Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 765
?..y.p.-..rMf/?.. An amphora from Canosa, now at Naples ; Europe playing with the Bull Sit/•agt (,l<) II. 1 (i) (••)• Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios 621 … Fig. 420. 62 2 Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios a vegetation power ^ and as such associated with flowers and fruit.The fertiHsing god must needs have a fertile bride. The Greek type of Europe with her flowers seated on the backof the bull Zeus seems to have originated in the Hittite type ofChipa with her…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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