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)

The sword of Zeus 719

presence of Athena. Behind her back are three pairs of wings

Fig- 657.

hung up like weapons in an armoury1. This last touch was not

1 E. Kuhnert loc. cit. describes these wings as ' Unverstandlich.' But Perseus had
been fitted out by the Nymphs with wings on head and foot, and these presuppose a divine
store-house of such things.