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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 941

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r advised when he reaffirms Heberdeys contention thatthe snakes belong to the second gable of the Hekatompedon, butmakes no attempt to fill the space between them (fig. 565)- Dickins^had already drawn the sound conclusion: At present...the centralgroup of this pediment is unidentified. And here, at… … Fig. 566. Egyptian influenced On this showing one might suppose that theblank between the pedimental snakes was originally occupied bysome simple solar device, a disk or pMale or Gorgoneion. More certainly connected with Athena is the pair of snakes,which on a red-figured pyxis at Copenhagen (fig.…

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

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