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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thing, Poseidon and Athena are to the left and right of the tree: in
the pediment their position was the reverse. Again, the coins put
an owl on the tree, where the pediment had a hovering Nike. And
lastly, the coins make Poseidon strike the rock, but Athena merely
Point to her tree: on no specimen known to Svoronos has she
a lance. The inference is clear. The coins are presenting the myth
as told by Apollodoros, not the myth as represented in the pediment.

Pausanias1, when he visited Athens, noticed yet another memorial
°f the famous Strife. On the summit of the Akropolis, at a point
closely adjoining the altar of Zeus Polietis, he saw 'Athena exhibiting
the olive-plant and Poseidon exhibiting a wave.' It is commonly,
but with no great certitude2, maintained that the type of this group
is attested by a series of minor antiquities3 including a silver buckle
from Herculaneum (fig. 541)4, an imperial bronze coin of Athens

Fig. 54i.

1 p

jj aus. 1, 24. 3 TreTroiTjTai 52 Kal rb <pvrbv tt}s eXatas 'A^^fa Kal Kufia ava<ba'ivuv

°<^6<S„ with H. Hitzig—H. Bliimner ad loc.
188 rotes':s were raised by B. Sauer Die Anfdnge der staiuarischen Gruppe Leipzig
neces-1 ^e Smyrna relief presupposes /M/-Lysippean statuary types, but not

and ^San'y a s,;atuary group; and the same is true of the minor antiquities in general)
tjj 'n Aus der Anomia Berlin 1890 pp. 96—113 (the Smyrna relief is abbreviated from

pastern frieze of Athena Nike: but see supra p. 581 n. o).
des •f °Wn ^ee''nS's 'hat the minor monuments in question do not illustrate the group
pose ' Paus- 24- 3- 'Athena exhibiting the olive-plant' suggests rather such a

misu as sne takes infra fig. 549, a. And 'Poseidon exhibiting a wave' sounds like a
Had ' erSt00t' '""''/—Poseidon holding a curled dphlaston as e.g. on a silver coin of
.(r>an (Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Poseidon p. 195 Mlinztaf. 6, 6).
1 G v°bm in the Ath- Math. 1882 vii. 53 ff.
duller ati in trie Real Museo Borbonico Napoli 1831 vii pi. 48, (1) (= my fig. 541),
vii ■Ret~~1^''eseler Denkm. d. alt. Kunst ii. 169 f. pi. 22, 234, Roux—Barre Here, et Pomp.
°nzes 3" Serie p. .96ff.pl. 95, ,.

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