Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 696
us Umbrios 561 head spout, from which gushes a stream of water still coloured^reen. The base is inscribed The Goddess of Showers^. Thisterra cotta combines, cleverly enough, two Hellenistic motives—that of the crouching Aphrodite^ and that of the lions-headfountain ^ Perhaps we are meant to… … Fig. 382. (h) Zeus Hyetios, Essentially similar to Zeus Ombrios, the Showery, was ZeusHyetios, the Rainy^ We have already seen that Nonnos appliedboth names to one god^; and, whereas Plutarchs list of agricultural 1 The inscription GEA H OMBRIOS {sic) is given in the text as 0EA H OMBRIOS.The…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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