Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 953
Hyperion Liverpool 1848 p. 79: theowl is a grave bird,—a monk, who chants midnight mass in the great temple of Nature,—an anchorite—a pillar saint—a very Simeon Stylites of his neighbourhood. 1 S. Casson in the Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum Cambridge 1921 ii. 37, 253.My fig. 572 is from L. Ross… … Fig. 576. The owl of Athena 781 at Berlin dating from the latter part of the fifth century (pi. lx)1shows a worthy citizen of Athens obviously fascinated by theuncanny bird ! And well he might be, for the owl was the goddessherself in animal form—thea glaukopis Athene11. Whatever thatphrase denoted…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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