Zeus - a study in ancient religion (1914) (14779377441)

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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ns here advanced is furnished, not indeed by thepainted tablet from Tarragona (on which see Addenda to ii. 2 n. 4), but by theoccasional numismatic representation of Desire or Love as a winged mannikinproceeding out of the mouth. At Emporion (Ampurias) in Hispania Tarra- 1040 Appendix G conensis the earliest coins (s. iii B.C.), copying the Siculo-Punic drachmai^ showa head of Persephone on the obverse and a standing horse crowned by a flyingNike on the reverse side (fig. 887, a = K. Heiss Description ghierale des mon-naies a7itiques de VEspagne Paris 1870 pp. 86, 90 pi. i Emporiae i, Head Hist.nuinP p. 2). Later silver and copper coins of the same town exhibit a mostremarkable modification of this originally Carthaginian horse. First, he is trans-formed into a winged and prancing Pegasos (fig. 887, (^ = Heiss op. cit. p. 87 pi. iEmporiae 2). Then there emerges from his head a small human head wearinga petasos (Heiss op. cit. p. 87 pi. i Emporiae 3, cp. 4f. = fig. 887, ^, d). Finally,
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