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accompanied by a thunderbolt or thunderbolts1 (figs. 251—253).
W. H. Roscher2 follows A. Furtwangler in regarding this type as
that of the Kyklops. If they are right—and Furtwangler's argu-
ments are plausible3—, we have here monumental evidence of the
Kyklops conceived as the owner of the thunderbolt.

Again, a connexion of some sort between the Kyklops and Zeus
is implied by the myth of Geraistos. Minos, after the death of
Androgeos went to war with Athens, the direct or indirect cause of
his bereavement. When the war dragged on and he failed to
capture the town, he prayed to Zeus that he might be avenged on
the Athenians. Thereupon famine and pestilence befell them, and,
at the advice of an ancient oracle, they first slew the daughters of
the Lacedaemonian Hyakinthos on the tomb of Geraistos the

Fig. 251. Fig. 252. Fig. 253.

Kyklops (or the son of the Kyklops). This proved unavailing ;
and they had in the end to listen to Minos' demand of seven youths
and seven maidens as food for the Minotaur4. But Geraistos, the
eponym of the village and promontory in Euboia5, who is presum-
ably to be identified with the Geraistos of the Athenian myth, is
said to have been the son of Zeus6. Thus either Geraistos the

1 A. Conze ' Griechische Kohlenbecken' in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. airh. Inst. 1890
v. 118 ff., Brit. Mus. Cat. Terracottas pp. xix. 68 no. A 448.-

2 Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1681, 1685.

3 A. Furtwangler ' Die Kopfe der griechischen Kohlenbecken' in the Jahrb. d. kais.
deutsch. arch. Inst. 1891 vi. noff.

4 Apollod. 3. 15. 8 eirl tov Tepaiarov rod KijkXojttos rdtpov Kareacpa^av, cp. Steph.
Byz. s.v. Aovaia, Harpokr. and Souid. s.v. 'TaKwdides, Hyg. fab. 238.

5 Supra p. 156 n. 6, Append. B Euboia.

6 Steph. Byz. s.vv. YepaurTbs, Tabapos.