territory, near living men, and able to help them. The descent from god to mortal Hero resulted, since the essential point of continued existence was not denied, in a corresponding exaltation of the mortal and the heroic to the divine. Thus the epic leads us in this instance towards a range of conceptions which the poems themselves treated as though it never existed, and which now suddenly comes into view. NOTES TO CHAPTER III [1\3: Pi., _N._ ix, 24 ff., x, 8 f., [Apollod.] iii, 6, 8, 4 (~su\n tô=| ha/rmati kai\ tô=| hênio/chô| Ba/tôni . . . _ekru/phthê_ kai\ Zeu\s _atha/naton_ auto\n epoi/êsen~) etc. The expressions used to describe the translation and continued conscious existence of A. are noteworthy: ~kata\ gai=' auto/n te/ nin kai\ phaidi/mous hi/ppous _e/marpsen_~, Pi., _O._ vi, 14. ~Zeu\s _kru/psen_ ha/m' hi/ppois~, _N._ ix, 25. ~gai=a _hupe/dekto_ ma/ntin Oiklei/dan~, x, 8. ~ma/ntis _kekeuthô\s_ polemi/as hupo chthono/s~, A., _Th._, 588. ~ede/xato rhagei=sa Thêbai/a ko/nis~, S. _fr._, 873 (= 958 P.). ~theoi\ _zô=nt' anarpa/santes_ es mu/chous chthono\s autoi=s tethri/ppois eulogou=sin emphanô=s~, E. _Supp._, 928 f. ~_hê/rpasen_ cha/rubdis oiônosko/pon, te/thrippon ha/rma peribalou=sa cha/smati~, 501 f. (Eriphyle ~Amphia/raon _e/krups'_ hupo\ gê=n autoi=si su\n hi/ppois~, Oracle in Ephorus ap. Ath., 232 F. ~Amphiara/ou _zô=ntos_ to\ sô=ma katade/xasthai tê\n gê=n~, Agatharch., p. 115, 21 Mü. ~_epespa/sato_ hê gê= _zô=nta_~, Philostr., _V. Ap._, 2, 37, p. 79, 18 Kays. ~_aphanismo/s_~ of A., St. Byz. s. ~Ha/rpuia.--_pa/mpsuchos_ ana/ssei~, S., _El._, 841; ~_aei\_ zô=n tima=tai~, Xen., _Cyn._ i, 8.]