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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 783

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as a heifer bounds away to the left. The Doric column,the altar, and the priestess with temple-key and poppy-headed sceptre, mark the scene astaking place in the Argive Heraion. The four small bushes are its sacred grove (Apollod.2. I. 3 says of Argos o^tos iK ttjs cXaias ^diajxevev atTifv, tjtls… … 634 Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios as a heifer with human face\ as a maiden with heifers ears andhorns^, as a horned maiden^, or at least as a maiden with a heiferat her side^ Aeschylus in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1901 xii. 335—345 with col. pi. byF. Anderson, R. Engelmann in \h.Q Jahrb.…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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