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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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804 The owl of Athena

a laugh and so heighten the prophylactic effect1. A bronze in the
Castellani collection (fig. 6n)2 represented the goddess as a cock
with human face, wearing by way of helmet the skin of a cock s
head complete with comb, wattles, and beak. This singular fowl,
perched on a winged skull, perhaps betokens the victory of vigilance
over death or points some equally edifying moral.

Fig. 6ii.

The fourth stage in the evolution of Athena is that in which sh
appears as a goddess with the wings of a bird. It has indeed e^
maintained that the conception,of a winged Athena is not foun
Greek soil till the Hellenistic age and should be explaineo ^
case of late syncretism—Athena and Nike rolled into one •

■es °^

1 Cp. the numerous examples of Athena's head wearing a helmet with the ^eat" ^ei
Sokrates, Silenos, etc. (Reinach Pierres Gravies pis. 24, 25, and 30), often peiid-
grylli(]. H. Middleton The Engraved Gems ofClassical Times Cambridge 1891 Je00eii
p. xx, E. Babelon in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. ii. 1480 (., Furtwangler Ant-

iii. 113 f., 288, 353, 363). fig_ 611:

2 Castellani Sale Catalogue Paris 1884 P- 43 n0- with fig. on p. 44 (-"n1^
scale J). Height o-i7m.

3 A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 704.
 
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