Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 958
still brandishing his bolt, but mounted on atwo-horse chariot, which carries also a draped and veiled goddess.She holds in both hands attributes hard to determine—in her rightperhaps two ears of wheat (? a cornu copiae), in her left perhaps along torch (? a sceptre). The chariot is preceded by the… … Fig. 785. probabl) drawn from the Gigantomachy^ And here it is of interestto remember that in the neighbourhood of Constantinople thunderis nowadays attributed to St Elias, who drives his chariot across thesky in pursuit of a dragon, and that the modern Greek as like asnot will say The lightning is…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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