Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

Agyieus-YiW^iVS 165
has been interpreted in that sense. Agyieils is found as an
epithet of Zeus^ also ; but
whether this attribution was
based upon existing cults we
do not know. The statement
of Dieuchidas, the fourth-cen-
tury historian of Megara^ that
the erection of Ag)neus-Y>\\\dirs,
was a specially Dorian custom^
agrees with the numismatic evi-
T. Panofka Dionysos tmd die Thyaden
(extr. from the Abh. d. berl. Akad. 1852
Phil. -hist. Classe pp. 381 f., 390 pi. 3, 9)
Berlin 1853 pp. 41 f., 50 pi. 3, 9, Helbig
Guide Class. Ant. Rome ii. i f. no. 705,
Reinach Rep. Reliefs iii. 151 no. 2, J. E.
Harrison Ty/^wwCambridge i9i2p.407f.
fig. 120. This marble cone (height 14 ft.
6 ins., diameter 2 ft.) stands on a low
circular base (top and bottom restored)
and has a series of square projecting Cna,
on four of which hang olive-garlands in
relief. Towards the upper end of the
cone is carved a band, which serves to
attach a lagoholoii, a belt (?), and a club.
Near the base are five figures in the neo-
Attic style representing Apollon with ?iis
lyre, a Satyr with iiehn'sC^), pan-pipes,
and lagobolon, and three Maenads (T.
Panofka, followed by Miss Harrison,
takes these persons to be Apollon, Pan,
and three Horai ; VV. Helbig says ' a
Satyr and three Bacchantes dancing to
the music of a woman playing on a
cithara ' ; G. Zoega is content with ' una
danza bacchica,' S. Reinach with 're-
liefs bachiques').
' Scholl—Studemund anecd. i. 266 eTridera At6s...3 dyv^ws, ry dyveT.
^ E. Schwartz in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 480 f.
Fig. 109.
^ Dieuchidas /n?^'-. 2 {Frag. hist. Gr. iv. 388 f. Miiller) ap. Harpokr. 5.z^. 'A-ywas • ...
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