Zeus - a study in ancient religion (1914) (14782221322)

Identifier: zeusstudyinancie02cook (find matches)
Title: Zeus : a study in ancient religion
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952
Subjects: Zeus (Greek deity) Cults Sun worship Classical antiquities Folk literature
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) The University Press
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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Fig. 947 1 S. Reinach Le sanctuaire dAthena et de Zeus Meilichios a Athenes in the Bull.Corr. Hell. 1892 xvi. 411—417. 2 S. A. Koumanoudes in theE0. A/ox> 1889 pp. 51—54 no. i = Corp, inscr. Att. iv. i.3 no. 528^ ie/oojI Atos Mi;Xix^oi;, (r);77S, k.Br\v\aia.%. The reading (r)^s, here adopted byA. Kirchhoff, was suggested independently by vSemitelos and Diels (O. Kern in the Ath.Mitth. 1891 xvi. 10 n. 2), and is accepted by O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2558 f.,Mommsen Feste d. Stadt Athen pp. 421 n. 3, 424, W. Larfeld Handbuch der griechischenEpigraphik Leipzig 1898 ii. i. 69. 1116 Appendix M the bed of the Ilissos, discovered in the two reservoirs beneath the rocky barrierof the later Kallirrhoe four slabs carved in relief. Of these slabs two were foundclose together in the basin ^ adjoining the chapel of Saint Photeine, and with
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Fig. 948. them a colossal head of Herakles wearing the lion-skin. One of the two reliefs inquestion (fig. 947)^ shows Zeus, with a sceptre in his left hand and 2iphidle (?) in ^ Marked B in W. Wilbergs plan of the excavations (UpaKT. dpx- er. 1893 pi. A).2 A. N. Skias in the E0. Apx- 1894 p. 133 If. fig., Svoronos Ai/i. Nationalmus. Zeus Meilichios 1117 his right, seated on a rock (?)^ Before him is an altar of rude stones. Beyond itstand two female worshippers, presumably mother and daughter, conceived on asmaller scale than the god himself. The moulding above bears traces of fifth-century letters, which were read by Skias as a dedication to Zeus Ndios^: theymay equally well, indeed better, be completed as a dedication to Zeus Meilichios^.The second relief (fig. 948)* represents Zeus holding a jug in both hands as hesits on a horned and bearded head, which is inscribed in lettering of the Alexan-drine age Acheloios^. Behind Zeus stands a female (.^)—perhaps Kallirrhoe,daughter of A