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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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97° General Conclusions with regard to

Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles, and the Kairos of Lysippos1. But
its exile was of no long duration. The Lauseion in turn was burnt
in 462 A.D.2, and with it disappeared for ever the masterpiece of
Pheidias.

The statue had gone; its influence remained. Theodoros
Anagnostes3 (c. 530 A.D.) tells a strange tale of a certain painter
who ventured to portray the Saviour in the guise of Zeus. The
hand with which he painted thereupon withered away, but was
restored again in answer to the prayers of Saint Gennadios. Later
writers4 repeat the incident, Theophanes5 and Kedrenos6 referring
it to the year 463—just a twelvemonth after the destruction of the
statue. Theodoros and most of the later authorities add the comment
that the type with curly and short hair was the more authentic
likeness.

We have here a clear recognition of two main types in the icono-
graphy of Christ—the one youthful and beardless, with comparatively
short, curly hair, the other more mature and bearded, with moustache
and flowing tresses. It used to be thought that the beardless type was
considerably earlier than the bearded, the former alone being found
till the end of the fourth century, the latter dating from the first
half of the fifth7. But we now know that the two had existed side

1 Kedren. hist. comp. 322 B—c (i. 564 Bekker) Sri ev rots Aav<rov rjaav... iararo 8e...
Kal 6 <teiSiov eXeipdvrivos Zeis, bv liepiK\ijs dveSrjKev els veihv ' 0\vp.iriav.

2 Kedren. hist. comp. 348 A—B (i. 609 f. Bekker) r$ e' Irei ytyovev epnrprio-p-bs &
KuvirravrivovirbXei.. .a<pb8pa yap eupdrei b epnrprjcpibs ovros.. .iirl Se p.e<n}p.fipias ev rrj fi^&V
rrjs 7n5\ews dirb rwv Aaiiuou piixP1 rod laiipov Trdvra Kare\vfj.rjvaro, Zonar. ann. 14 (ii- 62 B
Ducange) wvei/jiaros 8e atpobpov rrviovros rijviKavra, r) 0Xdf fipro raxeuis depios, Kal 7roAX«s
p-eylaras re Kal KaXkiaras oiKo8opids Karrj&dXwae, Kal dydXpiara KariipXe^ev apx&tw dv8p^v
eiri(r7i/j.ojv eirl crotpla Kal eir' dvSpela, K.r.X,

On this and other conflagrations at Constantinople see E. Oberhummer in Paul}'
Wissowa Real-Enc. iv. 1000.

3 Theodor. Anagnost. eccl. hist. 1. 15 (Ixxxvi. 1. 173 A Migne) M TevvaSlov V Xef
rod £u)ypd(pov e^rjpdvSri rod iv rdijei Aibs rbv ~2i0]rr)pa ypdtpai ro\pir)cravros' Sv 81 ev%V
idaaro Vevvd8ios. (p-qal de 6 laropQiv on rb bVKko oxV^a T°v ^wrijpos, rb ou\ov Kal oXiy
rpixov, virdpxei rb a\rq6earepov.

4 Collected by E. von Dobschiitz Christusbilder Leipzig 1899 p. 107* f. „ ^,

5 Theophan. chronogr. 97 B (i. 174 Classen) on ann. mund. 5955 = 463 A.D. rV

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rives rwv laropiKuiv,
ov\ov Kal dXiybrpixov (xxv^a cttI rod ^lorrjpos oiKeibrepbv ecriv.

0 Kedren. hist. comp. 348 D (i. 611 Bekker) r{$ S"' irei faypd<pov rivbs rbv So^ "
ypdijjai To\p.r)aavros Kad' buoibr-qra rod Aids, i^TjpdvBi) r) xe'/>' ov e^ayopevaavra 81 e
idffaro Vevvddios. (paol 84 rives r£>v loropiK&v, on rb od\ov Kal oXiybrpiXW o'XVf10, ^7rl
'Zwrripos oUeibrepbv eoriv—a verbal transcript from Theophanes. js
7 V. Schultze Grundriss der christlichen Archaologie Mttnchen 1919 P- '32 conteera
that, in the absence of authentic portraiture, throughout the first four centuries of ou>
the prevalent conception of Christ, derived alike from the Old Testament (Psa. 45- 2>'

airip Irei fioypdtpov rivbs rbv ~Zinry)pa ypd^iai ro\p.r\o-avros Ka6" b/xoibrr/ra rod Albs, i^r)Pa"^
7] Xe^P' bv e^ayopevo-avra Si evxys idffaro TevvdSios. tpaal 8e rives rCiv lo-ropiK&v, 01
 
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