Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 959
d when there were obvious symptomsof a coming triumph^. If the owl was indeed regarded as Athena herself in bird-form,we can understand why the town-arms of Athens were an owlbetween two sprigs of olive. A good example, which came to lightin 1839 at Palaiopolis (Korkyra), is now in the British… … Fig. 580. ^ The bird which portended victory to friends naturally portended defeat to foes.Consequently the owl had also a sinister significance, on which see P. Perdrizet Surle folk-lore de la chouette dans Iantiquite in the Bulletin de la SocieU nationale desAntiquaires de France 1903 pp.…
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