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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 217

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o. 288bisfig. 77 ( = my fig. 54). Apollon, according to C. Densmore Curtis in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1920 xxiv. 150,to be the Apollon AevKarrji of a coin of Nikopolis struck by Trajan (supra i...45 n. 8). The dejected man on the rocks to the left has been compared by F. Cumont in theRassegna dArte… … The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis 139 is now generally admitted that the whole design illustrates theentrance of the soul into the Otherworld as conceived by somePythagorean sect in the middle of the first century A.D. But we areconcerned with the Tritons only, who here as on the sarcophagi…

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

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