Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

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Preface

illustration of Volume II. During the past ten years she has
produced no fewer than 626 designs, all carried out with the
utmost care under my immediate supervision. They include line-
drawings or sketches in black and white of 75 sculptures, 26
bronzes, 12 objects in gold, silver, ivory, etc., 12 vases, 7 frescoes,
14 maps, plans, diagrams, etc., 41 engraved gems, and 439 coins.
In addition to this great output Miss Talbot has made a tentative
reconstruction of all the figures in the east pediment of the Parthenon
(pi. xxxiii) together with coloured drawings of the central slab from
its eastern frieze (pi. xliv), of Pheidias' chryselephantine Athena
(pi. xlv), and of the same sculptor's chryselephantine Zeus (pi. xlvi).
The evidence that may be adduced in support of these restorations
is held over to appear in Volume III.

Slips for the two Indexes, which between them contain upwards
of 30,000 entries and took well over a year to write, have again
been arranged for me by my wife, to whose unfailing sympathy
and encouragement this book owes more than its author can easily
put into words. Towards the end, when the task began to try her
eyes, she was assisted by Miss Michi Saito.

In the complicated business of turning out proofs, paged proofs,
revises, and clean sheets, not to mention zincotypes, half-tone
blocks, collotypes, and lithographic plates, the Printer to the
University and the Staff of the Pitt Press have for more than a
decade done all that was humanly possible to produce a satis-
factory result. To them no less than to others that I have named
I ought to be grateful, and I am.

In conclusion, I have once more to thank the Syndics of the
University Press for the large-mindedness which led them to
undertake the publication of an unremunerative work at a time
when the cost of paper and printing was almost prohibitive. With
much forbearance they twice extended my tether, and finally
agreed to defray the expenses of a thousand pages for Volume II.
In these days of enforced economy such generous treatment would
be hard to parallel. If I have failed to reduce my subject within
their liberal limits, that is due, not—I trust—to mere prolixity or
diffuseness of style, but to the natural abundance of a great and
vital theme.

ARTHUR BERNARD COOK.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge.
22 July 1925.