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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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Hephaistos and Athena

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Hephaistos leaning on his staff presents a helmet to Athena, who
stands before him in the pose of the Dresden 'Lemnia.' An archaistic
relief from Greece now in the Jacobsen collection (fig. 127)1 repeats
the motif of Hephaistos presenting the helmet, but combines him
awkwardly enough with an Athena in the ' Promacko^'-attitude. A
fresh turn is given to the kaleidoscope by the artist who designed
a well-known sarcophagus in the Villa Albani2. A procession of
deities bringing gifts for the marriage of Peleus and Thetis is

1897 p. 289 ff. with fig., E. Reisch in the fahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1898 i. 79 ff. fig. 37
(= my fig. 126), B. Sauer Das sogenannte Theseion Leipzig 1899 p. 248 ff., E. Lowy in the
text to Einzelaufnahmen v. 27 ff. no. 1256, Svoronos Ath. Nationalmns. p. 369 ff. no. 1423
Pi. 68 with bibliography.

Furtwangler took this relief to represent the Athena Lemnia of Pheidias receiving a
helmet from Hephaistos the natural protector of Athenian kleroAchoi in Lemnos. To
account for the relief having been found at Epidauros, he suggested that it may have
decorated the base of a stele bearing some decree of the said kleroAchoi.

Reisch and Sauer regard the subject as reflecting the Hephaistos and Athena Hefhaistia
made by Alkamenes for the Hephaisteion (the so-called 'Theseion') at Athens. See
further E. A. Gardner in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1899 xix. 6 ff.

Lowy holds that the god is not Hephaistos at all, but a common type of Asklepios.
He thinks that Athena, paying a friendly visit to Asklepios, here doffs her armour in
token of the guest-friendship enjoyed by Athenians at Epidauros, while Asklepios extends
his right hand towards her with a gesture of greeting (cp. an Attic relief of 398/7 b.c.
Published by P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1878 ii. 37 ff. pi. 10, Collignon Hist, de
fa Sculpt, gr. ii. 145 fig. 71, E. Lowy in the text to Einzelaufnahmen v. 2 f. no. 1212).
But the absence of a snake (unless indeed it was added in paint, which is just conceivable)
tells heavily against the identification of the god as Asklepios (contrast e.g. Svoronos
■Ath. Nationalmus. no. 2985 pi. 197, 1); and his right hand was certainly touching the
helmet, not greeting the goddess.

Svoronos, ingenious as ever, agrees with Lowy in naming the god Asklepios, but
argues that Athena is offering him her helmet and shield. In this we are to see a symbolic
a fusion to the events of the year 338 b.c., when Philip after the victory of Chaironeia
arched against Sparta at the head of an irresistible force. In the nick of time Asklepios
carne to the rescue from Epidauros (Isyll. F 65 f. Powell, E 60 f. Diehl rots 'AonXriTribs
V^Xde /3oa06os eif 'EwiSaiipov | tl/j.uiv 'Hpa/cXeos yeixdv ■ as (peiSero &pa Zeiis) and appeared
0 the boy Isyllos clad in golden armour (Isyll. F 68 f. Powell, E 63 f. Diehl tui ruya
ftat7^1*0"™ tTV""'''Tr>cra5 (T"V oir\oi<ru> I Xa/urdfievos xPva^ot<r'< 'AoxXajri^). Svoronos surmises
set* ^!'lens sent arms to Sparta through the agency of Epidauros, and that this relief was
an^uP 111 Epidauros to commemorate the fact as soon as the death of Alexander made an
Co aced°nian dedication possible. Accordingly he would date the relief c. 322 b.c.,
paring a very similar relief of that year (Ath. Nationalmus. p. 246 f. no. 1331 pL 36, 1).

\ phole hypothesis is clever, but frail.
Nv r ' A'mdt/-a Glyptothhjue Ny-Carlsbcrg Munich 1896 p. 31 f. pi. 20, c ( = my fig. 127),

erg Glyptotek i no. 3,5 pi. 3, E. Reisch in the /ahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. iS

Li ba '■ .lnckelmann Monumenli antichi inediti Roma 1767 p. 151 ff. pi. 111, G. Zoega
>• 2oi7"he2Ji antichidi Koma Roma 1808 i. 249 pis. 52, 53, Overbeck Gall. her. Bildw.
Baume' Pl" §' 8' MulIer—Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst ii. 4. 65 ff. pi. 75, 961, A.

Robert'^" U1 h'S Denkm- 1 1°° f- fig- 759. A- RaPP in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 2733.
Fiihret- "''k''Relfs * ff- pL I, I, ia, 10, Reinach Rip. Reliefs iii. 143 no. 1, W. Helbig
ii, 43g f "Jch f'f ffintlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertiimcr in Rom3 Leipzig 1913

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