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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 715

But we have seen reason to put Herakles elsewhere in the pediment;
and Pan is a god who never appears in vase-paintings of Athena s
birth. The claims of Dionysos to be identified with ' Theseus' are
indeed so strong that we may fairly dispense with a detailed dis-
cussion of other hypotheses1. .

Corresponding with the deities of corn and wine we have another
triad in the opposite wing of the gable. Here again Fheidias took
a hint from ceramic tradition; for a black-figured amphora in the
Louvre (fig. 5 30)2 shows three goddesses in a row to the extreme
r'ght of the birth-scene. F. G. Welcker3 held that the Parthenon

Fig. 529.

Gamicci Mon. It. ant. p. 154 pi. 111, 6—8, Head Hist, num.- p. 106 fig. 59. Cp. Pan
0n coins of the Arcadian League {supra i. 69 f. figs. 47—49)-

1 (0 Herakles (E. Q. Visconti A Letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova: and two
Memoirs read to the Royal Institute of France on the Sculptures in the Collection of the
Earl oj Elgin London 1816 p. 35 ff., W. M. Leake The Topography of Athens London
1821 P- 255. L. de Ronchaud Phidias Paris 1861 p. 260 ft"., M. Collignon Phidias Paris
n'd- P- 43 ff.). Cp. Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii. 349 no. 7, 351 no. 2.

(2) Pan (C. J. Reuvens in The Classical fournal 1823 xxviii. 282). Cp. Svoronos
Nationalmus. no. 2013 pi. 137: my fig. 529 is from a fresh photograph.

(3) Kephalos (P. O. Brondsted Voyages dans la Grhe accompagnis de recherches
a£,liol°giques Paris 1830 ii p. xi n. 3, Furtwangler Masterpieces of Gk. Sculpt, p. 468,

' S' Murray The Sculptures of the Parthenon London 1903 p. 35 ff.).

(4) Kekrops (E. Falkener in The Museum of Classical Antiquities 1851 i. 394 f.,
dicker Alt. Denim, i. 81).

j. <5) Mt Olympos (H. Brunn in the Silzungsber. d. kais. bayr. Akad. d. IViss. Phil.-
lst Classe 1874 14. C. Waldstein Essays on the Art of Pheidias Cambridge 1885
pP- m ff. pi. 6, 173 ff. fig. 6 f.j Harrison Myth. Mon. Anc. Ath. p. 436).
3 L°uvre E 861, on which see supra p. 700 n. 3 (2).
Welcker Alt. Denim, i. 77 ft".
 
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