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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 841

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. infra fig. 526. Zeus, enthroned en face^ makes the gestureof delivery with his right hand as Athena rises from his head. Eileithyia and Artemison the right are balanced by Hephaistos and Poseidon on the left. The design is then The birth of Athena in art 677 amplified by the addition of other… … Fig. 488. personage resting on a staff (Nereus??). The identification of the last two figures is quiteuncertain : provisionally I follow Gerhard. For other guesses see R. Schneider DieGeburt der Athena Wien 1880 p. 11 f. Etruscan mirrors, under the influence of imported red-figure vases (W. Lamb…

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

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