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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The birth of Athena in art

of the alternatives Athenian « and Corinthian (and Megarian ?) Q. IAEV5 maybe
accounted for by the hypothesis that a Megarian, accustomed to the form Aevs, waS
working at Athens, where the name was written Zeus.

The theory advanced by G. Kaibel in the Ann. d. Inst. 1873 xlv. 112 and by
G. Loeschcke in the Arch. Zeit. 1876 xxxiv. 110 (cp. H. B. Walters in the Journ. He^'
Stud. 1898 xviii. 284), viz. that the Attic vase-painter was copying Corinthian models*
on which Zeis was spelled ABVM and KiAAtjcios had an initial Q, makes shipwrepk--
as P. Kretschmer Die griechischen Vaseninschriften Gtltersloh 1894 p. 103 points out
on the fact that the Corinthians said Zetfs, not Aei)s. Two of the archaic inscribed pina^es
found in 1879 at Penle Skouphia near the Akrokorinthos and referable to a date c. 600 »•

Fig. 483.

put the form of the name beyond doubt (E. Pernice in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutseh-
Inst. 1897 xii. 13 and 20, id. in the Ant. Denkm. ii. 6 pi. 30, 12 ( = my fig- + Qr,
pi. 29, 13 ( = my fig. 483), P. Kretschmer in the Ath. Mitth. 1897 xxii. 343 f-' ^.'^i-
Pelop. i nos. 263 fig. and 264 fig., F. Bechtel Die griechischen Dialekte Berlin t92^^ ant.
The first and better preserved of these two is further published by Roehl Inscr. ^ . ^
no. 20, 66, id. Imagines inscriptionum Gnecarum antiquissimarum3 Berolini '90^0 gc>
r, FurtwaDgler Vaseusamml. Berlin i. 61 no. 490, Roberts Gk. Epigr- II* etc.

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66). True, Megarian inscriptions too give the forms ZeC£is, Zc6irupos, Zui'/'XoSi ZwrtX^
(cp. E. Schneider De dialecto Megarica Gissae 1882 p. 71 f.); but that ' ne ProU^ n. 3
ces textes etant relativement recents' (S. Reinach in the Rev. Jit. Gr. 1901 X1V'
(id. Culles, Mythes et Religions Paris 1906 ii. 281 n. 4)). 7eus> t'>e

A //«a.v-fragment found on the Akropolis at Athens preserve the head 0 rIy ff-
body of Athena, and the hands of Eileithyia (F. Studniczka in the 'B0. 'ApX- 188 o^'ments:
pi. 8, 1). Graef Ant. Vasen Athen iv. 251 f. no. 2578 pi. 109 ( = my fig-
'Obwohl die Inschrift attisch ist, darf an dem korin thisclien Ursprung des
Stil, und Farbe des Tons, der dem der protokorinthischen Ware entspr
gezweifelt werden.'