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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 862

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Oba {supra ii. 258 ff.pi. xvi) as another vase reminiscent of the Parthenonian design. We may take it, then, that this disposition of the central groupis so highly probable as to be practically certain. But, beforeattempting to extend it right and left, I would draw attention toone or two details.… … Fig. 502. this objectionable feature by inserting a cross-bar and a sunk panelbetween the legs of the throne. The effect is not good : Zeus appearsto be seated on a pile of boxes. It occurred to me^ that a simple would admirably fill the apex of the pediment, and that the vase-painter observing…

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

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