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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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Athena Itonia (fig. 709)1. Perhaps we may claim that Antigonos
sought to magnify the Athena of Pella by giving her the thunder-
bolt, just as his Boeotian contemporaries added a thunderbolt to
their own winged form of Itonia*.

Athena fulminant on the bronze coinage of Athens in pre-
Roman times (fig. 710)3 may reflect some temporary rapprochement
between the Athenians and Antigonos4.

In any case the type was attractive and travelled far afield. It
is found, under Attic influence, on a drachm of Phaselis in Lykia
struck c. 190—168 B.C. (fig. 711)6. It was very popular with the
Graeco-Indian kings from Menandros to Gondopharnes6 (figs. 712,

Fig. 712. Fig. 713. Fig. 714.

1 The evidence, literary, epigraphic, and numismatic, for Athena'Irwvia in Thessaly
('die Heimstiitte der Giittin') is put together by Adler in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ix.
2374 f- For attempts to locate her temple see A. J. B. Wace, J. P. Droop, and M. S.
Thompson in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1907—1908 xiv. 197, 199, W. Vollgraff ib.
P- 224, F. Stahlin Das hellenische Thessalien Stuttgart 1924 p. 175 f. Silver coins (double
Victoriati) of the Thessalian League from 196 to 146 B.C. have obv. the head of Zeus
wreathed with oak, rev. Athena Itonia, with spear and shield, advancing to right (Brit.
Mus. Cat. Coins Thessaly etc. p. 1 ff. pi. 1, 1 and 2, Hunter Cat. Coins i. 456 f. pL 3°.
12 and 13, and especially the fine series in McClean Cat. Coins ii. 225 ff. pi. 176, 13—180,
5. Head Hist, num.- p. 311 fig. 177. Fig. 709 is from a specimen of mine).

- Supra p. 820 n. 1 fig. 627.

3 J - N. Svoronos Les monnaies d'Athines Munich 1923—1926 pi. 22, 53—58- CP- for
similar types in imperial times ib. pi. 84, 29, 30, 36—42. Fig. 710 is from Brit. Mus.
Cat- Coins Attica etc. p. 84 pi. 15, 2 = Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm.
paus. iii. I35 p], aa) ,4> cp_ e. Beule Les monnaies a"Athenes Paris 1858 p. 386
figs. 2 and 3.

4 See W. W. Tarn Antigonos Gonatas Oxford 1913 for the political situation in 282/1
(P- "27), in 276—273 (p. 218), in 270 (p. 290), and later (pp. 205, 223).

b Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycia, etc. pp. lxvii, 81 pi. 16, 13 (=my fig. 711).

8 P- Gardner in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Greek and Scythic Kings Index p. 181
('Pallas, thundering'), G. Macdonald in The Cambridge History of India Cambridge
"922 i. 57I> 588f- (iAthene Promachos').
 
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