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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female may with much probability, if not with absolute certainty, be held to represent his
appearance to Semele. Such are the following:—(i) An amphora of the strong style
(g00—460 B.C.) from Nola, now in the British Museum (Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 222 f.

Fig. 1

no. E 313, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 401 n.a, O. Jessen in Roscher Lex. Myth.
iv. 676. My pi. i is from photographs by Mr C. O. Waterhouse) : (a) Zeus, with chiton and
himdtion, strides to right, brandishing a thunderbolt in his right hand and grasping a

Fig. 12.

sceptre in his left; (/>) Semele runs to right, looking back with gestures of alarm. (2) A
hydria from Gela, in the Museum at Palermo (H. Heydemann in the Arch. Zeit. 1870
xxviii. 43 no. 23 pi. 31, 1 ( = my fig. 10), id. Dionysos' Geburt und Kindheit ( Winckel-