Note 103 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Pausanias, ii. 32. 10. In Greek saronis is a hollow oak. See Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus, 22; Hesychius and Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. σαρωνίδες; A. B. Cook, “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review, xviii. (1904) p. 370. Mythology derived the name Saronian from a certain Saron, an ancient king of Troezen and a mighty hunter, who had been drowned while swimming after a doe (Pausanias, ii. 30. 7). In this mythical hunter associated with Artemis we may perhaps detect a duplicate of Hippolytus.