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854 Retrospect
On the left are Artemis riding a horned doe1 and Apollon with
a swan on his knee. Artemis may hint at Marathon, where the
battle took place on her festival2, or may anticipate the sea-fight
off Artemision3, and the full moon that shone on Salamis4. Apollon
recalls the Delian confederacy. On the right Asia, with crown and
sceptre, has fled for refuge to the altar of a terminal goddess, perhaps
Aphrodite Ourania6. Before her stands a sinister figure in the
guise of a Fury with a panther-skin round her shoulders, snakes
in her hair, and a pair of torches in her hands. This is Apd\te\
' Deception/ a lying spirit6 whose mission is to lure Asia away from
the protection of the Asiatic goddess7. So the three zones of
decoration present us with three acts from one historic drama.
The vase-painter must have been inspired by some lost tragedy,
not improbably the Persians of Phrynichos8, for on the circular
plinth in the very centre of his design is written the single word
Persai,
The populace, assembled in the theatre, regarded Zeus god of
Thunder and Lightning as a power that on sundry momentous
occasions had intervened to punish pride. And what of the philo-
sophers ? They saw in the ' ever-living bolt' a pledge and promise
of continuous divine activity—witness one nearly contemporary
document, the Stoic Hymn to Zens". Let us, before closing the
volume, join Kleanthes in that great ascription of praise:
1 Supra p. 465 f.
2 Mommsed Feste d. Stadt A then p. 175 ft.
3 G. Hirschfeld in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 1443.
4 Plout. de glor. Ath. 7, cited by H. Heydemann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1873 xlv. 42
and in his Vasensamml. Neapel p. 578 n. 9.
5 H. Heydemann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1873 x'v- 38 f., A. Baumeister in his Denkm.
i. 409.
6 Cp. 1 Kings 22. 22.
7 A. Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 149 aptly quotes Aisch. Pers. 93 f. doXo/Ar/riv 5' airarav
deov I rt's avijp dvarbs dXv^ei; Id. ib. ii. 148 interprets the action of Apate aright ('Die
Bewegung der Apate ist wohl so zu erklaren, dass sie Asia auffordert, aufzustehen und
ihr zu folgen dahiniiber, wo sie hinschielt, nach der Hellas').
8 O. Jahn in the Arch. Zeit. i860 xviii. 41 ff. suggested the Akaiot 77 llepcrat 77 H,vv6uikol
of Phrynichos (Souid. s.v. <Ppvi>ixos); A. Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 149, a later adaptation
of the same.
9 Kleanthes frag. 48 Pearson ap. Stob. eel. 1. i. 12 p. 25, 3 ff. Wachsmuth. For the
text I follow the excellent edition of A. C. Pearson The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
London 1891 p. 274 ff. There is much useful matter in the earlier commentaries of
G. C. F. Mohnike Kleanthes der Stoiker Greifswald 1814 i. 3 ft"., J. F. H. Schwabe
Specimen theologiae comparativae exhibens KAEAISTGOTZ TMNON EPS AIA, cum disciplina
Christiana comparatum, etc. Jenae 1819 p. 7 ff., C. Petersen Cleanthis Stoici Hymnus in
Jovem auctori suo vindicatus ad eiusque doctrinam enarratus Hamburgi 1829 p. 1 ft".
See also U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff COfnmentarioliun grammaticum ill (1. Clean-
thes) Gottingae 1889 p. 3 ft., W. L. Newman, 'Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus' in the Class.
Rev. 1892 vi. 181, J. von Arnim Stoicorum veterum fragmenta Leipzig 1905 i. 121 ff.
°- 537; m Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xi. 558 ft".
On the left are Artemis riding a horned doe1 and Apollon with
a swan on his knee. Artemis may hint at Marathon, where the
battle took place on her festival2, or may anticipate the sea-fight
off Artemision3, and the full moon that shone on Salamis4. Apollon
recalls the Delian confederacy. On the right Asia, with crown and
sceptre, has fled for refuge to the altar of a terminal goddess, perhaps
Aphrodite Ourania6. Before her stands a sinister figure in the
guise of a Fury with a panther-skin round her shoulders, snakes
in her hair, and a pair of torches in her hands. This is Apd\te\
' Deception/ a lying spirit6 whose mission is to lure Asia away from
the protection of the Asiatic goddess7. So the three zones of
decoration present us with three acts from one historic drama.
The vase-painter must have been inspired by some lost tragedy,
not improbably the Persians of Phrynichos8, for on the circular
plinth in the very centre of his design is written the single word
Persai,
The populace, assembled in the theatre, regarded Zeus god of
Thunder and Lightning as a power that on sundry momentous
occasions had intervened to punish pride. And what of the philo-
sophers ? They saw in the ' ever-living bolt' a pledge and promise
of continuous divine activity—witness one nearly contemporary
document, the Stoic Hymn to Zens". Let us, before closing the
volume, join Kleanthes in that great ascription of praise:
1 Supra p. 465 f.
2 Mommsed Feste d. Stadt A then p. 175 ft.
3 G. Hirschfeld in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 1443.
4 Plout. de glor. Ath. 7, cited by H. Heydemann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1873 xlv. 42
and in his Vasensamml. Neapel p. 578 n. 9.
5 H. Heydemann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1873 x'v- 38 f., A. Baumeister in his Denkm.
i. 409.
6 Cp. 1 Kings 22. 22.
7 A. Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 149 aptly quotes Aisch. Pers. 93 f. doXo/Ar/riv 5' airarav
deov I rt's avijp dvarbs dXv^ei; Id. ib. ii. 148 interprets the action of Apate aright ('Die
Bewegung der Apate ist wohl so zu erklaren, dass sie Asia auffordert, aufzustehen und
ihr zu folgen dahiniiber, wo sie hinschielt, nach der Hellas').
8 O. Jahn in the Arch. Zeit. i860 xviii. 41 ff. suggested the Akaiot 77 llepcrat 77 H,vv6uikol
of Phrynichos (Souid. s.v. <Ppvi>ixos); A. Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 149, a later adaptation
of the same.
9 Kleanthes frag. 48 Pearson ap. Stob. eel. 1. i. 12 p. 25, 3 ff. Wachsmuth. For the
text I follow the excellent edition of A. C. Pearson The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
London 1891 p. 274 ff. There is much useful matter in the earlier commentaries of
G. C. F. Mohnike Kleanthes der Stoiker Greifswald 1814 i. 3 ft"., J. F. H. Schwabe
Specimen theologiae comparativae exhibens KAEAISTGOTZ TMNON EPS AIA, cum disciplina
Christiana comparatum, etc. Jenae 1819 p. 7 ff., C. Petersen Cleanthis Stoici Hymnus in
Jovem auctori suo vindicatus ad eiusque doctrinam enarratus Hamburgi 1829 p. 1 ft".
See also U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff COfnmentarioliun grammaticum ill (1. Clean-
thes) Gottingae 1889 p. 3 ft., W. L. Newman, 'Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus' in the Class.
Rev. 1892 vi. 181, J. von Arnim Stoicorum veterum fragmenta Leipzig 1905 i. 121 ff.
°- 537; m Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xi. 558 ft".