Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 158
he andno other is meant appears from the presence of his patroness Athena (aigis, spear), whooffers Hera a lily—not, as Minervini thought, in allusion to the later legend of the MilkyWay {supra i. 624 n. 5), but merely as the favourite flower of the goddess {supra i. 624n. 2, ii. 515 n. 10) and a… … Fig. 34- 94 The Clouds personified in Cult and Myth goddess Rhapso^, but was presumably stressed as a means ofexplaining the obscure appellative EiraphiStes^. The same etymolo-gising tendency dates the whole hostage-episode, with its play on the boy to her right breast, where he drinks his fill.…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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