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)

transferred to Athena

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a thunderbolt with her right. An exceptional specimen at Florence
(fig. 704)1, believed by Svoronos to have been struck at Athens2,
shows the same goddess as seen from in front, advancing to the
right, not the left. On tetradrachms of Philip v (220—178 B.C.)
she reappears, a comparatively clumsy figure in the usual stance3.

She is commonly called Athena Alkis1 and identified with the
Athena Alkts or, better, Alkidemos worshipped at Pella5. But the
goddess of Pella, to judge from the coins of her town (figs. 705,706)6,

05. Fig. 706.

J- N. Svoronos Les motmaUs d'Athenes Munich 1923 —1926 pi. 11, 23 ( = my
£■ 704)- A similar reverse, but not from the same die, is found on another unimm at
erhn (W. W. Tarn Antigonos Gonatas Oxford 1913 Frontispiece and p. 174 n. 20). Two
wither specimens are noted by Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 129 f. no. 69.

On account of the small kalathos behind Athena (Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. p. 130
• 21 a): but C. Seltman Greek Coins London 1933 p. 260 expresses himself with caution.
<yiwait an authoritative statement from Mr E. T. Newell.

McClean Cat. Coins ii. 73 pi. 135, 1, Head Coins of the Ancients p. 76 pi. 41, 8, id.
«W. num." p. 232 fig. i45, id. Coins of the Greeks p. 62 pi. 35, 6, Sir G. F. Hill
tstorical Greek Coins London 1906 pp. 108, 132 f. no. 79 pi. 10, C. Seltman Greek
°'"s London 1933 p. 224 f. pi. 5r, 1.
HiM S° by numismatic wrilers in general (B. V. Head, Sir G. Macdonald, Sir G. F.
1 > S. W. Grose, etc.). W. W. Tarn Antigonos Gonatas Oxford 1913 pp. 177 n. 31,
oo^says 'Athene Alkis or Alkidemos.'

p Liv. 42. 51 peuaei m vetere regia Macedonum, hoc consilium erat....ipse (sc.
V(^eus' 'ast king of Makedonia) centum hostiis sacrificio regaliter Minervae, quam
W TO ^'c'^emon' facto cum purpuratorum et satellitum manu profectus Citium est. So
Bat eissenDorn (ed- - Lipsiae 1930). Older editors, e.g. A. Drakenborch (ed. Lugd.
Hi . V Amstelaedami 1743), nad printed Alcidein. The right reading was already

vmecUyTurnebustis^-^es).
Cat r- .Ut' Cat' C"'"* Macedonia, etc. p. 90 no. 5 fig. ( = my fig. 705), Hunter
p. 2 ■' 362 p1- 25' 2' McClea" Cat- c°'"s «• 9°f- P1- '4°< 4 and 5, Head Hist, num."

+4- Fig. 70g ;s from a Specimen 0f mine.