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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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574 The Ox-slaughter of

Sundry dedications to Zeus Polieus are on record. A base 01
throne of Pentelic marble found on the Akropolis was put up f°r
him by a member of the deme Paiania1. And a silver bowl belong-
ing to him was kept among the treasures of Athena2.

The importance of his cult at Athens may be judged from the
fact that in the theatre his priest occupied a marble throne
mediately adjoining the splendid central seat of the priest 0
Dionysos Eleuthereilsz.

The festival of the god4 was known by a variety of names as

der Athenaia Berlin 1907 p. 40 ff.). Others, however, have argued cogently in favour 0
a seated figure (e.g. E. Gerhard Uber die Minervenidole Athens Berlin 1844 PP- \
('Athena Polias') pi. I, id. Auserl. Vasenb. iv. 6 ff. pi. 242, 1, R. Schone Grtecfas<^
Reliefs aus athenischen Sammlungen Leipzig 1872 p. 12 pi. 2, 1, A. Furt\vangler
Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 687 ff.), and A. Frickenhaus 'Das Athenabild des alten Tenip^r
in Athen' in the Ath. Mitth. 1908 xxxiii. 17—32 has proved from inscriptions tha ^
some thirty years in the course of the fourth century B.C. the goddess of the &pXal0S
wore a aretjidfi), TrXdarpa ('ear-rings'), 6xt)oLf3os eirl rpaxv^V or 7rePL T^ -
('necklace'), opp-oi irevre, y\aO£ xPvffVt &lyis XPu(XVi yopybveiov (xpv<rovv?)^ (pt-dXri Wj1.^
ttj x"P'—a continuity of garb which allows us to suppose that it was an old tracut;10jeSS
costume and is at least compatible with the monumental evidence for a seated wea?°zjg,-
Athena. Accordingly G. von Brauchitsch Die panathendischen Preisamphoren kelP*
Berlin 1910 pp. 167—180 ('Das Bild der Athena') concludes that the standing a|j)0se
goddess was the Athena of Peisistratos, the cult-statue of the Hekatompedon, to
care Athens was entrusted during the Persian invasion, when the older and moie
seated goddess, Athena IIoAids, was temporarily withdrawn from her sanctuary
then existing Erechtheion.

1 Corp. inscr. Att. iv. 2 no. 1550 b [--II]aiac[ieus] j [apid^Kev Ad Ilo\ie[']- . ^

2 Corp. inscr. Att. ii. 2 no. 652 A, 48 f. = Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr. n°- n0i
48f. = Michel Recueil d'Inscr. gr. no. 814.4, 48 f. = Inscr. Gr. ed. min. ii—11 • ,
1388 A, 48f. [Kapx}valc"' Aids IIoAius dpyvpo[v, ar^aO fibv Totiro : HP A AAAI ie
This Kapxv^'-o" was an object of value, which is frequently mentioned in the
inventories—first in 42S—427 B.C., when it weighed 200 drachmas (Corp- * ^^gsgS
i no. 149, 10), last about 390—389 B.C., when its weight had fallen to 199 afu0S
(Corp. inscr. Att. ii. 2 no. 66i, 4). See further O. J aim—A. Michaelis Arx Atne»
Bonnae 1901 p. 52 on Paus. 1. 24. 4. Jlfi^'

3 Corp. inscr. Att. iii. 1 no. 242 lepius \ Aids lloXUus. Roberts—Gardner "vieW, of
ii. 470 no. 281 date the lettering 'Little before Christian era.' A photographic ^ i>"
this and the adjacent thrones is given by M. BieberZ>z'e Denkmdler zum Thsate1 ^
Altertum Berlin—Leipzig 1920 pi. 4. A. E. Haigh The Attic Theatre'1 °xt°rd;nthe
p. 124 observes: 'That the thrones belong to the fourth century, and were eiec ^ Q{
time of Lycurgus, appears to be proved by the excellence of the workmanship- ^oH1
them has an inscription in the front, recor ding the title of the priest or official but
the seat was reserved. These inscriptions are all of the Hellenistic or lioman^c]c to t'je
behind them are faint traces of older inscriptions, which may possibly g°

fourth century.' S^°n^

4 See the monograph of O. Band De Diipoliorum sacro Atlienicnsinm n rgp7111'
1873 pp. 1—67, P. Stengel in Hermes 1893 xxviii. 489 ff. and in the Rhein. J> " '^y^lf
399 ff., revised in his Opferbrduche der Griechen Leipzig—Berlin 1910 PP.' „ 0,
('Buphonien'), id. in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 1055—1057 ('BuphoM ^jisoP
Suppl. iii. 339 f. ('Dipolieia'), Nilsson Gr. Feste pp. 14—16 ('Buphonien).
 
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