and Queen was celebrated on that occasion in presence of actors who played the parts of gods and goddesses. In this connexion it may not be amiss to remember that in the eastern gable of the Parthenon the pursuit of the moon by the sun was mythically represented by the horses of the sun emerging from the sea on the one side, and the horses of the moon plunging into it on the other.

Schol. on Pindar, Olymp. iii. 35 (20).

Compare Aug. Boeckh, on Pindar, l. c. , Explicationes , p. 138; L. Ideler, Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie , i. 366 sq. ; G. F. Unger, “Zeitrechnung der Griechen und Römer,” in Iwan Müller's Handbuch der classischen Altertumswissenschaft , i. 605 sq. All these writers recognise the octennial cycle at Olympia.