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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 978

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grecqueset romaines provenant de Naples Paris 1901 pi. 6, 206): owl, with helmeted head ofAthena. 51 — 2 8o4 The owl of Athena a laugh and so heighten the prophylactic effect^. A bronze in theCastellani collection (fig. 6ii)^ represented the goddess as a cockwith human face, wearing by way of… … Fig. 611. The fourth stage in the evolution of Athena is that in which sheappears as a goddess with the wings of a bird. It has indeed beenmaintained that the conception of a winged Athena is not found onGreek soil till the Hellenistic age and should be explained as acase of late syncretism—Athena…

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

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