Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 1124
completely draped in a large yellow himdtion,bends forward to seize a naked boy, who flings up his arm ina gesture of frantic supplication. But the ogre, with grim face andhorrible wide mouth, has him by hair and hand and leg. His fateis apparently sealed; for the old and terror-stricken… … Fig- 779-himdtion, rushes forward to present Kronos with the stony sub-stitute. There can, I think, be little doubt that this sensationalpicture—-very possibly with some symbolic meaning2—presents thesubject of Kronos teknopltagia, which we know to have been thetheme of a late Greek pantomime3.…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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