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perhaps in the middle of the sixth century B.C.1, perhaps rather in
■ts last quarter2, and we have here either—as C. Robert3 suggested
—-the record of an ancient Ionic myth concerning Hephaistos' love
for Athena or—as L. Malten4 contends—the first appearance of
the Attic myth in which Erichthonios figured as the earthborn
°ffspring of Hephaistos' frustrate desire. Bathykles' design cer-
tainly included Hephaistos and Athena; but it hardly justifies us
•n inferring the Erichthonios-sequel. Athena pursued by Heph-
aistos was a sixth-century motif, which seems for some time to
have existed independently and later to have been supplemented
hy the episode of Erichthonios. Thus an early red-figured amphora
from Bologna (fig. 141)5 has on the one side Athena pursued by
Hephaistos, on the other a bearded male with a long sceptre—
Presumably Zeus. But Lucian describes a picture in which 'He-
Phaistos in love is pursuing Athena, she is fleeing from him, and

Fig. 141.

1 Grazer Pausanias iii. 351.

2 C. Robert in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 136, L. Malten in the Archiv f. Pel.
'900 xii. 425( 4+6. D. S. Robertson in bis admirably careful work A Handbook of Greek
y Roman Architecture Cambridge 1929 p. 105 says 'probably in the second half of the
Slxth century B.C.'

3 C. Robert loc. cit. iii. 130 no. (20). So too E. Reisch in the Jahresh. d. oest. arch.
/ns<- 1898 i. 83, B. Sauer Das sogenanntc Theseion Leipzig 1899 p. 57-J- Escher-Biirkli
ln Pauly—Wissowa Pcal-Enc. vi. 441, O. Gruppe in the Bert, philol. Woch. Dez. 19, 1908
P- 1598.

L. Malten in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Em. viii. 349.

A. Zannoni Gli Scavi delta Certosa di Bologna Bologna 1876 p. 353 pi. 102, 5 (shaPe
f <an<oretta'), 6 (obverse), 7 (reverse) (of which, 6 and 7 = my fig. 141)- obv-: Hephais-

°s, clad in a chlamys, pursues Athena, who is wearing her aigfs and holds her spear in
|he f'ght hand, her helmet in the left. Rev.: a bearded male figure ('Giove?') standing

0 'he right with a long staff or sceptre.