Note 1542 — Chapter XI · ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY. (continued 2)

It is scarcely necessary to say that in my interpretation of this myth I owe much to my predecessors, though my view is slightly different from any previously given. Controversy has raged as to whether the mythical Danaides gave rise to the ‘Uninitiated’ or vice versâ. This seems to me a fruitless question with no possible answer. Each form arose separately, and the point is their ultimate contaminatio. The literature of the controversy is given by Dr Frazer ad P. X. 31. 9. To his references may be added, Dämmler, Delphika p. 22, and Mr A. B. Cook, J.H.S. XIII. 1892, p. 97.