Note 96 — Chapter XIII · THE RELATION OF THE STOIC PHILOSOPHY TO RELIGION.

In the case of another God, Pan, the idea of the Allnear was suggested simply by the name. His shaggy goat’s feet were taken to represent the solid earth, and the human form of his upper limbs implied that the sovereign power in the world resides above.96 To the Stoic without a misgiving as to these and similar explanations,97 it was a matter of small difficulty to make the Titan Ἰάπετος stand for language or Ἰάφετος, and Κοῖος for quality or ποιότης.98 Add to this the many more or less ingenious explanations of the well-known stories of Uranos and Cronos,99 and we are still far from having exhausted the resources of the Stoic explanations of mythology. The most important attempts of this kind have, however, been sufficiently noticed.