Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 889
50 with fac- 758 Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt Olympian Zeus^ from the local coinage. He retained the throneand the sceptre in the gods left hand, but replaced the wingedthunderbolt by a winged Victory, and transferred the eagle to thesceptre-top, thereby suggesting not so much the stormy… … Fig. 702. leaning against his right shoulder, the eagle about to fly from hisright hand, and the thunderbolt omitted. P. Gardner conjecturedthat the rock was meant for Mount Olympos-^—Olympos (let ussuppose) in the neighbourhood of Olympiad The comparativefreedom of the seated figure, the…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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