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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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founded a sanctuary of Athena Meter1. And at Athens, though
Athena was Parthenos, yet even in the Parthenon her cult-image
w'th its snakes and its pillar was, as we have seen2, distinctly

1 Paus. 5. 3. 2. Famell Cults of Gk. States i. 303 comments: 'Athena ^lyp-rjp need
Wean little more than Athena the nurse or fosterer of children, just as the nurses who
■"eared the infant Zeus in Crete were worshipped under the name of >IVepesb
l^Diod. Sic. 4. 79).' But see K. B. Stark in the Mem. d. Inst. 1865 ii. 243—275 and
Gr«ppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1206 n. 2, who cite Nonn. Dion. 48. 951 ff. (Dionysos entrusts
the babe Bakchos or Iakchos, one of the twins borne him by Aura, to Athena as nurse)
^«/3wk 5,? pLV (i^igt Si(ppav | v-qmov uotTi Hanxov iiruvvfiov via. TOKrjos \ 'ArfflSi nvaTuroKif
7raPaKa,T8(iTO~Ra.Kxos'±0riVTi, | Etfio. Trawwa^ofTa • 6ea $t/xiv ii/SoBi vqav | IlaXXas avvixepevTif
9eo<5e'Wow g^aro KoXirip- \ iraidl 5t nafrv 6>e£e, tov lo-irace iiovvos 'EpiX^s, \ avTOxiTy
"To-tovTa. voBov 7X0705 6>0a/« liaffi and Dion Cass. 59. 28 (Caligula named Caesonia's
daugllter Drusilla) Us re to Ka7rirc6Xioi' avriyaye koX es to. tov Aids yovovra us koI iralSa avrov
ot>o-a,i> iviOyiKe, ko.1 rrj 'A6V? t^veiaOau Trapr\yyii\o-tv. An Etruscan statuette of a winged
A'hena carries a naked infant (infra § 9 (h) ii (X)).

H. von Prott's dictum in the Archiv f. Rel. 1906 ix. 87 'Die Akropolis-Athena ist
Meter, ihr Opfertier eine trachtige Sau' is justified by an early (first quarter of s. v B.C.)
Jotive relief of island marble, found to the east of the Parthenon (G. Dickins Catalogue of
\ A"-opolis Museum Cambridge 1912 i. 118 ff. no. 581 fig., B. Staes in the 'E0. 'Apx-
' 85 PP- X79—J82 pi. 9, Collignon Hist, de la Sculpt.gr. i. 380 f. with fig. 196, Perrot-

^ ">Piez Hist, de VArt viii. 618 ff. with fig. 314, E. Pfuhl in the Ath. Mitth. 1923 xlviii.
ng a round object, perhaps a disk or drr7riSioi') bring a sow (Farnell Cults of Gk. States

hold;

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_I30 fig. 4), in which a family of husband, wife (pregnant), and three children (one

29o, P. Baur in Philologies 1899—1901 Suppl. viii. 484, 499, O. Walter Beschreibung
jj" Ketiefs im Kleinen Akropolismuseum in Athen Wien 1923 p. 34 f. no. 48, cp. p. 70 f.
" .*o (?)) for sacrifice to an archaistic Athena (helmet carved, crest painted). K. Lehmann-
eben 'Athena als Geburtsgottin' in the Archivf. Rel. 1926 xxiv. 19—28 fig. 1
Nock" xxv'")—an interesting article to which my attention was drawn by Mr A. D.
ste^ ~~C011cludes: 'Es handelt sich also offenbar urn einen Bittgang fur eine bevor-
EuW e GeDurt-' O. Weinreich il>. p. 28 acutely suggests that the 'foolish stories' told by
leros and Varro with regard to the proverb vs tt\v 'kd-qvav, sus Minervam (Fest.

to '8 ^' duller, P- 408, 14 ff. Lindsay) in reality gave the ahiov for a pig-sacrifice

•Athena.

a cg,n ™"s connexion it may be noticed that Niket. Chon. 359 B p. 739 Bekker says of

t0 ^ ■ statue in the Forum of Constantine at Constantinople—a statue almost certainly

des y^611^"1 witft the Br°r>ze Athena of Pheidias (W. Gurlitt' Die grosse eherne Athena

'he' j> 61c''as' 'n Analecta Graeciensia Graz 1893 pp. 101—121. E contra S. Reinach in

aty'S(o8 ' x*' 399—4'7)—€^Xe 8i K&wl toIs ortpvois 6p66riT0ov ov woidXov

(e> . 65 Athena is opBoTirdos in many archaising reliefs and vase-paintings

tot, UPra Ph xxviii, E. Schmidt Archaistische Kunst in Gricchenland und Rom Mtinchen
* y * 2 l^i o

s0 0ri P1- 9> 3. Mon. d. Inst, x pis. 47a, 47c, 47 e, 47f, 47g, 48, 48a), markedly

1'ate ^^"^ ^e "at Sems of the Augustan period—where however her full breast is
f"loren '3!^0^'tesclue modification rather than an early maternal trait ((1) a sardonyx at
29 ^==n ' vemach Pierresgravdes-p. 61 no. 55, 1 pi. 61, Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 39,
iniitatmy 144 from a cast). »• 188 ('Der Kopf ist ohne Helm' is wrong; the helmet
former? c/.'evel"re)> Lippold Gemmen p. 170 (same mistake) pi. 21, 9: (2) a brown sard
Furtwa T ''le ri'Iarl^°1'0,'gb collection (Reinach Pierres gravies p. 117 no. 6 pi. H3>

2 SuE^ ^ Gemmen 1 Pi 65. n ( = my fig. 145), »• 3°o)).
the godfj P" l89- N°te also the part played by the priestess, apparently impersonating
"Ms rds eSS' at Athens (Souid. s.v. aiylt-...ii 5i Uptia 'AdtyTjai tt\v iepav alylSa cpipovaa
^Povaa "e°yiflow eHpx^o = Zonar. lex. s.v. alyU-...i) 5i ttpua 'A^o-i i> Upa-v aiylSa
T°w veoyd.fj.ovs eio-f/pxcTo, cp. Plout. cent. 2. 21 not. crit. [i yow] iipeia tt]>> iepa."

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