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

They probably sat on rocks1, not on thrones2; for the presence
of other thrones would inevitably have detracted from the majesty
of Zeus.

But have we definite evidence as to the name and nature of an}'
such figure? I make bold to maintain that we have. In I9°l
C. Waldstein3 (Sir Charles Walston) published two marble
statuettes, which had been bought at Rome in 1892 for the Dresden
Albertinum. They are of the same uncommon dimensions4; and,
since they were bought together, they had in all probability been
found together—a couple of figures from the pediment or pediments
of a small-sized shrine. One of them is a free copy of the reclining
god (' Ilissos' or ' Kephisos') from the west pediment of tne
Parthenon, not uninfluenced by the corresponding figure ('Theseus )
of the east pediment. The other (fig. 516)5 represents a goddes
half-draped in an ample himdtion, which, as the folds at the back
indicate, covered her head behind like a veil and was draw'1
upwards by her right hand. Beyond all question she is al1
Aphrodite, and an Aphrodite of Pheidiac type6. We need not.

s

So in the restoration proposed by E. A. Gardner Ancient Athens London '9
308.

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A. Furtwangler Intermezzi Leipzig—Berlin p. 29 flanked his central A ^

{supra p. 690 n. i) by Zeus enthroned on the left and Hera enthroned on the rig ^
J. N. Svoronos in the Journ. Intern, d''Arch. Num. 1912 xiv pi. 19' has ^10,/nt.
enthroned on the left, Poseidon rock-seated on the right—a clumsy, lop-sided expe

3 C. Waldstein in Harper's Monthly Magazine December 1901 civ. 11—'«>• ^ . ng

4 The male figure measures o"35m long by o^o'" high; the female figure, o'3< !j
by o-3im high. Cp. the marble statuettes, one-third of full size, found at Eleu» • . ^
similarly derived from the west pediment of the Parthenon (D. Philios in the f ^
dpx- ir. 1888 p. 27 (cp. ii. 1887 p. 51), id. in the "E<p. 'ApX. 1890 p. 124 n. t, Pj tS:
pi. 12 f., E. A. Gardner in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 271, Stai's Marbres et0 ^
Athenes- p. 59 nos. 200—202, Rhys Carpenter in Hesperia 1932 i. 11 fF., 22 ft-> L"

in the Rev. lit. Gr. 1932 xlv. 457).

;> From a photograph of the cast at Cambridge. ^ yet

6 The broad treatment of the body with its widely-spaced breasts, the ^(e(j to
dignified pose, the simple, harmonious drapery, and the action necessarily * ^erefi»»i
the right hand, all go to prove the Pheidiac character of this little figure. It >s> c>
of considerable interest as evidence of a semi-draped Aphrodite in the fifth century ^
After my paper to the Hellenic Society (supra p. 693 n. 1) I received a ^ette' urrei's:
1917) from my friend Mr (now Sir George) Hill containing the politest of .ellj-ar to"
'Are you sure about the semi-nude Aphrodite? It looks to me, fine as it 1S'^ ea,-ly,
sensuous, not to say sensual, to be a Pheidian type. Is there any other case ^ [t)
except under Oriental influence, of a semi-nude Aphrodite? It struck a jairmfe ^et
me in what was otherwise a concord of sweet sounds. And how do you rec0
w;th the Aphrodite of the frieze? Are those statuettes genuine??' . jn AttlC

It has not, I think, been noticed that evidence for half-draped female^"f»"*rlirdjr

sculpture at least as early as 42-;—423 B.C. (the date of the play: see G. H. ' _ Qh"sl
Chronology of the extant Plays of Euripides Lancaster, Pa 1905 pp- 5' 4° C^|'ri,«n fr0lI>
Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur6 Mtlnchen 1912 i. 361 n. 2) may l,e '