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)

Zeus Polieus at Athens

573

outstretched hand is better employed in holding a phidleij) over a
conspicuous altar. One specimen (fig. 403)1 shows an eagle on the
extended arm—another case of intrusive adjunct,, but useful as
serving to connect the latest with the earliest statue.

Fig- 399- Fig- 4°°-

Fig. 401. Fig. 402.

Fig- 4°3-

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statu ^at'ler t^at three series of coins represent three successive
s °f Zeus Polieus, the third being Leochares' improvement,
^Pon ^ "^a'ln2 supposed—upon the first, but—as Overbeck3 saw—
a cje e second. If so, we have to recognise in Zeus Polietis
t0 k 0Pment at once external and internal, aesthetic and ethical,
Pn/7. CornPared with that which transformed the sixth-century
stand- Clng witn uplifted lance4 into the fifth-century Parthdnps
ng with lance at rest.
1 J- N. Sv

.. 2 0. j"ala oron°s Les monnaics d' Athenes Munich 1923—1926 pi. 92, 7 ( = my fig- 403).
>l, 23 f n in the Nuove Memorit deW Institute) di Corrispondenza Archeologica 1865

„, * ^5St»Sr- Kl""l»'yth. Zeus p. 5+f.

llSsi»iis M- was the type of Athena IIoAids is a moot point. O. Jahn De anh-
rtl°n«menta^"<;'.^ "mulacris Atlicis Bonnae 1866 p. 10 ff., citing both literary and
galled ' pa^V1<1.enc,e' Pronounced in favour of the fully armed fighting goddess in the
e1uent criticsaf P°Se' and ms verdict has been accePted by the majority of sub-
s (see e.g. Farnell Cults of Gk. States i. 332 ff., E. Petersen Die Burgtempel