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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

Approaching the matter by a different route Sir Cecil Smith1
had in 1907 arrived at substantially similar results, at least in so far
as the three central figures were concerned. He based his argument
on the acute observation that Attic vases painted within a decade
or so of the erection of the pediment 'are full of suggestions
motives directly or indirectly borrowed from the Parthenon.' In parti-

of

cular he referred to the magnificent kratdroi the Villa Giulia (sHp
737 with fig. 668) as evidence that Pheidias filled the central sp ^
by Zeus seated towards the right, Athena standing before 'aita' st
Nike with a wreath hovering between them in the apex \} &•

rn. H'11'

1 C. Smith 'The Central Groups of the Parthenon Pediments' in 'he '°U

Stud. 1907 xxvii. 242—248 with figs. 1 ( = my fig. 501), 2, 3. |,elmet ^

2 He contends that the types of Zeus and of Athena (with her crestec ^gVic'0^
gorgeous peplos) are precisely what we should expect of Pheidias, that a hove
 
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