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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 aigis and Gorg6neio?t of Athena 843

More familiar is Pherekydes'1 story of Perseus, who, helped by
Athena, slew the Gorgon and gave her head to the goddess to put
on her aigis. An unpublished h&W-krater at Leipzig2 (pi. lxii)
shows the hero, hdrpe in hand, peering down a well to glimpse the
horror held aloft by Athena. The Silenos on the right turns away
and hides his face. A kdlyx-kratdr'in Gotha3 (pi. lxiii) gives Athena
a blank shield and shows the head reflected upside down in the
well. Such is the common tale4. But Euripides6 in the Ion tells it

Fig- 65.5. Fig. 656.

list of Minervas) quinta Pallante patre et Titanide matre orta est...liaec parricidalis
amentia furoris et vesanae temeritatis instinctu patrem Pallantem crudeli morte iugnlavit
nec simplici patris morte contenta, ut diutius malis suis frueretur et ut de morte patris
crudelius triumpharet, exuviis corporis eius ornata est (so ed. princ. ornatec sunt cod. P.
C. Halm cj. omatae sunt mantis), ut parricidii (acinus ex crudeli osientatione publicaret,
Tzetz. in Lyk. Al. 355 7} lldWajra rbv tdiov iraripa irTepbnbv vir6.pxovTO. koI fiiafavra
rctijTqv ws 6e\ovTa cv-fyeveado.1 7) rrjv -jrapdevtav rtjucLVa tqvtov av€i\€ Kal to S^ppa avrov cos
uiyida 7repie/3dXXeTo ko.1 t& Trrepa tovtov tois woffi Tavrris avvr)pp.oaev (E. Scheer ad loc.
suggests that this account is derived from the Etymologicum genttinum, on which see
R- Reitzenstein in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 812 ff.). The Catalogue of the gods
goes back to s. i, or possibly to s. ii, B.C. (supra ii. 1135 n. 4, iii. 224 n. o).

The mention of ' wings to her feet' recalls such figures as the running goddess on
early coins of Mallos in Kilikia (Brit. Mas. Cat. Coins Lycaonia, etc. p. 95 pi. 15, 11,
cp. Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 1. 555 ff. pi. 25, 5—8, 11. Figs. 655 and 656 are from
specimens in my collection), the winged Nike from Delos (G. M. A. Richter TheSculpture
°nd Sculptors of the Greeks Vale Univ. Press 1929 p. 28 (dated c. 570—550 n.C.) fig. 78,
CP- fig. 80), or the yet older flying god on a gem probably from Melos (supra ii. 544
% 419).

1 Pherekyd./rao-. 26 (Frag. hist. Gr. i. 75 f. Miiller) =/rag. 11 \JPrag. gr. Hist. i. 61 f.
Jacoby) ap. schol. Ap. Rhod. 4. 1515 a.

2 T 83. PI. lxii is taken from a photograph most kindly procured by Mr A. D.
Trendall.

3 F. Gargallo-Grimaldi 'Perseo' in the Ann. d. Inst. 1850 xxii. 53—60 pi. A,
p- Glotz in Daremberg—Saglio Did. Ant. iv. 404 fig. 5583, cp. a beW-hrale'r formerly
"1 the Durand collection published by O. Jahn 'Perseo' in the Ann. d. Inst. 1851 xxiii.
'G?—176 pi. N. Both in Reinach Re"p. Vases i. 284 and 288. I have once more to thank
Mr Trendall for a fresh photograph (pi. lxiii) of the Gotha krattr.

The shield is tantamount to the aigis (cp. supra ii. 712 pi. xxx). The same variation
occurs e.g. in imperial coin-types. An unpublished bronze piece issued by Valerian i for
Laertes in Kilikia shows the one (fig. 657); a similar piece struck by Gordian iii at
Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos (Brit. Mus. Cat. Corns Lycaonia, etc. p. 136 no. 38,
CP- fig. 658) shows the other. Kigs. 657 and 658 are from specimens in my collection.

4 F. Kuhnert in Roscher lex. Myth. iii. 1986 ff., G. Glotz in Daremberg—Saglio Diet.
4**. iv. 398 f., Preller—Robert Gr. Myth. ii. 226 ff., Sir J. G. Frazer on Apollod. 2. 4.
1—4> etc.

6 Eur. Ion 991 ff.
 
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