Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 845
ian type is exemplified by another Tyrrhenian amphorafrom Caere, now in the Louvre (fig. 491)1. Zeus, clad in a whitechiidn and a red Jiimdtion, is seated on a throne—carefully inscribedas such2—with swans-head back and lions-claw legs. His lefthand holds the thunderbolt, his right a lotos-topped… … Fig. 491. the background is seen a temple-front with four Ionic columns, which is hardly to beidentified with the newly built Parthenon (J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1861 xxxiii. 318),but suggests that the scene is being enacted in Olympos (Gerhard p. 17). (4) Very similar is the design of…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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