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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Artemis and the Oak

former describes how the hero's sinews were caught on it1; the latter
makes him fairly impaled by it2. Coppers of Troizen, struck by
Septimius Severus (fig. 3io,)3and Iulia Domna (fig. 320)4, show the
citadel crowned by a distyle temple and flanked by a couple of

Fig- 323-

trees, apparently olive and cypress. Another copper of the same
town, issued by Commodus (fig. 321)5, represents Hippolytos, with
hunting-spear and hound, leaning on a knotted tree-stump. An
Apulian krater from Ruvo, now in the British Museum (fig. 322)6,

1 Ov. met. 15. 521 ff. 2 Sen. Phaedr. nojf.

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 167 pi. 31, 8 ( = myfig. 319), Imhoof-Blumer
and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Pans. i. 47 pi. M, 4. The temple is that of Athena Sthenids
(Paus. 1. 30. 6, 2. 32. 5 : see further O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1532 f.).

4 Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 156 pi. 39, 14 (=my fig. 320), Mionnet Descr. de we'd. ant.
Suppl. iv. 271 no. 208, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Pans. i. 47.

6 C. R. Fox Engravings of unedited or rare Greek Coins London 1856 i. 25 no. 100
pi. 9 ( = my fig. 321), W. M. Leake Numismata Hellenica London 1856 European Greece
p. 165 Add. (electrotype), Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paus. i. 48
pi. M, 8.

6 Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 136 ff. no. F 279, T. Panofka in the Arch. Zeit. 1848 ii.
245 f., A. Kalkmann ib. 1883 xli.. 43 ff. pi. 6 = Reinach Rep. Vases i. 446, Overbeck Gr.