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The Hierbs Gdmos
1025
pi. 6, 2, Reinach Rep. Feint. Gr. Rom. p. 13 no. 2 mosaic from Sparta; supra i.
506 with fig. 369 vase at Petrograd)) or three (e.g. with Herakles, Omphale, and
Priapos (Helbig op. cit. p. 231 f. no. 1140, J. Sieveking in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii.
889 with fig. 1, Herrmann Denkm. d. Malerei col. pi. 3, pis. 59, 60 Text pp. 75—77,
Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 191 no. 5, Pfuhl Malerei ic. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii.
826 f. iii. 284 col. fig. 664)) or four (e.g. with Aphrodite and Adonis (Sir W. Gell
Pompciana London 1832 ii. 66 pi. 12, Roux—Barre Here, et Pomp. iii. 89 f. pi. 139,
Helbig op. cit. p. 88 no. 339, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 65 no. 3), with
Aphrodite and Ares (A. Sogliano Monwnenta Pompeiana Naples 1905 ii
pi. 85, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 65 no. 7)) or six (e.g. with Aphrodite
(J. P. Bellorius et M. A. Causseus Picturae antiquae cryptarum Romanarujn,
et sepulcri Nasonum Romae 1750 p. 89 f. Appendix pi. 7, O. Benndorf in
the Ath. Miith. 1876 i. 63 ff. pi. 2, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 59 no. 6),
with Aphrodite and Adonis (E. G[erhard] in the Arch. Zeit. 1843 i. 88 f. pi. 5, 2,
W. Zahn op. cit. 1844 ii pi. 30, Helbig op. cit. p. 88 f. no. 340, Herrmann Denkm.
d. Malerei pi. 52 Text pp. 65—67, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 64 no. 2)) or
eight (with Omphale and Herakles (R. Rochette Choix de peintures de Pompei
Paris 1853 p. 239 ff. pi. 19, Helbig op. cit. p. 230 f. no. 1138, A. Ruesch in the Guida
del Mus. Napoli p. 322 no. 1354, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 191 no. 6)) or
even nine (in Action's picture of Roxane and Alexander the Great as described
by Loukian. Herod, s. Ait. 4—6 = Overbeck Schriftqitellen p. 363 no. 1938,
A. Reinach Textes Peint. Anc. i. 376 ff". no. 507, cp. W. Helbig Untersuchungen
iiber die kampanische Il'andmalerei Leipzig 1873 p. 242, B. Nogara Le Nozze
Aldobrandine Milano 1907 p. 23, Pfuhl Malerei it. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii. 771 f.,
806). The way is thus prepared for the numerous Erotes of early Christian
art, the putti of the Renaissance, and the Cupids of modern sentimentalism
(O. Waser in Pauly—Wissowa Real-E?ic. vi. 515 f., supra ii. 1050).
APPENDIX R.
THE HIERbS GAMOS.
Greek literature from Homeric poetry to Byzantine prose links the name
of Zeus with that of Hera. But this tradition, though practically universal,
involves certain peculiar and even abnormal features, which, if carefully con-
sidered, make it difficult to believe that Hera was from the outset the wife of
Zeus. The relations subsisting between them are deserving of detailed study1.
Zeus, according to Kallimachos- and Nonnos3, was courting Hera for a
period of three hundred years. Homer4 states that they met ' without the
1 Years ago I dealt with the topic, somewhat light-heartedly, in two papers contri-
buted to the Class. Rev. 1906 xx. 365—378 and 416—419 (supra p. 744 n. 1).
'- Kallim. aitia 2 frag. 20 Schneider ap. schol. A.D. II. 1. 609 and Tzetz. in eund. toe.
(P. Matranga anecdota Graeca Romae 1850 ii. 450, 11 ff.) ais re Zeus epaTi'Ce Tpii)Koalovs
3 Nonn. Dion. 41. 322 ff. 6Vti irohvxpovloio wddov SeSovrmtvov otaTptp (cp. supra p. 941
n. 1) ["Hpys Kevrpov e'xoyra Kaaiyv-qruv vixevaiuv [ eis XP^V0V Ip-eipovra TpirjKoatwv eviavrGiv |
TjTjva. yd/iois (fcu$a.
4 //. 14. 295 f. olov 8re irp&Tdv irep ep.iayl<jQy\v (pLXoriyn, \ els evvty (potTuivre, <pl\ovs
\-q6ovTt TOKrjas.
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1025
pi. 6, 2, Reinach Rep. Feint. Gr. Rom. p. 13 no. 2 mosaic from Sparta; supra i.
506 with fig. 369 vase at Petrograd)) or three (e.g. with Herakles, Omphale, and
Priapos (Helbig op. cit. p. 231 f. no. 1140, J. Sieveking in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii.
889 with fig. 1, Herrmann Denkm. d. Malerei col. pi. 3, pis. 59, 60 Text pp. 75—77,
Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 191 no. 5, Pfuhl Malerei ic. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii.
826 f. iii. 284 col. fig. 664)) or four (e.g. with Aphrodite and Adonis (Sir W. Gell
Pompciana London 1832 ii. 66 pi. 12, Roux—Barre Here, et Pomp. iii. 89 f. pi. 139,
Helbig op. cit. p. 88 no. 339, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 65 no. 3), with
Aphrodite and Ares (A. Sogliano Monwnenta Pompeiana Naples 1905 ii
pi. 85, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 65 no. 7)) or six (e.g. with Aphrodite
(J. P. Bellorius et M. A. Causseus Picturae antiquae cryptarum Romanarujn,
et sepulcri Nasonum Romae 1750 p. 89 f. Appendix pi. 7, O. Benndorf in
the Ath. Miith. 1876 i. 63 ff. pi. 2, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 59 no. 6),
with Aphrodite and Adonis (E. G[erhard] in the Arch. Zeit. 1843 i. 88 f. pi. 5, 2,
W. Zahn op. cit. 1844 ii pi. 30, Helbig op. cit. p. 88 f. no. 340, Herrmann Denkm.
d. Malerei pi. 52 Text pp. 65—67, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 64 no. 2)) or
eight (with Omphale and Herakles (R. Rochette Choix de peintures de Pompei
Paris 1853 p. 239 ff. pi. 19, Helbig op. cit. p. 230 f. no. 1138, A. Ruesch in the Guida
del Mus. Napoli p. 322 no. 1354, Reinach Rep. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 191 no. 6)) or
even nine (in Action's picture of Roxane and Alexander the Great as described
by Loukian. Herod, s. Ait. 4—6 = Overbeck Schriftqitellen p. 363 no. 1938,
A. Reinach Textes Peint. Anc. i. 376 ff". no. 507, cp. W. Helbig Untersuchungen
iiber die kampanische Il'andmalerei Leipzig 1873 p. 242, B. Nogara Le Nozze
Aldobrandine Milano 1907 p. 23, Pfuhl Malerei it. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii. 771 f.,
806). The way is thus prepared for the numerous Erotes of early Christian
art, the putti of the Renaissance, and the Cupids of modern sentimentalism
(O. Waser in Pauly—Wissowa Real-E?ic. vi. 515 f., supra ii. 1050).
APPENDIX R.
THE HIERbS GAMOS.
Greek literature from Homeric poetry to Byzantine prose links the name
of Zeus with that of Hera. But this tradition, though practically universal,
involves certain peculiar and even abnormal features, which, if carefully con-
sidered, make it difficult to believe that Hera was from the outset the wife of
Zeus. The relations subsisting between them are deserving of detailed study1.
Zeus, according to Kallimachos- and Nonnos3, was courting Hera for a
period of three hundred years. Homer4 states that they met ' without the
1 Years ago I dealt with the topic, somewhat light-heartedly, in two papers contri-
buted to the Class. Rev. 1906 xx. 365—378 and 416—419 (supra p. 744 n. 1).
'- Kallim. aitia 2 frag. 20 Schneider ap. schol. A.D. II. 1. 609 and Tzetz. in eund. toe.
(P. Matranga anecdota Graeca Romae 1850 ii. 450, 11 ff.) ais re Zeus epaTi'Ce Tpii)Koalovs
3 Nonn. Dion. 41. 322 ff. 6Vti irohvxpovloio wddov SeSovrmtvov otaTptp (cp. supra p. 941
n. 1) ["Hpys Kevrpov e'xoyra Kaaiyv-qruv vixevaiuv [ eis XP^V0V Ip-eipovra TpirjKoatwv eviavrGiv |
TjTjva. yd/iois (fcu$a.
4 //. 14. 295 f. olov 8re irp&Tdv irep ep.iayl<jQy\v (pLXoriyn, \ els evvty (potTuivre, <pl\ovs
\-q6ovTt TOKrjas.
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