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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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pleof Athena : rw iriOvpio v-qov woXvKelova rev^e SeXeuKoy fc.r.X.) appears to haveresembled that of Eros himself; the whispered prayer of the worshipper (S. Sud-haus Lautes und leises Beten in the Archiv f. Rel. 1906 ix. 185—200), like theheartfelt desire of the deity, was projected in visible form). Similarly a metope from the north side of the Parthenon (slab no. xxv) showsa diminutive Eros stepping down from behind the shoulder of Aphrodite towardsMenelaos, who on the adjoining metope (slab no. xxiv) drops his sword at thesight of Helene clinging to the Palladion (A. Michaelis Der Parthenon Leipzig1870 p. 139 Atlas pi. 4, Friederichs—Wolters Gipsabgiisse p. 265 no. 590, Over-beck Gr. Plastik^ i. 424 n.*, A. S. Murray The Sculptures of the ParthenonLondon 1903 p. 79 (misleading) pi. 12, 25 as drawn by Carrey, A. H. Smith TheSculptures of the Parthenon London 1910 p. 42 fig. 81 photographic view ofmetope in situ, ib. fig. 82 photograph of Eros from the cast at Berlin, C. Prasch-
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Fig. 893. niker Die Metopen der Nordostecke des Parthenon in the fahresh. d. oest.arch. Inst. 1911 xiv. 149 fig. 136 photograph, M. Collignon Le Parthenon Paris1912 p. 29 pi. 39, 25 photograph. In this familiar scene (literary and monumentalevidence in Overbeck Gall. her. Bildw. i. 626 ff. Atlas pi. 26, 2ff, BaumeisterDenkm. i. 745 ff. fig. 798 f, R. Engelmann in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1970 ff. figs.,H. W. Stoll ib. ii. 2786 f. figs. 4—6, E. Bethe in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vii.2832, 2835), especially as represented on the fine red-figured oinochoe from Vulcinow in the Vatican (fig. Z(^)f = Mus. Etr. Gregor. ii pi. 5, 2, Overbeck Gall. her.Bildw. i. 631 f. pi. 26, 12, Baumeister Denkm. i. 745 f. fig. 798, P. Weizsacker inRoscher Lex. Myth. iii. i8oof. fig. 3, J. H. Huddilston Lessons from GreekPottery New York 1902 p. 86 f. fig. 16, Hoppin Red-fig. Vases i. 347 no. 7 (by The Painter of the Epinetron from Eretria in Athens)), Eros is already so fardetached from Aphrodite that he sig

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