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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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Pyre-extinguishing rain 515

Arethousa1 and Premnousia2, are quenching the fire with their
hydriai. Above, that is beyond3, the pile is Herakles himself, a
youthful bay-wreathed form, borne off to Olympos in the chariot of
Athena. Behind such a vase in turn lies the more serious representa-
tion of the myth. A late Attic krater published by E. Gerhard
(% 326)* makes Philoktetes carry off the quiver and arrows from
the pyre; while a mere handmaid5 does her best to put out the
flames6. Above, Nike drives the hero up to the pillared palace of
^ympos7. Hermes leads the way towards a seated Apollon, and
Zeus—it must surely be he8—waits in the background to welcome
his divinised son.

t 1 R. Wagner in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 679 ff., W. Aly ''Ap<?0ou<ra' in Glotta
,.?' + v- 57 f. (rejects the connexion with &pdu asserted by Herodian. vepl p.ov. Xe£. 1. 13
p 9'9. 28 ff. Lentz), Steph. Byz. s.v. 'ApeSowra, and accepted e.g. by G. Hirschfeld in
■Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 679, in favour of relation to aptaKW, cp. /3e/3/>u>0w—/3t0pw.rKw

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s _ esych. Hpe/jLvovata.' Kprjvq ev Trj'ATTiKrj.
t),at y " Hauser in Furtwangler—Reichhold—Hauser Gr. Vasenmalerei ii. 256 points out
e5tchl(je ground"une beneath chariot and horses together with the tree behind them quite
id ,-/, £S tne notion of 'Luftfahrt____Also auch hier wieder Kavalier-Perspektive' (cp.

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fig_ nard Ant. Bildw. p. 275 pi. 31, H. Blumner in Baumeister Denkm. i. 307
hi „?2..'~my fig- 3i6)> Turk in Roscher Lex. Myth, iii. 2328 no. (3) fig. 1, F. Hauser
»66 with fig. 90.
6 -yy. Gerhard loc. cit. says: 'die Nymphe des Oeta.'
227, gt'ne Was use(l to quench the ashes (//. 23. 237 f., 250 (., 24. 791 f., Verg. Aen. 6.
Cic, de j ' Sllv- 2. 6. 90 f.)—a practice prohibited by Numa (Plin. nat. hist. 14. 88, cp.
Presumabl^ 2' ^Ut t'16 usage was certa'n'y not a matter of mere luxury. Wine was
^P'teir-a? eniP'°yed on account of its life-giving properties (supra ii. 1025 Dionysos
0r 'he p °S *~ ^ao°0T'hp. Cp. our whisky for usquebaugh = Irish uisge beatha, 'water of life,'

n. 2 'eilC'1 eai'-de-vie). Also its red colour would be a surrogate for blood (supra i.
der Griech " 2 ^66 n°W ^" Wunderlich Die Bedeutung der roten Farbe im Kultus
J92G ii_ " Romer Giessen 1925 pp. 1—116 and a review by S. Eitrem in Gnomon
teason WkS I02)> and ashes steeped in it would in a sense be revitalised. Was this the
'ton ^V6n 'n Pa'aeo'''hic times, skulls and other parts of skeletons were overlaid
eiltilich-.u°jde (G" Wilke 'Ockerbestattung' in Ebert Reallex. ix. 156 f.: 'Oder
^Urch (Jen !l d'ese Erklarung ist am wahrscheinlichsten—man wollte dem bleichen Toten
eri"oglic}]en C er die Farbe und belebende Kraft des Blutes wiedergeben und ihm dadurch
' SuiJ1'- a'S "leDender Leichnam" (s.d.) weiter zu existieren')?
s the ^-U4"

^'d AnTg^ bearded figure with chlamys and pHasos has been variously explained.
,^ffeneefahrt P" 275Sa>'s: 'hinter ihm

ein Mann in Reisetracht zunachst fiir seinen
aos uns gilt.' J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1847 xix. 271 : 'Je
g ec M. rjjer, ce Personnage barbu comme la personnijication du mont OEla, ou bien,
t!Ut a "lounta C°mme Tolas- Turk in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2329: 'ein Berggott.'
ial 85> iin ^0ci pure and simple would rather have been recumbent (e.g. supra i. 116
of y • * kaii d tt" 2 W"h 134 fig' I0°)' or at least seated (F- Inlhoof-Blumer in the
Ca aod'keia onth^' arck' ImU 1888 280 f- Pl 9> ,8 ( = my fig- 3*7) a bronze coin
(ZeraCalIa and n Lykos 'Plin- na*- hist- 5- io5 appellata primo Diospolis), struck by
eUs?) to a seat°J at Berl'n. which shows a kneeling woman (Rhea?) offering her child
a m°un'ain-god in the presence of a nymph (Adrasteia?); id. ib. p. 291

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