Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 765
ivory double axe from the sanctuary of Artemis Orthla at Sparta (R. M. Dawkinsin the Ann.. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1906—1907 xiii. 100 f. fig. 31,/. —my fig. 558). ^ Sir A. J. Evans loc. cit. p. 52. ^ Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 406. •* On the zigzag representation of lightning among the Greeks and Romans seeT.… … Fig. 557- Vulci (fig. 557)^; for, if we may assumethat he was originally a god of theUnderworld^, his hammer could be-token chthonian thunders, and thezigzags upon it chthonian lightnings.It was perhaps these nether thunder-bolts* that earried for him the verysobriquet of Charon, He of the…
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