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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)
Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 675
Fi g- 34Q. 54© Zeus Omb morios human Zeus was not complete without at least some hint of thedigisx. Demetrios i, the son and successor of Euthydemos i, expandedthe kingdom of Baktria to include the Indus valley2. About 190 B.C.he struck silver tetradrachms (fig. 350)3 bearing on the obverse hisown… … Fig- 350. figure of Zeus the storm-god was intended as the Greek equivalentof the ancient4 native god Indra. The reverse subject was repeatedhalf a century later on the silver coins of Heliokles, both thosestruck in Baktria with a Greek legend and a purely Greek type Atlas pi. 5, 1 (photograph of…Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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