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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 851

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in which Athena has reached herfull stature, is attested by a couple of vases, a black-figured hydriafrom Vulci now at Wurzburg and a red-figured stdmnos from Vulcinow in the Vatican. The hydria (fig. 497)x shows Zeus seated on a throne, facingtowards the left. He holds a sceptre with a curious… … Fg- 497- directly towards him while adjusting her high-crested helmet. Toeither side of this group stand the two Eileithyiai, and beyond themPoseidon and Hermes. Hephaistos is not there. The stdmnos (fig. 498, a and b)3, regarded by J. D. Beazley as case the two Eileithyiai have become stately…

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

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