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)

184 The birth of Erichthonios

goddess 011 the left anonymous. From her position and attitude I
should judge her to be Hebe1, whose title Did* might be adduced
as a further justification of her proximity to Zeus3.

A red-figured stdmnos from Vulci, now at Munich (pi. xxiii)4,
repeats the central group of Ge presenting the babe to Athena in the

1 Cp. the pose of Hebe (inscribed) on two krateres by ' Der Kadmosmaler' (J. D.
Beazley Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigiirigcn Stils Tubingen 1925 p. 451), viz. (i)a kdlyx-
kratir at Petrograd (Stephani Vasensamml. St. Petersburg ii. 339 ff. no. 1807, id. in the
Compte-rendu St. Pet. 1861 p. 33 ff. Atlas pi. 3, 1 and 2 = Reinach Rip. Vases i. 7, 5 and
6, J. D. Beazley op. cit. p. 451 no. 5), figured infra §9(h) ii(#) vied., on which H BH standing
furthest to the left rests her right hand on her hip and leans her left elbow on the shoulder of
Hera; (2) a voXwte-krate'r at Ruvo (Jatta collection no. 1093, F. Gargallo-Grimaldi in the
Ann. d. Inst. 1867 xxxix. 160 ff., Mon. d. Inst, viii pi. 42 =Reinach Rip. Vases i. 175, A.
Baumeister in his Denkm. ii. 890 f. fig. 965, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Apollon p. 426 ff no. 6

Fig. 94.

Atlas pi. 25, 5, O. Jessen in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2454 with fig. 5, J. D. Beazley op.
cit. p. 451 no. 1) on which H B H, again on the extreme left, stands with her right hand
resting on her hip and her left raised towards the shoulder of Hera (so Overbeck op. cit.
p. 429: Reinach loc. cit. says 'une Menade,' while Baumeister loc. cit. makes her the
mother of Marsyas conversing with [Ku/3]7)'/3t; !). Somewhat similar, but unnamed, is the
goddess standing on the left of another kratir in the Jatta collection (supra i. 459 n. 5
fig. 318. To the bibliography add O. Benndorf in the IVien. Vorlegebl. 1890—1891
pi. 12, 2), who rests her left hand on the shoulder of a seated Zeus: I took her, perhaps
wrongly, to be Aphrodite.

2 Strab. 382 tiiaS.to.1 b" ev $\wvvti Kal "Zikvwvi to tijs A(as iepov koKovul 5' oilra tt)V
"YLfi-qv. On Dia as consort of Zeus I have said my say in the Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 177 f.>
1906 xx. 367, 377 f., 416, 419.

3 Even if the name Oinanthe be interpreted as belonging to the personage above which
it is placed, she need not be Dionysiac. Athena herself seems to have been worshipped
at Athens as Oinanthe, the 'Vine-flower,'—an unremarked, but interesting, parallel to
Demeter Chide (Corp. inscr. Att. iii. 1 no. 353 (with facsimile on pi. 3 = my fig. 94)
U/)7ja[s 'A]6V[<« Olv\6.vB-tfts\, W. Larfeld Handbuch der griechischen Epigraphik Leipzig
1898 ii. 1. 266 pi. 1). The epithet, however, is at best.uncertain.

4 No. 2413 = Jahn Vasensamml. Munchen p. 108 f. no. 345, T. Panofka in the Ann.
d. Inst. 1829 i. 292—298, Mon. d. Inst, i pis. 10 and 11 (Reinach Rep. Vases i. 66, 1 and
2), Inghirami Vas. fitt. i. 115 ff. pis. 73 and 74, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. ce'r. i-
267 ff. pi. 84, iii. 34 ff pi. 11, Muller—Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Ktmst i. 38 f. pi. 46,
ilia and nib, F. Hauser in Furtwangler—Reichhold Gr. Vasenmalereim. 95—98 pi-
137 (=my pi. xxiii), Hoppin Red-fig. Vases ii. 32 no. 14, J. D. Beazley Attische Vasenmaler
des rotfigurigen Stils Tubingen 1925 p. 300 no. 16.

T. D. Beazley Attic red-figured Vases in. American Museums Cambridge Mass. 1918
p. 123 {., followed by Hoppin loc. cit., identified this vase as the work of the late archaic
painter Hermonax—indeed as that artist's masterpiece ('Sound and able as Hermonax s