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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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Zeus Ourios, ikmenos^ Eudnemos, Boreios 149

It is not difficult to imagine the prayers that would be addressed to
this helpful deity. Somewhere in his precinct stood the bronze effigy
of a boy with outstretched arms, about which gathered a variety of
idle tales1. It is probable that a copy of it, if not the original, has
come down to us in the 'Praying Boy' of the Berlin Museum
(fig. 63)2—a masterpiece justly identified3 with the adorans by

1 Dionys. Byz. frag. 59 (Geogr. Gr. min. ii. 78 f.) 'in fano...statua aerea est antiquae

artis, aetatem puerilem prae se ferens, tendens manus. causae multae afferunUir, cur haec

statua sit in hanc figuram conformata. quidam...aiunt audaciae signum esse navigantium,

deterrens temeritatem navigationis periculis plenam, atque ostendens redeuntium salutis

felicitatem et pietatem: non enim sine terrore utrumque est. alii dicunt puerum in littore

eirantem aliquanto post venisse quam e portu navis soluta esset, salutisque desperatione

affectum manus ad caelum tendere ; pueri autem preces deum exaudientem reduxisse navem

111 portum. alii aiunt in magna maris tranquillitate, omni vento silente, nave diu retardata,

nautas inopia potus laborasse; navarcho autem visionem insedisse iubentem ut navarchus

filium suum sacrificaret, non enim alio modo posse assequi commeatum et ventos: navarcho

Necessitate coacto et parato puerum sacrificare, manus quidem puerum tetendisse, deum

Vero misericordia motum ob absurdum pueri supplicium obque pueri aetatem sustulisse

Puerum et ventum secundum immisisse. haec quidem et his contraria, ut cuique placuerit,

c,'edibilia existimentur.' Dionysios' gossiping explanations run from bad to worse. The

'hird, and worst, works in reminiscences of Agamemnon at Aulis, Abraham and Isaac,
7

ceus and Ganymedes!

Gyllius ad loc. cp. Philostr. mai. imagg. 1. 12. 3. But the passage (/cat 6'Epws ivi rrj
^TP? relvei tt)v xe'Pa « Hi* OdXarrav, k.t.X.) alludes to a wholly different figure (B. Sauer
ln -Philologus 1908 lxvii. 306 f., H. Lucas in the Neue Jahrb. f. klass. Altertum 1912 xxix.
' '9)- E. Oberhummer in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 752 (' anscheinend dieselbe' etc.)
ls definitely wrong.

2 Ant. Skulpt. Berlin p. 1 ff. no. 2 with fig. (bibliography to 1891). Good illustrations
re given by Brunn—Bruckmann Denkm. der gr. und rom.

\cu!pt. pi. 283, H. BuUe Der schdne Mensch im Altertuin-
"nchen und Leipzig 1912 p. 122 pi. 64, F. Winter Kunst-
^chiclue in Bildern'2 Leipzig (1925) i. 340 fig. 3. See also
^°Uignon Hist, de la Sculpt, gr. ii. 483 f. fig. 252, R. Kekule
Stradonitz Die griechische Skulptur2 Berlin 1907 p. 2696°.
S-> C. Picard La sculpture antique Paris 1926 ii. 100 with
8S. 82, 22(j. My fig. 63 is from the Brunn—Bruckmann
°graph, but a fresh restoration of the arms {infra p. 151
in ^ 'S neea-ed, which should square with J. D. Ramberg's draw-
Jal °^ ''le unrestored statue as published by A. Conze in the

d. hais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1886 i. 9 fig. ( = my fig. 62).

jo Stephani Parerga archaeologica St Petersburg 1851 —
j ' no' s> B. Sauer 'Der Betende des Boedas' in Philologus
Bo'H '*V''" 3°4—310' Lucas 'Der betende Knabe des
tj' as' in the Neue Jahrb. J. klass. Altertum 1912 xxix.
;n tj^I23 with pi. of 9 figs., H. Lechat ' Botdas (ou Boidas)'

e Revue des etudes ancienncs 1913 pp. 153—155.
1 |)e ^e n'story of the Berlin bronze is discussed by A. Conze
t]le . eter>de Knabe in den koniglichen Museen zu Berlin' in
3 fin *• d- kais. deutsch. arch. hist. 1886 i. 1—13 with _
'ZZ'''d- ' Zum betenden Knaben ' ib. p. 223, A. Furtwangler yTl"r'^3ue"l,'^mcl
fig, g betenden Knaben' ib. pp. 217-219 with fig. ( = my <jarun*Je. .

4)i O. Puchstein 'Zum betenden Knaben' ib. pp. 219— Fig. 62.
 
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