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)

742 Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt

(fig. 674)1 show a bearded Zeus advancing to the right in the same
pose and with the same attributes2. The sturdy god of the earlier
coin and the sinewy god of the later enable us to catch something
of the qualities of the famous3 Argive sculptor, the teacher of both
Polykleitos and Myron. Another statue made by him4 for the in-

Fig. 675. Fig. 676.

habitants of Aigion in Achaia, who worshipped Zeus under the
remarkable appellation of Pais5, represented the god—to judge from
coppers of the town issued after 146 B.C. (figs. 675—67s)6 and again
in imperial times (figs. 679, 680)7—as a beardless youth advancing

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 110 pi. 22, 6 ( = my fig. 674) and 7, Head
Coins of the Ancients p. 64 pi. 32, 24, id. Hist, num.2 p. 432 fig. 237, P. Gardner Types
of Gk. Coins p. 202 f. pi. 12, 47, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Pans. ii.
67f.pl. P, 5-

2 Bronze pieces of Messene repeat the type [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus
p. noff. pi. 22, 5, 10 f., 15, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 143 f. pi. 38, 20, Head Hist, num.2
P- 432).

3 A. Frickenhaus 'Hageladas' in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1911 xxvi.
24 ff. attributes the statue of Zeus Ithomdtas to a younger Hageladas, supposed grandson
of the famous sculptor, working c. 450 B.C.

4 Frickenhaus loc. cit. p. 30 f. refers this statue too to his younger Hageladas.

5 Paus. 7- 24- 4 'ion 8e ko.1 a\Xa Alyievcnv dydX/xara ^aA/coO ireironqn^va, Zevs re
rfkixiav 7ra?s /ecu Hpa/cX^s, ovde oiuos ?xwv 7rw y&eia, 'AyekdSa rexvV T°v 'Apyeiov. tovtols
/caret £tos iepeis aiperoi ylvovTai, kclI eKarepov (so H. Hitzig for eKarepa codd.) tQv dya\-
fidruv (ttI rrjs ot'/aas (so H. Hitzig for iwl reus oIkIcus codd.) /xivei rod iepoj/xevov (so ed.
Aid. for lepovp.£vov codd.). rd d£ §tl iraXaiSrepa irpoeKeKpiro iK tQv Traldcov iepdffdcu rip Ad
6 vlklov KaXXef dpxop-evuv 5i avrip yeveiuv is aWov iralSa r\ iwi tQ /cdAAei pLeryec rip.rj.

6 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 18 pi. 4, ii ( = my fig. 675) and 14 ( = my
fig. 677), Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paus. ii. 84 f. pi. R, 12, Head
Hist, num.2 p. 413. Fig. 676 is from an uncatalogued specimen in the British Museum,
and fig. 678 from another in my own collection.

7 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 19 pi. 4, 17 ( = my fig. 679), J. N. Svoronos
in the Journ. Intern, d'1 Arch. Num. 1899 ii. 302 pi. 14, n, W. Wroth in the Num.