Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 818
Amphora from Girgenti, now at Karlsruhe :Zeus in labour, with two Eileithyiai and Hermes in attendance. See page 665 n. 1. The birth of Athena in art 665 Karlsruhe (pi. li)\ Vienna (fig. 476)^ and Florence (figs. 477, 478)^,produce the same effect by adding to left and right one or moredeities as… … Fig. 476. notion that EiXei^wa, from etWta + dvTa, means in der Bedrangnis schnell herbeieilend{Etym. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 129). But that notion is itself improbable, and the wingsmay be explained as in the text. The same explanation fits the Etruscan Eileithyiai, whoappear as winged women…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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