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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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Zeus as god of the Dark Sky 973

no mean critic of art-pedigrees, has contended that the Byzantine
bearded type had for its actual 'Vorbild' the Pheidiac Zeus.

Be that as it may. Theodoros' tale of the fifth-century painter,
who drew Christ in the likeness of Zeus, is one more reminder that
Pheidias' ideal had gone far towards satisfying the aspirations of the

new faith. Even the lower classical conception of Zeus as a
threatening storm-god appealed to the barbarians of the empire
and finally made its way into the religious art of the Renaissance
(% 782)1.

And what—it may be asked in conclusion—is the ultimate
S1gnificance of all this coil—this cult of Zeus with its crude physical

P- 344 'Nur einmal ist auf einem Sarkophagrelief im Museo Kircheriano, wo ein
ganz unfahiger Bildhauer Scenen aus dem Leben Jesu—Bergpredigt und Heilungen-—

USammengefilgt bat (Fig. 108), ein barbarisierter Zeustypus iibernommen. Besonders
tr'tt derselbe bei dem lehrenden Christus hervor. Fiir den Kopf, den Nackten Ober-

°fper, die Haltung lassen sich genaue antike Parallelen finden. Aber dieser Fall ist
eine Ausnahme und will so beurteilt sein.' H. Holtzmann loc. cil. p. 87 ff. dwells on the
"'fluence of Asklepios (Zeus Asklepids supra ii. 1076 ff.) and Sarapis (Zeus Sdrapis supra

• '88 ff., if. 1158, iii. 945). A. Alfoldi A Festival of Isis in Rome Budapest 1937 p. 38

• 54 pi. 7, 16 advocates Sarapis.

I give as an example (or warning) a woodcut which appears in Alberto da Castello
j>p detla S^iriosa Vergine Maria Venetiis 1521 p. 190. See V. Massena prince
sshng Les Livres a figures vinitietis Florence—Paris 1909 ii. 2. 426. The illustration
 
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