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)

8oo The thunderbolt of Zeus

But neither Achilles nor Kastor spells Hades, and the only
evidence adduced for the forked spear as an attribute of this deity
will not bear inspection. A kylix signed by the potter Brygos,
found at Vulci, and now preserved in the Stadel'sches Kunst-
institut at Frankfurt, has for its central design a bearded male

Fig. 767.

figure with a two-pronged spear or fork pursuing a woman (fig. 767)1.
F. G. Welcker took the pair to be Ploutom and Persephone2. But
in point of fact they are Poseidon and Aithra (or Amymone).
For later and more careful investigation3 has shown that essential
parts of the design are due to some modern restorer, who has inter

1 E. Gerhard Trinkschalen und Gefiasse des Kbniglichen Museums zu Berlin und
anderer Sammlungen Berlin 1848 i. 20 ff. pi. A—B ( = my fig. 767). Bibliography in
Hoppin Red-fig. Vases i. 108 f. no. 3* fig.

2 F. T. Welcker ' Le nozze di Plutone e Proserpina' in the Ann. d. Inst. 1850 xxii.
109—ri8 pi. G, id. Alt. Denkm. iii. 93—104 ('Der Ehebund der Persephone mit dem
Pluton') pi. 12, Reinach Rep. Vases i. 286, 1.

3 Wien. Vorlegebl. viii pi. 2 ( = my fig. 768), Hoppin op. cit. i. 109 fig.