Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Appendixes and index (Cambridge, 1925)

Zeus Asklepios

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Xpvcrov Kal eXecpavros, KaXcifiidos Se epyov • e^et 8e ko» cktjttt pov nai eVi rr/s erepas
Xeipbs tt'itvos napirbv Trjs rjpipov with Sir J. G. Frazer's note ad loc). Furtwangler
op. cit. p. 124 no. 2677 pi. 24 a cornelian = Asklepios (?) seated on a stool gazing
at a beardless head held in his right hand, a serpent-staff before him, ib. p. 248
no. 6753 pi. 48 a cornelian = Asklepios (?) with portrait features, seated on a
stool, plucking fruit and placing it in a basket on an altar (?), a serpent-staff before
him). Indeed, Asklepios was commonly conceived as a kindly, human Zeus,

Fig. 925.

conversant with the ways of men and able to cure their ailments. The difference
between Zeus and Asklepios may be readily grasped, if we set side by side two
reliefs of Pentelic marble found in the precinct at Epidauros (Stais Marbres et
Bronzes: Athenes2 p. 42 f. no. 173 f., P. Kabbadias in the 'E(p. 'Ap%. 1885 p. 48 ff.
pi. 2, 6 and 1894 p. 11 ff. pi. 1, id. Fouilles d'Epidaure Athenes 1893 i. 22 pi. 9,
21, A. Defrasse—H. Lechat Epidaure Paris 1895 P- 83 ff. with figs., Brunn—
Bruckmann Denkm. der gr. und rbm. Sculpt, pi. 3, Collignon Hist, de la Sculpt.