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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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686 The birth of Athena in art

(5) The fifth and final type, in which Athena has reached her
full stature, is attested by a couple of vases, a black-figured hydria
from Vulci now at Wurzburg and a red-figured stdmnos from Vulci
now in the Vatican.

The hydria (fig. 497)1 shows Zeus seated on a throne, facing
towards the left. He holds a sceptre with a curious Janiform head2
in one hand, but no thunderbolt in the other. Athena, armed and
fully grown, stands before him. She has issued from him, as we
might infer from the position of her feet, but she turns her face

Fig. 497.

directly towards him while adjusting her high-crested helmet,
either side of this group stand the two Eileithyiai, and beyond the
Poseidon and Hermes. Hephaistos is not there.

The stdmnos (fig. 498, a and d)3, regarded by J. D. Beazle}

case the two Eileithyiai have become stately Nymphs holding flowers or clothing f°'
new-bom god. . na>

It is possible, though not certain, that Dionysos borrowed the type ii°m ^
who—to judge from our few examples—appears to have been first in the field- soine
event his adoption of the scheme was very understandable: it is but a step ft°m _ j
vase-illustrations of Dionysos emerging out of his father's thigh {supra p- 81 fig- 2
pi. xiii, 1—3) to these of Dionysos standing upon it. /part

1 O. Benndorf in the Ann. d. Inst. 1865 xxxvii. 368 f., Mon. d. Inst, viii P1- f*K^
of which = my fig. 497), L. Urlichs Verzeichniss der Antikensammlung der Untve
Wiirzhurg Wurzburg 1872 iii. 28 no. 132, Reinach Rip, Vases i. 171. .. g.

- The conjoined profiles are respectively bearded and beardless (cp. sup*0 com,non
on the differentiation of the sky-god's faces), and two arms are attached to the c )
torso. But Urlichs loc. cit. says: 'ein Scepter, worauf ein Doppelgesicht (modern

3 Mus. Etr. Gregor. ii. 5 pi. 21, 1 ( = my fig. 498,0 and /<).
 
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