223. Ottfried Müller, Die Dorier.
224. Varro, quoted by Maury.
225. Dione was the female Jupiter, her name meaning simply "the goddess," identical with the Italic "Juno," formed from Διος.
226. But not the same character. At Dodona he was invoked as the Eternal. Pausanias (X. c. 12, § 5) says that the priestesses of that shrine used this formula in their prayer: "Zeus was, Zeus is, Zeus shall be! O great Zeus!" On Olympus he was not conceived as eternal, but only as immortal.
227. Rev. G. W. Cox (A Manual of Mythology, London, 1867. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations, London, 1870) has shown much ingenuity in his efforts to trace the myths and legends of the Greeks, Germans, etc., back to some original metaphors in the old Vedic speech, most of which relate to the movements of the sun, and the phenomena of the heavens. It seems probable that he carries this too far; for why cannot later ages originate myths as well as the earlier? The analogies by which he seeks to approximate Greek, Scandinavian, and Hindoo stories are often fanciful. And the sun plays so overwhelming a part in this drama, that it reminds one of the picture in "Hermann and Dorothea," of the traveller who looked at the sun till he could see nothing else.
"Schweben sichet ihr Bild, wohin er die Blicke nur wendet."
228. See Le Sentiment Religieux en Grèce, d'Homère à Eschyle, par Jules Girard, Paris, 1869.
229. Iliad, Book I. v. 600.
230. Margaret Fuller used to distinguish Apollo and Bacchus as Genius and Geniality.
231. Isthmian, VI.