Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 844
nian type is exemplified by another Tyrrhenian amphorafrom Caere, now in the Louvre (fig. 491)^. Zeus, clad in a whitechiton and a red hUndtion, is seated on a throne—carefully inscribedas such^—with swans-head back and lions-claw legs. His lefthand holds the thunderbolt, his right a lotos-topped… … Fig. 491. the background is seen a temple-front with four Ionic columns, which is hardly to beidentified with the newly built Parthenon (J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1861 xxxiii. 318),but suggests that the scene is being enacted in Olympos (Gerhard p. 17). (4) Very similar is the design of…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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