Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Zeus of Blood Relatives
Sophocles, Antigone 658-659 (Creon to his son Haemon; tr. Mark Griffith):
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Let her keep harping on about Zeus-of-blood-relatives.Griffith ad loc. notes the pun on Haemon's name. For similar gods see Frederick H.M. Blaydes on Sophocles, Electra 428:
ἐφυμνείτω Δία / ξύναιμον.
θεῶν — τῶν ἐγγενῶν] I.e. 'who preside over and defend the rights of relationship.' Gl. P: ἐγχωρίων. Cf. on Ant. 199. θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς. Aesch. Sept. 564. θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς. In Latin 'dii gentilicii.' Called elsewhere θεοὶ πατρῷοι (411), and ὁμόγνιοι (Oed. C. 1333. Plat. Legg. 729 C.). So Ζεὺς ξύναιμος Ant. 659.
