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)

47° The myth of Danae and analogous myths

figure of Danae receiving the celestial shower. A silver ring at
Boston, Greek work of s. v B.C., shows her standing with upturned
face as she holds out her himdtion to catch the falling drops: behind
her is inscribed her name (fig. 306)\ A fifth-century scaraboid of
red jasper with white stripes, formerly in the Tyszkiewicz collection
and now likewise at Boston, makes her sit the while on a two-
cushioned bed (fig. 307)2. An amethyst from the cabinet of Baron
von Gleichen has her, almost nude, in the attitude of a crouching
Aphrodite, raising her hands to the small rounded rain-drops
(fig. 308)3. And a fourth-century chalcedony of unknown ownership

Fig. 306. Fig. 307. Fig. 30S.

Fig. 309. Fig. 310. Flg' 31

1 Lippold Gemmen pi. 47, 1 ( = my fig. 306) p. 175. - 3

2 Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi. 61, 36, ii. 275, Lippold GetnWtn P • ■' ^

fig- 307) p. 175- . . r„fi7P.i2n0,l!

3 P. D. Lippert Dadyliothek Erstes Mythologisches Tausend Leipzig '7 ^ert,eck
Miiller—Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst ii. 27 pi. 3, 48" ( = my fig- 3 penk»u
Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 409 Gemmentaf. 5, 4, Miiller—Wieseler—Wernicke

67 pi. 6, 7.