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)

748 Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt

result was merely that the grand degenerated into the grandiose.
Another sort of degeneracy produced the eclectic type of a Graeco-

Fig. 686.

Roman bronze in the British Museum (fig. 687)1. The beardless face

Einzelaufnahmen no. 1452 with Text v. 105 by H. Bulle = Reinach Rdp. Stat. iii. 2 no. 7,
etc. The finest figure of the sort is a bronze in the Antiquarium at Munich, which H. Bulle
in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2884 f. fig- '6 and in his Der schoene Mensch im Altertum?
Muenchen—Leipzig 1912 p. 113 pi. 59 regards as a Greek 'Poseidon' of 400—350 B.C.
Fine too is another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which Miss G. M. A.
Richter in the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1907 ii. 18—20 fig. 4 and in
her Cat. Bronzes Ne7v York p. 67 f. no. no fig. likewise takes to be a ' Poseidon (?),' by
' the school of Lysippos.'

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Bronzes p. 172 no. 930. Height: 3|-ins. Fig. 687 is from a photo-
graph by Mr W. H. Hayles.