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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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The birth of Erichthonios 18 3

the ground, while Athena, armed with helmet, aigis, and spear, receives
the babe in a striped mantle1. She is confronted, not by Kekrops,
but by Zeus, who, clad in a himdtion of like pattern and wearing
a wreath, stands with his right hand resting on his hip, his left
holding the thunderbolt. Behind Athena, Nike hastens forward
with a large fillet in her outstretched hands. Behind Zeus and
leaning familiarly on his shoulder is a female figure in a long chiton,
over whose head is inscribed the name Oinanthe. The presence
of this Dionysiac name2 led E. Braun3, F. Wieseler* C. Robert
and Sir C. H. Smith6 to interpret the whole scene as the birth ot
Dionysos. But in this they were certainly wrong. The vase cannot
be isolated from others of closely similar design, which beyond all
question represent the birth of Erichthonios. And the name Otndnthe,
accompanied as it is by the word kale, is better explained by
W. Klein7, W. Drexler8, and H. B. Walters9 as a Lieblmgsinschrift
of a not very unusual sort10. After all, Oinanthe was a name
occasionally borne by Attic women11. This leaves the youthful

Kunst ii. 2. I7 pl. 34) +01> Harrison Prolcg. Gk. Rel? p. 4°5 f- £ ■I57' J-
Attische VasenmalerdtsrotfigurigiMStilsTubingen 1925 P- *5* no. + ( ?« O.nantnemai•
one of 'Die Manieristen ...die Vertreter eines verschnbrkelten, archa.s.erenden St. de.
gegen Ende der archaisehen Periode einsetzt und bis tief in die klass.sche Penode s.ch
erilalt' (ib. p. 237)). PI. xxii is from a photograph. •

1 Cp. the fragment of an amphora orpelike from Gela (F. Hauser m ^Z***^
Putsch, arch. Inst. ,896 xi. .90 with fig. 33 a, B. Sauer ^as sogeuanute TAeseu«
Leipzig .899 p. 60 f. fig), which appears to reverse the design-Zeus (?) on the right,
Athena on the left, of Ge. „ , t „„ .

2 O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 75° f. records Oinanthe as a Bacctat^a
■'^-figured krattr at Vienna (Gerhard Ant. Bildw. pp. 2.1, 222 n. 55 pl- •>' , ~2f
Corp.inscr. G?, iv no. g 8l X0h&v67), see now C. Frankel Satyr- und Bakchennamenauf
Vasenbildem Halle a. S. 19.2 p. 51 t), and as a Bassarid, nurse of Dionysos, m Nonn.
Di°n. 14. 225 Oiv&vdT, poSiewa, together with other more doubtful examples.

3 E. Braun in the Ann. d. Inst. 1841 xiii. 92 ff- .

4 MuUer-Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst \\. 2. .7pl-34.4°' ('den kle.nen D.ony sos,
;rgenauer: lakchos'). . „ ,. ool- .„„ a

5 C. Robert Archatologische Maerchm aus alter und neuer Zett Berl.n 1886 p. .90 ii.

6 Sir C. H. Smith in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. .59 no. E .82 ('Type of birth
of Erichthonios... Dionysos?'). . . o0

78 W. Klein Die grieehischen Vasen mil Lieblingsinschriften* Leipzig 1889 P- "9-

W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 75° f-
" H. B. Walters History of Ancient Pottery London 1905 ii. 265 n. 5.
„ W «■ 0. ii. 26,, Pfuhl Malere, u. Zeichnung d. Gr. i. 34. iii- 97« (KaXWx-^)-
P- Kretschmer Die Grieehischen Vaseninschriften Giitersloh .894 p. 79 P™".*^''
11 ?-XzC\te\ Die AttischcnFraucnnamcn Goring^ 1902 p. .03 cites Cor*.«** _'
3 "0. 2,24, 3 01 NAN0H and no. 4044 = A.Conze Zte attischen GrabreUefs
'•V *<>• 3.3 pl. 77 OINAN0H. W. Pape-G. E. Benseler Worterbuch
fgennanun* Braunschweig 1875 ii- 1041 cite also Dem. c. Macart. 36; TOiyo. 4-
<«A Athen. 25. E), ,5. 25 .2, .5. 29. 8 and .0, ,5. 33- 8; Ph»ti ft Cleom. 33- «»"*• 9

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