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kratir'va New York, attributed to the 'Boreas Painter' (c. 460 B.C.), shows Zeus with
uplifted bolt catching AIA<"<t. She turns to touch his chin in supplication. Her sisters
flee in alarm. The reverse perhaps depicts Asopos, at home, receiving the news from his
other daughters (Hoppin op. cit. i. 81 no. 8 bis, Beazley op. cit. p. 305 no. 3 ' Semele
verfolgend'(!), G. M. A. Richter Red-figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art Yale Univ. Press 1936 i. 116 f. no. 86 pis. 94 ( = my fig. 883) and 170). On the
ethnic implications of the myth see J. P. Harland Prehistoric Aigina Paris 1925 pp. 59—63.

ii. 189 antithetic grouping. H. R. Hall, lecturing at Cambridge (Oct. 31, 1928) on
recent finds at Ur, showed that 'the antithetic arrangement of animal figures' long before
its appearance on Cretan seals etc. occurs in Mesopotamian art, and in Babylonia can be
traced back to a period c. 3000 B.C. See further F. A. v. Scheltema, G. Roeder, and
E. Unger 'Wappen (und Wappenstil)' in Ebert Reallex. xiv. 250—254, W. Deonna
'Animaux a deux corps et une tete' in the Rev. Arch. 1930 i. 47—73 figs. 6—12,
A. Roes Greek Geometric Art its Symbolism and its Origin Haarlem—Oxford 1933
pp. 16 ff., 93 fl"., 99 ff., 115 ff., J. Baltrusaitis Art sum/Hen art roman Paris 1934 pp. 17 ff.,
31 ff., 56 f., 64 ft., 83 ff.

ii. 189 n. o. Dr A. H. Lloyd pointed out to me (Dec. 24, 1926) that on certain
tetradrachms of Gela (c. 466—415 B.C.) a flying eagle is attached by two reins to Nike's
quadriga. He suggested that this implied Zeus in eagle form. But E. S. G. Robinson
in Sylt. num. Gr. ii pi. 34, 986 says: ' The lines which run down on the obverse from
eagle to chariot rail and goad and at first sight seem to be intended to connect the bird
to the car appear to be in fact die-flaws.' It must, however, be admitted that on a
duplicate given to me by Dr Lloyd the alleged 'die-flaws' are in exactly the same
condition (cp. supra ii. 657 n. 3).

ii. 191 original character of the Delphic omphalds. C. Picard in the Revue de Vhistoire
des religions 1926 xciii. 85 n. 2 is more disposed to accept the view that the omphalos
was the tomb of Dionysos as advocated by T. Homolle ' Ressemblance de l'omphalos
delphique avec quelques representations egyptiennes' in the Rev. lit. Gr. 1919 xxxii.
338—358. Picard thinks the analogies with modern Greek custom 'fort superficielles.'
K. Schwendemann 'Omphalos, Pythongrab und Drachenkampf' in the Archiv f. Ret.
1920—1921 xx. 481—484 rejects the 'Tifyi/Sos-Theorie' and reverts to the older 'Erd-
nabeltheorie.'

V. Nordstrom Poseidon och hatis aKtfwaviov Helsingfors 1931 pp. 1—40 and Om
Hermes xpvabppain.s Helsingfors 1932 pp. 1—30 contends that Poseidon's staff (//. 13.
59), Poseidon's trident, and Hermes' rod were all modifications of the umbilical cord !
H. J. Rose in the Class. Rev. 1932 xlvi. 182 deals faithfully with such vagaries.

ii. 193 ff. the Delphic tripod. C. Clemen Religionsgeschichte Pleidelberg 1926 i. 247
fig. 100 (after Springer Kunst des Altertums1" fig. 433) restores the Plataean tripod much
as I do, but with legs contracted at the base.

K. Kluge in the Jahrb. d. Deuisch. Arch. Inst. 1929 xliv. 23 ff. discusses the
technique of the serpent-column (summary by E. H. Heffner in the Am. Journ. Arch.

1931 xxxv. 456 f.).

ii. 199 n. 2 with pi. xii the Chigi base. A marble replica of (a) and (c), dredged up
in the harbour at the Peiraieus and referred to a date c. 100 B.C., is figured in The
Illustrated London News for Jan. 31, 1931 p. 164 f. A full account of the find is given
by E. P. B[legen] in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1931 xxxv. 91.

ii. 201 n. 1. J. D. S. Pendlebury tells me (March 2, 1927) that at Delphoi the plane-
tree of Agamemnon is still shown, below Kastalia, at the outlet of the gorge.

ii. 205 n. 1 dolphins. See Biedermann Der Delphin in der dichtenden und bildenden
Phantasie der Griechen und Rbmer Halle a. S. 1881 pp. 1—26, E. B. Stebbins The
Dolphin in the Literature and Art of Greece and Rome Benasha, Wisconsin 1929 pp. 1—
136 (reviewed by A. M. Duff in the Class. Rev. 1930 xliv. 185 f.).

ii. 206 n. 1 divining-glass. A. Delatte La catoptromancie grecque et ses derives
(Biblioiheque de la Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege xlviii)
Liege 1932 pp. 1—221 pis. 1—12, T. Hopfner 'Mittel- und neugriechische Lekano-,
Lychno-, Katoptro- und Onychomantien' in Studies presented to F. LI. Griffith London

1932 pp. 218—232.

ii. 209. On the Pythta as a case of artificial and voluntary possession see T. K.
Oesterreich Possession demoniacal and other among primitive races, in antiquity, the
middle ages, and modern times London 1930 pp. 311—331-

ii. 212 n. o the Peliades. Cp. also Sogliano Pitt. mur. Camp. p. 103 f. nos. 553, 554.

ii. 212 n. 3. An almost exact replica of the black-figured Ukythos at Leyden is