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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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crypt with a flooring of white stucco (possibly of Roman date) laid some roSm below the
level of the nads and reached by a roughish flight of five steps (fig. 867); but the precise
purpose of this semi-subterranean sanctum is unknown. The temple had a marble sima
carved in relief with a'i-authos-wovk and lion-heads. Three of its lanky Doric columns
are still standing. And parallel to the temple-fafade are the foundations of a great
sacrificial altar, prolonged at some period towards the north so that it now measures
40\s8"' long by 2-42"' wide.

One or two individual finds deserve mention. A pSros base embedded in a wall
at the west end of the Gymnasium was inscribed with a bouslrophedon dedication in
lettering of s. vi B.C.: 'Apitrris p-e dviO\eK€ At Qpovtovt Fa\vaKTi TravupaTtov viqov rerpaKts \
ev Ne^ot $el5o\uos fhtbs to KXeovaio (C. W. Blegen in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1927 xxxi.
432 f. fig. 10, W. Peek in the ' Ap%. 'E<p. 1931 p. 103 f. no. 1). The inscription, which
appears to be our oldest example of an agonistic epigram, was conceived as an elegiac
couplet eked out by an iambic pentapody. II. N. Couch 'An Inscribed Votive Bronze
Bull' in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1931 xxxv. 44—47 figs. 1 and 2 publishes a solid-cast

Fig. 867.

bull (o-o83m in length, o-07o"' in height) found in 1927 near the sanctuary of Zeus at
Nemea and now in the Museum of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University
of Illinois. The bull bears on its left side the pointilUe inscription AAEATIZ I
AN E0EKE- On artistic and epigraphical grounds it is assigned to the first half of
the fourth century B.C.

i. 450 n. 1 'Other Authors.' See Anth. Pal. 3. 18 lemma.

i.4$>%IoKallithfessa. F.Jacoby'100 KAAAI0YEZZA'inAr«-/««i922lvii. 366—374
supports the main contention of A. Frickenhaus in Tiryns i. 19 ff. that there was an
ancient cult of Hera at Tiryns (supra i. 454 n. o) against the criticisms of C. Robert in
Hermes 1920 lv. 373 ff., but argues that the Tirynthian Io Kallithycssa (a Hesiodic,
not Callimachean, tag) was split by Hellanikos 'Tipetcu rijs "Upas ai ti> "Apya into two
Argive figures—Kallithyia the first priestess and Io (cp. Frag. gr. Hist. i. 455 Jacoby).

i. 453 n. 8. On the pillar of Hera Argela see now P. Kastriotes ''"Spas 'Apyeias ^bavov'
in the 'Apx- 'Ei/>. 1920 pp. 53—56 with figs. 1—3.

i. 456 Fpimenides and the Nemean lion. G. W. Dyson in the Class. Quart. 1929
xxiii. 195 thinks that Epimenides perhaps claimed to be a reincarnation of the soul of the
Nemean lion.

i. 457 Hera Argela and the Moon. A late Graeco-Roman relief in reddish marble
(height 2 ft ij ins), found at Argos and now in London, shows a facing bust of Selene
in an arched niche bearing the signs of the zodiac. The goddess has a horned moon on
her head and seven stars grouped round her. Below has been added the ' Gnostic'
 
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