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some said—of the first chariot1. But the word trochzlos means also
'a wren.' And it can hardly be fortuitous that the Athenians made
Triptolemos the son of Keleds, the ' Green Woodpecker,' while the
Argives made him the son of Trochzlos, the 'Wren.' Conceivably
both birds were bound to a wheel, like the iynx\ and used as a
solar charm2. But, to return from fancy to fact, red-figured as
distinct from black-figured vases added wings and snakes to

Fig. 166.

Triptolemos' seat3. In this again it followed the example of the
solar vehicle ; for a whole series of black-figured Attic vases at
Cambridge4, Paris5, Berlin6, Vienna7, Athens8, Boston9, represents

1 Tertull. de spectac. g. 2 The matter is discussed infra ch. i § 6 (d) i (e).

3 Supra p. 217. The snakes themselves are not winged till the second century B.C.
(Apollod. 1. 5. 2 dicppov...TTT-qv&v dpaKbvTWv). The earliest extant monuments that so
represent them are of Roman date (Overbeck op. cit. p. 554 Atlas pi. 16, n, 12 : infra
p. 248 n. 7). See further Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 807 n. 2.

4 E. A. Gardner Cat. Vases Cambridge p. 52 no. 100 fig. The reproduction in
E. Gerhard Uber die Lichtgottheiten auf Kunstdenkmalern Berlin 1840 pi. r, 5 after
Stackelberg Grdber der Hellenen pi. 15, 5, and in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1995 from the
same source, is inadequate. I figure the central portion of the scene infra ch. i § 6 (d) xii.

5 De Ridder Cat. Vases de la Bibl. Nat. i. 128 f. no. 220, Lenormant—de Witte El.
mon. dr. ii. 386 f. pi. 115. This vase has four unwinged in place of two winged horses.

6 Furtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin i. 421 no. 1983, unpublished.

7 Laborde Vases Lamberg ii Frontispiece, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. cer. ii.
387 f. pi. 116, Reinach Rep. Vases ii. 211, 1.

8 L. Savignoni in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1899 xix. 265 ff. pi. 9.

9 Robinson Cat. Vases Boston no. 335.