265 See Aug. Boeckh and L. Ideler, _ll.cc._ More recent writers would date it on the second full moon after the summer solstice, hence in August or the last days of July. See G. F. Unger, _l.c._; E. F. Bischoff, “De fastis Graecorum antiquioribus,” _Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie_, vii. (1884) pp. 347 _sq._; Aug. Mommsen, _Über die Zeit der Olympien_ (Leipsic, 1891); and my note on Pausanias, v. 9. 3 (vol. iii. pp. 488 _sq._). M68 The Olympic victors, male and female, may originally have represented Zeus and Hera or the Sun and Moon, and have reigned as divine king and queen for four or eight years. 266 A. B. Cook, “The European Sky-God,” _Folk-lore_, xv. (1904) pp. 398-402. 267 Rapp, in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon d. griech. und röm. Mythologie_, i. 2005 _sqq._ 268 Pausanias, v. 15. 3, with my note; Schol. on Pindar, _Olymp._ iii. 60. 269 Pausanias, v. 11. 1. 270 Pausanias, v. 16. 2 _sqq._ 271 See _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, vol. ii. p. 143. 272 Pausanias, v. 16. 4. 273 Many years after the theory in the text was printed (for the present volume has been long in the press) I accidentally learned that my friend Mr. F. M. Cornford, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge, had quite independently arrived at a similar conclusion with regard to the mythical and dramatic parts played by the Olympic victors, male and female, as representatives of the Sun and Moon, and I had the pleasure of hearing him expound the theory in a brilliant lecture delivered before the Classical Society of Cambridge, 28th February 1911. The coincidence of two independent enquirers in conclusions, which can hardly be called obvious, seems to furnish a certain confirmation of their truth. In Mr. Cornford’s case the theory in question forms part of a more elaborate and comprehensive hypothesis as to the origin of the Olympic games, concerning which I must for the present suspend my judgment. 274 Herodian, v. 6. 3-5. M69 Tradition that the great games of Greece originated in funeral celebrations. 275 Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 34, p. 29, ed. Potter. The following account of funeral games is based on my note on Pausanias i. 44. 8 (vol. ii. pp. 549 _sq._). Compare W. Ridgeway, _The Origin of Tragedy_ (Cambridge, 1910), pp. 32 _sqq._ 276 Clement of Alexandria, _l.c._ 277 Pausanias, v. 13. 1 _sq._ 278 Scholiast on Pindar, _Olymp._ i. 146. 279 Varro, cited by Servius, on Virgil, _Aen._ iii. 67.