Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 762
double axe from the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (R. M. Dawkinsin the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1906—1907 xiii. 100 f. fig. 3i,y. = my fig. 558).. - Sir A. J. Evans loc. cit. p. 52. 2 Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 406. •^ On the zigzag representation of lightning among the Greeks and Romans seeT. H.… … Fig. 557- Vulci (fig. 557)-^; for, if we may assumethat he was originally a god of theUnderworld2, his hammer could be-token chthonian thunders, and thezigzags upon it chthonian lightnings.It was perhaps these nether thunder-bolts^ that earned for him the verysobriquet of Charon, He of the…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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