Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 430
.D.?3) interprets the blood-rain sent by Zeus in the Iliad* to portend the death of Sarpedon5as the tears, not indeed of Zeus, but of the aither*—-which amountsto the same thing7. Artists of Roman date represent rain as falling in large gouts ordrops from the hand of Zeus. A bronze coin of Ephesos,… … Fig. 204. Fig. 205. Fig. 206. in the British Museum {supra i. 134 fig. 100) must be added othersin the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris (fig. 204)9 and in the Lobbecke(fig. 2O5)10and Greau (fig. 2o6)u collections—all apparently from thesame dies. Again, an engraved chalcedony of the Graeco-Roman 1…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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