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

The second form of compromise between the Megarian and

the

Athenian type is exemplified by another ' Tyrrhenian ' amphora
from Caere, now in the Louvre (fig. 491)1. Zeus, clad in a white
chiton and a red himdtion, is seated on a throne—carefully inscribed
as such2—with swan's-head back and lion's-claw legs. His left
hand holds the thunderbolt, his right a lotos-topped sceptre. His
feet rest on a footstool, upon which stands one of the birth-
goddesses with a wreath in her uplifted right hand. Her fellow,
definitely named Eileithyia3, stands behind the throne of Zeus and

Fig. 491.

to be

the background is seen a temple-front with four Ionic columns, which is hardly
identified with the newly built Parthenon (J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1861 xxxiii. 3,0>'
but suggests that the scene is being enacted in Olympos (Gerhard p. 17). . ^

(4) Very similar is the design of another mirror, now in London (Gerhard Etr- Spiea
iv. 13 f. pi. 284, 2 ( = my fig. 489), A. Fabretti op. cit. p. ccxiv no. 2471 bis, Brit- ^

■ Cat. Bronzes p. 116 no. 696). Tinia and Menrfa are again supported by Thalna ^
Uni. On the left is Laran, on the right a bearded Maristiusta (so H. B. WalterSj ^
thinks he 'may be meant for Poseidon.' C. Pauli in Roscher Lex. Myth. in. 2933^ 'e'jjie
maris. .11 sta and, with more probability, assumes some relationship to Mars).
background, as before, is a temple-facade with four Ionic columns (cp. also Ger
op. cit. iv.i4f. pL 3&1, 1). re

(5) Yet another mirror, formerly in the Museo Campana, now in the ^ ^
(J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1861 xxxiii. 314 ff., Mon. d. Inst, vi pi. 56, i> Ge> 1
Etr. Spiegeliv. i6f. pi. 285 A ( = my fig. 490), De Ridder Cat. Bronzes du Louvre u.^
no. 1738), makes Tinia beardless and surrounded by three goddesses—one with «
(Thanr or Uni (Roulez) rather than Nike (Gerhard, De Ridder)), a second with PJir^u'l0
cap (Thalna (Roulez), Artemis (Gerhard), Artemis? (De Ridder)), a third with veil ( '
(Gerhard) or Hera? (De Ridder) rather than Venus (Roulez)). A sketchy pediment
marks the background. , ^

1 J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. i86r xxxiii. 299 — 307, Mon. d. Inst, vi P1- .5^,'>
(=my fig. 491) and 4, Reinach Rip. Vases i. 155 f., 4 and 5, H. Thiersch " Tyrrhene
Amphoren Leipzig 1899 PP- 49 £ ('Stark erganzt und iibermalt' etc.), 15^ n ' ;nts

E. Pottier Vases antiques du Louvre im° Serie Paris 1901 p. 78 f. no. E 853 ('Les re^upes
et les restaurations sont tres importants dans toutes les parties du vase, mais les S ^f,
du centre en A et en B sont a peu pres saufs'), Perrot—Chipiez Hist. de PArt x- ^
fig. 75, Pfuhl Malerei u. Zeichmtng d. Gr. i. 252. The central group is ^Sn!

F. Durrbach in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. ant. iii. 385 fig. 3956.

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