INTRODUCTION
called Eubouleus. Gaia, as the giver of good advice, plays a great part in Hesiod. She it was who prompted Kronos in the deed whereby he overthrew his father Uranos. She and Uranos foretold to Kronos his own doom, and showed Rhea how the infant Zeus was to be preserved. It was Gaia by whose "sage instructions" Kronos was compelled to disgorge his children. It was by her admonishings that Zeus won his ultimate victory: "for she told the gods everything from beginning to end." (Theog. 627, cf. 884). It was, finally, she and Uranos who saved Zeus from doing that which would bring about his own overthrow (l. 891). In Pindar, by whom also Aeschylus was largely influenced, Themis plays the part assigned in Hesiod to Gaia. According to this version, Zeus is restrained from doing the fatal thing by Themis, who is given the epithet "euboulos" (Isthm. viii. (vii.) 67) as the expounder of oracles (θέσφατα). This passage was, no doubt, in Aeschylus' mind, when he calls Themis in this play "orthoboulos" (l. 18) "right-areading." But the part played by Gaia-Themis
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