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716 The birth of Athena in art

triad was Aglauros, Herse, and Pandrosos; and J. Roulez1 was
inclined to give the same explanation of the three goddesses on
the Paris vase. Their view is attractive and the title 'die
" Thauschwestern "' still finds some defenders2. Nevertheless the
discovery of the Madrid puteal has gone far towards proving that
the old3 name, 'the Fates,' is right. Even F. Hauser4, who argues
that the Fates of the puteal were not taken from the same model
(Vorbild) as its other figures, yet admits that they too may well go
back to the east pediment of the Parthenon as their original-
Further, while granting that their attributes have not yet been

F'g- 530.

found on pre-Roman works of art, he urges that Roman reliefs here
as elsewhere presuppose Greek prototypes. Fate as a spinner is
Homeric5: cleromanc^ was no discovery of the Romans6: oracle-

1 J. Roulez in the Ann. d. Inst. 1861 xxxiii. 310.

2 E.g. K. Schwerzek Erlantenmgai zu dem Versuch einer Rekonstrtiktion dcs osthche*
Farthenongiebeh Wien 1904 pp. 10, 15, H. Schrader Phidias Frankfurt am Main

p. 227 ff.

But J. Overbeck, who in 1857 took the triad to be the Kekropides (Gr. Plast'k1 >•
250 f.), in 1893 wrote of them as the Moirai (op. citM. 416). And M. Collignon, who
first had favoured 'les noms de Thallo, d'Auxo et de Karpo, les trois Kharites atticlueL
(Phidias Paris n.d. p. 46), was later content to call them 'les Parques' (Hist- de a
Sculpt, gr. ii. 30 f.).

3 Collignon op. at. ii. 30 'sur la foi de Visconti, de Brondsted, de Cockerell, et de
Beule.'

4 F. Hauser Die nen-altischen Reliefs Stuttgart 1889 p. 67 f.

6 //. 20. 127 f., Od. 7. 197 f. See further H. Ebeling Lexicon Homericum LiPs,a
188,; s.vv. e7ru-\ci#u>, nXiodes.

6 A. Bouche'-Leclercq Histoire de la divination dans tantiquiti Vaxis 1879 i- l89"~1^
and iv Index s.v. Cttromancie, H. J. Rose in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religio11
Ethics Edinburgh 1911 iv. 779b, F. Heinevetter Wiitfel- tend Buchstabeiiorakel^ ^
Griechenland und Kleinasien Breslau 1911, M. P. Nilsson ' Wurfelorakel eiri Sk'/'V