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because of Ion's parentage.1 Among us the name “ancestral” is not given to Zeus, but that of “houseward” and “tribal,” and we have a tribal Athena.That will do, said Dionysodorus; you have, it seems, Apollo and Zeus and Athena.Certainly, I said.Then these must be your gods? he said.My ancestors, I said, and lords.Well, at least, you have them, he said: or have you not admitted they are yours?I have admitted it, I replied: what else could I do?And are not these gods animals? he asked: you know you have admitted
1 Cf. Eur. Ion 64-75. Apollo begot Ion upon Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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