Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 770
. 422), as perhaps does thesquared structure on the right. The landscape background shows a wooded mountain,cleft by a ravine in which are seen a stately fir-tree (?) and before it a tall sacred column Zeus as an ox; Zeus Olbios 625 to indicate that this is holy ground. The whole composition, with… … Fig. 424. legs of the bull, and glints on the breasts of Europe, is a light-and-shade device already^eralding the advent of the Fourth Style (50—79 A. D.). The work in general presupposesgood Greek original of the Hellenistic age, to which the Roman copyist has added aConventional background and…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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