Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1940)

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Preface

of pi. i. But Mr Seltman has no monopoly of kindliness. Not a
few of my former pupils, while engaged on quests of their own,
have spared time to forage on my behalf. In particular, Mr A. D.
Trendall, Fellow of Trinity College and our foremost authority on
South Italian vases, has sent me a flight of valuable photographs
from Athens (pi. xlvi, 2), Capua (pi. Ixxv), Rome (pi. lii), Taranto
(pis. xiii, xv, 2, lxxi), Berlin (pis. liv, lx), Bonn (pi. xiii, 3),
Gotha (pi. lxiii), Leipzig (pis. lxii, lxv, 1), and Vienna (fig. 476).
Mr J. D. S. Pendlebury, Fellow of Pembroke College, has more
than once put his intimate knowledge of modern Crete at my
service (pp. 1070, 1143) and himself photographed for me an early
Greek stdmnos from Knossos (pi. xxv). Mr E. J. P. Raven pro-
cured for me photographs of an interesting pzthos-\id from the same
place (pi. lxxxi) and of the re\\&{-plaque from Athens representing
a primitive form of Athena (pi. xxvi). And Mr R. M. Cook
furnished me with the photograph of a small bronze statuette
recently found in Bulgaria and important as being clearly inspired
by Pheidias' Zeus Olympios (pi. lxxxii).

Others have gone far afield to record mountain-scenes difficult
of access. Dr N. Bachtin gave me prints of Mount Ossa and of the
chapel on its summit from photographs taken by Mrs Bachtin in
1934 (figs. 908, 909), and three times over climbed Mount Pelion
to investigate the alleged discoveries of Arvanitopoulos (p. 1161).
Ossa, Pelion, and—to complete the proverbial pile—Olympos.
Mr C. M. Sleeman, Fellow of Queens' College, ascended Olympos
twice, in 1926 and 1929, bringing home with him a wonderful series
of views, which included not only the actual summit (pi. lxviii)
but all the principal peaks (figs. 911, 912) and the little chapel
of St Elias (fig. 913). Mr Sleeman in 1926 also photographed
the summit of Parnassos (fig. 907), and, being an indefatigable
mountaineer, in 1936 climbed Mount Argaios and supplied me
with striking photographs of the top (fig. 915) and of a rock-
pinnacle beneath it (fig. 916). Mr W. K. C. Guthrie, Fellow of
Peterhouse and now Public Orator, in 1932 discovered and photo-
graphed a double rock-cut throne on Findos Tepe (figs. 858—860).
Mr N. G. L. Hammond, Fellow of Clare College, in 1931 told me
of Mount Emertsa on the Albanian frontier, which he had found
to be locally identified with Dione in repose (p. 1173). But of all
these mountain-exploits none is more arresting than the narrative
dictated to me by Mr H. Hunt, who in 1929 went on pilgrimage