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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 306

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Parthenos with the helmet of the Lemnia. Yetanother of Antoninus numerous medallions (fig. 133)5 shows Heph-aistos holding a hammer and forging a shield on his anvil. Beforehim is a helmet set on a tall cippus, behind him a shield, and in thebackground uplifted on a pedestal the statue of Athena… … Fig- 3i- Fig. 132. Fig- 133- Of greater importance than these artistic variations of a commonleme is the evidence supplied by definite religious usage. Heph-istos and Athena appear to have had a joint festival, thehalkeia, on the last day of Pyanopsion7 at the very beginning of 1 Frohner Mid. emp.…

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

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