Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 746
oddesses. We should then assume—an easy assumption—thatthe earth-goddess had borrowed the sky-gods axe^ But the samefigures are described by R. C. Bosanquet* as women ; and there is,after all, nothing to prevent us from supposing that they are a pairof priestesses displaying the emblems of the… … Fig. 528. Phocian dedicate to Athena as an acceptable gift the axe withwhich he had made the wooden horse and thereby captured Troy^The fateful tool was to be seen in her temple at Eilenia in thedistrict of Lagaria near Metapontum^ Again, bronze coins of theOxyrhynchite nome, struck by Domitian,…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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