Kasios, Zeus
Kasios, Zeus
- J. F. Healey
Subjects
- Near East
Zeus Kasios (Κάσιος), an oriental god connected with Mt. Casius (Greek Kasion, mod. Jabal al-Aqra®) near Antioch (1) and from Seleucid times associated with it. In texts from Ugarit this mountain, called ṣapānu, is the abode of Ba®al, a weather-god like Zeus. Casius/Hgazzi plays a part in the Hurrian-Hittite Ullikummi myth and figures in Zeus' conflict with the dragon Typhon (Apollod. Bibl. 1. 6. 3). Zeus Kasios is also associated with a sanctuary near Pelusium.
Bibliography
- Real-Encyclopädie d. klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 10. 2265 ff..
- R. Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes (2008), ch. 15.
- J. F. Healey, Wyatt Festschrift (forthcoming), 141–52.
