Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals

by J. C. Lawson

[1469] Protrept. § 16.

[1470] Theophr. Char. 28 (ed. Jebb).

[1471] l. c.

[1472] Clem. Alex. Protrept. II. 15.

[1473] The cymbal certainly belonged to Demeter also (see Miss Harrison, op. cit. p. 562) but not, I think, the kettle-drum.

[1474] Psellus (Quaenam sunt Graecorum opiniones de daemonibus, 3, ed. Migne) refers the formulary to the rites of Demeter and Kore. But I cannot agree with Miss J. Harrison (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, p. 569) as to the importance of Psellus’ testimony in any respect. He appears to me to give no more than a résumé of information derived from Clement’s Protreptica, misunderstood and even more confused.

[1475] Paus. II. 17. 3.

[1476] Miss J. Harrison, op. cit. p. 536, commenting on Philosophumena, ed. Cruice, v. 3.

[1477] A title under which both Zeus and Hermes were known; see Aristoph. Pax, 42, and Schol. ibid. 649.

[1478] Clem. Alex. Protrept. § 54.