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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 814

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ch is confined to black-figured vases,shows a sceptred Zeus sitting on a throne towards the right, atfirst (fig. 474 and pi. 1)^ with an Eileithyia in front of him andanother Eileithyia behind him. They are by their gestures aiding^the birth of Athena; but the goddess is not yet born, nor is… … Fig. 474. ^ A Nolan amphora at Florence published by J. B. Passerius Picturae EtruscorumRomae 1770 ii. 38 f. col. pi. 152 as red-figured (!)—a blunder corrected by Lenormant—de Witte £1. vion. c^r. i. 190 fig. ( = my fig. 474), R. Schneider Die Gebiirt der AthenaWien 1880 p. 13 no. 29. A…

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

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