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)

74-0 Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt

god being often used to carry his eagle. So, for example, in the
case of a statue seen by Pausanias1 at Olympia:

'A little farther on is a Zeus turned towards the rising sun, holding a bird
meant for an eagle and a thunderbolt in the other hand. On his head too is set

Fig. 669.

a wreath, and its flowers are lilies2. It is an offering of the Metapontines, the
work of Aristonous an Aeginetan. We do not know who was the master of this
Aristonous, nor what was his date.'

H. Brunn3 and J. Overbeck4 were probably right in contending

1 Paus. 5. 22. 5. 2 Supra i. 622 n. 10.

3 H. Brunn Geschichte der griechischen Kiinstler Stuttgart 1853 i. 96.

4 Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 16 f.