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)

660 Zeus struck with a double axe

The only uncertainty in this design relates to the axe-bearing
figure. Orthodox writers from Pindar downwards said that the
head of Zeus had been cleft by Hephaistos1; and such was the

p. 408 with fig. 29, G. M. A. Richter The Sculpture and Sculptors of the . fate.
Univ. Press 1929 p. 157 with fig. 586), was hastening to warn Marsyas of „
Svoronos finally completes the embellishment of his hypothetical thymile by ac feS)
back-frieze (fig. i43 = my fig. 473) formed of Hauser's Horai and 'Agraulides' (• > ^
arranged left and right of a Pan between two dancing Nymphs (?Hyades) .e^^fl
variation of order, from a slab in the Lateran (O. Benndorf—R. Schoene Dm' ^p
Bildioerke des lateranensischen Museums Leipzig 1867 p. 123 no. 202 pi- 4> 3>
in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 2721 f. fig., Reinach Rip. Reliefs iii. 280 no. i)- je of

Reconstructions of this sort are undeniably ingenious and come within ^ 0y
possibility. But unfortunately they leave so large a part to mere conjecture be
seldom carry conviction. In any case, whether they are right or wrong, we t;0nSi
justified in assuming that the Madrid puteal and the Tegel reliefs were a '1^ a<1rnit
mediate or immediate, of the Parthenon pediment. Even Svoronos is force pjie;dias
that his axe-bearing Satyr was 'von dem Hephaistos oder Prometheus c es
kopiert' (Ath. Nationalmus. p. 215). ; 3 ad^

1. Pind. 01. 7. 35 ff. with schol. ad loc. To the references given supra p- 200
Philodem. irepl evaefielas 59 p. 31 Gomperz (cited infra p. 661 n. 4)-