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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits) — Cambridge, 1940

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that the twelve gods are here portrayed simply as a divine team arriving1 to
bless the home of their worshippers. They are the plastic counterpart of the
painted twelve found more than once at Pompeii2 (figs. 856, 857). It maybe
doubted whether their religious significance was much greater than that of our
own Apostle-spoons.

(10) The Hierbs Gamos in the Far West.

There is no reason to think that the myth of the hierbs gamos was ever
located at Athens3. Athenian poets do indeed occasionally refer to such a
myth. Sophokles speaks of the Gardens of Zeus and their proverbial felicity4,
Aristophanes of the Plain of Zeus and the bridal bed towards which at the
triumphant close of his great comedy the birds wing their way6. But the home

W. H. Roscher Juno und Hera Leipzig 1875 p. 75 n. o (=id. in his Lex. Myth.
i. 2100) 'Nach den Worten des Lex. rhet. p. 670, 28 Pors. [on which source consult
W. Christ Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur6 Mtinchen 1924 ii. 2. 876 f.] oi yaiiovvns
iroiod<ri ra Aii ko.1 rrj "Hpq. iepoiis ydfj.ovs scheint man jede Hochzeit als eine Art Hieros-
gamos aufgefasst zu haben.' But?

1 Cp. e.g. Plaut. Epid. 610 f. si undecim deos praeter sese secum adducat Iuppiter, |
ita non omnes ex cruciatu poterunt exiraere Epidicum.

- (1) On the outer wall of a corner-house, where the Vicolo dei dodici iddii runs into
the Strada dell' Abbondanza {Reg. viii. 3) (E. Gerhard in the Ami. d. Inst. 1850 xxii. 206—
214 pi. K, Helbig Wandgem. Camp. p. 5 f. no. 7, J. Overbeck Pompeji Leipzig 1884 p. 244,
Midler—Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Denkm. i. 62 ff. pi. 6, 2 ( = nvy fig. 856), A. Mau
Pompeii its Life and Art2 trans. F. W. Kelsey New York 1902 p. 236, Reinach Rip.
Feint. Gr. Rom. p. 5 no. 2, A. Mau Fiihrerdurch Pompeji'' Leipzig 1928 p. 120). The
gods, standing between two bay-trees, are—from left to right—Vesta (cup (not apple),
sceptre, ass), Diana (spear, bow and arrows, fawn), Apollo (cithara), Ceres (corn-wreath,
torch), Minerva (helmet, spear, shield), Iupiter apparently of youthful beardless type
(sceptre), Iuno (sceptre), Volcanus of beardless type (pileus, hammer, tongs), Venus
Pompeiana (modius, small branch?, sceptre, rudder?), Mars (helmet, breastplate, greaves,
shield), Neptunus (trident), Mercurius (wingedpitasos, talaria, purse, winged caducetcs).
Beneath the twelve and under their protection was the painting of an altar set out with
various fruits and approached by two snakes (beards, crests, forked tongues) with a
background of bay-bushes.

(2) On the outer wall of a house in the Strada deW Abbondanza (Reg. ix. 11)
(M. Delia Corte in the Not. Scavi 1911 p. 417 ft', figs. 1, 2, ia, R. Delbrueck in the
Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. areh. Inst. 1913 xxxviii Arch. Anz. p. 162 with fig. 17, Reinach
Rip. Peint. Gr. Rom. p. 6 no. 2, A. Mau Fiihrer durch Pompeji1" Leipzig 1928 p. 133
fig. 62, F. Saxl Mithras Berlin 1931 p. 75 n. 4 with pi. 30 fig. 165 ( = my fig. 857),
O. Weinreich in Roscher Lex. Myth. vi. 808 with fig. 5). The gods, standing en face
between two (?) Corinthian pillars, are—from left to right—Iupiter (sceptre, thunderbolt),
Iuno (stephdne, veil, patera, sceptre), Mars (Oscan helmet, breastplate, spear, round
shield, balteus, sword?), Minerva (crested Corinthian helmet, Gorgdneion, patera, spear,
round shield), Hercules (lion-skin, balteus, skjtphos, club), Venus (veil, winged Cupid),
Mercurius (purse, caduceus), Proserpina (modius, sceptre), Volcanus of juvenile type
(pileus, hammer), Ceres (corn-wreath, torch), Apollo (bow, quiver, plectrum, lyre),
Diana (crown, bow, quiver,patera, sceptre). Adjoining this group is an altar on which
were found charcoal and cinders, remains of the last offering, and above it the painting
of a sacrifice by the vicomagistri.

3 Supra p. 1047.

4 Soph. Ion frag. 297 Nauck2, 320 Jebb (cited supra ii. 1021).

5 Aristoph. av. 1758 (cited supra ii. 1021, Hi. 59).
 
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