Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 940
r advised when he reaffirms Heberdeys contention thatthe snakes belong to the second gable of the Hekatompedon, butmakes no attempt to fill the space between them (fig. 565). Dickins2had already drawn the sound conclusion: At present...the centralgroup of this pediment is unidentified. And here, at… … Fig. 566. Egyptian influence3. On this showing one might suppose that theblank between the pedimental snakes was originally occupied bysome simple solar device, a disk orpJiidle or Gorgoneion. More certainly connected with Athena is the pair of snakes,which on a red-figured pyxis at Copenhagen…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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