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)

768 The snake of Athena

T. Wiegand1 held that they came from the eastern gable of the old
Hekatompedon, and thought to combine them with a central trio,
of which he claimed to identify two figures—Athena seated full-
front and Zeus seated in profile beside her (fig. $64)*. But Wiegand's
arrangement of the centre, though accepted by H. Lechat3, is re-
jected by more recent critics. R. Heberdey4 assigned this Zeus and
the seated goddess, whom he calls Hera, to a smaller pediment,
6'6om long, representing the introduction of Herakles to Olympos.
In this he is followed by G. Dickins5, M. Schede6, and the majority

Fig. 564.

Fig. 565-

of archaeologists. Heberdey then attempted to pack into 1
western Hekatompedon gable a central group of lion, lioness, an
bull, flanked by the two big snakes, but later realised that t e
presence of a step in the gable left insufficient space for thlS
menagerie7, and was content to assume a single lion holding doWn
a hypothetical stag8. E. Buschor9, dissatisfied with Heberdey
results, combined the snakes with yet another leonine group, c0lT1^
prising an extant big lioness and a «<7«-extant big lion, each a^
work on the body of a bull: this imposing circus he would reg

r sei and

1 T. Wiegand Die archaische Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen *^a5
Leipzig 1904 p. 90 ff. with fig. 109 ( = my fig. 564) and col. pi. 5, A and B.

2 Supra i. 2 n. 2, ii. 757 n. r, iii. 688 n. 4.

3 H. Lechat La sculpture attique avant Phidias Paris 1904 pp. 53—58-

4 R. Heberdey Altattische Porosskulplur Wien 1919 pp. 29—46 with col. p'-

5 G. Dickins op, cit. p. 62 ff. fig.

6 M. Schede Die Burg von Athen Berlin 1922 col. pi. 1.

7 G. Dickins op. cit. p. 86.

8 R. Heberdey op. cit. pp. 109—113. ^g, 1

9 E. Buschor Grossenverhdltnisse attischer Porosgiebel Athen 1924 P- +
=fahrb. d. Detttsch. Arch. Inst. 1928 xliii. 74 fig. 21.