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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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402 Water-carrying in connexion

decorated with an essentially Orphic1 design (pi. xxxvii)2. Hades,
sceptre in hand, sits on a sumptuous throne in his nether palace,
while before him, holding a cross-topped torch, stands his bride
Persephone. Round them are grouped the stock denizens of then'
realm. To the right appear the judges of the dead—the kingly
figure of Aiakos, Triptolemos wreathed with the springing corn of
Eleusis3, Rhadamanthys with hoary hair and a brow furrowed by
thought4. Above these is Dike, who executes their sentence. She
guards with drawn sword Peirithoos ; for he must remain a prisoners
though his friend Theseus, thanks to Herakles, is about to return
to the upper air5. Below we see Herakles himself dragging a three-'

1 The Orphic character of this and similar vases from south Italy was justly emphasised
by Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel.'2 p. 599 ff. ('Orphic Vases of Lower Italy'). See, however
the discussion of the point by E. Kuhnert ' Unteritalische Nekyien' in the Jalirb. d. i&tj
deutsch. arch. Inst. 1893 viii. 104—113, A. Milchhoefer ' " Orphisch"-UnterweltlicheS
in Philologies 1894 liii. 385—399, E. Kuhnert 'Orpheus in der Unterwelt' in Philolog"*
1895 liv. 193—204, and W. K. C. Guthrie Orpheus and Greek Religion London (i93';
pp. 187-191- _

2 Jabn Vasensamml. Miinchen p. 273 ff. no. 849, A. L. Millin Description
Totnbeaux de Canosa Paris 1816 p. 4 ff. pis. 3—6 (inadequate, but often copied eg- ^
E. Braun in the Ann. d. Inst. 1837 ix pi. i = Reinach Rep. Vases i. 258, 4, InghiraI*
Vas. Jilt. iv. 121 ff. pis. 392—395, Milller—Wieseler Denkpi. d. alt. Ktmst i. 54
pi. 56, 275 a—c, A. Baumeister in his Denkm. iii. 1928 f. pi. 87 fig. 2042 B and fi£'
2042 c, O. Benndorf in Wien. Vorlegebl. E pi. 1, Harrison Myth. Mon. Anc.

p. cxlv ff. fig. 38), Furtwangler—Reichhold Gr. Vasenmalerei i. 47—54 pi. 10 (sB?i
pi. xxxvii), P. Ducati Storia della ceramica greca Firenze 1922 ii. 457 ff. fig. 330,
Malerei u. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii. •.f6, 718.

3 Supra p. 299 n. 7.

4 The three judges of this vase have been variously identified:

Tantale Cronos Rhadamanthe (A. L. Millin op. cit. p. 22 f-) ^

Lynceus Kronos Rhadamanth (F. Creuzer in the Heidelbei'S1

Jahrbikher der Litteratur 1817 ii. 7<W
Tantalo Crono Radamanto (Inghirami op. cit. iv. 124 f.) 2j

Rhadamanthys Kronos Minos (E. Gerhard in the Arch. Zeit. 1843 '• 2°

Rhadamanthys Aeakos Minos (C. O. Miiller op. cit. i. 55) /(

Minos Aiakos Rhadamanthys (A. Winkler Die DarsteM""* „

der Unterwelt auf ttnterilalischen
Breslau 1888 pp. 10, 25)
Minos Triptolemos Rhadamanthys (Harrison op. cit. p. cxlvi f-) ^

Aiakos Triptolemos Rhadamanthys (Furtwangler—Reichhold <?/'

Eaco Trittolemo Radamanto (P. Ducati op. cit. ii. 458). /

An analogous group on the vase from Altamura (Heydemann Vasensamml. 1 ~<
p. 510 ff. no. 3222, infra p. 423 n. 2 (2)) is inscribed T P10 P TO A EM02, AIA ^ •
[PAAA]MANOY5!. The only reasonable doubt is, therefore, whether on our v£iseatj,
series should be called A + T + R or R -I- T + A. I have followed Furtwangler and D11 '
though with some hesitation. ^0
6 Variants of the myth are collected and discussed by Gruppe Gr. Myth. Xe'- vi.
n. 3, id. in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. Suppl. iii. 1079 f., id. in Roscher Lex. W ^(J,
42 f., Sir J. G. Frazer on Apollod. 2. 5. 12, and Preller—Robert Gr. Myth, ii- 7°3T's'tlie
W. Deonna ' These'e assis aux Enfers' in the Rev. £t. Gr. 1931 xliv. 361—367 sWc
 
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