Note 152 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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As in the Orphic verse: “Zeus is a male, Zeus is an immortal virgin,” Abel, Orphica, Fr. 46. Hatch, Hibbert Lectures, p. 140, points out that Xenocrates and the Stoics both made the same assertion. Cf. authorities quoted by him and Euripides, Bacchae, ll. 330-350. A statue from Smyrna showing a markedly effeminate type of Dionysos is to be seen at the Ashmolean Museum.