Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 1012
Ishtar are the snakes who carry out thecommands of Shamash, the god of Law and Righteousness. In answer to the triendly criticisms of Mr Sidney Smith I wouldurge that the formidable and rapacious aspect of the goddessdesiderated by him is to be sought in Athenas relation to theGorgon^, who… … Fig. 649. ^ Supra p. 833 n. o sub Jin. ^ Supra ii. 502 n. 2, iii. 189 n. i. 3 A black-figured hydria of late, Etruscan, style, found by E. Gerhard at Vulci in1834 and now at Berlin, shows a Gorgon-headed monster, with four wings and the talonsof a bird, clutching two naked youths (Furtwangler…
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