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)

The birth of Athena in art

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a late ' Schularbeit' of his ' Berlin Painter1,' may be dated c. 465 B.C.
Front and back of the vase are decorated with sections of the same
scene, in which the familiar figures are regrouped with sundry
infelicitous variations. On the obverse, Zeus is standing not seated,
having vacated his chair for Hera, who sits there raising her right

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Fig. 498-

lar>d as if to greet the hasty arrival of Nike from the left. Nike
Presurnably brings tidings of Athena's birth. And meantime
1ena herself, armed and fully grown, stands holding out her
Riet behind Hera's back. In short, a complete rearrangement of
e traditional scheme. No less wilful is the artist's treatment of

i,l j^' Beazley Attische Vasenmaler a'es rotjigurigen Stils Tiiliingen 1925 p. 83 no. 91,
er Berliner Alaler Berlin 1930 pp. [5, 19 no. 110.