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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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Fig. 803. other (fig. 803)2 Bios again appears on his roller-skates, extending a hand toseize the monk, who stands irresolute, hesitating whether or not to abandon forAprospatheias sake his wife and children and happy home. A notable picture—one wonders if John Bunyan had somewhere seen the like. We have traced the career of Kairos alias Chronos alias Bios for close uponeighteen centuries. It is possible that further investigation might find him withus still, offering as of old naught but a knife to his follower, It would beinteresting to know, says Prof E. A. Gardner*, whether the scythe of Time isthe ultimate development of this same symbol, and his hour-glass of the balance. avOpoiire raXatTrwpe, Xrj^ov rod dpdfxov,fxr) KarevexOv^ tc^ doKelv tl Xajx^dveLV.(XKLCL yap elfjLL, Khv doKU) t^ojs fi^veiv.d<pL7rTafjiaL aov Kal irpos ovd^u eKrpexoJ,/cat yivofiai povs du avue^rjs daKT)j\ois.Another MS. of Philes (cod. Paris.) has the lemma ets rov ^iov /meLpaKLOv e^wypacprifxiuov,whence

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