Note 132 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES

So Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, c. II. The scene of the Rape is laid in many different places. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter calls it “the Mysian plain,” meaning probably Mysia in Asia Minor. A scholiast on Hesiod puts it in Sicily, Bacchylides in Crete, Orpheus in “the parts about Ocean,” Phanodemus in Attica, Demades in “woodland glades.” See Abel, Orphica, Fragm. 212, p. 239. Cf. Maury, Religions de la Grèce Antique, t. I. p. 479.