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)

668 The birth of Athena in art

still smaller, raises her right hand to her head on the right.
S. Reinach, who first published this monument, observed that
Kadi-Keui occupies the site of Kalchedon, a colony of Megara1, and
that Pausanias mentions a sanctuary of the Eileithyiai at Megara
itself2. Hence he inferred that the relief was an ex-voto dedicated
to the Eileithyiai, whose cult had been carried by the colonists
from Megara to Kalchedon. Reinach indeed contended—and his
contention is prima facie plausible—that the type of Zeus accouche
by the Eileithyiai originated in connexion with their cult • and
ultimately hails from Megara. Other evidence cited by him will be

Fig. 480.

mentioned later3. Meantime it may be conceded that in 8ene'ot
a definite art-type does pre-suppose a definite belief and 11
infrequently a definite cult. ^

(2) The second type, which shows Zeus delivered without
aid of the Eileithyiai by the axe-bearer alone, is so far as I
represented by a single black-figured kylix (fig. 480)4. This

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1 J. Oehler in Pauly—Wissowa lieal-Enc. i. 2829 f. (founded 686/5 B.C.;-
K. Hanell Megarische Studien Lund 1934 pp. 122 f., 209.
Paus. 1. 44. 2 /ecu HlXeiduLwf £gtlv hravda. iepbv.

Infra p. 671 ff. ^ bettef

4 Lenormant—de Witte El. mon. cir. i. 192 f. pi. 56, A (inadequate). New a , yge
publication by J. D. Beazley Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums , I(

Mass. 1918 pp. 136 fig. 84, 189 fig. 118, id. Attic Black-figure London 1928 p- 6 • f,
1 f., id. in the Jotirn. Hell. Stud. 1932 Hi. 170, 199 pi. 5, Hoppin Black-fig- VasesV ■
no. 2. My fig. 4S0 is from the official photograph.

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