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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The sword of Zeus

Kypros, which forms part of the Cesnola collection at New York,
has a graphic delineation of the scene (fig. 656)1. Perseus, with the
head in a wallet {kibisis), turns his back on the moribund Medousa
and marches off, to be followed by his hound. A red-figured am-
phora at Munich (fig. 657)2 gives Perseus the winged cap, the
winged sandals, and even the winged caducens of Hermes : Me-
dousa is accompanied by a second Gorgon, and Perseus by Athena.
An Etruscan scarab (fig. 65s)3 leaves the figure of Medousa to speak

Fig. 656.

for itself. A small two-handled vase from Nola, formerly in the
Campana collection (fig. 659)*, had a stamped design representing
a somewhat later moment. At the foot of an Ionic column sur-
mounted by a Sphinx Medousa has fallen backwards in death.
Chrysaor and Pegasos are already free from her neck, the former
a naked infant kneeling on the ground, the latter a winged horse
galloping up the sky. The two living Gorgons, Stheno and Euryale,
with snakes in their right hands, pursue the hero, who keeping firm
hold of his kibisis and hdrpe is conducted by Hermes into the

1 G. Colonna Ceccaldi ' Un sarcophage d'Athienau (Chypre)' in the Rev. Arch. 1875
i. 22 ff. pi. 2, L. P. di Cesnola Cyprus: its ancient cities, tombs, and temples London 1877
p. iioff. pi. 10, Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de VArt iii. 615 ff. fig. 419, E. Kuhnert in Roscher
Lex. Myth. iii. 2031 f. fig. 3, J. L. Myres in the Ant. Denkm. iii. 1. 3 f. pis. 5 and 6 (6 c
= my fig. 6^6), id. The Metropolitan Mtiseum of Art. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection
of Antiquities from Cyprus New York 1914 p. 226 ff. no. 1364 fig. 1364 A—D.

2 Jahn Vasensamml. Miinchen p. 292 no. 910, Gerhard Auserl. Vasenb. ii. 24 ff. pi. 89,
3 and 4 ( = my fig. 657), Reinach Re'p. Vases ii. 49, 2 and 4, E. Kuhnert in Roscher Lex.
Myth. iii. 2038.

3 Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 20, 37 ( = my fig. 658: scale y), ii. 99.

4 E. Braun in the Mon. Ann. e Bull. d. Inst. 1855 pp. 17—20 pi. 2 ( = my fig. 659),
E. Kuhnert in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2038.