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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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The birth of Athena in art 673

reproduced, because they illustrate the two possible forms of com-
promise between the Megarian and the Athenian type, according
as Athena is, or is not, visible.

The first is a ' Tyrrhenian ' amphora from Caere, now at Berlin
(fig. 485 and pi. liv)1. Zeus in a chiton and patterned himdtion is
seated on a throne of which the back ends in a swan's head, the
legs in lion's claws. In his left hand he grasps a thunderbolt. From
his head emerges Athena armed with a lance, a circular shield, and a
high-crested helmet. Hephaistos, then, has already struck his blow;

Fig. 484.

^deed he is to be seen hurrying off on tip-toe2 towards the left3
\ ^Vertheless two birth-goddesses are still standing, Eileithyia
"id Zeus, Demeter4 before him, and are lifting their hands with

*hichl Kaibel in the A"'<- d- Inst- l873 xlv. 106—114, Mon. d. Inst, ix pi. 55 (part of
Vasei ~~ my %• 48S). G. Loeschcke in the Arch. Zeit. 1876 xxxiv. 108— 111, Furtwangler
''yy'^""""1- Berlin i. 241 ft", no. 1 704, Reinach Rip. Vasts i. 197 f., 1—6, H. Thierch
Gr. 1 te'l'sc,'e" Amphoren Leipzig 1899 p. 157 no. 26, Pfuh) Malerei u. Zeichnung d.
H*. PI. liv is from a fresh photograph procured by Mr A. D. Trendall.

,*8*«p. 587n.a. X
( = I<ei cameo published by A. L. Millin Pierres gravies inidites Paris 1817 i pi. 56
Slandirir ' P'crr" Gravi!" P '*8f. no. 56 pi. 122) shows Hephaistos with his mallet
in t|le J stl" to watch Athena received by the hands of the two Eileithyiai. But E. Braun

< q ' * i**49 ™- 112 pi. 6, 1 justly pronounced the gem to be a forgery.

Eileiih • aiL>el A"" lmt' l8'3 X,V- 107 lakes llllS fis"re 10 be * secont*

the right'a' refers lhe na",e [AE]METEP to the fragmentary figure next to it on
llarried u °n tllis vase most of ,ne names are well towards the right of the persons
l0°8 handje°^OVer' t,,e fragmentary figure is certainly male, and holds an object with a
e—presumably Poseidon with his trident.
c- iii

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